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Author: Andrew

  • Demon Castle Dracula!

    Demon Castle Dracula!

    As Halloween approaches Michelle and I have decided to follow the Belmont clan in their eternal struggle against Dracula and his evil minions by playing through some of the many Castlevania games. These games eventually morph into one of my favorite genres, Metroidvania games, but we are going to start at the beginning with 1987’s…

  • Summer Construction

    Summer Construction

    For years (even before we moved to Portugal) we have maintained lists of home improvement projects we are contemplating. We try to keep the list prioritized based on necessity, but also try to add small or weekend projects which we can easily complete ourselves. After the initial renovations on our house were done, we had…

  • Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #5

    Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #5

    December 30th, 2015 (FB Post Date): You Only Live Twice Two martinis. Awesome Asian disguise Sean. NOT! I’m so confused about SPECTRE’s budget. They have better space tech than the US and Russia… but in the previous movie they were counting their various income sources in less than 10’s of millions. Gadgets: Helicopter and exploding…

  • Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #4

    Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #4

    December 29th, 2015 (FB Post Date): Thunderball Our least favorite so far. It’s worth mentioning that even without martinis, it was often hard to follow the plot. Gadgets: Lots of underwater stuff, bad guys had cool mini subs. A completely unneeded jetpack?Bad Guy: Spectre, with a plan being run by #2. Meh.Martinis: None imbibed.Bond Girl:…

  • Celebrating With An Egg

    Celebrating With An Egg

    As you may have guessed by our lack of blog posts, our summer has been a bit hectic. We’ll be doing a few catch up posts talking about what’s been going on here in Portugal! Don’t worry, all is well (eggcellent even) but it did feel like the last few months disappeared before we were…

  • Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #3

    Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #3

    December 28th, 2015 (FB Post Date): Goldfinger Our favorite so far! Here’s what we thought… Gadgets: Aston Martin. We saw Q’s lab. Sweet.Bad Guy: We both loved that he was in your face from the beginning of the movie. He really didn’t want to just kill off Bond. Odd Job is so great.Martinis: First we…

  • Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #2

    Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #2

    December 28th, 2015 (FB Post Date): From Russia With Love I didn’t like it as much as Dr. No due to the lack of bombast. Gadgets: Multifunction suitcase, quite cool.Bad Guy: Meh. Spectre is cool but #3 and #5 play minimal roles.Martinis: We tried a best guess recipe based on the Bond books (his recipe…

  • A Date To Celebrate 25 Years Of Dating!

    A Date To Celebrate 25 Years Of Dating!

    It was May 4th, 2001 and I was a couple weeks away from moving from Minnesota to Oregon by way of Alaska. I was crashing on the couch of my long time friend (and secret crush) Michelle. She was taking vacation time off work to drive with me to Alaska on a farewell trip. Someday…

  • Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #1

    Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #1

    Way back in 2015 Michelle and I did a series of posts on Facebook in which we watched James Bond movies in chronological order and wrote some silly comments. We also drank martinis and tried to perfect our favorite recipe as the series went on. Fast forward to 2026 and we thought, “Why not revisit…

  • A Geeky Discussion About “Gateway Games”

    A Geeky Discussion About “Gateway Games”

    Our board game club, Board Guimas, has a relatively active user group that talks about all things game related. A couple weeks ago one user commented about which gateway game was the most interesting (in their opinion) of the most popular five. This coincided with some similar discussions I’ve had with Michelle and another friend…