It’s been a while since I had a box of these from “Regina’s fine Candies,” but they are just so pure and good
Saint Dinette weekend brunch, French toast (sauce chomeur, orange, honey butter), eggs Benedict (ham, english muffin, hash browns, hollandaise) and an Orange Julio
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Usually try to keep it positive around here, but wow are ads getting terrible:
- iOS gaming ads
- Anything on YouTube
- Hulu (With Ads)
- Over the air radio ads
- Instagram “Sponsored” content
- Email spam/junk folders
- Most commercial websites
Could we at least get back to having funny ones? Oh, almost forgot about movie theaters that show anything other than upcoming trailers…
One from the list with kid two. Ordered cider battered cheese curds, chicken wild rice soup, boneless wings with honey lemon pepper and the apple pecan salad from the menu. Nice space, great location for downtown events and friendly service. 👍
The Pillbox Tavern, downtown Saint Paul (in the Tria Rink building), cheese curds (cider battered, choice of Sambal honey or Apple remoulade)
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He loved the steak and dessert I had on our visit to south Minneapolis. Updated the Jon Cheng reviews post too…
Mentally, I’ve very much enjoyed not wearing my Apple Watch daily. Physically, I’ve fallen way behind on my general fitness when I don’t track the circles. This week I decided to do something about that.
On Monday, I met with a personal trainer at Lifetime Fitness and took a tour of the Target Center club. We talked quite a bit about my past history and what I think I want to do this year, which is basically get back in running shape and lose weight.
While I elected not to hire him now as my personal trainer, here’s my current plan:
- Bought new running and gym shoes (and a new gym bag).
- Started back on the nightly treadmill hill walk with hand weights while watching shows from the list on the iPad.
- Preparing to run the Get in Gear 10K on April 27, the Milk Run 5K on May 25 and the TC 10 Mile on October 6. And if I get extra motivated, maybe the Afton 25K on July 6 too.
- Looking forward to the bike trails drying out – want to increase that cross training this year. Might add the bike attachment to Oliver’s roof rack.
- Planning to walk every golf round this year (like usual).
- Thinking about getting another weight bench to go with my dumbbell set.
- Utilize my access to Lifetime for indoor running, stair machine cardio, a return to racquetball, explore new classes and learn to be a better swimmer.
My schedule makes all of this challenging, but you need to prioritize what’s important, right?
This here rap’s about the true confession. If you listen close, you ’bout to learn a lesson. You must know failure before success…
— New Power Generation (Pt. II)
Regina’s Candies, West Saint Paul location, milk chocolate small foil sitting rabbits
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My little web baby is almost an adult: 7 Minute Miles turns 18 years old this Saturday. Some highlights:
- First post: March 30, 2006
- Domain created: November 26, 2002
- Posts: 30,050
- Pages: 216
- Database: 193.4 MB
- Directory: 62 GB
- Server: AWS Lightsail, Ohio, Zone A, Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS, 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs, 80 GB SSD
- Tech stack: WordPress 6.4.3, PHP 8.2.17, nginx 1.18.0, MariaDB 10.3.39, Let’s Encrypt SSL/TLS
- Costs: $17.99/year @ Hover, $25-28/month @ AWS (Lightsail and Route 53)
- Jetpack stats (avg/mo): 96 posts, 1497 views, 540 visitors
I’ve tweaked the font sizes a little since the launch of the new theme last year, but overall remain happy with how things are now. I recently simplified the navigation menu, which now just has home, about, lists and search links. The new about page was completely re-written and I updated my résumé page (and PDF) to reflect my move to Target Center last September.
Not sure what comes next. I’ve re-established the automation between 7 Minute Miles and Instagram via the excellent Intagrate plugin and continue to automatically capture any posts to Mastodon via the TootPress plugin. This site also technically federates content via the ActivityPub plugin (you can follow dmk@7minutemiles.com in your favorite Mastodon client), but I don’t see many people reading posts that way.
I removed all of my concert videos from YouTube, hibernated my channel, then posted them all here using the HTML5 Video Player plugin. I also tried to clean up the photo galleries a little, but both of these media types will likely require an increase in server storage in the next year to be expanded/enhanced.
Long live the weird web – thanks for visiting!
