The Titleist website runs promotions all the time. I sometimes run the risk of increased junk mail to enter these and this week it paid off–I won a limited edition Nobu Haihara giclee print valued at $300.
Top Row (l to r): Bobby Smith, Curt Giles, Dino Ciccarelli, Jack Carlson
Bottom Row (l to r): Mike Eaves, Neal Broten, Steve Christoff, Steve Payne
In a promotion sponsored by S&S Tree and Horticultural Specialists, two kids are selected to sit on the bench during each Wild pre-game warm-up. On Tuesday this week, my kids were picked!
The night was a total blast (apart from the Wild losing in a shoot-out). We arrived a little before six and picked up four will-call tickets for the game (last row of club level, center ice). A friendly Wild representative met us at the security desk next to gate one and brought us down to arena level. After signing release forms, the kids each picked out helmets to wear.
In honor of the new Twins season, here is a picture my brother took from spring training in Fort Myers, Florida, a few weeks ago. My dad, sister and brother went there for the first time this year and had a great time. Professional hockey, golf and football are more my thing, but I’ll likely be a bigger Twins fan if they ever get that nice new stadium built…
My wife and I were cleaning out the garage and came across a box her mother had brought over. It was full of old North Stars memorabilia–this autograph of Neal Broten next to Chexx Hockey is my favorite. There are also some cool postcards that I will scan later this week…
Manitou Ridge in White Bear Lake reportedly opened today at noon (their phone was busy), along with Emerald Greens in Hastings. I believe Parkview in Eagan takes the prize, though–they opened on Wednesday. Welcome to the 2007 Minnesota golf season!
Tonight my oldest daughter and I went to the last Wild Unplugged player appearance, featuring Keith Carney and Wes Walz at Major’s Sports Bar in Bloomington. This was the last one of the year and, as usual, was very crowded.
Here’s a little montage of recent visitors to the backyard, including our first robins of the year.
Headed to the Xcel in a few minutes to catch the semifinals of the WCHA Final Five tournament.
Afternoon Game: UND vs. St. Cloud State
Evening Game: Gophers vs. Badgers
Third place game is tomorrow at 2, followed by the championship at 7. Go Gophers!
Today I received this in my inbox.
I’ve been a free member on classmates.com for a long time, but today I closed my account. They were always on the brink of being useful, but unless you “upgraded” to the gold level, you quickly ran into a dead end. Today I wanted to add a link to this site, but that’s against their terms of service. How to remove my profile was hidden pretty good, too. Adios, classmates.com–I hardly knew ya.
This weekend I spent some time cleaning up my iPhoto image library, clearing out some work photos and adding some old files I had in directories outside of the program. I also started to set up keywords, which will work great once I find the time to tag 22,000+ photos.
The montage above is from the summer of 2000 when our current house was constructed. Hard to believe that was seven years ago already…
My daughter and I had a great time at the final session of the state boys hockey tournament tonight. Congrats to Roseau for taking home “all the marbles” for the seventh time.
Roseau about to take down Woodbury
Today was quarterfinal day for Class AA boys hockey at the Minnesota State High School League tournament in St. Paul. We bought a ticket package this year to thank clients and get prepared for the new hockey.mn site. The seats were very nice: upper level, row two, center ice.
My wife and I had a nice night on the town Saturday, thanks to my mom watching the girls. We went to see Helen Mirren’s Oscar-winning performance in The Queen at a theater we had never visited before, the Heights Theatre in Columbia Heights.
Our TV for the past 12 years, a 42-inch Sony rear-projection CRT model, finally gave up the ghost. Best Buy had some good deals over the President’s Day weekend, so it was time for me to finish researching HD and decide. It also helped that we received a nice tax refund and a 24 month interest-free financing offer.
After many hours of reading pages at the AVS Forum site, I decided on a 50-inch Sony Grand Wega SXRD rear-projection 1080p unit (KDS-50A2000). The owner’s thread for this model at that site is more than 300 pages! That is a great reference site, but it can be a little overwhelming.
Before this week, we were around two feet below our normal seasonal snowfall. All of the big storms this year had gone around us–until last weekend. I’d estimate we received about a foot then and today was part two, with another nine inches (and it’s still coming down).