1) Got my car back from repairs yesterday afternoon. Turned out the part shown in the repair manual and the part we actually needed were two different things. Took the wrong replacement back to Hillbilly's (Dad driving me in his Buick), exchanged it for the right replacement (which didn't look too good, but looked much better than the obviously ( Read more... )

1) My nephew Egan has been staying here this week. Most of his time is alternating between playing Star Wars Lego on the Wii and reading C.S. Lewis Narnia novels. He sleeps in the guest room, which means I can't do any work on my assignment model for IPMS. Yes, we are trying to get him involved in the outside world here, but he won't have none of ( Read more... )

( Phantoms And Falling Leaves )

Family get-together/picnic overday. Menu included the mafalda, deviled eggs (which nephew especially liked), cajun goulash/salad (made with red beans & rice with corn and other veggies added) and barbecued sausages of various types. I'll probably eat more mafalda tomorrow...we had a good share of leftovers ( Read more... )

Dumbledore's Army are on their way...

Just saw HP: Oo'P this midday.

Loose thoughts:( Possible Spoilers HERE )

Lego people scale to roughly 1/45th.


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I just learned less than an hour ago that my nephew is coming to stay here for an extended weekend. He arrives the day after tomorrow (Thursday) and goes back a week from today (next Tuesday ( Read more... )

I'm decompressing now after our family Christmas gathering/banquet/gift exchange. At the last minute I changed my mind about buying a gift for my nephew and got him a NewRay Sopwith Camel toy from the Red Roofs KayBee. I gave my niece a Parrothead t-shirt...it's so too big for her she may recycle it as part of a skirt, which I guess would be ( Read more... )

Hey.

I'm trying to talk my parents into taking my nephew to the zoo. I mean, the kid likes animals, and the zoo's not far away and it's cheaper than many of the other touristy things to do in this area.

"He's bored," I tell them.

"He seems to be happy," they tell me back.

"He's doing a lot of the same things I used to do when I was bored at ( Read more... )

...Billy Crystal, that is.

Showed Egan City Slickers for his movie tonight and he had all sorts of fun. He was charmed by the opening credit cartoon and never let go. I wonder now if we'll have to get him up on a horse...or a cow.

FP