Later tonight I'll be giving the fourth of my presentations for my book, this time at the Englewood, Colorado REI Store. Overall, the experience has been a lot of fun and I've enjoyed chatting with folks about the mountains. Tomorrow is Lakewood REI and then a reprieve from the shows for a bit. With that new free time I'm going to be finishing up my personal web site and moving it over to a new hosting company. (Here's a preview of the games template, using classic NES colors).
So one last thought: thinking about my Dad, one thing he and my Mom were great at was instilling a sense of imagination in my sister and I. One of my favorite childhood activities was making custom spaceships for my little rubber monsters (all Japanese movie monsters, I've NEVER found any additional info about them but they were called Monster-In-A-Can if I remember correctly. They were kind of like MUSCLE Men only cooler). Those old McDonald's foam hamburger/nugget containers were perfect because they were easy to decorate and carve out windows and the McNugget container even had a "pilot's seat" (where you put the sauce). One dozen egg containers were good "troop transports" when an expedition had to find the poor scout who was frozen in an ice cube in the icy tundra in the land of Frigidaire.
I don't know if kids do cool stuff like that nowadays. Maybe. Either way, it makes me want to see what I can create out of the doggie bag I got from Wahoo's Fish Taco last week.
