Cycling in 2020

Cycling in 2020 has been an interesting year.  I started out looking forward to the new cycling season after my forced early off season in 2019 due to injury that August. Races / TimeTrials Because of the shortened MATTS schedule,…

Working Remotely

When people talk about working remotely they usually mean working from home.  Over the past weekend I had to really work remotely: I was recording finishing times for competitors in the 2020 Ill Kanza Gravel Fondo bike event.  Ill Kanza…

Making decals

One thing I’ve spent time working on with my LEGO collection is to make my own decals.  Initially the problem I had was that I wanted to do printing in white.  This causes a whole world of problems with most…

Quadriceps Tendonitis

    In early March, I started to ride outdoors in preparation for my cycling team‘s training camp in Southern Illinois.  After 2 days of outdoor riding on my road bike, which had been idle all winter, I started developing…

City of New Orleans

At BrickWorld 2014 I came up with an idea to build the City of New Orleans train in LEGO.  The plan was to take the song and create vignettes based on different verses.  At this year’s BrickWorld I debut the…