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Hobby Stuff and Transformers

In addition to ebay, o found Facebook pages to be pretty good sites for hobby stuff. I found the JL Movie Superman still available for preorder in one Facebook page. Also, i finally decided to get the Generations Arcee since the facebook page and contact was accomodating and still had the former ebay posting still available. And with that, I decided to get the rest of “Team Ultra Magnus” / complete the Generations version of the ’86 movie poster…at least the 5 in the foreground.

I’ve ordered Springer (ebay) and am expecting shipment arrival mid-February. I got Blurr at toy kingdom, and Kup, I got at Greattoysonline Pasay branch. In about 2 weeks, I’ll resume the many toy photoshoots I’ve been having a lot of recently. Good thing I got to pause that.

The Titans Return CG cartoon was made available in Youtube and I got through watching it. It’s really the nostalgia of seeing SOME of the classic characters in official animation and in a different story loosely(?) related to the ongoing toyline.

On the Gundam side of things, RG Tallgeese has been announced and HGAW Leo. Ack. Too bad I’m not into that scale and unlike the Transformers collection above, I don’t think I’ll be getting into it anymore.

Harddrives and Backups

In the spirit of keeping old things new, I’m going on with my quite ellaborate schem of backups and archives at work. It was nerdtasting to receive the 4GB drives and even more when the 6GB drives arrived.

There was quite a day spent in trying to fix Fed’s PC after a boot fail (probably caused by but I’m guessing coincidentally with) the attempted partition resizing. Image backups and not getting bcd system partitions stuff was a confusing experience until I tapped out and let IT reformat and reinstall Windows. At least I’ve been having better luck with mhae and my laptop’s partition resize. (Although it now has a screen problem that’s still under warranty.)

Gadgets

I finally got a good casing for my XA1. It’s quite a shame that I didn’t get this as soon as I got the phone. Now, it’s really to hide the scratches and not to preserve the phone from getting any scratch on the backside. I still can't get a rubber screen protector, but I’m pleasantly satisfied with the good results in my second try in cutting a "classic" matte screen protector. Of course, the included screen protector with the casing was a big help along with a more focused mind when cutting.

LTE sim upgrades from Smart and Sun finally had me using the 3310 3G mhae and I got before Christmas. The hipster feel is great. Haha. I’ll be missing the C2-00, though, especially it’s PC connectivity—something that’s really a shame not to have in the new 3310.

And on the available model updates to my current phones, the Xperia XA2 has been announced and reviewed and it looks like an upgrade candidate should I decide to not get a warranty-less XZ1 Compact. Also, the 3310 4G was unveiled (without my USB Type C prediction, though) but is still currently just for the Chinese market.

“TV” and Movies

After returning from the midseason breaks, I actually had to catchup with Arrowverse and Agents of SHIELD episodes. Still hooked, so that’s good. I kinda lost the pace with South Park. Big Bang Theory episodes are getting more meh, but the Sheldon series has a hearty feeling so those offerings (going hand-in-hand) are still much appreciated.

I don’t think I’ll do the MCU marathon and just watch black panther when it comes out. Mhae and I missed Pitch Perfect 3 and we both didn’t really anticipate Jumanji, so our first movie this year will be in February.