While Alex was on his camping trip with Grandpa and Josh this weekend, his most recent report card came in the mail. Turns out, he got straight “A”s! Ok, well, a couple were A-, but still. He’s been working so hard lately and we’ve been riding him so hard about getting his homework done, doing any available extra credit, and overall putting in the effort and doing the work we know he is capable of, that we both felt the need to reward him for his grades. The question is, how? Read the rest of this entry »

With all this talk of the barriers I’m working on, I haven’t posted a single picture of my own. Well, I’m finally done making them all, and have already put them to good use. First, I set most of them up in the back yard so that Nikolas and his friends could play some laser tag as a b-day party activity. Then, I put some out at my ALTC game last Saturday for a couple Zone games. Read the rest of this entry »

Voiceover: “And this week in Lazer Tag news….”

I did some more play testing of the barriers. Ok, at this point, it’s not really testing so much as playing. 🙂 Read the rest of this entry »

Preparations for the 4th of July Festival have been taking up some of my free time of late. I’ve been working on making barriers, dealing with festival issues, and even getting a cool new banner to represent my club. Read the rest of this entry »

The new services are finally nearing completion, and are almost ready to be “turned on” for the users. This is a good thing in the long run, but my short term work load will spike as I get a slew of users who don’t understand the new, simpler system. Read the rest of this entry »