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coke-bottle car

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.07.12

A couple of weeks ago I made Kenny a toy car out of a Coke bottle. It was something I saw in a photo essay on kids in Africa (a small child had made the same toy for themselves).

Now that I've found the glue gun, I have finally got the wheels on properly. I gave it to Kenny today.

He promptly hit his mother with it, causing the toy to be taken away and Kenny to be put in the "old" crib for a timeout. Which he hates. Mwhahaha.

Wait, is parenting supposed to make you cackle in an evil way?

rand()m quote

Work is about a daily search for meaning as well as daily bread; for recognition as well as cash; for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life, rather than a monday-to-friday sort of dying.

— Studs Terkel