At some point, your body must decide it would rather sleep than cough, right?
Nice job by @DerekSharrer on “For the Fun of the Game” (now available on Amazon Prime Video)
Dinner at P.S. Steak
Last year, we had a big blowout birthday party in the Sinatra Lounge (the invite we did still makes me smile). This year, I was planning to go on a ski trip in Banff to celebrate landmark birthdays for MK and I. Then I had my little medical incident and we postponed the big stuff and scaled back 2019 birthday plans. I still wanted to do something a little out of the norm, so we booked a dinner reservation at the new Minneapolis hot spot, P.S. Steak.
I will forever call Chef Mike DeCamp “YoungChef2,” as that is his Twitter handle. Young Chef is a busy guy for Jester Concepts, listed as Executive Chef at Monello and Constantine and Borough and Parlour. He is also behind the weekly Sunday old-school Italian pop-up at Monello, Mama DeCampo’s (which is great, BTW). Somehow Mercado slipped by him, but P.S. Steak is the latest DeCamp project for the group.
We never made it to La Belle Vie before it closed in the 510 Groveland location, but there is so much history there (Dara called it “heavier with history than any restaurant in the state” in her first bite review). Not only was Chef DeCamp in that kitchen, but so was Tim McKee, Matt Anderson and a host of Twin Cities cocktail pioneers (make sure and read this Strib article to find out the backstory on the “Obi Pip Kenobi”). Man, I miss seeing and talking with Pip at Marvel Bar…
Joy Summers has some great pictures of the remodeled 510 spaces in her Eater story, including one of our exact table in the steakhouse dining room side (to the left as you enter – the lounge is to the right). There is complimentary valet parking and I don’t think I really knew how easy it is to get there from Lowertown via I-94 and Dell Place (and back again). In Dara’s story, she described the newly renovated dining room as “Ravenclaw-meets-Eyes-Wide-Shut-for-a-drink” and personally, I couldn’t stop humming the Haunted Mansion music (which actually made the whole night extra fun for me).
Top notch way to end #50
The fried chicken at @SaintDinette has changed – it now comes with a birthday candle 😉
Birthday brunching
Also celebrating 50 years of funk
Baby’s First Jackpot
The writing in season three was so good – watched it all tonight
You’re still alive, she said. Oh, do I deserve to be? Is that the question?
- Alive, Pearl Jam
Longhouse, no more
Quite fond of this place
We may live without friends, we may live without books. But civilized man cannot live without cooks…
- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
The Tuesday Special
Hooptie flashback
Holiday party in the burbs
Happy Birthday, Cathy!
The Three Finger
Poison, poison, tasty fish!
Damn, this place is *tiny*
Happy 18th birthday, you little whipper snapper
18 already? HBD, MK ❤️
Top five all-time pet name?
A celebration of Fuckery
Today’s special was v. good
More teams from Canada, please
Everybody does it different
Last day pizza
Puppy day in the office
I’d rather retire from using computers than use Windows 10. What a mess…
- Gruber
Good luck to @MeganSteil and everyone else running this weekend at Disney
I would so order this
Was I totally asleep when Lynda.com was purchased by LinkedIn? Which, of course, means Microsoft now owns it…
Starting over
Visited my friends across the street this morning
One from the list
They were like little movies, which is what I was always trying to do: A little movie every week…
- David Chase re: The Sopranos
Three months of bonus time today and I can legally drive again (in theory)
Dinner at Mac’s on Snelling
da mf sharezone
Bye, bye, little tree
Glad we have these
Today has been a good day
New art from SK
Funny how the big AAPL swings are happening while I’ve never been happier with my current iPhone, Apple Watch and MacBook Air
Grumpy’s is 100% gone
Presentation Day
Man goes into cage, cage goes into salsa. Shark’s in the salsa. Our shark.
- Randal Graves
Perfect fries today
Nerd locker clean-out day is upon us
New year, new calendar
The Year Ahead
I’ve never been big on year-end lists or goal summaries here, but I’ve always done a fair amount of goal-setting privately. This past year has put a different spin on my perspective, so I thought it might be useful to share a few things as 2019 gets started. In hindsight, a lot of my previous health goals seem rather vain compared to plain old recovery. And how fortunate was I in the past to just want to run faster, bike farther or finish another marathon? Now, regaining my normal vision (without prism lenses) is goal #1, followed closely by getting cleared to resume driving and riding a bike. I’m very thankful that the outlook for all of these things is good – much of this might happen by the middle of March.
Since Dr. Tummala gave me the OK to resume treadmill running, I’ve felt good the past week, with three slowish runs totaling 7.1 miles. I also did one nine mile ride on a stationary bike and resumed doing light dumbbell repeats. Not really sure what workout goals to set for 2019 – the only race I’m registered for is the Get in Gear 10K in April and I’d really like to participate in the Bike to Work challenge again in May. Beyond that, I just want to stay consistent all year and not have any big gaps in my charts (which happened twice in 2018). It would be nice to return to regular weekly runs with WeRunMpls once the ice melts and I’d love to reschedule a ski trip for next season (Banff, Colorado or Schweitzer). Lots of golf outings to schedule with people too.
The doctors cleared a return to air travel already, but money and time will be limited. The original plan was to give each person in our family a trip for their respective milestone birthday in 2019, but all of those plans are on hold for the time being. Most likely options? A quick Las Vegas trip after the Final Four and maybe a work trip to the annual Cisco conference, which is in San Diego this year (June 9-13). And of course Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens in both Florida and California this year, but that will likely fall in the Tokyo/Lanai/Switzerland dream trip category for the time being.
With the Vikings season over, my job shifts focus to the Final Four on April 6th and 8th. We have four large events before then (two trade shows and two dirt shows), but there is a lot to do before “the road ends” in Minneapolis. Then we get to break down that setup for Garth Brooks and his sold-out stadium tour before prepping for Summer X Games (version 3.0). Since X Games moves to early August, there won’t be a lot of time between that and football pre-season. With all that work to do, maybe I should start daydreaming again about building a tiny cabin on the North Shore to escape to with the family…
Wow, how lucky am I to be writing this post? Happy New Year to all of you – may 2019 be full of love, health and prosperity!
Love what Taylor Swift did for Netflix – wish all the acts that played USBS released video like that
The Orchid loves me again
It’s back!
Happy New Year everyone
NYE secret: no lines & open tables
Rough day at the office
Sneak peek
The original with the shorties
