February 22, 2012

Transformer toys

I ran across this site called www.jokerooo.com.  It was showing a Video Fade-Out Example of transformer toys fighting with each other.  I thought it was pretty cool the way they dubbed in the sounds of screeching tires, the bumblebee sound, how the little guy used the “David and Goliath” approach.  They both continued to argue for several minutes and then the little guy commenced to beat on the big guy.

It really became quite amusing.  Finally the little guy beat up the big guy.  I suspect there is going to be a lot more of this type of video footage in the future! 

February 1, 2012

Squeaky toys

Filed under: Family,Fun,General Living — Copa @ 11:57 am

Our dogs love to play with cheap squeaky toys that we can buy in the pet supplies section at Wal-Mart. It is so much fun watching our oldest dog go after they squeaker part with great enthusiasm. Most of the new toys that we buy that squeak, are “de-squeaked” within twenty minutes of giving the toy to her. She loves to play tug-of-war and “keep-away” with us with the toy, and we love to watch the two dogs play “keep-away” from each other. We’ll give them both a new identical toy at the same time, yet each dog thinks that the toy that the other dog has MUST be superior, so they are trying to steal each other’s toys. It really is funny to watch them play with each other and with the toys.

November 3, 2011

NASCAR diecast collection

Over the last ten years I’ve been collecting certain die-cast cars of NASCAR drivers that are my favorites, and who win the top races.  I don’t have all the die-cast cars of every race driver out there, but I do have at least one of most every driver that has won a major race.  Of course, we all know the top drivers are Ernie Irvin,Kyle Busch,Tony Stewert and Jeff Gordon.  Also on occasion Michael Waltrip and Jeff Burton have won races.  Oh, I almost forgot Dale Ernhardt and Dale Ernhardt Jr!  I have a lot of their cars, especially the ones with the fancy paint jobs.

One of my favorites die-cast cars is Ernhardt’s car with the pastel colors.  You know what I mean if you’ve seen it.  I especially enjoy collecting the cars that are painted up like Star Wars or Superman, I have one that has a picture of Brooks & Dunn on it, one with Tweety Bird & Sylvester, and one with the Incredible Hulk.  That one is really sharp.  We all know like everything else, the price of these cars keeps going up, and with my limited funds I even take the time to discuss this with my wife with just having two or three cars a year versus buying eight or ten.  She’s a nut about the finances especially when the bills barely get paid each month.   

I haven’t bought a car for pretty much a year now, but what I’m pretty much doing now is buying one or two cars a year, those being the ones of the top #1 and #2 drivers that finish in the top points of NASCAR for the year, that way I have a record each year and a car of the top driver.