fun time at neighborhood poker tonight – thanks guys
Got back yesterday from several days worth of wedding activities for my wife’s cousin in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Our kids were in the wedding party and everything went great. A few pictures are up in the private section of the photo gallery.
Congrats to the newlyweds and thanks for including us in your celebration.
post-wedding breakfast at the Metropolis Hotel
My favorite small town newspaper had two great entries from the sheriff’s report in June:
1:17 p.m., Grand Marais: Report of a loose collie mix with no collar downtown, between Boulder Park and the harbor. A deputy determined it to be the same dog she’s been chasing all spring but can never catch. The dog ran away from the deputy when it saw the squad car, and was still on the loose, somewhere downtown.
But here is my all-time favorite:
7:55 a.m., Grand Marais: Complaint about neighbors who started partying outside on their deck at 7 a.m., being very loud, dropping the “F-Bomb,” and taking off their shirts and showing each other their muscles. A deputy spoke with them, and they quieted down.
Instant classic.
I think wedding DJs must all have the same crate of about 100 songs
pour some sugar on meeee
holy crap, the kids are tearing up the dance floor
kids did great, the outdoor ceremony (barely) avoided the rain and the wife is drinkin’
picture time for the flower girls at the Florian Gardens
lunch at Fazoli’s – a little touch of Italy amongst the cheeseheads
watching kid one and kid two swim in what could be the world’s smallest hotel pool
dinner at Woo’s Pagoda Restaurant & Lounge
OK, so this doesn’t really qualify as golfing in Minnesota, but I’m in Eau Claire for a wedding this week and stopped in to play Wild Ridge Golf Course during some downtime.
I’d heard this was the best public course in town and found out qualifying for the state open is happening here on Friday, so the course was in tournament condition. That of course meant I had a million putts on the slick greens and lost a half dozen golf balls in the thick rough, but it was still fun.
shot 95 from the blues at Wild Ridge
arrived Country Inn & Suites Eau Claire
heading to the land of cheese today
damn, 198 database tables in the base Moodle install
Moodle up and running – will investigate plugins and themes later
attempting a late night Moodle test install
shot an OK 43 from the whites during league at Oak Marsh
heading out to sub again in my brother-in-law’s golf league at Oak Marsh
trying to figure just what the hell I have to do to patch my DNS server without vendor support – the lazynet is failing me
Just looked at my last.fm profile and noticed I’m up to 27,340 songs recorded via their iTunes plug-in.
The picture above gives a good indication of who I listen to the most. Looks like I need to create a new iTunes smart playlist to hear some of the other people in my library more often…
how did a frickin’ mile get to be so long? finished in a sad, sad 6:30
Tonight I ran my first ever Grandma’s Minnesota Mile event at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in Falcon Heights. There were four different races:
- 6:30pm: Kids Race (ages 8-14)
- 6:50pm: All-City Mile (for those expecting to finish 5:46 or longer for men and 6:46 or longer for women)
- 7:30pm: St. Paul Mile (for those expecting to finish between 4:41 and 5:45 for men and between 5:41 and 6:45 for women)
- 7:50pm: Minnesota Mile (elite runners with times faster then 4:40 for men and 5:40 for women)
The races were chip-timed, although there was no mat at the starting line. Official times are now available here. Richard Kandie won the men’s mile in 4:09, while Katie McGregor won the women’s race in 4:49. Wow, that’s impressive…