My favorite Lego set… so far
I’ve always dug the botanicals, and I’ve had my eye on the Lego Bonsai kit for sometime. Ellena found a gift card in her purse, so it only cost us $11 pretty good deal!
Ten! Years!
Nothing says celebrating your anniversary like adding 20 minutes onto a drive so you're not enveloped by the cacophony that is I-44. If my angelic wife were to have a fault, it would be hailing from the St. Louis area. Every holiday, birthday, anniversary, birth, death, etc., I&
Project Indigo
Been playing around with Adobe’s Project Indigo camera app, and I’m shocked. Here’s a couple of images, with no editing. Also, it’s a free iOS app, you don’t need an Adobe account for this.
We Went to Disney for Star Wars and Graduated Too
This all started with a pandemic-era Star Wars obsession. I’d seen the movies like everyone else—but working from home during COVID turned my mornings into a Clone Wars ritual. One episode per day turned into reading comics and novels on my lunch breaks, watching every show on Disney+
Project Sahara
Over the past few months, I've been gradually phasing Amazon out of our daily lives. I've dubbed this endeavor Project Sahara—because if the rainforest represents abundance and constant flow, a desert is its deliberate opposite. Not barren, but intentional. A place where only what'
Trendsetters
Upon finishing our latest botanical Lego set, the Orchid—the most laborious plant we've built so far—I was fully prepared to not look at it for a while. Thus began the long debate of "where are we going to put this one. Our neighbor who displays
Lucky (?) Bamboo
In the midst of assembling the LEGO® Lucky Bamboo (10344, 325 pieces), I had to pause for three weeks while recovering from what’s been called “the worst flu outbreak in 15 years.” Despite that interruption, this was a delightful build with a sweet little easter egg that you'
Thanksgiving isn’t lame anymore.
While everyone else is drowning in gravy and pretending to enjoy dry turkey, we've found our perfect holiday escape: Las Vegas. This was our second year swapping family drama and “meh” meals for casinos, museums and unfathomably good food. A direct flight, and we're living our
A Protector… A Dark Knight
This, is Wade, our ludicrously intricate 1,710 piece lego brick tuxedo cat who is named after either Wade Wilson, the Merc with a mouth, or Wade Garrett, the best damn cooler in the business. We’re savoring this large-scale build before turning our attention to our next project: a