99.44% PURE
The thing about most AFOLs (Adult fans of Lego) is they are very brand specific. No Mega Blocks, no Tyco Blocks, no Lepin (in China). Some ALOFs will make exceptions. Those exceptions are for things Lego doesn’t make. For example, …
Category: Fun Stuff
Fun and refreshments along the way.
All Aboard!
As I said last week, I took some time off from writing during Thanksgiving to build my Lego train from the ‘80s. The motor still runs, although it was a bit jittery at first. Here is the European transformer for …
Taking a Break
Recently I wrote about writer self-care and taking a break. This week, being Thanksgiving week, I’m giving myself a break. My oldest hobby is Lego. I’ve been collecting since I was four years old. I always use to ask my …
I wish I had Time to Read a Book… Oh, Look…
Work is killing my writing at the moment. If you look at the bottom, I only wrote about two hundred words this week. So I even have less time to read. But sometimes you need a break, and fortunately for …
An AFOL Weekend
Just the other day I was complaining to my wife that I felt in a rut with work, write, sleep, work, write, sleep, work, write, sleep. And now that two people have left the office at my job and the …
Zucczilla!
My wife works in homecare. One day one of her clients gave her a zucchini. One zucchini. The one pictured above. We named it Zucczilla. So the question became what to do with it. I went to www.allrecipes.com for some …
Burrrrgurrrs!!!
Okay, I’m not the kind of person that always posts pictures of the food they eat, but I have to make an exception. For the second week in a row, Baby’s Badass Burgers’ food truck stopped on my route home. …
What I’ve been reading: DC Superhero Girls at Metropolis High
Writer and educator Art Holcomb has said you should read ten times as much as you write. While I understand that from an educational perspective, I just don’t have the time. I’ve been reading “What Jane Austen Ate and Charles …
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Pizza! Pizza!
Couldn’t wait for the weekend, went Tuesday. I had the Hawaiian Heat, Kris had the BBQ Chicken. Of course, we both had some of each. Still kinda empty in there. Next culinary stop: Tres Toros? Outback? Farmer Boys? Taco Bell? …
Beautiful Tiny Fighter Jets of Mosquito Murder
Kris loves dragonflies. Every once in a while, we go out to find some. The picture above was taken last year at the pond at CSUN, California State University Northridge. We’ve been back a couple of times this year, but …