#throwbackthursday

Chou Yarikuri Enjoi! Tamagotchi Kakeibo is an accessory for the Chou Jinsei Enjoi Tamagotchi Plus (Entama) or even Uratama and was released in Japan on April 29th, 2006 for ¥4,950. It features a touch screen and a stylus (that is the antenna when not used) along with a heart-shaped infrared port to connect your Tamagotchi to. Below the screen it reads “TMGC TOWN GINZA STREET”.

Ginza Street allows you to access a drug store where you can purchase medicine, a convenience store where you can purchase foods, flowers, and music items, the cake shop where you can buy a delicious sweet treat, Ginza Supermarket where you can purchase most items including clothes, a discount store where you can buy foods and drinks at a discount, the Gotchi Bank where you can deposit money for later usage. The Gotchi Bank does require a four digit pin to access the bank and your funds. There are even accounts for regular savings and super savings.

There’s also a Gotchi Library that is a dictionary players keep. It records which Tamagotchi characters have discovered on their Entama and Uratama. There’s the YariKuri center where you can buy and sell for more Gotchi points or items, and the Ginza Street Arcade which has fun games including the Dodge Ball game.

Lastly, the Cho YariKuri Enoji! Tamagotchi Kakeibo features Account Book Cards that you can use to keep track records of your deposits, debits, withdrawls and other transactions.

Caribbean Postcard

A bit of a throw back Thursday, haven't done one in a while.

An update on my scanning project, last summer I realized that prints are hard enough (haven't scanned in a while), but I wasn't ever going to get to the slides. Got a note that the guy doing scans at a downtown photography store was retiring so I took that as my inspiration to do something about it. Grabbed as many slides as I could fit in my backpack and dropped them off. Didn't get all of them, but...at least some memories are back :)

This should be January of 2000, we'd gone down to Santo Domingo for New Year's.

I did some light Photoshop on the picture, below is the unedited shot. Maybe it's the scan or my exposure was way off, quite light/overexposed. Also a bit of tilting on that horizon! :) It's probably Fuji or Kodak film.

Tracks of Time - (website: onlyfans.com/nonnie_40dd)

Walkies?

One of Barney's favourite tricks was fetching me my shoes. Sometimes even when I didn't ask him to. If I was chatting to visitors & Barney felt he'd been ignored too long, he'd scamper off & then charge back into the room a second later, holding a shoe, which he'd proudly present to me. Almost inevitably, our guests would laugh & comment on how cute & clever he was - which only encouraged Barney to go fetch the other shoe as well.

Ha! Naughty pup, if I failed to take an offered shoe from him fast enough, Barney would simply lob the footwear at my shins, hard. THAT got my attention - especially when he chucked heavy walking boots at me. Sometimes, I'd end up with a pile of assorted shoes at my feet. If Barney ran out of shoes to bring to me, he'd take one away from the pile, leave the room with it & then bring it back, like I might be fooled into thinking it was a new shoe!