So we thought we’d done a good job of cutting out all the HFCS, as we talked about in the previous post. Unfortunately, this was not entirely true. We get grocery delivery orders from Safeway every week or two. I…
Grilling Faijtas with Classichef Silicone Gloves and a Culina Grill Basket
We have grilled a fair number of things now with the excellent gas grills our property provide, but by far the most impressive was Chris’s chicken fajitas. We’ve made them a few times now, but the first time we made…
iPhone SE
Chris and I both have had excessively large phones for a while. They were useful for traveling, but as Apple has released a smaller and newer phone, we though we would see if it was possible to trade up while the…
Amazon Locker
A cool new feature from Amazon that has found its way into our apartment community is Amazon Locker. Although package pickup has already been very easy given our community’s office is open and receiving packages 6 days a week during…
Dinkum Systems ActionPod PRO
Chris uses FaceTime to speak to his parents face to face as he and his dad both have iPhones. The iPhone is by far the easiest way to call someone with Facebook, but it is annoying to have to hold the phone.…
Adventures in Lego Trains: Part 2 – LEGO City Trains High-speed Passenger Train 60051
In addition to getting a better base for his Lego train, Chris decided he wanted to make more cars for his train. This led to a trip to the Lego store, which is conveniently located about a mile away. We…
Adventures in Lego Trains: Part 1 – LEGO City Trains High-speed Passenger Train 60051
Even though we have much more space in the US than we had in the UK, his new train, LEGO City Trains High-speed Passenger Train 60051 Building Toy, is still enormous when fully built, so it has been far more involved…
Product Review: LEGO Ideas Doctor Who 21304 Building Kit
As regular readers will know, Chris is a huge Lego fan and we are both big fans of Doctor Who. Check out Chris’s review of his the first official Doctor Who Lego set ever available. Here’s the video:
Adventures in Linux Mint: Part 4 – Back to Best Buy
We ended up having to return to Best Buy much sooner than expected as Chris’s laptop suffered from some death woes the following weekend. It would turn on, but it wasn’t too keen to stay on for more than a…
Adventures in Linux Mint: Part 3 – Installation and Swapping Kernels
After several days of trying it out on a stick, we installed it permanently. As we mentioned in the previous post, without using a beta version of the Linux kernel, the network, the touch screen and the touch pad didn’t work,…