Ryan J. Allen » videogames http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog Everything RJA Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:29:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Ryan Allen Endorses: BRIO Toy Trains http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2009/05/03/ryan-allen-endorses-brio-toy-trains/ http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2009/05/03/ryan-allen-endorses-brio-toy-trains/#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 13:49:17 +0000 Ryan J. Allen http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/?p=1525 Most of my family on my mother’s side live in Nova Scotia–Halifax, to be exact. While I was born in Nova Scotia I grew up in Ontario, only visiting NS a few times when I was young. When I did visit it was, of course, lovely to see my family but I also [...]]]> Most of my family on my mother’s side live in Nova Scotia–Halifax, to be exact. While I was born in Nova Scotia I grew up in Ontario, only visiting NS a few times when I was young. When I did visit it was, of course, lovely to see my family but I also always looked forward to playing with the BRIO toy train set at my grandmother’s.

BRIO makes high-quality wooden train sets that are suitable for young children. The majority of the line is not powered, leaving the trains to be pulled by children. This, in combination with the ease of constructing a set and the variety of pieces available make BRIO train sets an imagination heaven. It has been years–certainly more than a decade–since I have seen the set but I am sure that it is bigger in my mind than it really is.

To this day, seeing a BRIO set will bring a smile to my face. I hope that my children and yours will enjoy BRIO toy trains as much as I did. I can imagine it now…

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Completely explicably, I have nothing for breakfast and I have to drive to work this morning (versus taking the tram). I have something like 6 Euros in my wallet and my tram pass has expired. Said pass is €44.50 monthly for the “zwei waben” pass that [...]]]> Inexplicably, I am feeling very tired this morning.

Completely explicably, I have nothing for breakfast and I have to drive to work this morning (versus taking the tram). I have something like 6 Euros in my wallet and my tram pass has expired. Said pass is €44.50 monthly for the “zwei waben” pass that I buy.

Tomorrow I am travelling to München so I will delay buying said pass until Wednesday. It’s a there-and-back trip tomorrow, which should be exhausting and will mean for an early morning start.

It is exciting to me to think that perhaps by the time my next tram pass expires I may be able to comfortably bicycle to work. Certainly I will be approaching the time when I would get the motorcycle out were I in Canada.

I watched the Daytona 500 last night and it was awesome. Jeff Gordon’s car had a camber issue which prevented him from taking the win, but it didn’t stop him from trying. Kenseth won; good for him.

Each work day I look forward to my friends joining me online at approximately 3 p.m. local time as they start arriving to work. Today is Family Day in Ontario, which should affect that schedule, and their continued availability. I am sure I will get through the day just fine, though it is truly something for me to look forward to.

I am quite pleased still to have the debts from my Canadian visit taken care of, though I am slightly anxious about the costs that I have already incurred for the upcoming European tour with Katy. Even though the costs are extremely reasonable. For about $265 I have: a flight to London, high-speed train to Paris, high-speed train to Karlsruhe, and 2.5 nights in a hostel(!) paid for. In all, I think this is quite amazing but the slight anxiety I have about it is evidence as to why I don’t travel much.

I watched 3.5 movies this weekend and will likely finish the .5 (Choke) tonight. The three I completed included a funny-enough comedy that turned into a bit of a love-story that may or may not have had a very sweet ending.

I attended a Wii party this weekend where I sang along to some Rock Band songs. I scored 100% singing Blink 182’s “All the Small Things” because of my natural talents. Attendees included both a goth and a ginger amongst the rest of us normals.

I ate some “frikadellen” this weekend.

“Say it ain’t so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home.”

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