Yesterday the boys and I had a great time taking more pictures of their Megablok ships. Man, they are so proud of the hard work they put into those things. So, today you’ll have a few more pictures. However, rather than wasting your bandwidth, I’ll post two and then link to a gallery. Before I do that though, a couple items of buiness: 1) What’s the deal with all this Rolex SPAM lately? I get [...]

Just when you thought life couldn’t get any more complicated, the make instructions for folding chairs. Michelle and I bought a folding table and chairs set from Office Depot (4 padded chairs & table: $20) for game nights and we recently had occasion to break them out. Inside we found this: “To use chair simply unfold chair by holding the back rest in one hand. With the other hand hold the front on the seat [...]

Well tonight was supposed to be game night, but alas most everyone is busy. No worries though, it’ll give me a chance to do some reading and maybe even finish the 3rd season of Stargate. I did however move game night to Thursday should anyone be interested. I’ve also been thinking, I’m going to start tracking wins at game night as well as games played. Then in November of next year, I think I will [...]

A few months ago the boys and I stumbled upon Mega Bloks while we were at Toys R Us and they had this display with all these dragons and ships. We were sold! So for prizes for the boys I have been getting the sets on eBay and keeping them. When they’ve had outstanding achievement in school they win one of the smaller ones. When they’ve been able to keep up for a term, then [...]

Last Friday several friends and I placed an order for some board games and they showed up today. It’s like Christmas in October and it was quite a haul. Normally I order all my games from http://www.bouldergames.com, but the one game I really wanted from them was out of stock so I was able to consider some other options. I stumbled upon this other website called http://www.boardsandbits.com that had a flat rate shipping of $12 [...]