Todays VLOMO moment is brought to you by Hot Wheels and Danica Patrick. The story goes like this. Some months ago The Sprite and I were in Costco where we saw a re...
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Todays VLOMO moment is brought to you by Hot Wheels and Danica Patrick. The story goes like this. Some months ago The Sprite and I were in Costco where we saw a really cool large scale Ferrari R/C car for $30. Determined to own said item to add to his Jay Leno-esque car collection The Sprite set about saving his allowance. Weeks passed and when he finally reached the appropriate amount of savings we went back to Costco to make his purchase. Sadly once there we found all trace of the Ferrari was gone, they had sold their entire stock of that car. Not to be deterred we head home and to the power of Google and the Internet. After 3-4 hours of searching for large Ferrari cars in the $30 price range The Sprite had made his online purchase. Only now he was getting a Danica Patrick Indy car. Why? Who knows. We've never watched Indy racing, he has no idea who Ms Patrick is. But who am I to deny the boy to invite the lovely (and extremely fast) young lady into our house. After several days of waiting and asking when Danica will arrive, the box finally showed up on our doorstep...
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Todays VLOMO moment is brought to you by The Sprite and his friend Kayden, who are more like Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau. They argue and bicker like a couple of ...
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Todays VLOMO moment is brought to you by The Sprite and his friend Kayden, who are more like Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau. They argue and bicker like a couple of cranky old men who can't find their slippers. And so it was all day long as I tried to keep the peace in the house. By the end of the day I had a monumental headache. Never again.
Explorations In Syn...
0 Views 07:51:27 10/06/10
Before we delved into piano lessons for The Sprite, I let him loose on my old Ensoniq VFX synthesiser. Let him get a sense of tickling the keys. Playing with the d...
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Before we delved into piano lessons for The Sprite, I let him loose on my old Ensoniq VFX synthesiser. Let him get a sense of tickling the keys. Playing with the dated wavetable sounds we made an audible racket of awesome proportion. I also let the boy take control of the camera so he could document the aweful din. The whole thing is an artful mess. But we both came out of the ordeal mostly unscathed. Mostly
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0 Views 07:47:41 10/01/10
The Sprite has started taking piano lessons. His homework is to practice some of the excercises they do in class. I pulled out my old Yamaha CS1x synth and set the...
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The Sprite has started taking piano lessons. His homework is to practice some of the excercises they do in class. I pulled out my old Yamaha CS1x synth and set the voice to Grand Piano and let him go through his DoReMi's. After the homework is done it's time to play. The boy has a natural apptitude I think you'll agree, when it comes to tinkling out a tune. Here he finds a spooky synth voice to fit the ghoulish Halloween theme.
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0 Views 07:45:32 10/01/10
The Sprite has started taking piano lessons. His homework is to practice some of the excercises they do in class. I pulled out my old Yamaha CS1x synth and set the...
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The Sprite has started taking piano lessons. His homework is to practice some of the excercises they do in class. I pulled out my old Yamaha CS1x synth and set the voice to Grand Piano and let him go through his DoReMi's. After the homework is done it's time to play. The boy has a natural apptitude I think you'll agree, when it comes to tinkling out a tune. This time he uses a pretty dulcimer voice to prepare some music for the upcoming holidays
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0 Views 02:46:38 11/23/09
My Son The PianistThe Sprite loves to plonk around on the antique player piano we have in the house. I wouldn't go so far as to call it making music, but to h...
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My Son The PianistThe Sprite loves to plonk around on the antique player piano we have in the house. I wouldn't go so far as to call it making music, but to him I'm sure it comes close. Either way it's great to have him take an interest in playing it. Hopefully eventually it will lead to him wanting to learn to play it properly.
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Another opportunity to train The Sprite for future chores finds him cleaning up his post-meal debris under the dining room table. He was quite comfortable down the...
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Another opportunity to train The Sprite for future chores finds him cleaning up his post-meal debris under the dining room table. He was quite comfortable down there, gracefully sliding the Dirt Devil this way and that.And the sooner he gets into the habit of cleaning up down there the better. It looks like Lindsay Lohan just binged and purged her lunch under the boy's chair. If you gathered up all the odd scraps of food discarded by The Sprite after each meal you could pack it into a U.N. Food Aid box and ship it to Sudan. It's horrendous. It's a wonder the boy ever gains a pound of weight, I'm certain he wastes more food than he actually consumes.
Kidz Soccer
1 Views 23:15:01 12/23/08
Back in May The Sprite was signed up for the 5 and under soccer league at his preschool. It was a pretty good idea, get him out there and runing about with all the...
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Back in May The Sprite was signed up for the 5 and under soccer league at his preschool. It was a pretty good idea, get him out there and runing about with all the other kids. He's half Brit so naturally I was hoping his latent footie skillz would surface and he would run rings around all the Yank kids.Sadly this was not to be the case. The latent Brit soccer skills will remain dormant for a while longer. Our little Becham wanted nothing to with the kids or the league. He wanted to ball, but got very frustrated when it would not come to him. He was fine in practice when he had a ball to play with. But come game time it all got a little overwhelming for him. Most of the other boys and girls were happy to get in there and battle for the ball. But The Sprite was one of several kids who didin't want to, er, play ball, as it were.It was frustrating at first, but he got a little better a the 8 game season went on. I ended up going out there and running around with the kids. The Sprite kept close to me and ran about and got a couple of kicks of the ball. To be fair, he was one of the younger ones and the bigger boys were fast and dominated the control of play. A bit daunting for the little guy to compete with.We'll try again in the future when he has more interest in doing it. And when he can bend a free kick around a 10 man wall into the top left corner of the goal.
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The Sprite passes the long hours of a winter day...
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A few weeks ago, ElectricMummy had to go do some business things, which is nothing unusual, except on this occasion our little Sprite had a bit of a cough that kep...
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A few weeks ago, ElectricMummy had to go do some business things, which is nothing unusual, except on this occasion our little Sprite had a bit of a cough that kept him out of school. That left me on playground duty for a couple of hours. Which was actually quite nice, it got me out of the office and away from work for an extended period of time with a perfectly valid excuse.So, with time to kill, the boy and I hit the swings, slides and sand for a brief playtime. He had fun running around (of course) and I had fun chasing him (again, of course) stuffing my Flip into his face wherever he went.But like all good things, our relaxing afternoon came to and end when mummy returned and he had to go home for a nap, and I back to work.
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On a chill but pleasent spring morning, our little Sprite finds many an amusement in the back garden wonderland of fallen leaves, puddles, dirt and all manner of t...
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On a chill but pleasent spring morning, our little Sprite finds many an amusement in the back garden wonderland of fallen leaves, puddles, dirt and all manner of things to get himself filthy dirty and soaking wet. Oh well, boys will be boys. Anyhow, it keeps him busy and occupied for a time. Even if it means we have to rake up the leaves again after the G-Express ploughed through them for the umpteenth time.