Adele’s Aerie

I bought plane tickets home for Fathers Day this year without telling Dad. Mom was in on it, and we didn’t tell him until shortly before I arrived. Hearing me say, “See you in a week and a half, Dad!” over the phone really made his day.

While I was home, they let me play with their marble runs. The more vertical set was a Bargersville flea market special; the ones that are compatible with Duplo blocks I found at the KCET Store of Knowledge a few Christmases back for them. The two sets are not inherently compatible… but I work in a mixed UNIX/Windows computing environment, and told Dad boldly that the marble runs could be integrated, or at least interoperate! And Mom was generous enough to lend me a few marbles from her collection… the blue ones were especially brave Test Marbles who were the first to try out each newly designed piece of the run.
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