I opened this little Lego Creator Set, 4915 Mini Construction, and noticed that all the pieces were in the same bag.   Then something popped in my brain and it suggested to me that it could be mildly entertaining to assemble the model without opening the bag, kind of like a ship in a bottle.  Well really not at all like a ship in a bottle other then it being a vehicle of sorts and it is enclosed in a transparent container.  So I followed my brain's advice and did not open the bag.  It took about 30 minutes to assemble in the bag.  Opening the bag would have saved me about 25 minutes, but then I would not have anything interesting to blog about. (was that just a sad commentary on the level of excitement in my life?)

I know you are totally impressed with my mad Lego bag skillz
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I have. Not so much now as when I was a kid. Maybe it was from playing too much Super Mario 3. I would dream I could run fast, spread my arms, and just take off. I got quite good at it and would have flying dreams quite frequently.   I never crashed in my dreams so tothis day I am pretty sure flying is safe.  Since then a have this constant urge to jump out of a plane or off a big cliff.  My survival instinct along with threats from my wife have kept me off the edge so far.  Heather has said I could jump after the kids are grown up, something about how they need a father who is not paraplegic or dead.

Anyways, I found this video of people flying with a wing suit that looks like the designers spent a lot of time watching flying squirrels at the Moscow Zoo. I think I will get one of these and go jumping… just as soon as DJ finishes college. Of course by then maybe I can be genetically modified to grow my own wings and maybe a racoon tail to go with them