Shot 89 from the whites at the Ridges at Sand Creek in Jordan. Still pretty hot and humid (fog too at the start)

Funny, I love real sugar in my Mexican Coke, but not so much in my Mountain Dew Throwback

Totally worth leaving work early to see Baby T today – congrats Tim and Kristine!

Number of slots at commercial casinos in Nevada – 170,341. Number in MN tribal casinos – 21,946 (CA has 67,672 and OK has 53,897)

Second internet outage to the resort in a week. The streets will soon flow with the blood of the non-believers…

Beautiful 16 mile bike ride to John’s cabin and back, with a stop at the Bay View Lodge for a quick burger

Twins doing pretty good – this hockey fan double-checked the schedule to make sure it’s really live tonight

Ran 10.4 miles from Fortune Bay to Bay View Lodge and back. Wildlife count: 2 deer, 1 pileated woodpecker in flight

Gorillaz finally come to Minnesota and it’s at freakin’ Target Center?

Damn, TCM is less than 8 weeks away. I am so screwed

Budgets are eating up my day today, but at least nobody quit (so far)

“Social media has replaced pornography as the world’s No.1 Internet activity.” Aren’t they sort of the same thing?

Why does FS North have to trick me with baseball re-runs in prime time?

Wow, are the Royals really this bad? It was 6-0 when I left for the bike ride and now it’s 12-0

Both open Fortune Bay IT positions are now posted. Direct links to PDFs: help desk – http://bit.ly/cS0ytU and DBA – http://bit.ly/9Ba2yV

I’m practicing the art of inbox 9999 – http://twitpic.com/2d7u1t

Looking for a DBA at Fortune Bay. SQL Server and stored procedures experience a must, Oracle helpful. Email me – dkingsbury@fortunebay.com

Hit the Timber Twister (not fast enough, but still fun) and now waiting for a table at Pizza Luce on Lake and Superior

Late lunch at the Wacootah Grille – http://twitpic.com/2cjow0

Slept in a little, breakfast at the Tamarack, kayaking at Giants Ridge, then off to Duluth for the night

The mayor showed us 2 houses in Tower (loved the blue house), met Troy Swanson, had walleye shore lunch, now checking out Virginia library

Surprise visit tonight with Bill and JoLynn Giles and family. Finally got to try the pizza at Vermilion Club – thumbs way up

Damn, according to my Runnersworld.com training log, I ran all of 4.1 miles in July. State Fair Milk Run and TCM coming up – gotta kick it

Ran from Fortune Bay to the end of Echo Point and back (~6.5 miles). Whitecaps on the lake tonight

Sweet, the Rhinestone Cowboy will be here November 19-20. I still have a 45 somewhere of Southern Nights