Day 3 - Hobbies cost money

At least its not drugs.

🏪 Finishing Up at the Store

View of the new cash desk, with everything assembled and ready to go.

Went to the store, did some cable management, and then took a lot of pictures of the store and how everything is setup. Mostly just boring work nothing crazy.

Chatted with Joe the foreman for a bit, then delivered some stuff to the Pseudio across the mall and then left.

Inside the store with no stock in it yet (or speakers).

🍖 Lunch!

Decided to grab lunch again at Chick-Fil-A because it was so good last time, and I had the same thing except I got a large sweet iced tea. So good I had to have more. But there is another reason I got the tea. I wanted to drive around Ontario a bit.

A picture of heaven on earth.

I got in the car and more or less muddled on my phone a bit trying to find a location to go. I know I wanted to go down to Panda Hobby, a nice little hobby store I bought online from one day and I wanted to see their stock of Gunpla.

Without finding much else to do I said "fuck it" and ventured down anyway. Drive was long and boring. Highways are so straight here its insane. Its crazy to me how the highway is so straight but the entire highway is only 100km/h. Like at least bump it up to 120.

🤖 Gundam

Once I got down there, I was SHOCKED at what they had in stock. I found at least 10 of them I wanted including an original Zaku I. I was overwhelmed at their stock. But I knew exactly what model I wanted. The RG Nu Gundam to go with my RG Sazabi. That and the Razer (not the gaming company) gate remover tool set. I've been eyeing it for a while now and really wanted it. Plus 2 sets of 2 action bases totaling 4 complete action bases. They won't hold the larger models but they will holder the smaller RG models which is exactly what I was looking for.

Really cool Red Comet head next too the unicorn. It was quite big as well.

An absolutely amazing build, damaged Exia with cape went extremely hard. I believe this was the Master Grade variant that was custom made.

They had a huge collection of all sorts of unique models that I have never seen before. Not all are from the Gundam universe either.

This was one of the models I was looking at. MGSD Gundam Barbatos. Amazing build!

At this point, I was so thrilled to see all these cool builds. But this one really got me. This was the RG RX-78 from the original show with all the decals done, and the frame standing behind it. Super impressive work.

No idea where this model is from, it could be custom, but I believe its the cross bones Gundam. Another cool build, and again really well done.

I tried to get a shot of the gold dude in behind, but it didn't come out that well. No idea what it is or where its from, but it was sick as hell. The master grade RX-78 was cool too!

This is a much better shot of the gold guy.

I spoke to the guy at the register and told him he should open up a store in Halifax. Our store closed down and I was upset about it. He said he heard some people say that. Next time I need to bring a second bag for gunpla.

⌨️ Keyboard

After dropping a bunch of money in there, I came back out and browsed for stuff on my phone. Not really finding much to do that wasn't going to close at 4pm that I could drive to and not feel rushed. I thought about going to the zoo, wasn't too far away but it was getting ready to rain.

After browsing for a long time I stumbled upon a little keyboard shop. I instantly started the car and drove over. The area that I was in was a business park of some sort with a bunch of smaller companies, and to be honest, it was not really kept up that well. I drove into the parking lot and noticed a big sign that said "unauthorized vehicles will be towed" and thought "oh this must be employee parking or something" and moved on. Couldn't find any parking and the building it was at had no signage at all. Honestly I thought the store may have been bought out or something.

So I drove around again, and drove around the entire building. Still no parking and I was getting sketched out. Didn't seam like a real good place to be in.

Then I gave up, went up the road a bit in defeat and pulled into another parking lot and checked my phone. The hours for the shop said they where open, and their sight online was still active. So I drive back and re-read the parking rules and noticed at the top it said "customer parking". Im an idiot.

Got out of the car quickly found the shop and I was in heaven. Keyboards everywhere. switches everywhere. It was glorious. They had keyboards on display and I tried all of them and found one with amazing switches and caps I fell in love with.

So I came out with 180 switches and a beautiful set of keycaps that only cost me an arm and a leg. Hard to find, but an amazing little company.

🏩 Back to the hotel

After all that, I decided to come back to the apartment. I could feel the exhaustion starting to creep up again. I thought about going to visit another store on the way back, but again, was getting tired.

Final haul of what I bought. Switches and caps included.

Once I got back, I decided to figure everything out before I got too tired, so I re-packed my suitcase and fit everything I bought in it quite nicely. The gundam box will not survive but thats fine. I don't expect it too. As long as the pieces inside are fine it will be ok. I packed cloths around it too just to make sure.

Inside the box of the Raser gate remover & polisher kit.

After all this, I decided to write the majority of this entry, and make sure I checked in to my flight, and paid for my luggage. Not sure where
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It was quite good.