Tomorrow after school we’re going to go play at the arcade and then see the “How To Train Your Dragon” movie in 3D (two adults, two kids) and even though it’s a children’s movie I think it will be fun and I remain a sucker for 3D, but today after school we made a brief visit to the park so Nefarious could return her woolly bear caterpillar to the wild to give it a better chance of survival on its quest to become a equally big fat beautiful moth. Still, it was a parting not without some fond sadness.
We’d taken a footbridge to get to the forest path where we found the new home, but to get back to the car, Nefarious wanted to take a more “natural” bridge, so the three of us crawled across this fallen tree, both too large and too safely accessible for the park staff to put it on the removal list.
Today during the day I had an appointment at my bank and stopped by Scooter Girl, the toy store that’s next door. One of the things I got while I was there, an impulse purchase that I grabbed with the change in my pocket after having completed my main birthday transaction, were these “stiffy stuff” pouches. The cost was only $0.49 so I grabbed three of them. The idea is that the gelling powder inside instantly turns a liquid into a solid (Caitlin tells me it’s probably the same stuff that’s inside pads and diapers), and wow, it really does — instantly. Here’s a video of us trying it on Jones blue bubblegum soda. We tried it on urine as well, but don’t ask for a video because we didn’t make one, but please take my word for it that it works even better (I assume because it’s not cold and carbonated).
This may not do well in responses to the nagging emails I send from time to time about child support, which most recently were replied to with chiding that I’m always buying “garbage”… I also buy a lot of those little ball firecrackers that you throw at stuff and they explode on impact… I just can’t resist all that fun stuff and who knows, perhaps it will perform the death-of-a-thousand-duck-bites to my savings.
More justifiably, also at the toy store I got a new game called “Pixel”, which I think is from the “Blokus” people (and if it’s not, it feels like it is). The goal is to get three in a line, and every turn you place a single one of your color on the board. The location you can put it is the intersection of the two black arrows, and you can change one of them every turn (ie. so you can place your piece by changing either the x or the y coordinate, but not both, of the move before you)… Very simple rules, but surprisingly complex and enjoyable gameplay. We’ve tried it as both two and three player mode, each being quite different, and we’ve already started tweaking the rules, as is our way!
