Well it’s been a little over a week since my first appearance as Darth Vader and yesterday was my second appearance.  It was a long day but very fun.  Two more Saturdays to go, I hope they are as fun as yesterday.  Here are some photos, so you can see me in action.

Pictures from the first weekend

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Pictures from my second appearance

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Stop the presses!!!  There is a Star Wars exhibit at the Anchorage Museum until April 25th, exploring the technology in Star Wars and comparing it to advancements in today’s technology.  But wait the story gets better, way better.

I recently came into a bit more free time, and decided at the spur of the moment to join a friend at a Meetup.com group event called Taste Buds; it’s for people who are interested food, and as you all know I am.  Well as luck would have it I met some interesting people at this event.  One of the people I met, I might end up doing some business with in delivering telemedicine in Alaska, the other person I met that was SUPPER interesting is the the Marketing Director for the Anchorage Museum, yes the same one with the Star Wars exhibit.  Well need less to say I was full of questions about the exhibit, and then she had a question for me, how tall are you?  I thought this was odd, but answered her, and then she began to tell me about a Star Wars trivia event at the Eagle River library for some elementary school kids, great I said, I’ll whip them all in Star Wars trivia.  No she said, the event is for the kids, I want you to come dressed as Darth Vader.  SAY WHAT!!!!!  I thought to myself, I didn’t need any time to think about that, any plans I did have that might have interfered, just got canceled.  Well it gets even better, I’ll also get to dress up in the official licensed Darth Vader costume, provided by the museum every weekend in the month of April and walk around the museum.  So if you are a little slow on the up-take, I’M GOING TO BE DARTH VADER for the museum!!!!!

Star Wars exhibit website

The poll is closed now as I have made an offer on a house and it was accepted, thank you to those who took the time to give suggestions.

For me, the home selection came down to either Baxter Terrace or Teklanika. Teklanika offered an amazing large backyard in an area I loved, a quiet community, Eagle River, away from Anchorage, and very close to real wilderness. However there were a number of areas that needed work on the house, fresh paint, work on bathrooms, and a kitchen remodel wouldn’t have been too far down the road either. Baxter Terrace, offered a more updated home, that had been exceptionally well maintained. On the down side, the home is in Anchorage, on a street where there may only be 3 to 4 unique floor plans amongst the maybe 20 homes on the dead end road, and the yard is smaller, without as much privacy as I would ideally like.

When I stepped back and really took a look at my life style, I try and get out into the mountains just about as much as I possibly can, and especially right now, I don’t have a lot of time for maintenance. So the result is, I made an offer on the home on Baxter Terrace. If you don’t like that home, don’t worry, you don’t have to come and visit.    The home inspection is scheduled for Monday, March 8th.  If all goes well I should be able to move in by April 16th, the current owner needs to find a new home.

Now that the home is pending, you won’t be able to view the listing to see photos of the home, so I saved the listing photos and have included them in the gallery below.

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