Dog Park
Train break
Sunday in Saint Paul
Support your local Dinette – tonight’s bologna and esquites were 🔥
We miss you @mnstatefair, but thanks for all the fun stuff this week
Saturday with the Millers
This doge is a character
First off at Inver Wood
Only a tenth of the way into setting up this new iPad Pro and I can already tell my old eyes are going to love it
Ice cream of the future, Caddyshack bobbleheads and my two wonderful daughters
New art at the office
A Very Dwan Summer
What nautical surprises await us?
Pros: Comped soup, and lift tickets. Cons: They got rid of the soup
- Ski Bum
She found her Mary
Making do with what we have
Bill The Gates
Joe Biden is the Democratic equivalent of George H.W. Bush — another ambitious vice president who believed in loyalty and decency more than in any particular set of ideas…
- Bret Stephens
The “new” Carbone’s is 💯
Totally an A+ weather day
Happy doge
Kiyomi Koi Flip
Best. Bars. Ever.
Play where the pros play – thanks to @schutz for the great morning at TPC
Don’t Be A-Freight To Change
Endangered species?
Shredding old tax documents is way more therapeutic than I thought it would be
Bad Monkey!
Perfect summer morning
Wonder how he likes Buffalo
Nothing like shopping for cemetery plots to put things in perspective
Finally got to Pebble Creek
Nine year return to Buffalo
Really great to catch up with @KatherineHulett on an actual outdoor patio in Saint Paul tonight
Quick visit with SK & Snol
Only 131 iPads (and phones) to remove this from
This here rap’s about the true confession. If you listen close you about to learn a lesson. You must know failure before success…
- T.C.’s Rap
If House of Balls can make it, there’s hope for us all, no?
Our future home?
Started my writing career early
The back said it was $156.00
More piles of stuff
So #9 and #12 become par 4s, “my” tees play 6405 yards and the non-resident rate is now $300
A North Shore Dream
With all the crazy, awful things going on in the world today, I’m not sure it’s really appropriate to daydream about material things that are so outside the realities of a worldwide pandemic. On the other hand, it does feel a little therapeutic to briefly escape from all the anxiety and think about a different, calmer life. The North Shore of Lake Superior has always been one of those escapes for me and I could easily envision spending the rest of my life on that lake:
- Design and build a not-so-big log cabin
- Stone fireplace and large picture window
- Screen porch to manage the flying bugs
- Heated floors for warm feet in the winter
- Fast internet (but no phones)
- Nice speakers to play the North Shore playlist
- Wooded lot with shoreline
- Wildflowers and hummingbirds
- Detached garage with exercise area/game room
- Guest cottages for SK and MK
- Family kayaks
- Access to the SHT and bike trails
- Golf at Superior National
- Skiing at Lutsen Mountains
- Gaming at Grand Portage
- Concerts at Papa Charlie’s
Ahh…
It’s all in the eyes
One of my better rounds
Kid two is looking to buy her first car – I’ll pay a finder’s fee for any good leads on a reliable used car around $5K
Also Fireworks Night
Free pot on Bob Marley Night with the Saints
Lowertown still-life
Family Time
Life After Zuckerberg
It’s been two and a half months since I last posted to Instagram (and about two months since I officially deleted both my Facebook and Instagram accounts). It wasn’t that hard to give up Facebook – I really only used it to sync status with a couple of games, promote posts from this site and to communicate with more distant family members. Add to that all of the other reasons people don’t like Facebook and it became a pretty easy decision. Now I just need Two Dots to continue to improve the Facebook-free experience and I’ll be fine (LEADERBOARDS).
Instagram, on the other hand, was a much tougher decision for me. From what I can tell, it launched on iOS in October of 2010 and I posted my first image on Christmas Day 2010. The original pictures were 640×640 and I used Iain Poulson’s excellent Intagrate WordPress plugin for many years to automatically pull my pics from Instagram and create image posts on this site. Facebook purchased the service in April 2012, but largely left it independent (image sizes did increase to 1080×1080 in 2015).
Instagram is the de facto social media standard for restaurants and foodies, so that’s really what I used it for in the beginning. I don’t like accounts that post the same thing across all platforms, so I’d use Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in specialized ways to help prevent overlap. Now that I’m only on Twitter, I initially tried to recreate some of that there, but I’m finding that I need to continue to prune my Twitter follow list and just move on from some things that I know I’m missing. Some examples: Instagram stories from Armon and Meredith, donut pictures from Erin and everything posted by my wife and daughters.
I finally finished merging all of the Instagram metadata they sent me in JSON format with the image files that I uploaded here. Also starting to get back to equilibrium on my main @kingsbury Twitter account (and will continue to use @7minutemiles to link to stories like this one). Really trying to get most of the politics out of my feed too – no real appetite for doomscrolling these days…
Good to be back
Dressed for success
Hey @schutz, remember that time we played Harding Park?
Free tech training rules
I was a lonely teenage broncin’ buck, with a pink carnation and a pickup truck. But I knew I was out of luck, the day the music died…
- Don McLean
Wing night in Eagan
If you need lightly used furniture for your home office in Minnesota, please go see SOS on University
Peak Badger State
Dinette breakfast sandwich
I want my two dollars
