Yeah, definitely can’t watch this – holed up in my office packing for the trip instead
Don’t know if I can even watch this…
Minimal success on the shopping trip – found two shirts. Side trips to American Girl, the Barbie Store and Claire’s not much help
Sunday shopping at the MOA http://twitpic.com/zkwhh
Still above freezing, so the roads home were just wet. Oh yeah, saw that the new Eagan Smashburger had their sign up – opening soon
Park Tavern is jam packed
Started watching season 3 of The Wire, but now it’s time to brave the icy roads and head to the Park Tavern to see Amy
Awesome dessert tonight at BWW – http://twitpic.com/zfwe7
How come there is never any local running news? Did the Frozen Half actually happen today? Winning time? Depth of ice on course? 🙂
The weather for Hockey Day Minnesota isn’t really cooperating much – what a sloppy mess
Finally back home after Savoy pizza, a client gig in Minneapolis and a scary drive home down my skating rink of a street
I know the Red Wings aren’t having their best year, but I’ve always admired the organization and it’s always a treat to get to see them play the Wild in St. Paul. I wrangled a last minute ticket from my aunt and uncle and got to see the return of Brent Burns to the Wild lineup. I thought he played pretty good for a guy coming back from missing 29 games. Gotta love his fitness quote in the Strib too:
“I can wash your shirt on my abs right now.”
We were one of the first 6,000 at the X who received the towel pictured above. I don’t really remember anyone waving them, but the start of the game was a little hard to watch. Harding was playing really well before he got hurt and it was extra painful to watch Bertuzzi with the breakaway goal.
As we’ve learned this year, never leave early. I usually would be happy with the loser point in this situation, but the Wild had so many good chances to win in the OT and shootout, that it really felt like a letdown.
Not much else to report – parking was a little harder to find for some reason and the pretzel I ordered was a little stale and way too salty. Oh yeah, I still long for free wi-fi in the building – will that ever happen?
Cracks me up to hear Chevy Chase use the term GDB
Security update for Seattle server successfully installed
Ran 64 laps (~10K) on the indoor track at the Eagan Community Center – warm, but oh so boring
Sweet – Lou Reed with the Blind Boys of Alabama on Letterman
Interesting – Strib reports “Hobbit spokesman Jon Austin…” in story about possible refunds. Jon was a cool PR dude at NWA when I was there
Voice is shot from yelling after crazy end to Wild game. Leftover Muddy Paws cheesecake I found in the fridge makes it all better, though
Underway at the X – Wild vs Red Wings. Sitting in section 216 tonight
My third day of ski-bum week was spent at Wild Mountain outside of Taylor’s Falls. I read on their web site you could get a free pass on your birthday and figured that was too good a deal to pass up. The weather wasn’t the greatest (misty fog that never burned off), but the temps were OK and the snow quality was good.
I figured my last visit to Wild was likely 20+ years ago and the ski area is basically the same – four chairlifts and a nice variety of runs, including Ego Alley, North and South Wild, Bear, Competition and the infamous Wall. The inside of the chalet was like a time warp back to high school ski trips, although now I can go in the Eagle’s Nest. They cooked me a mean French Dip sandwich with fries for lunch and had free wi-fi, which was very useful in an area of poor cell coverage.
There is now a tubing park just south of the main skiing area and they still have the alpine slide tracks. I think the water slides and small water park near the chalet are new since I was there last. I sort of forgot they are seven miles north of Taylor’s Falls along the river, so it takes about 90 minutes to get there from the south metro.
It’s raining ice pellets outside right now. Driving to the hockey game tonight could be interesting
The “live feed” on Facebook actually seems to be live again now for me. Still a little random with what actually gets displayed, though
Things are looking up – full from lunch and I might get to go to the Wild-Detroit game tonight
Not in the greatest state of mind today – maybe some protein for lunch will help
Gruber is right, this is awesome: Stars Wars opening crawl using only HTML and CSS http://bit.ly/7VAdvS (requires SL and Safari 4.0.4)