Snow Leopard upgrade DVD arrived in the mail today, but Time Machine still has nearly 300GB to go

Finished some sponsor work on proam.mn and sent out emails about banking, insurance and general startup advice. New backup ~7% complete

With Seagate 1.5TB external hard drives at Best Buy for $149, how can you not be backing up your data?

Thinking about backup today (now that the new laptop is almost fully loaded). Mailing old backup drive to Seattle and buying a new one at BB

MN State Fair pictures uploaded to Facebook and 7minutemiles.com photo gallery

This Famous Dave’s has so many Daves here, they ran out of pig numbers. Could be here a while

“I never knew there were so many Daves” – server at Famous Dave’s Apple Valley on Dave’s Day (free meal to all Davids & Daves)

Finished lawn work and cleaned the state fair parking lot dust off the MINI. Thinking about taking up Famous Dave on his free dinner offer

Kids out of gas at fair – baby animals building, then home

Peach-glazed pig cheeks, pronto pups and corn from Mrs. Fischer – off to the Kidway next for Tilt-a-whirl marathon (aka pukefest)

Forgot to bring a belt with the jeans I changed into after the race, so I had the Heritage Square leathersmith make me a new one

With minimal cajoling, kid one finishes Milk Run in 34:34 – time to eat!

What a surprise – far less fair traffic (and people) at 7AM. Waiting in the tent for the 7:45 milk run start

Also saw Kim and our old Girl Scout cookie leader at the fair. Love seeing people there (and the fact they don’t search your bags to get in)

4 hours of sleep, now back to the fair for the Milk Run 5K and a full day there with the kids

Kid Rock concert was very entertaining, saw Redpath and Art on the way out, then stopped at Lucky’s on the way home to pick up neighbors

This “fake Skynyrd” is sort of like watching an episode of South Park

The Kid Rock concert is freakin’ awesome – and the music hasn’t even started. Very interesting crowd…

Sweet, my fair food is paid for – just hit 4 out of 5 numbers on Northstar Cash (and was off by 3 on the fifth)

Added French fries, Dairy Building vanilla malt, cheese curds. Think I’m done until after the concert

The lines here today are worse than Disney – lots of time to tweet while I wait

Holy crap – most people I’ve seen at the fair in years! Pronto Pup and Danielson’s onion rings done…what next?

Off to the MN State Fair for Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd (and about nine thousand calories)

Seattle server successfully upgraded to latest pre-Snow Leopard software. I wish there weren’t so many updates that require a restart

h/k Soundsticks back in office hooked up to new laptop – love those things