Monthly Archives: February 2009

How Was The Train?

Well it turns out that the train was pretty good. Most importantly, I didn’t get sick. I did take a bunch of Dramamine, and had I not done that I probably would have gotten sick, because you rock back and forth quite a bit. So I’ve decided to put together a list of the pros [...]

Create TV

Kelly and I have recently become addicted to Create TV. It appears to be a national channel that public TV stations can buy. Here in St. Louis it is on channel 9-4. It basically is a bunch of various “do it yourself” shows, from cooking, to building with Norm, to crafts, to quilting, to traveling. [...]

Sailplanes

Many years ago Dad and I would fly remote control sailplanes. I don’t even remember how long ago the last time we flew was. It was at least over 10 years ago, because we didn’t fly at all once we moved into the city. We started flying little foam airplanes, but the large gliders had [...]

Xbox Live

This is going to sound like a shameless plug, but I don’t care. So just deal with it. Anyway, I’ve had an Xbox 360 for about 3 years now. I got it after being diagnosed with diabetes thinking that I’d exercise while playing it. Well, that never happened, and for a long while my Xbox [...]

Train

Kelly and I are going to Chicago later this month, and instead of driving, like we have the last 2 times, and instead of flying, we are going to take the train. I’m very excited, but a little nervous. I was thinking, and remembered that I have taken a real train trip before. It was [...]