My hobby truck is here. It has a dedicated ESC, dedicated receiver and servo, and it’s 4WD, and it’s insanely fast. How fast? 0 to 25MPH in 2 seconds fast. I can barely control it, since it practically flies. Last night, on a 1 hour charge, I raced it up and down the street. This [...]
Lisa touched upon this in her blog, but this weekend was great. We went nowhere, and Nora and I practically spent the whole weekend outside. I would do yardwork, Nora would help, then we’d play together, then she’d find something deeply interesting and work on that while I went back to yardwork. Repeat. What made [...]
I refer to a couple of you in the third person. Jaya leaves tomorrow. Unlike the post I wrote last year, Jaya has hung around us almost constantly (much to Lisa’s chagrin and consternation). Nora has really taken a shine to her; the amount of effort Jaya put into that relationship did pay dividends. It’s [...]
I thought, ‘hey, I’ll get Lisa to play VT2K9, and she’ll hate it and I’ll trade it. After all, I’ve put 100+ hours into the last three VTs, the game must be broken, right?’ Wrong. Lisa insisted on not standing to play, and I thought it’d be all over. Nope. She gets into a match, [...]