Underground Power Plant
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I don't know what they call it in Star Wars Episode 1, but the end of Chapter 3, Episode 2 will take place in the equivalent. Generator Room. Power Room. Whatever it's called, it's big.
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I started w/ these long cork/particle boards from Lowes. I had them cut 'em in half, painted them up and well, the base is 4'x4'. Then I started cutting out the walkways, in which there'll be 2 levels of 'em. I have other pics including test shots.

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Coming along...

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I finally came into some money and have been able to work on one of the dio sets for the 3rd chapter of Episode 2. It's coming together but I'm having to think quite a bit on how I want the set to work. It's big. The base is around 4'x4' and will stand at least 3.5' tall. We'll see. There'll be two floors involved but don't think that this is a building. I cut out a bunch of walkways and decks (or whatever they're called) last nite. I can safely say I'm out of saline cans (for contacts) because I use them to hold everything up.

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I took some very pathetic test shots last nite to see how things will look. Should be pretty cool!

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UNTIL NEXT TIME!

Moof Moof Potato

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Kody has entered the 6th grade and has survived the 1st 3 days. Emi and I relayed stories about our days in middle school and well, from the reports Kody has given us, they are quite different. First off, he DOES have 6 periods but for at least 4 of them, they are in the same classroom! There is no running around every 50 minutes or whatever. As well, his 1st classes of the day have team teachers! Science and math are combined. In the end, we made Kody quite anxious about it all (I suppose information can make people stressed out. Maybe the more you know isn't better???). But he was fine once he started school. To help out, Robert Knickerherm (sp) is his math teacher for the first 2-3 hrs of each day. Robert used to live next door to us and their child Shao Long (sp) played w/ Kody quite a bit. In any case, things aren't too bad but Kody's already bored by some of the subject matter in school. That's not such a good thing.

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Thomas has been cute the past week, as usual. He's such a nutty boy. He's smart too. Thomas may not have much to say (he doesn't speak yet, he speaks Thomasnese) but he sure studies people! We hit Elizabeth Park and while he had fun, he gets into these funny jags of just watching people. I think if I walked away and was gone, he wouldn't notice until loooong minutes later!

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As for GI Joe... I took upwards of 100 shots for the Sigma 6 dio which will be released next summer. I've been working on it as of late and man, that 1st chapter is really long. I'm around 40 shots so far! That's crazy cuz some of my chapters for Chronicles were that long. For the 3.75", I've started work on the set. The base of the set is 4'x4' and most likely, it'll be about 3.5' tall! I showed some pics to friends (around the world). It's gonna be huge and gonna be utterly gnarly!!!

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ON WITH THE IRONS!

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We sent Kody down to stay with my parents for a week and then he was sent to Emi's mom's for a week. He did all sorts of things as well as make some money. And with that money, he could get the fabled GI Joe Dragonhawk. At the end of his 2 weeks, the rest of us picked him up and we headed down to Long Beach, Wa for the International Kite Festival. It was, also, a vacation for us before Kody returns to school.

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Day 1. It's a 6 hr drive from B'ham to Long Beach. We cruised right along until I got motion sickness. We stayed at a dinky lil motel and we had a great time. There were 100s of kites and we ended up buying a few ourselves to add to our collection. The weather was so-so. We arrived Thursday late afternoon and immediately I put thomas to play out in the motel's lil play yard for kiddies. It was one of the first times for Thomas to play in sand. (Last time, he didn't quite enjoy it)

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Day 2. Time to explore! We were only a couple blocks from the beach. We went down vendor's row and well... There was food, food and more food! Give or take fun shops. We watched the kites, flew our own (well, Emi's stunt kite), ate a huge Mexican lunch and chilled the rest of the day. We also walked around town to check things out. LOTS of fun shops and things to do for all ages. It was a fairly relaxing day, but energetic too becuase we wanted to see everything and do everything.

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Day 3. This day, we really got to chill. We ran around a bit in the morning and then spent around 6 hrs down on the beach. Kody and I both got stunt kites while Emi hooked up with a fighter kite. Kody also got a skimboard and played on that both on day 2 and day 3. He got pretty good whereas I pitched my head into the salt water a few times. It was a good day to have fun!

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Day 4. Time to pack up and go home! We checked out the end of the penninsula then returned back to Long Beach to fly kites. Emi ran around w/ Thomas and got us some gnarly ribs for lunch. Then it was our long drive home. It was so cool down there that when the sun was out, we got used to 70F weather. Imagine our surprise to find out that the sun could also mean that it's 80+F!!! Pretty funny that we acclimated so quickly.

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Until Next Time