Monthly Archives: June 2012

Goodbye Lifestream

For years I ran a lifestream on my site.   I started the stream because it would take all the events I did in a single day and save them in a tidy WordPress blog post.   I would then have something to reference for any given day.   The autoposting stopped working somewhere around

My Big Wheel Bike

Image from The Original Big Wheel Someone on Facebook today posted a picture of her son’s Safety Town graduation.  Her son was beaming and sitting there on a Big Wheel bike.  I’ve seen hundreds of Big Wheel style bikes over the years, but this one looked familiar.   It was the exact model that I used

Go Buy Cricket Agent of U.N.I.C.O.R.N. If You Love Comics

One of my friends (Keith Thomas (the Thomas listed above)) has just released a new comic book.  He has always been interested in a career in comic books.  I remember around fifteen years ago being tossed out of the Haunted School House  (the house) on a summer day by him.   It was my future

SWG Emu – Symphonia Reborn

  This last week has been fun and frustrating.   The rose of the emu is not without its thorns.   Who knew it took so much grinding to become whole again?   I haven’t had to work at SWG like this since it was launched in 2003.   Things will become more in the

Disney Gives an Autistic Child One of The Greatest Gifts

  I saw a story from Boing Boing earlier today about an autistic eighteen year old having to let go of his favorite ride in the world, Snow White’s Scary Adventure.  I’ve been reminiscing quite a bit about Cedar Point rides lately, but nothing I could muster could compete with this man’s love for a single ride.

SWGEMU – Week 1

  It has been one full week that I have been in the Emu.   What I want to do keeps changing in the game.   I was going to grind up Rifleman, but I didn’t have a rifle yet.   I decided to use my CDEF pistol and grind up that line for now.

Lex Conquers The Calypso….Kind of……

Image from Theme Park Review We went to Cedar Point on Saturday with Lex.   He had a great time and I think he rode more rides than he has on any other visit.   The big news of the day was Lex conquered his first adult “thrill” ride.   He has done the train,