Lego Nerd: Star Wars: Jedi Interceptor

This week, we'll look at the 223 piece Jedi Interceptor from the Star Wars prequels. I mostly bought this because it came with an Anakin and R2-D2 figure. The build was fun, but after building the Milano in the last Lego Nerd post, it was very brief. Nonetheless, Lego does a great job of making it look in the likeness of the actual Jedi Interceptor.

Box art for the Jedi Interceptor

Getaway to Oakland!

It was a long awaited vacation with me being out of school for the summer and my work schedule syncing up with Charlene's. Put that together with a visit to my bro in law who was leaving to China for a month long work trip, and it turned out to be a much appreciated getaway!

We stopped by my cousin's in Valencia for lunch (and for this selfie).

Lego Nerd: The Milano Spaceship Rescue

Today I am featuring Starlord's spaceship, the Milano, from Guardians of the Galaxy Movie. The likeness to the movie is pretty incredible, and Lego really goes all out to make the pieces that fit to really drive home the point that... this is a beautiful ship. It even comes with some stickers. The and the build was an absolute blast. It took a few attempts as you can see it is almost 700 pieces, so I built it a bag at a time. but it comes with great figures (Starboard, Gamora, Drax, Ronan and a minion. A little pricier than the last set coming in at $62.99 on Amazon, but worth every brick. If you have the cash definitely nab this one!

A great set

Lego Nerd: Hulkbuster Smash

I hope that everyone has had a chance to watch Avengers: Age of Ultron by now. One of my favorite scenes was when the Iron Man takes on the Hulk in the Hulkbuster. So when I saw that there was a Lego set based off the epic battle, I just had to build it (thanks again to my cousin James for picking this up for me. The Hulkbuster when completed is so legit. And any Lego set that comes with a Hulk figure is automatically awesome. Also for the price point of $30, I would say that this is the best Lego set of the Age of Ultron line. Would definitely recommend this one as a pick up. Have fun!

The Hulk is pissed at Scarlet Witch.

WonderCon 2015!

This was our third year at WonderCon and as usual it was so much fun! How can Easter weekend get better than the resurrection of our Lord? Well it can't, but Charlene and I still had a good time nonetheless. 

the view outside before WonderCon opened

Who Leonard Nimoy Was To Me

"I have and always will be...your friend."

This is Leonard Nimoy. Many may know him as Spock from the old Star Trek TV show or the old Star Trek movies (though he's made a few cameos in the JJ Abrams Star Treks). He passed away the other day at the age of 83. I was blessed to see him play Science Officer Spock in many episodes and movies as a kid. I remember watching the movies on video cassette tapes that my uncle had recorded from Showtime over and over again. As a young kid who had just immigrated to the states and was learning how to be just human much less American and most of the time feeling like a fish out of water,  Mister Spock served as a wise sage as he also learned how to be human. As I would grew and continued to watch the Star Trek's over and over Mister Spock and I would grow in our humanity together, and through this I found comfort whenever I felt like the alien.

Fibromyalgia: A spouse's perspective

So life has been interesting since the last time I was able to post on the blog. Every time I thought about the blog I felt bad for not posting, but life just got so crazy, and instead of expressing on the blog what was going on, I just kinda bottled it up. Call it suppressing, call it fear, I dunno something just kept me from sharing. Maybe because other blogs sound so happy and I didn't want mine to be the opposite. But after some time to think and pray and reflect, God brought a central passage for a retreat I spoke at this winter to the fore front of my heart:

18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (1Jn 4)

So writing in the face of fear, I wanted to write about a condition that my wife was diagnosed with recently and how it has affected both of our lives.

So cute <3