{"id":6806,"date":"2020-12-20T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T18:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=6806"},"modified":"2020-12-20T14:13:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T19:13:44","slug":"2020-lego-advent-calendar-day-twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=6806","title":{"rendered":"2020 Lego Advent Calendar: Day Twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve read 25 books this year. My goal was to read 12. I crushed my goal like a beer can! And then I crushed a real beer can! And I screamed, “Literature!”<\/p>\n

By far the best book I read was Lonesome Dove,<\/em>\u00a0by Larry McMurtry<\/a>. I began this 1,000-page cowboy epic at the beginning of the pandemic when everyone was saying we’d need to stay indoors for two entire weeks in March.<\/p>\n

Two weeks. Hahahahahahahaha…ha…[sobs softly]<\/p>\n

Lonesome Dove<\/em> was a great escape.\u00a0 I cannot recommend it enough. Even if you hate westerns and cattle, it’s a wonderful work of storytelling.<\/p>\n

More highlights of my reading challenge include Susan Orlean’s The Library Book <\/em><\/a>and Wool<\/em>, by Hugh Howey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The other books I read this year were all different shades of “just okay.” But I enjoyed reading them while I was reading them. Does that make sense?<\/p>\n

I’m aiming for 21 books in 2021. That’s doable…considering some of the “books” I read in 2020 included a Goosebumps and an Incredible Hulk graphic novel.<\/p>\n

You can follow my reading journey on Goodreads<\/a>. It’s a horrible site that seems to be designed by a dog sniffing at keys on a keyboard, but it’s a simple tool to keep track of what I read so that my life has some value.<\/p>\n

I AM THE THINGS I CONSUME!<\/p>\n

The Lego Advent Calendar is coming to a close but there are still surprises to discover! Today we find…<\/p>\n

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A Green Truck!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Another unusual color, Grinch Urine Green.<\/p>\n

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I’m a bit intrigued by the thing on the back. What could that nugget be? It probably attaches to some future item. For now, Robot Snowman crammed his propeller into the hole and whispered, “Tah, freakin’ dah.”<\/p>\n

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Pineapple Woman had no clue what was going on and made an uncomfortable “Ughnng” noises from within her fruity head. She’s fine.<\/p>\n

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Not much more to say about this. Adding the propeller makes an otherwise dull item somewhat less dull. However, and I can’t stress this enough, the propeller does not spin.<\/p>\n

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Day 20 Rating:<\/strong> 2 out of 5 (Points deducted because that thing on the back may lead to something stupid.)<\/p>\n

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See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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This blog is brought to you by Blogging Twilight: Viper Edition<\/a>. Enjoy each and every Twilight blog as you wait in line to be admitted\u00a0into 2021.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n