Almost had a long wait on my bike ride, but then the choo-choo just stopped and the gate came up
It’s beyond our wildest dreams!
Bulldoge Nino Visit
Fred sits alone at his desk in the dark. There’s an awkward young shadow that waits in the hall…
- Fred Jones Part 2
‘Twas a beautiful day for golf in Jordan – shot an 84 at Sand Creek
Everything’s better in person
Far from marathon shape, but very grateful to still be movin’ in 2021
Quick Banza lunch
Casino math: Mystic has an April points race – leader at midpoint has already gambled $1.3M coin-in to win a Lincoln Corsair
Cool – the WordPress 5.7.1 update just fixed the spacing issue with my theme (that started with 5.7)
Livin’ the Rudie life
FIREPOWER 🔥
Starting to make plans for our 30th wedding anniversary in December. I think this looks decent
Back to basics
Team Descente
Electrical Meeting ✅
A Return to Baseball
Looking back through the archives, I don’t think I’ve ever actually written about our baseball ticket group. State Farm Insurance Agent Kirk Detlefsen (and his family) have been running a Twins season ticket group for quite some time. I was introduced to them through my Northwest Airlines mentor six years ago and have been hooked ever since.
Each season, Kirk buys up a bunch of season tickets in different sections, then divides them into shares at various price points. A ticket “draft” is held every year and each shareholder picks the games they want to attend. Usually this is held in February in the Delta Club with snow on the field, guest speakers from the Twins and an assortment of ballpark food available for purchase. We didn’t have one at all in 2020 and the 2021 version was held via Zoom (of course). Kudos to all the Detlefsens for pulling that off (and managing 100% digital tickets for the first time ever).
The smallest share in the group is two tickets to two games in the Champions Club. Since these seats are super expensive (and generally not available to the general public via single game sales), this was a nice way to splurge once a year (I split the share with my uncle). After a few years of that, we switched to a share with two seats for ten games in the Delta Club. That’s what we currently have, although it appears that our actual seats may be all over this season because of capacity restrictions.
So what was the return of fans like?
Buzzed through book two – pretty sure I know why @AndrewRCraven liked it ☔️
You’d think after all these years, I’d know how to dress for April baseball ⚾️ 🥶
Thank you, science – so happy to be back @SaintDinette in person ❤️
With Wirecutter backing, bought the Archer AX50 WiFi6 router. Now TP-Link won’t upgrade to WPA3 via firmware 😠
Kate’s Sky High Flip
New doge cage sticker
I’ll take top 10% of patrons
Sensory overload: Masters, Twins, Frozen Four, WiFi monitoring, vaccination security cameras and work email/chat
Ready for the jabs
Best Zantigo in town
Excited to help this weekend
The neighbors are back! Good luck to the @SaintDinette crew – see you on Friday
This Shields and Yarnell episode of The Muppet Show is wild – she died of an aneurysm in 2010 (and had moved to Norway)
This cherry donut though…
Not just chippies
Summer in April
What a lark!
Best when hot
It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights. It’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight…
- The Muppet Show Theme
Warm river ride
Giant cheezy & Jell-O eggies
Great to see @Bigdad3233 and his son today at Brookview – the kid took all the money
Favorite sale of the year
A cold, blustery start
The Tourney ‘21
Straight Outta Cannon Falls
Springtide Splendor ‘21
Finally read a book before watching the movie – liked the book waaaaay better
These two, though ❤️
Not the same grilled
A very green green
Lots of little ones
15 Years of Publishing
Happy 15th birthday, 7 Minute Miles! Current stats:
- 12,192 Posts
- 216 Pages
Skipping unique visitors or page counts this year, as my web server logs are all mixed up after the big move to AWS Lightsail. I do hope to get that cleaned up soon – want to learn how the new nginx logs differ from Apache (which I used for years). WordPress.com stats report 8,066 visitors in 2020, along with 20,522 views, but I don’t really know how they calculate that. They also report that the “Reflections on Spring Hill Golf Club” post continues to be one of my most visited stories of all time. Rather hoping this will be the year I actually play there…
Won’t get too much into the technical weeds this time, as I have a lot of things cooking right now that I’m sure I’ll cover in more detail soon. Aside from the move to virtual AWS servers, I’m still on WordPress (v5.7) with the same old custom theme and the same set of plugins I had last year. Hoping for a new look in 2021, but I don’t know the timing of that launch yet. No new functionality recently – just lots of under the hood things (including a fix for the weird SSL/emoji issue).
Thanks for visiting!
My guilty indulgence
Golf round cancelled due to weather, so I spent the afternoon moving servers in AWS – I think most bugs have been squashed
Great food, cocktails and company tonight at Chip’s Clubhouse in Saint Paul
Brian Christopher Slots
It seems hard to believe, but I’ve now been out of the casino industry almost six years. Being an old person, I still visit casinos on a regular basis (more on that age demographic thing later). I keep in touch with a number of my former colleagues and suppliers and get an occasional industry newsletter in my inbox from time to time. A recent one had a link to a story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal that I thought was super interesting: The Plaza downtown was opening an area of their slot floor dedicated to a YouTuber named Brian Christopher.
As a nerd, I’m normally pretty open to new gaming trends, but I never fully understood the desire to watch other people play video games on Twitch (and other services). To see that a major casino in Vegas was partnering with someone who records himself playing slot machines was surprising to me, given what I know about casino marketing and security. I started following the BC Slots channel on YouTube about a month ago and I have to admit I now understand the appeal.
So what’s this all about?
Here’s some money. Go see a Star War.
- Lucille Bluth
Had serious doubts at the start, but shorts were the right call for today’s lunch break ride
Not bad for an amateur
Took me longer than expected, but now running phpMyAdmin 5.1.0 with PHP 8.0.3
The Easter Classic
Added sausage this week
