1. If the whole world were listening to you right now, what would you say?

Calm the fuck down. Stop hating others not like you. Relax and pour yourself a drink.

2. If you could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?

John Cusack



3. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?

Newport Beach, CA

4. What do you think about most?

making videos, writing novels, taking time off.

5. You have the opportunity to spend a romantic night with the music celebrity of your choice. Who would it be?

Lily Allen

6. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?

My work experience in 1996 at Pioneer Valley Hospital. I might blog about this in the future – in complete detail.

7. What’s your strangest talent?

I can talk like Droopy Dog by pinching the right side of my mouth.


8. What would be a question you’d be afraid to tell the truth on?

How do you really feel about _____________ ? (insert several people’s names here)

9. Ever had a poem or song written about you?

Not that I know about.

10. When is the last time you played the air guitar?

Last Tuesday during bowling league after getting a strike.



11. Do you have any strange phobias?

A fear of heights.

12. What’s your religion?

Non-believer. I used to belong to organized religion, but left it many years ago when I realized I didn’t believe in it and couldn’t live that life anymore, trying to be something that I would never be and never wanted to become.

13. What is your current desktop picture?

a plain light gray background on my MacBook Pro running OS X Lion.

14. When you are outside, what are you most likely doing?

Wishing I could stay outside longer (assuming it’s warm and sunny)

15. What’s the last song you listened to?

“Tongue Tied” by Grouplove

16. Favorite band?

Depeche Mode

17. What was the last lie you told?

Monday at 11:35am “I will take care of that in a few minutes”

18. Do you believe in karma?

For the most part, yes.

19. What is a saying you say a lot?

Sounds good. Have fun. Talk to you in a bit. All conversation closers.

20. What is your greatest weakness; your greatest strength?

Weakness: I let others control me too much. Strength: I make people smile

21. Who is your celebrity crush?

All time: Cindy Crawford. Current: too many to list. I can tell you that Megan Fox is NOT on the list.



22. Give me the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word: heart.

Fragile

23. How do you vent your anger?

Playing loud hard music. Marilyn Manson, NIN, Slayer, Judas Priest

24. Do you have a collection of anything?

Anything penguin, LEGOs, Wacky Packages

25. What is your favorite word?

Speechless

Back a few weeks ago after my trip to Las Vegas, I ended up at LEGOLand in California. Anyone that knows me knows I’ve had a life long love for LEGO bricks. And of course, at almost 50 years of age, I still love LEGOs. So what better place to visit than a theme park made from LEGOs.

My ticket to FREEdom

The cost to get into LEGOLand is $70 a person. But as a member of the VIP Club at LEGO.com, I got a pass for two free tickets to get in [good only during the last week of October], which means my wife didn’t have to sit in the car the whole time while I geeked out on LEGOs.

VIP has it privileges

Once I presented the printed VIP pass along with my VIP card at the ticket booth and was given two passes to get into the theme park.

Sea-Life Aquarium

Backing up half a day, we decided to go to the Brick Or Treat event held the night before, which we did purchase tickets for. The park was open for 4 hours at night, and is mostly an event for families and their kids to dress up for Halloween and get candy and ride the rides and see the LEGOLand at night.

Surfs Up!

Attached to LEGOLand is a place called Sea Life, which is an aquarium. It’s live sea creatures mixed with LEGO creations. It’s not that big, but there’s still lots to see. And since it was included in the Brick Or Treat event, we had to experience it.

They even put LEGO figures underwater. Pretty cool.

I got to meet the LEGO version of Spongebob Squarepants

Brick Or Treat.. it’s the LEGO version of Trick Or Treat

As I mentioned above, this Saturday night event during October is mostly for the little ones that want candy and to see all sorts of LEGO creations. The whole park is lit up and decorated Halloween Style.

Boo!

LEGO pumpkin

The next day was a full day at LEGOLand. The park was open till 5pm, so we didn’t want to waste any time seeing everything. And of course my wife and I had to have our picture taken in the LEGO pumpkin.

Touch the skull… if you are up to it!

No matter where you go in the park, there’s all sorts of LEGO characters. For example, one of the shops had this life size Indiana Jones.

I am not your son!

And what LEGO creation wouldn’t be complete without LEGO Star Wars. Life size characters….

a scene right out of the movie.

… and miniature sized… it’s all wonderful Star Wars creations.

Ewoks, Troopers and Jedis… OH MY!!

The details in these creations is so awesome. Made me want to reach right down and … nope, had to restrain myself.

Don’t upset the Wookie

We had our photo taken with life size Chewbacca and R2-D2. I’ve never been this close to a Wookie.

Four Score and 200,000 bricks ago…

One of the rides in the park is a boat ride, similar to Jungle Cruise at Disneyland, but instead of fake animals, this was LEGO creations. Mt. Rushmore in all it’s glory.

NYC gone LEGO

Even the major buildings found in NYC have been painstakingly recreated in their smaller versions, including the new Freedom Tower under construction.

Las Vegas

Part of the Miniature Land is a hotel by hotel LEGO version of Vegas.

Golden Gate Bridge

Other cities of the US were present, including San Francisco. The Golden Gate Bridge looks so real.

LEGOLand

If you ever find yourself in Carlsbad, CA or Orlando, FL and are a fan of LEGOs, you should go. Doesn’t matter if you have kids or not. Just go and enjoy the many wonderful creations made from our favorite brick.

Photo Link

To see all of the photos I took [yes, there are even more, check out my Flickr album.

We’ve gone small for Episode 4 of this season of Scooter Sunday. Head over to ScooterSunday.com and see why tiny is the new big.

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Still More

I still have a couple more episodes of Snowy Sunday in the works. Multiple conditions [the lack of snow being one of them] have worked their evil to curb the amount of filming I had planned.

Thanks for being patient with me. Before you know it, Scooter Sunday will return with all new episodes. It’s going to be a fun season… or at least I’ll do my best to make it fun.

I Am Cooper Trooper

Let me introduce myself. My name is Cooper Trooper. My assigned number is TK-8629. I served as a senior trooper in the battles on Hoth. I spent the majority of my time stationed at the Echo base. Before that, I spent a brief time of my service on the first Death Star. Just days before it’s destruction, I was transferred to the Echo base on Hoth. I consider myself one of the lucky ones.

After my service, I went into the reserves. For now, my assigned duties are simply to keep order and to monitor suspicious activities in my travels. It’s a very free life, which gives me time to see various parts of the galaxy. For the last year, I have been on Earth and have tried to integrate myself into the population, as evidenced by the photos I’ve posted here. I will also be posting other photos and video logs showing my experiences living amongst the people of Earth.

“Learning to drive was a challenge, but I eventually got the hang of it“

“The people I am staying with own a scooter. Much slower than a speeder bike“

“It’s not easy to ride, but as with the car, I will eventually learn how“

Mission Accepted

I was contacted by Norman and asked if I wanted to participate in his project of showing our integration in society. You can read his request here.

I will be moving my logs to a new location in the coming weeks, with an announcement of each new entry located here on this weblog, complete with a link to each entry.

I hope you enjoy them. I look forward to sharing them with the collective public.