For some odd reason, I decided to photograph all of the tow trucks out of my Transformers collection, apparently to show that there aren’t too many. But maybe I was too hasty? It turns out that there were some Micromaster tow trucks towards the tail end of the G1 line. I just started collecting Micromasters recently, so...
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This is the weekend for Chrissy’s three-day scrapbooking retreat, so I’m at home alone with Aiden until Sunday. This shouldn’t be a big deal, since we’ve done this before. Aiden is now seventeen months old (last time he was only five months old), so this weekend should be much more enjoyable (last time...
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There have been a lot of custom Transformers accessories coming out recently, like the coronation armor for Hasbro’s MP Starscream and the scale-model figures of Spike and Sparkplug. As cool as they are, they tend to be overpriced, the type of thing that I may buy at a Botcon (where money is drained like water) but not...
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Today I finally got around to editting the video from Christmas morning. Aiden emptied out his Transformers stocking and found three “rumble” cars and a pretend phone shaped like a cow. Aiden loved the cow phone, and didn’t pay much attention to anything else coming out of the stocking. Unfortunately, the...
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Our web site has finally made the move to WordPress. Doing so was no easy task, since it meant having to move to a new internet hosting provider. The worst part of it was transfering all of the blog entries and photo gallery items. The photo gallery was a total pain because it required so many steps; it was literally a project...
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I’m still in the process of moving our web site to a new hosting provider. I wanted to keep my photo gallery pages intact, but to do so I need to migrate the database and all of the image files to their new home. Getting the Gallery2 software updated on the old site was like pulling teeth, however, thanks to the...
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My first official act of 2008 was to trudge outside to clear the driveway of the snow that had come down hard all night. The snow proved too difficult for my single-stage Craftsman snow thrower, however. It has plenty of power, a 5 HP Briggs and Stratton engine, but the green plastic body wasn’t up to the task. The ice scraper...
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