Helps to know I'm not alone. Right now, I'm more concerned the 12 year old enjoys it. (He will, it's not his bank account.) But this is the summer project we agreed on and since I haven't flown anything without control lines, excepting paper planes, I'm doing the dirty work to get him started right.

When you start totaling up the cost of game systems, portable game systems, games for both systems, accessories, and computer games, it looks pretty even in costs. And sitting in front of a screen, whether in the car, or in the office, or on the sofa......(being honest), it bugs the crap out of me. I love the great outdoors. His mom, my ex, loves the great indoors. He lives with his mom. So naturally he's an indoor person.

It's a long story, but the short version is this:

Two years after our divorce she moved, never told me anything, and I couldn't find the kid. The state didn't help. Well, they didn't help until I quit paying child support. Then they put me in jail. In the end the federal courts released me, and I found my son after 7 years of not seeing him. This will be our second summer vacation since he was 5.