Category: hobby

• occupied

  October 29, 2011

  daily drivel, hobby, LoCo Rwy, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, Seanster, travel, vacation

  I went to visit Caboose Hobbies this afternoon while My Darling B joined The Seansterator in the Occupy Denver march through the downtown area. We split up for two reasons: One of us should have remained “on the outside” in the event, however unlikely, that it would become necessary to post bail and arrange for… Read.

• ink

  October 22, 2011

  Big Book of Quotations, current events, daily drivel, entertainment, hobby, play, space geekery

  I’m a huge geek for space flight. I’m not sure why it’s called “manned” when there are women doing it now, and I’m as puzzled about calling it “flight” when it can and often is done without wings, but even so, I geek out in a major way whenever I run across a book or… Read.

• stuff

  October 10, 2011

  adventures in plumbing, bicycling, hobby, Our Humble O’Bode, painting, play

  I just finished flushing out the plumbing from the basement sink again. Thought I’d mention that and get it out of the way. The rest of this post is free of plumbing emergencies. No, really. I should have gotten my hair cut on Saturday but I didn’t because I was too busy doing other things.… Read.

• depressor

  October 5, 2011

  hobby

  I thought this was so goddam cool that I had to share it with you. I’ve never heard of stick bombs before this, but apparently they’re nothing new. How can that be? How can I have grown up from a wee little worm, gone through Cub Scouts, ridden a bike with playing cards in the… Read.

• crossed

  October 2, 2011

  entertainment, hobby, LoCo Rwy

  The track gang has earned their keep this weekend. This was the scene this afternoon at the crossing on the low end of the Lost Continent Railway. With the last of the rails laid through the crossover, the return loop was completed at about three-thirty and the chief engineer, standing on the roof of the… Read.

• blister

  October 1, 2011

  daily drivel, entertainment, hobby, LoCo Rwy, Our Humble O’Bode

  It has been a day. Everything was fine to start with. Morning coffee with the morning news, one sucked, the other didn’t. While B got ready to go to the farmer’s market, I threw a load of dirty clothes into the wash machine and cranked it up, then went about the rest of my morning… Read.

• doink

  September 27, 2011

  daily drivel, entertainment, food & drink, hobby, LoCo Rwy, Our Humble O’Bode, play, restaurants, scrub-a-dub-dub

  Sorry, not much time left over to drivel tonight. I spent a couple hours doinking around with train track on the model layout in the basement, and when I thought I couldn’t justify spending any more time on that, I went upstairs, sat my butt down in the recliner and read other people’s drivel posted… Read.

• on track

  September 19, 2011

  hobby, LoCo Rwy

  The track gang has had all summer to lie in the sun, but now that the dogs days have passed it’s time to get back to work. This crossing has been on the mind of the chief engineer all summer while he’s been at home mowing the lawn and painting window frames, even while he’s… Read.

• nerd dream

  August 9, 2011

  daily drivel, dreams, hobby, play, space geekery

  I was crouching on the very edge of a raw metal deck plate with my arms straight out on either side of me, reaching just far enough to hold on to the struts that were the only things connecting the deck plates to the ship. With the main engines running at full throttle my feet… Read.

• hangar dance

  June 19, 2011

  beer, daily drivel, dance, entertainment, food & drink, music, My Darling B, O’Folks, play

  Did I mention we went dancing last night? We did. Friday was the night of the annual hangar dance at the airport. Our favorite local swing band, Ladies Must Swing, finagles an empty hangar away from whoever runs the airport, sets up some tables and plays music by Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Count Basie and… Read.