So great to catch up with Leo and Curtis in the Land of Cheese 🧀 ⛳️

So nice to see everyone in Highland

Great to catch up – good luck with training camp!

Talked about it for years – finally got the Nive Man out to golf (Willingers)

So nice to catch up with Leo and Jake

Fun day out at Mystic Lake (and we both left with more money)

Lunch with DGS @ Zantigo Woodbury

Great to catch up with Mr. Mondale today

Pulls ahead of Willingers (again)

Armon, Boludo, McKinney Roe (RIP)

Really nice to catch up with Jim

CC meeting @ Volstead House in Eagan

Always learn so much from this amazing group of people

Too cool for school 😎

Quick lunch with Danielle @ The Loop

The Burger Place – so great to catch up

What a wonderful return to the press box 🏈

It turned out pretty damn nice 🏈

Florian Riedel

Nice to sit and eat again at “McKinney Roe” with Keri, Scott and SK

Very nice lunch with Jim and John @ Monte Carlo, Minneapolis

As I get ready to go back into concert mode tonight for the Rollings Stones, I realized I never posted my pictures from the Morrissey show last month at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. This was a last minute impulse trip (booked the Wednesday before) and we were really glad we did it. This short five night residency had been postponed during the pandemic and we caught the last show of the rescheduled run.

First time for both of us in the venue built for Céline and we were very impressed – great sight lines and amazing acoustics. We were about 15 rows back on the main floor and loved the production. Second time seeing him live (and we will never forget the run-in at the Las Vegas airport Cinnabon after his House of Blues show too).

Not sure if I wrote much about the rest of the trip, but for posterity sake, we stayed at the Mirage, I golfed with Herm on the Paiute Sun Mountain course, Colleen saw RuPaul’s Drag Race LIVE! at the Flamingo Hilton and we had a lovely dinner at Chef Keller’s Bouchon in the Venetian. Setlist and photos can be found after the jump.

Viva Moz Vegas!

Setlist – Sunday, September 5, 2021

• How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths song)
• Alma Matters
• First of the Gang to Die
• Everyday Is Like Sunday
• Shoplifters of the World Unite (The Smiths song)
• I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
• Knockabout World
• Morning Starship (Jobriath cover)
• Ouija Board, Ouija Board
• Seasick, Yet Still Docked
• Never Had No One Ever (The Smiths song)
• Half a Person (The Smiths song)
• Love Is on Its Way Out
• Satan Rejected My Soul
• The Lazy Sunbathers
• I’ve Changed My Plea to Guilty
• Lady Willpower (Gary Puckett & the Union Gap cover)
• Back on the Chain Gang (Pretenders cover)
• Irish Blood, English Heart
• —
• ENCORE
• —
• Jack the Ripper

https://golf.com/travel/montgomery-national-beatles-themed-golf-course/

Yesterday was my last official day working at U.S. Bank Stadium as the Director of IT. I was about a week shy of six years, but what a wild ride it has been:

• Five plus seasons of Vikings Football (including the Minneapolis Miracle)
• Super Bowl LII
• Men’s Final Four
• Summer X Games
• A.C. Milan vs. Chelsea
• Monster Jam and Super Cross dirt shows
• MSHSL Championships
• Metallica, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Guns N’ Roses, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, U2 with Beck (and many other shows)

It’s been an honor to work in this building from pre-opening through today, partnering with outstanding organizations, working with truly amazing people and learning an awful lot about the sports and entertainment industry.

There are really too many people to thank for helping me succeed in this chapter of my life, but I’d like to call out a few:

• Armon Farrari, who I stole from Apple (h/t Pash) and who became one of the best technology managers I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with in any industry.
• Curtis Schmillen, Director of Operations, Leo Pidde (now retired) and Ed Kroics (who took Leo’s place): just an amazing group of coworkers inside the building and great people to be with outside of work – be it on a golf course or at a happy hour.
• Jim Farstad, executive director of the Minnesota Sports Facility Authority (and former technology consultant during construction): a true renaissance man in every way.
• Inaugural GM Patrick Talty (and HR manager Shelly Wynia) for picking me to join the opening team back in 2015.
• Current GM John Drum, who helped during my health emergency outside the stadium in 2018.
• The CTAC team at CenturyLink (now Lumen) that designed and built the original technology infrastructure: Andy Diment, Mark Olson and Evan Teisberg. Still helping to this day, extraordinary knowledge that always made my job “really pretty simple.”
• Bill Anderson and Wesley Terry at AmpThink: no one in the world knows more about WiFi than these two individuals.
• Mentor Doug Podolak: your continued support of my career (and friendship) means the world to me.
• My wife and daughters: zero percent chance I’d be here today without their love and support. You da best ❤️

Lastly, to everyone at the Vikings (past and present): you’ve been great partners and I can’t wait to see you bring home the Vince Lombardi trophy to the great state of Minnesota. Skol, Vikings!

Emotional day at the stadium ❤️

Last Vikings game @ U.S. Bank Stadium: Vikings 19, Lions 17

Today marks the three year anniversary of my train platform event in downtown Minneapolis. The first anniversary was amazing, I was ultra grateful for my second anniversary and now things are running on all cylinders for year three. Colleen made my favorite bars to celebrate and we will be having dinner tonight at Saint Dinette to toast another splendid year around the sun.

On the health front, everything is great. I’m on my second pair of permanent prism lenses and they work perfectly. Still don’t need them for reading screens, but I do prefer them now for watching TV and movies, riding my bike, golfing and driving (even bought a pair of prism sunglasses). The move streak on my watch is now up to 540 days, I’m at 530 miles on the bike log for 2021 and have even signed up to try another half marathon in 2022.

As the pandemic continues to roll on, some things have returned to (semi) normal. While we had an entire football season without fans, this year has seen a return to no restrictions and four games with thousands of people through the doors. We took our first airplane trips to and from Las Vegas over Labor Day and will be celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary this December on Kauai. We’ve also been building a new house that should be ready when we get back (after an extended construction period).

Lastly, I want to again thank the healthcare professionals who helped get me to year three, along with all of my family and friends who have provided love and support. There is one other big change coming soon, but I’ll leave that for another day…

Doing great things in Montgomery (and elsewhere)

TC @ The Dwan

Farmers Kitchen + Bar ✅

Great service and so nice to catch up with Shelly

Herm’s hooptie

Such a great group to play golf with in Minneapolis

It’s an honor to know those two gentlemen

So nice to see Rich and his crew again

Hopefully many more to come

Thanks to Mike and Courtney for hosting in the park

Brad, Craig and I hit the links in Cottage Grove

Great to see that guy again – thanks, TB!

The barn isn’t too shabby either

Seth took Jeff’s place this week in Golden Valley

Best. Usher. Ever.

Great to catch up with Rich (and Leo and Pete) @ Gross National

So great to catch up with friends

Nice to catch up with JS in Cambridge

Mike: kindergarten friend; John: junior high friend

Congrats to the Dresen Family 🎉

Fun night with Keri and Scott in Lowertown

Thanks, Mikey Boom-Boom for the 📷

Tough walk today in the heat (car said 99F on the way home)

Keller is such a great metro asset

https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000393109/?fullname=frances-alexandra-bride-sandy-(ne%C3%A9-boardman)-klas

Good luck to Herm and the Golden Knights against a tough Colorado team

Another lovely day visiting Independence

18 holes with the usual gang

Great afternoon with Rich on the National

This place is special

Lunch at Smokey’s – thanks, Jesse!

…but it got nice by the end (Ops @ Gross National)

https://www.monitorsaintpaul.com/stories/tabitha-wheeler-named-social-worker-of-year,1741

The first of, I suspect, many changes coming

Thanks, Jamie!

No way Christy didn’t help with this

It will always be the Audrey, right Chef (and Nive Man)?

Round #65, Montgomery National

Thanks, Keri

So great to hang out in the Commons today with JV, RW, JK and the kiddo

Love the subtle jab at NY