I guess my overview for this year is that I've made good progress, but long-term goals remain... long-term goals! So let's dig into my usual set of goals and where I'm at with them! JOB AND C...
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Sorry for the lack of "spoiler alert", but -- as you might guess! -- in the next episode of Totally Normal Town , the town gets demolished again!!! (You'll have to watch "A Totally Normal C...
http://lfab-uvm.blogspot.com/2023/11/goodbye-again-totally-normal-town.html
This year I was feeling lazy with respect to gardening, so I didn't plant any seedlings indoors in February to prepare for my garden. Then, when mid-May rolled around (time to plant stuff o...
http://lfab-uvm.blogspot.com/2023/06/gardening-survival-of-fittest.html
This is my favorite recipe, mostly just because it's delicious -- but it's also great for fighting food waste! This recipe is especially for using up bread that has gone stale, and it's also ...
http://lfab-uvm.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-best-use-stuff-up-recipe-ever.html
My kids and I finished up our latest Totally Normal Town episode -- our Christmas Special -- just in time for Christmas Eve!!
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This year's "State of the Me" is probably going to be the most positive one so far in this whole series! I'd just like to remind readers that I started this series in January 2010 because I was ...
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If you watched my previous video, you probably saw this coming! Our town has been great fun, but part of the fun of Legos is that your creations aren't meant to be permanent. They're built, t...
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Last -- and certainly not least -- we have Totally Normal Town's factory. This factory is another one of the few buildings in Totally Normal Town that is wholly original and not inspired at a...
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This incarnation of Totally Normal Town has one more school: Leo Deblin's Space College and Institute of Barbering! This building is a reference to the very funny "Leo Deblin" series that Ro...
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No Totally Normal Town is complete without Hogwarts! This Hogwarts building is an original design that includes some pieces from an actual Hogwarts set. When I made it, I wanted to use th...
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The dojo where my minifigure takes her Spinjitsu lessons is an original building, but it is (obviously) Ninjago-based. In the very top section lives a lava-monster. The lava-monster is from ...
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The Internet Café and co-working space is one of my favorite buildings in Totally Normal Town because it's one of the few buildings that is completely original and not at all inspired by comm...
http://lfab-uvm.blogspot.com/2022/09/surfin-web-in-totally-normal-town.html
This tiny post office booth was loosely based on the ticket counter of the Totally Normal train station . I added our local Zürich post office logo as the sign. There seems to be someth...
http://lfab-uvm.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-couple-of-little-buildings.html
There are two buildings in Totally Normal Town that are built across the "tectonic plates". In other words, half of the building is built on one table and the other half is built on another. Th...
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This is the only building in Totally Normal Town that I did not build. It's "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza" -- designed and built by Nico using elements from FNAF-themed sets. (The Five Nights at Fred...
http://lfab-uvm.blogspot.com/2022/09/just-your-ordinary-haunted-pizza-parlor.html
When you think of Lego, you probably think of buildings (or vehicles), but a good city design has green space, and Totally Normal Town is no exception to this rule. I'm quite pleased with ho...
This apartment building is essentially my own design, but it was strongly inspired by a few different Creator sets. The original inspiration was one of the b-side designs from set #5891 in whi...
http://lfab-uvm.blogspot.com/2022/09/our-totally-normal-apartment-building.html
The Train station in Totally Normal Town isn't much to write home about. It's just the Winter Village train station set #10259 with some minor alterations: 1. I removed all of the snow and Chr...
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This is probably my favorite building that I designed and built for Totally Normal Town. As you can see, it's a castle tower that is built into a rugged rock formation with a waterfall trickli...
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It's finally time to document Totally Normal Town because it looks like our little town "has the Grim" again... Totally Normal Town was founded in 2018 when I bought a set of three serving tabl...
http://lfab-uvm.blogspot.com/2022/09/welcome-to-totally-normal-town.html
When throwing a great party, it's important to provide goodies that all of the guests will enjoy. If you know all of the guests and their tastes, then it's pretty easy to tailor your offerings ac...
http://lfab-uvm.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-mathematically-optimised-party.html
This blog is essentially defunct, yet somehow I like to continue using it to keep track of my goals and aspirations from one year to the next... As usual, I'll divide this into a few major cate...
http://lfab-uvm.blogspot.com/2022/01/state-of-me-2021-2022.html
Hello 2021! I've got to admit it's getting better... but I'm not quite where I want to be just yet. Let's start with my career since that's the facet of my life I've focused the most effort on ...
http://lfab-uvm.blogspot.com/2020/12/state-of-me-2020-2021.html
Yesterday, for the first time in my life, I spontaneously felt like singing that song. Sure, I've sung the song before, but had never felt any connection with it. It's a war song about fighting...
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