I took this week off work (which is basically a tomb) to do some job hunting, burn off my overwhelming amount of PTO, and get some house stuff done.
The last storm blew through and beat the roof up, they should be replacing that this week (a day or so of hammers, Hooray!). Around that Mo and I hope to get the kitchen finished (finally, it's been a year) and paint a few rooms. Looking forward do it.
One of the things I did this last weekend was build a carnival game with my dad. It was for the school carnival down at Dove and it was clever. Basically, it's a shooting game where kids fire squirt guns at toilet paper until it cuts off and falls. Neat idea. Worked perfect until it was set up outside and the wind became an issue. We made couple adjustments and everything is fine. We'll box it in when we have the chance. We are hoping to build a few more, it was fun.
But my mom had a clever idea to re-use it beyond the carnival. Basically the idea is to set it up for Halloween. Kids come tricker treating, great play the game, the kid who wins gets an extra piece. Then, have a donation box for Wounded Warrior, St. Jude's, Humane Society, or whatever. If you make a donation, you play for a full-sized candy bar and get a BIG squirt gun. Prolly load the squirt guns with red water and put zombies or something behind the toilet paper, just to make it gruesome.
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