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Know How: To Build an Igloo
You don't need to be at the Pole to be build a wicked cool fort in the snow.
Battery Powered Kids: The Dinosaur that Wasn't
You can talk about good intentions and the best laid plans all you want, but at the end of the day the only thing that often matters is results. It may be all well and good to put together the pieces of the puzzle, but you're not doing it for the love of fitting cardboard joints together; you're doing it because you really want to see the picture.
Battery Powered Kids: Galloping Gearbox
I may be handy in a lot of ways, but the miniature is not, generally speaking, my milieu of choice.
Battery Powered Kids: Battery Pirates
About ten years ago, my wife and I went to Guatemala to do a Spanish language immersion program. We stayed with a local family in the picturesque colonial capital of Antigua, took about six hours per day of one-on-one Spanish instruction, and ran around with a bunch of European trekkers in our free time. (Ah, the pre-children years.) Because we were on foot, the most accessible source for picking up incidentals was the Mercado—an outdoor market that sold everything from crafts to livestock.
Why Do I Build Things For My Kids?
There's really no rational reason to make, rather than buy, things for your kids. Unless you can produce something more efficiently than the factory in China, or design a toy more clever or aesthetically pleasing than the pricey wooden ones from Europe, you're better off putting in a couple more hours at the office, or spending some quality time with the kids. Or sleeping.
