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Monthly Archives: March 2015
First Ride of Spring
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Bike riding is a thing, at our house. When spring comes, we tend to put away model trains (or just kind of leave them where they drop…) and pull out the bikes. The day we went to the train show, …
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Interesting Search Terms
I took a rotary saw to the TTFH and sliced a big, jagged wound in it to make space for a riverbed, because the bridge to nowhere was bothering me – it needed a river to cross. I put in a …
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Another Opening of Another Show
My Olin and I ventured out to a train show, again… This time, I was smart: I refused to take any other children but the one directly interested, and I brought a dedicated self-described “sheep dog” to keep track of …
Spring has Sprung(ish)!
Finally got the kids outside! (This is a short photo gallery post.)
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Rocks, Grass and Chain Link
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I have been doing so much with the mechanics of the train table, trying to fix the wiring, smooth the rails so they don’t derail in certain key places, solder feeder wires, rearrange and optimize turnouts… (Good grief, I hate turnouts. …
The Power of Proofreading
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Here’s another fun example of the kind of English misuse that makes me twitch. This is a reusable shopping bag that we got from WIC awhile ago. The typo is an itty bitty one… An apostrophe, to be exact. Without …
Baby Lily (Utah)
In the last couple of days, a story has surfaced about an 18-month-old child in Utah who survived a car crash and being suspended upside-down near or in a river for an extended period of time in 28 to 40 …
Hobby Reality Check
Yesterday after work, I went up to Rochester to talk to the hobby shop guy. I took along a piece of track and a list of questions, expecting to find a knowledgeable person, a certain amount of stock of items …