Jeepers, its been a while! Seems like once school starts, time-space gets all out of whack. Suddenly, its practically Thanksgiving? How did that happen?
Sysguy has become Boy Scout Dad Extraordinaire, which is awesome, but time consuming. Here are some pics of his recent Legacy Carpentry Merit Badge workshop. He's the one in the burgundy shirt. 10 mid-size boys in our small back yard, with many and varied sharp implements x 5 hours, and the only casualty was a spontaneous nosebleed. Amazing!
Note the nasal stopper. Always be prepared! Thing 1 didn't participate too much, he's had a horrible cold and was barely awake. Sysguy is doing it all again in two weeks.
The next day was Halloween, which even took the Things by surprise this year, we've been in such a whirl. Thing 1 went for the human-sized 3x lego brick; an homage to his participation in the lego robotics club this fall. It came out pretty well, at least he's pleased, and that's all that counts. Thing 2, in usual fashion, has gone for the most complicated costume. He was a fabulous mummy; here is a wonderful way to repurpose old clothes as a substrate for a roll of paper towels and about a half pound of glue stick. It turned out pretty well, and after all the tedious assembly, I got my revenge by glueing him into it for the night. Ha!
After TrT, Thing 2 is in hog heaven with his best bud, MangaDude. They're having spoils show and tell. Its been ages since I could talk about candy for that long.
Thing 1 turned 11; here he is flexing his mind. Its a bit creepy, this thing—the harder you think, or at least the harder you make the headset think you're thinking, the higher the ball flies. Maybe it'll train him to clean his room telekinetically.
A strategy session between runs at the first lego robotics competition of the year. SysGuy is in the thick of it, though Thing 1 is the actual programmer. They did quite well, made 105 points out of 400 for the run. Check out the obstacles, its not as easy as it looks!
An attempt to get a reasonable picture of the Things. It went well. No drooling!
Their father pointing out how many crappy pictures are required to get a decent one of them. Flash in the eyes will continue until normal children appear.
