Memorial Day 2010

Memorial Day 2010

We had friends and family over to celebrate Memorial Day and have a BBQ. We also used the new pool a lot. The pool has a slide. It was a great day and everyone had fun. You can see more photos on my Flickr set.

I am now the pool boy

I am now the pool boy

What a fun couple of weeks this has been. We’ve opened up our pool and the whole family is enjoying it. It been a huge project to get to this point. Last November, my wife and I had an in ground pool installed and we’ve been scurrying to get it fully operational for the Memorial [...]

WordPress 3.0 menus and Hybrid theme

WordPress 3.0 menus and Hybrid theme

WordPress 3.0 beta comes with support for a customized menu system that optionally replaces the wp_page_menu with wp_nav_menu. Drag and drop menu management is a cool and useful feature. It’s like widgets only for navigation purposes. For my WordPress blog I am using a child theme of Hybrid called WP Full Site and I’ve made [...]

1/1 scale Hoi Hoi-san model

All done. This one was good, but the hair ruins the balance of the whole model. Also I may glue some of the hair pieces. They fall off if you look at it too closely. I’m not sure which model I’ll pickup next. It’s a toss-up between the heavy arms version or another Gundam model.

Hoi Hoi San WIP

Not my usual type of model. This is the work in progress picture for the 1/1 scale Hoi Hoi-san model. It’s for my 6 year old girl. To make sure that it all works out, I’m gluing the pieces together when appropriate. The head will have interchangeable faces so I need to remember to NOT [...]