LEGO minifigures - Series LEGO Movie

I was ill and I'm still to get better.

That's why the blog stopped being updated...

That and keep the real life going on has been tough.

But! Meanwhile it was my birthday and that's why I got myself two of the new LEGO Minifigures series.

Only two because they are very expensive!

The list of minifigures is interesting, even if I don't get the minifugre with extra legs...

I was aiming for the panda or the cop but I cannot totally complain.

“Four score and twenty bricks ago…”

I got mister Abraham Lincoln!

The beard is connected to the hat so we cannot have him without both. That's a shame...

Next I get the colourful Taco Tuesday Man.

He cames with some chili plate.

“If only it could be Taco Tuesday every day!”

I can still remember when Conan O'Brien mistook Portuguese people for Mexicans. Nothing against Mexicans but Conan should know better if he has Irish ancestors...

I still have to think if I will buy some more packs...At least will try 1 or 2 more but only if I could find it cheaper! Buying it from LEGO store was a pain to my wallet.


Be cool.

Stephanie they say (Baseball Season is almost here!)

And so the weather is changing.

We never had storms nor other extreme weather events...until now.

We had something similar a few months ago with the Hercules storm but this time around we sure got hit by the Stephanie storm.

We had waves reaching between 10 to 17 meters high! (32 to 55 feet high).

We had wind raging between 120k/h to 170k/h! (75 to 105 mph)

It was so strong that the great match between SLBenfica and SportingCP could not be played because the stadium roof top was so badly damaged with the wind that some of it started to fall...


The good thing in the middle of this is that the Baseball Season is about to begin in no time!

Hope to see great pitching again this year!

Lots of dust in the air!

And happy moments to remember!

I got my lunch box full of cards!

Just...

...look...

...what I...

...got!

Now I'm ready for lunch time! (in a few hours because first I have to eat my breakfast...)

Ah! Megami-Sama! (Kami-Sama was busy...)

I know I've been away from the blog, both posting and reading/commenting.

But you see, I have other hobbies than just card collecting and right now there is one that is pulling me into it like gravity!

Manga and Anime.

I don't read/watch all of them, but I have a few that are like magnets and work like triggers.

Excluding my top favourite series - Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball - I have other series that made me melt.

Ah! Megami-Sama! or Ah/Oh! My Goddess (it depends who's translating it) is one of them.

I watched the original OVA wayyyyyyyy long ago (on the Locomotion TV channel), so long ago that at the time I had a 56K modem to connect to the internet so I could not get to watch fanvids or read the manga...

Well...back then there were none of the video and manga read sites we have now...

That is to say that back then I got to find a couple of images on the internet and got to tape (VHS was the hero back then!) the 5 OVA episodes.

After that I kept Keiichi-san and Belldandy locked in my heart but...

...last Christmas I had this finding!

I went to a store which usually has some Anime DVDs and so I found it.

Ah! Megami-Sama original OVA DVDs!

And only for 5€ (that's around 7/8$).

I felt such a winner that it did it.

I got my trigger to make me launch onto the net and see what could I found!

And I found that back at 2005 they started the TV series and made a couple more OVAs, and the Manga, it seems, is still alive!

So, right now I'm watching the TV series, reading the Manga and reading one of my guilty pleasures...fanfiction!

But sometimes I think, with the series itself that I don't 'quite' need to read that much of fanfiction...




PS: Meanwhile I'm waiting for my cards to arrive and I'm getting impatient...

Slow motion

These cards are like low-end holographic cards.

Low-end because they miss the holographic part.

But everything else is there!

When you jump and has to make a U turn

Everytime I look at my 2004 Upper Deck First Pitch cards I see beauties like these.

You have a huuuuuuuuuuuuge Rafael Furcal jump on a possible double play at 2B.

And you have Rickey Henderson probably starting to run for the base steal but making the abrupt stop and preparing to U turn and get back to the base (1B I think...)

It's a simple set without all those parallels and inserts but has the best of Upper Deck: Great photography in a clean design.

There are knees and knees

Usually you see some players getting so low to bunt a ball that they go down in one knee...

...others think they are playing some kind of volley/baseball mix.