Welcome to SimsFamily.net

Family

• Photo of us!
• The Ryan Files
• Ryan, Scruffy, and Shellac at Disneyland
• After 30 years Grandpa can still feed a baby!
• Andrew and Ryan camping

Games & Hobbies

Some LEGO buildings I've made:

• Bill & Mary Go To The Airport Bill and Mary continue their adventures since the LEGO 6000 Idea Book.
• I Heart U - based on our own Lakepoint Tower in Chicago
• Cosmopolitan - based on a similar building in Seattle
• Almaden - based on a similar building in San Jose
• Need parts? Visit my LEGO Store.

Playground:

See the latest pics of our treehouse!

Diplomacy (the board game):

• DipWiki - Hundreds of Diplomacy variants, strategy articles, and links to play
• Diplomaticcorp - The best place to play Diplomacy (PBEM) on the web! Tons of variants and standard games to choose from.
• My original Fog of War Diplomacy variant.
• My Diplomacy House Rules
• Games I'm currently running in the 1st Annual Winter Blitz Diplomacy Tournament:
  • dc146
  • dc151

Simcity 4 Newspaper - Scruffaluffa County

Some model railroading photos of my Coffee Table Train - table built entirely from scratch

Home Improvement

• Our new house in Lisle, IL: Pine Rd
• Our second house (San Jose, CA): Cherry Valley Dr
• Our first house (San Jose, CA): Meridian Ave

Work

In between family and fun there's always the inevitable work. Find my resume here. (right-click, Save-As).
This website, as well as diplomaticcorp.com and dipwiki.com were designed and written by Mike in PHP and MySQL.