The Silo — Home of the Monster Dog

While on a visit to the Niagara Falls area recently, I happened to dine at The Silo on Water Street in Lewiston, NY. The restaurant gets its name from its site -- a converted coal silo on the waterfront in Lewiston that used to hold coal for passing trains and passing ships. To look at … Continue reading The Silo — Home of the Monster Dog →

Twin Tiers Christian Academy’s underutilized resource

One of the unanswered questions from the class reunion was in regards to the scoreboard in the old school gymnasium. It was a memorial gift in memory of Van Page, a member of our class who died back around 7th grade. The old memorial scoreboard was still in the old gymnasium, as we were told, … Continue reading Twin Tiers Christian Academy’s underutilized resource →

TTBHS — New Building, Promising Future

A special part of the reunion was a tour of the new facilities, led by Miss Oldroyd. As I mentioned a couple of blogs ago, the school moved from the building my class -- the class of 1984 -- went to, to new facilities in January of this year. The new building, a connected … Continue reading TTBHS — New Building, Promising Future →

Catching up on friends present and absent.

We had a nice time at the reunion, catching up on old friends both present and absent. Ten of our 28 graduates were in attendance, with some spouses and children. Conversation turned to where we were and where those absent were. To the knowledge of everyone present all 28 graduates are still alive, although … Continue reading Catching up on friends present and absent. →

TTBHS — a look at the past

Today's blog is quite late. But I'm going to make it the first of a short series of photo and reflective essays. This first one is a retrospective look back. The pictures in this column are of the Breesport School building. Back in the fall of 1976 it became the building for a new school … Continue reading TTBHS — a look at the past →

Toontown Rewritten Together. Sort Of …

I spent the first evening of my vacation trying to find Nathan's toon in Toontown. It didn't take too long, relatively, to find each other at the beginning, and then become "friends". But after that we tried to take over a two-story bossbot building, and after getting into the first floor, it announced a Legal … Continue reading Toontown Rewritten Together. Sort Of … →

Almost Famous

Sarah is one unusual woman/person -- or perhaps, just perhaps, not so unusual about fame. It is a trap to many people who find it. Read her thoughts and think about it ....

Waiting for the rabbit

Last night we started hoping for the soon arrival of Google Fiber in our fiberhood more than ever. A thunderstorm started and our Clear.com modem was able to get the tower but not able to get the internet. Betsy had just really gotten into her play time on ToonTown Rewritten, and Nathan was counting down … Continue reading Waiting for the rabbit →

Fireworks Photos

Today I am giving a large gallery of fireworks photos. Worlds of Fun had a good 20 minutes fireworks show. Then it took us 40 minutes to get out of the parking lot, 30 of them standing perfectly still in the same spot. Some people with SUV type vehicles started driving over the curb and … Continue reading Fireworks Photos →

Mugshots of characters

This is an interesting attempt to use sims to create visuals of the characters in my wife’s current book-in-progress.

This, that, and the other thing

I still owe a few people book reviews, which I’ll try to get out in the next week, but I thought today I’d do something else today, once I finish battling with WordPress, which has changed its posting interface without notice. (Going through the Dashboard to create a post brings us back to the old posting interface).

Some time ago I Simmed all the main characters in my An & Mattan story (currently available unedited under “Writing” in the sidebar, if you can get through it). So, just for kicks, I’m going to show what the characters look like. Since I’m not one for making custom content, I’ve been stuck using whatever hair I can find, and sometimes I’m not too happy with what I come up with.
But anyway:

An
Her picture turns out pretty well. She’s almost smiling (unlike most of the rest of the pictures, where my characters…

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