OOPS! - Part 7

So . . . I may have been distracted from my blog writing lately.

Lucas, are you deploying the inOpportune cOntent rePlacement proceSs because you spent the last week building Lego instead of working on your blog?

Yes. I've been playing with Legos inst—

Lego.

I beg your pardon?

The plural of Lego is Lego.

Whatever. Look, my for realsies job is considered essential, and last week was a little stressful, so I picked up some Lego for fun. For example, check out this 4x4:

Fig. 1 Yep, that's a photographer dressed as a tree.

Well, that is pretty cool. and is that an ice cream truck?

Yep!

Fig. 2 It has a sliding window!

And is that — is that a Monster Burger Truck?

It is a Monster Burger Truck.

Fig. 3 You can stow the stair case inside the truck!

But I feel like you're ignoring the elephant on the table.

The big pirate fort?

Fig. 4 The big pirate fort!

Yeah, that's called the Pirates of Barracuda Bay, it's pretty neat! I had the Black Seas Barracuda pirate ship when I was a kid, and when I saw this one I knew I had to get it.

So what are you doing with all those Lego?

Oh, I already took apart some of the smaller sets and sent them out to my cousins' kids.

That was nice of you.

You don't have to sound so surprised.

So, is there going to be a for realsies post next Monday?

There is, I'm starting a new reading project.

Oh?

Well, I technically already started the reading part, and I've written most of the first post. But yeah, it'll just get slotted into the last Monday of each month until I finish.

Any hints?

No.

Fair enough, see you next week.

Links:

I don't usually include links to things you can buy (you know how to use Google anyway), but here's the Pirates of Barracuda Bay on Lego's website. Um, at the time of this writing it's listed as temporarily sold out, so I'm not sure when it will be available again, but if you loved Lego pirates when you were a kid, I can't recommend this set enough.