This is the coldest winter I can remember! If I wanted to live like this I would have moved to Canada. I don't think I can take much more of this.

Orders are all packed and ready to go, but I will not be taking them to the post office until the weather warms up at least ten degrees - I think that is two more days. Multiple customers have reported damage this month when their items arrived - in all cases the plastic had cracked and broken in transit. This has never happened before, but then again the temperatures have never been this low.

The current temperature outside here is 4 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill of 0.

I HATE WINTER. MAKE IT STOP.

My site has been bogged down all weekend. If you are trying to use the site and find that it is running slowly - you can thank facebook.

They have been 'crawling' my site all weekend for no apparent reason (training their AI?) and it is making everything really slow. I will look into permanently blocking their bots tomorrow. Boooo facebook!

Thank you to everyone for your patience! This weather was awful. It is currently 1 outside with a wind chill of -3 (That's -17 and -18 in Celsius!) Tonight will be the same, but then it will be warming slightly. As long as temperatures are near freezing it should be fine to resume mailing packages again, so on Saturday the 31st I will take all of the orders from this week and print labels and mail them out. Hopefully the weather will not get this cold again (ever!)

Always remember to warm up packages and pieces before attempting to move hands/arms/etc. If the package is very cold then the pieces could break unless they warm up first to room temperature.

I really hate Winter.

I have already had to delay orders due to this weekend's snow storm, since the mail trucks were simply stopped. Following the storm we are now getting absolutely frozen, to the point where I am genuinely afraid that parts will get damaged in transit due to the cold. This has happened before, especially on minifigures, and that was at temperatures slightly above what we are experiencing now. We are currently experiencing temperatures 15 to 25 degrees below normal for this time of year.

I am sorry for any inconvenience this causes, but obviously it is better to get your order without damage than to get it quickly and broken!

I really hate Winter.

It is colder. I am still stuck inside. More snow. I miss July.

Anyway, I'm just grinding. I am adding as many parts as possible, even if it is a bit inconsistent. By the end of the month I should be at 7500 (up from 7000). I have so many ideas for new builds but I don't have enough space right now and not much time to make space. Sadness! My bulette is 80% done, my ogre is started, I finally have some viable ideas for giants. We shall see what comes to fruition! In the meantime, I will try to stay warm and think happy thoughts.

I'm stuck inside. It's cold and gray. I am adding products. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a thing, but at least I have new products to keep me occupied. I just cranked through a gigantic backlog of product images and now I can start adding more. And on a positive note, we are now past the Winter solstice, so I am gaining a whole minute more of sunlight per day. Yay.

So first and foremost - I am sorry for the lack of new pieces! I was cruising along getting stuff done and life was good, and then I threw my back out. The fun part is that I was literally doing nothing. I walked from one side of the LEGO space to the other and somehow during that walk my back went completely wonky. I've been able to keep up with orders but my tortoise speed and inability to sit has kept me from adding new stuff for the past two weeks. The good news is that I am pretty much over it now and the parade of new things should be starting again.

Also - Brick Warriors pieces have been restocked. Yay!

Long story short - I upgraded the website because USPS said I had to, which made my shipping break. So then USPS said I had to create a new account to get the new shipping rates. So I did that and on the final step it said 'Unable to process this request.'

I had a useless chat with a chatbot, a failed chat with a human (it said unable to process this request, lol) and now I sent an email to USPS which could take up to three days to get a response. So yeah - not a good day! And oh yeah, USPS also just lost a package today en route to one of my customers. Fabulous.

I am doing what I can. Please feel free to browse and add stuff to your cart. Hopefully the shipping rates will be sorted out sooner rather than later. :(

So I was cruising along adding new stuff, and then I got bogged down for a bit.The good news is that I am over the hump, so new things should resume. I added about 300 so far in September, but my goal is 600 so I have a lot to do this week if I hope to reach my goal. But even if I don't, at least there should be daily updates again. :)

OK, so first of all as soon as September hits I am going to try to fix the checkout process so it stops giving false error messages. That is long long overdue. This should also give everyone the option to use Apple Pay and Venmo and stuff like that. But this is not the HUGE update.

This site is already pretty big. Believe it or not, it currently has approximately 6500 products on it. (!) But between now and December 1, I plan on adding over 2000 more. That is not a typo. This site should be increasing by at least another 30%. Two thousand new products over three months - over twenty per day. It will mostly be parts and pieces for PCs, although there will absolutely be new monsters and parts for the 'general store'.

I have been waiting for over a year for this to start, and when the kids finally go off to school, it is go time. This will easily be the biggest update I have ever made to the site. Get ready! :)