Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Wow, impressive response to the last post.
Here are some more Christmas photos:

Henry playing trains. Or in his own words "Henry play trains." He really likes playing trains, but in this picture he looks even more giddy than normal.

Henry playing "if I shoot this bright light through that big camera lens straight into your eyeball what will happen. (fortunately nothing)

Henry goes "Grateful Dead" on us with his new tambourine.

Monday, January 15, 2007

In further interest of full disclosure (see previous entry) I just noticed that I also have a Huey Lewis & the News album.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Sandy is up at Sawbill for the annual Sawbill babes ski weekend. There will probably be some sort of entry on the Sawbill newsletter if you care to check there...
http://sawbill.com/www/news/newsletter/index.cfm
I've been working on some projects, mostly trying to finish up several things that I've been working for months or years. Over the past couple of weeks I've gone from one mostly functional pinball machine (Medieval Madness) to four fully functional and one being refurbished. Twilight Zone, Medieval Madness, Star Trek the Next Generation and Medusa are 100% and Fathom is the one being restored. Black Hole is the only other machine I have and it's playable but kind of messed up.
One of my Christmas presents (from Pete and Betsy) was a turntable, which is something I've been wanting for a while so I can play my 78's without wearing them out on the Victrola. The turntable can also play 33 1/3 and 45rpm (in addition to 16?!?) so we got out our LPs and have been listening to them as well. I'm glad that Sandy's taste in music has evolved over the last 20 years because she's got some real stinkers, a quick look shows the Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, three Duran Duran albums and one by the Monkees. She likes better stuff now although she seems to harbor fond feelings toward this old stuff.
In the interest of full disclosure I should probably tell you that I seem to have two J. Geils Band albums. How those managed to avoid the purge that eliminated Joan Jett and the Go Gos I'm not totally sure.
Here's a Christmas picture of Henry:

It's not a great picture, but it's funny in context. This was taken at the heart of Christmas day present opening time. There were about 10 people at the house and a million presents to open, most of them for Henry. He opened a few but then became enthralled with the headlamp that my Mom got from Sandy and I. After playing with the headlamp for a few minutes he disappeared to the back room. After we noticed he was gone I went looking for him, he was laying on the couch under a blanket it appeared that he was either pretending or actually trying to take a nap. He had his eyes closed and the light was pointed at the ceiling, he was obviously not sleeping.
I guess he just felt like he needed a little quiet time, not something he inherited from his Decker side.