The helicopters

One thing I have wanted for  time now is an RC helicopter primarily because an RC car always seemed to hit something on ground level to hang it up. So I figured a helicopter would have less trouble flying about. I had the good fortune of receiving not one but two helicopters of different sizes and purposes - one indoor and one outdoor. The outdoor one quickly proved why it was labeled as such when I had continual trouble flying it indoors. Something about the ceiling in the way. Once outdoors, however, I ran into enough trees that I busted both of the lower rotating props and was forced into a quest for replacements. Turns out that Radio Road Toys doesn't make readily available replacement props for its helicopters so I had to get creative. Found another company makes very similar style helicopters and also make easy to acquire replacement parts so I will be offering those when I get the money for it. Until then, I had used gorilla glue to hold one if the props together and will go to a local park to try it instead of my tree ridden user until I get the hang of flying it.

On the matter of the other helicopter, it was an indoor Air Hogs helicopter only a fifth of the size of the big one. It has taken a royal beating over the last few days and is holding up nicely. Gotten lots of flying practice in preparation for the big one.

As an added bonus, the little one scares the deal out of my large black dog. That was funny.

Another Gift

So we went to Hobbytown USA at 71st and Memorial after lunch to see about another gift for my brother. We had checked this place out a few days ago when we were looking for replacement propellers for a helicopter that I'd gotten for Christmas and promptly broke the propellers on, but more on that later. There, we found an N scale crane car set that he liked and got that for him. Also there we met a guy who knew us from the old neighborhood on 14th St called Allen Crow. I didn't doubt he knew us cause I forget a lot of people and he not only remembered by brother but our next door neighbor, Matt. Wish I had a better memory sometimes for that sort of thing. I have a great memory so much of the time. Oh well.

Another shot at this

Today, I am going to try updating as I go. It is my brother's birthday and every year, we go to Ollie's Station Restaurant to celebrate. Ollie's is always a hit or miss on the food, and this time, it was marginal. I had gotten their buffet which was ok. We had gotten him a Nerf Hailfire gun which we learned he had gotten for Christmas so we're off to find something else. We got him a hot wheels car though which is what every 36 year old wants, don't you know.

We also found that Rock Girl's super power is falling down, but she claims that the Silents do it. She never sees it coming, and doesn't remember it later. I think she's just clumsy.