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Conference call with New York to finish up changes for the new Tapemark Charity Pro-Am web site – launch announcement coming soon


@kingsbury tweeted January 15, 2010


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Red Cross Haiti relief donations via iTunes (no fees) – http://bit.ly/84kljT


@kingsbury tweeted January 15, 2010


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MGA news bit 2) Associate Member Day sites for 2010 announced: Oak Ridge (6/7), TPC (7/5), Giants Ridge (8/22-23) and Somerby (9/20)


@kingsbury tweeted January 15, 2010


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MGA news bit 1) Minnesota golf show moving dates and locations: March 12-14 at the Minneapolis Convention (same time as the auto show)


@kingsbury tweeted January 15, 2010


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Night Skiing at Afton Alps

Posted January 15, 2010

Last night I decided to spy on kid one’s first school ski trip of the year at Afton Alps. The weather has finally been decent and I was really glad to be out again doing something during the winter blahs.

The kid wasn’t too excited to see me, so I mainly skied by myself. Her school was based mainly in the Meadows area, so I hit the Highlands (Sally’s Valley and Heather’s Highlands) and the Alps (Barbi’s Challenge and Trudy’s Schuss). Those runs are all nice, but oh so short. I counted turns on one run and struggled to get in 15 before reaching the bottom.

Stopped in at all three chalets: looked for the kid in the Meadows chalet, ate a typical ski area dinner in the Alps chalet and sat by the fire with some hot chocolate in the Highlands chalet. Also got to watch part of the crappy Wild game before heading home around 9:15.

Night skiing starts at 4:30 and costs $27 for adults. Lifts close at 9:30 (Sunday-Thursday), but some of them shut down before that, so make sure you get where you need to be to avoid lots of skating.


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The iPod in the MINI was helping with ski trip flashbacks – Erotic City, Mony Mony and We Will Rock You


@kingsbury tweeted January 15, 2010


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Fun night skiing solo at Afton Alps. Forgot how much better winter is when you ski – too bad you only get about 15 turns per run in MN


@kingsbury tweeted January 15, 2010


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Watching the Wild-Blues game is more enjoyable when sitting next to the fire and sipping hot chocolate in the Highlands chalet


@kingsbury tweeted January 15, 2010


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Still one of my favorite things about skiing http://twitpic.com/y4h1o


@kingsbury tweeted January 15, 2010


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Might be the same food in the Alps chalet cafeteria


@kingsbury tweeted January 15, 2010


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Back in my day, you skiied *around* bamboo gates, not through plastic ones. And snowboards didn’t exist. Same old slow chairlifts, though


@kingsbury tweeted January 15, 2010


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“Dad? What are you *doing* here?!?” I love surprises…


@kingsbury tweeted January 14, 2010


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Credit union, drop off kid two for photo shoot in Minneapolis, then spy on kid one during ski trip to Afton Alps


@kingsbury tweeted January 14, 2010


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So has the lovely Amber been banished from the Price is Right? Haven’t seen her since “the incident”


@kingsbury tweeted January 14, 2010


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WordPress MU 2.9.1 upgrade is out today – loading on test site now


@kingsbury tweeted January 14, 2010


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Who knew the number 2147483647 was so special? Curse you, eighth Mersenne prime!


@kingsbury tweeted January 14, 2010


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Back to WordPress plugin troubleshooting and theme development. Feeling better today, too, so I might try to do some skiing tonight at Afton


@kingsbury tweeted January 14, 2010


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Long distance Windows XP tech support – all you need is a phone, an internet connection and Google


@kingsbury tweeted January 14, 2010


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Wasted way too much time on this Twitter Tools update issue – maybe it’s just the Twitter API acting flaky again. Try again later, I guess


@kingsbury tweeted January 13, 2010


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Crap, the new Twitter Tools plugin seems to have stop pulling tweets. That plugin is sort of hard to troubleshoot, too


@kingsbury tweeted January 13, 2010


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Finished updates to http://bradjamesgolf.com/ – last chance to attend one of his camps before he leaves for down under


@kingsbury tweeted January 13, 2010


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Cord on front window blinds finally broke after hanging on by a tread for months. Time for a new house, I guess


@kingsbury tweeted January 13, 2010


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Lots of subtle changes to 7minutemiles.com uploaded today. I might even get around to writing a new post for 2010 soon


@kingsbury tweeted January 13, 2010


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Allina Medical Clinic Eagan check-in, doctor visit, prescription faxed to Target pharmacy and back home in like 45 minutes. Bravo!


@kingsbury tweeted January 13, 2010


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I’d just like to restate, I think the new Hockey Unplugged policy the Wild started isn’t fan friendly. Who can spend all day there? not kids


@kingsbury tweeted January 12, 2010


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