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RIP @kingsbury Twitter – 2009

2009 Tweet Archive

DK @kingsbury • January 1, 2009

Watched The Simpsons Movie with kid two, now on to Burn After Reading


DK @kingsbury • January 1, 2009

Garage door spring (and part of the opener) broke today – first call on January 2 to Twin City Garage Door Company


DK @kingsbury • January 1, 2009

Happy New Year, Central Time Zone


DK @kingsbury • January 1, 2009

Slept til noon, watched the Winter Classic, loaded more pix on FB, now taking the tree down


DK @kingsbury • January 1, 2009

I love 2009 so far!


DK @kingsbury • January 2, 2009

damn, no $500 winners in the Minnesota Raffle


DK @kingsbury • January 2, 2009

damn, no $25K winners in the Minnesota Raffle


DK @kingsbury • January 2, 2009

damn, no $100K winners in the Minnesota Raffle


DK @kingsbury • January 2, 2009

damn, no million dollar winners in the Minnesota Raffle – back to work tomorrow, I guess


DK @kingsbury • January 2, 2009

watching Burn After Reading with Colleen (never made it that far yesterday night)


DK @kingsbury • January 2, 2009

upgrading Studio A & B at HSRA


DK @kingsbury • January 2, 2009

Lunch with Studio Phil at Flame, then shopping at Guitar Center


DK @kingsbury • January 3, 2009

updating DNS zone files after Integra internet speed upgrade changed my IP addresses


DK @kingsbury • January 3, 2009

yippee – 2008 Minnesota income tax forms in the mail today


DK @kingsbury • January 5, 2009

trying real hard to get back in the swing of things (at least until vacation starts again on Thursday)


DK @kingsbury • January 6, 2009

Wow, actually made it to a 7:30AM meeting in Golden Valley


DK @kingsbury • January 6, 2009

Breakfast planning meeting at Key’s on Raymond – 1st Annual HSRA Golf Tournament?


DK @kingsbury • January 6, 2009

following the Macworld keynote from afar yet again


DK @kingsbury • January 6, 2009

best news of Macworld keynote for me: K-12 site licenses still available for iLife ’09 and iWork ’09 for $249 each


DK @kingsbury • January 7, 2009

The new HSRA net connection is driving me insane – so I decided to take kid two out to dinner at Axel’s (trouble ticket open)


DK @kingsbury • January 7, 2009

Picking up kid one at Skateville, then off to Wise Swim School


DK @kingsbury • January 7, 2009

I really hope these networks issues at HSRA go away before I get on the plane


DK @kingsbury • January 7, 2009

Dead firewall/router at HSRA – waiting for Best Buy to open


DK @kingsbury • January 7, 2009

Getting ready to configure and test the new temporary HSRA firewall/router


DK @kingsbury • January 8, 2009

All looks good to go at work – Florida, here we come!


DK @kingsbury • January 8, 2009

AirTran online check-in complete, printed marathon waiver and kid two’s birthday certificate for free Disney stuff


DK @kingsbury • January 8, 2009

CES announcements: Me likey the Sony VAIO P Series


DK @kingsbury • January 8, 2009

Lunch with the wife at BWW, then credit union and last minute clothes shopping


DK @kingsbury • January 8, 2009

Made it on the plane to Orlando, HSRA network is FUBAR again (dammit!)


DK @kingsbury • January 8, 2009

Called in the networking calvary


DK @kingsbury • January 9, 2009

landed safely in MCO


DK @kingsbury • January 9, 2009

restless night as I worry about work instead of enjoying vacation


DK @kingsbury • January 9, 2009

On the tram to the Magic Kingdom (and HSRA is supposed to be A-OK)


DK @kingsbury • January 9, 2009

Lunch at Casey’s Corner on Main Street


DK @kingsbury • January 10, 2009

Waiting for fireworks


DK @kingsbury • January 10, 2009

finally going to bed – heading to Disney’s Hollywood Studios tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • January 10, 2009

Fancy Florida McDonald’s for breakfast, outlet mall visit, then the Studios at noon


DK @kingsbury • January 10, 2009

The Aerosmith roller coaster is not a good match for a headache. Back at my brother’s house for pre-race pasta dinner.


DK @kingsbury • January 11, 2009

can’t believe I woke up before the 3AM alarm – heading for the starting line of the 2009 Disney World Marathon


DK @kingsbury • January 11, 2009

Ran 26.2 miles in 5:07:51 – hot, leg & stomach cramps and sore knees = lots walking after mile 19


DK @kingsbury • January 11, 2009

woke up from a nap and now my ankles hurt


DK @kingsbury • January 12, 2009

big birthday day for kid two today – cake for breakfast, then heading to EPCOT


DK @kingsbury • January 13, 2009

just finished birthday cake for kid two – happy not to be in MN tonight


DK @kingsbury • January 13, 2009

hooked my MBP up to my brother’s internet connection – way easier to work on your own machine (but webmail, Twitter & FB don’t care)


DK @kingsbury • January 13, 2009

It seems that a rainy, crappy day in Florida is about 100 times better than a cold, snowy day in Minnesota, eh?


DK @kingsbury • January 15, 2009

One last full day in Florida before we return to the deep freeze


DK @kingsbury • January 16, 2009

On the plane back to Minnesota


DK @kingsbury • January 16, 2009

Landed safely at MSP – first AirTran experience pretty nice


DK @kingsbury • January 17, 2009

Back for 2 days – Hockey Day Minnesota party at the @michaelguille house


DK @kingsbury • January 18, 2009

Birthday party for kid two at Grand Slam in Burnsville


DK @kingsbury • January 18, 2009

Checked in for Sun Country Vegas flight, passed thru security, watching Eagles choke


DK @kingsbury • January 19, 2009

Landed safely in Las Vegas – heading for the Bellagio


DK @kingsbury • January 19, 2009

the Bellagio Conservatory is beautiful right now


DK @kingsbury • January 20, 2009

woo-hoo! 70% off at the Bobby Jones store in the Forum Shoppes


DK @kingsbury • January 20, 2009

Mirage and Bellagio sports books have Wild 25-1 to win the cup (one other place was 50-1)


DK @kingsbury • January 20, 2009

Last day in Vegas, then back to reality


DK @kingsbury • January 20, 2009

Finally put a dent in the gambling damage – won $25 with blackjack and $42 with video poker


DK @kingsbury • January 20, 2009

Leaving Las Vegas


DK @kingsbury • January 21, 2009

Back home in Minnesota and ready to finally get 2009 started


DK @kingsbury • January 22, 2009

First day back at work didn’t get me fired or beheaded, so I chalk that up as a win


DK @kingsbury • January 22, 2009

starting my (hopefully fruitful) journey into iPhone development tonight


DK @kingsbury • January 22, 2009

have to give Apple credit for the volume of information available on the iPhone Dev Center and WWDC 2008 video sites


DK @kingsbury • January 22, 2009

in St. Cloud picking up donated Xserves and Xserve RAIDs


DK @kingsbury • January 22, 2009

On the floor at HSRA, still chasing the network gremlins


DK @kingsbury • January 22, 2009

picked up new hard drive for old HSRA iMac at Best Buy – I just love that you can buy internal hard drives just down the street


DK @kingsbury • January 23, 2009

Swim time for both kids at Wise – nice and tropical in here


DK @kingsbury • January 23, 2009

I’m sort of digging the intro to iPhone development videos from the last WWDC


DK @kingsbury • January 23, 2009

No students in the building today = lots of productive maintenance work


DK @kingsbury • January 23, 2009

Lunch at Cecil’s with Mikey Boom-Boom


DK @kingsbury • January 23, 2009

I can’t believe how much crap I took out of the HSRA server room and the old tech office – it’s going to cost a fortune for recycling


DK @kingsbury • January 24, 2009

Cleaning the house for Colleen’s party while watching Linkin Park Road to Revolution DVD


DK @kingsbury • January 24, 2009

Marisa Tomei is just so damn cute, I can’t stand it (must go see The Wrestler now)


DK @kingsbury • January 24, 2009

Haven’t got to the contract part yet, but it seems that Apple takes care of all of the local tax issues for iPhone app sales, eh? Sweeeet


DK @kingsbury • January 25, 2009

Poker Night at the Thornburghs


DK @kingsbury • January 25, 2009

getting a jump start on spring cleaning – won’t make it come any sooner, but maybe it will help with my never-ending cough


DK @kingsbury • January 27, 2009

Minnesota freeways – now with even more slow drivers in the left hand lane


DK @kingsbury • January 27, 2009

building a new Security Spy machine for HSRA


DK @kingsbury • January 27, 2009

lunch at Davanni’s with Phil – the new pasta with Alfredo sauce and chicken is thumbs up


DK @kingsbury • January 27, 2009

heading for the X to watch the Wild play Toronto


DK @kingsbury • January 28, 2009

Is the short line-to-35E connection the worst road surface in the Twin Cities? Especially southbound…


DK @kingsbury • January 28, 2009

Cold McDonald’s french fries are nasty. Pretty much all cold french fries are nasty, but it’s just so sad to throw away the clown’s artwork


DK @kingsbury • January 28, 2009

iLife ’09 install DVD in the house


DK @kingsbury • January 28, 2009

iWork ’09 also just arrived, along with my copies of OS X Server for the donated equipment


DK @kingsbury • January 29, 2009

watching these WWDC iPhone development movies is like trying to learn a foreign language – major geek out time


DK @kingsbury • January 29, 2009

dropped off graphics iMac at First Tech for repair, then had lunch with Bob at Barbette


DK @kingsbury • January 29, 2009

flat iron frites at Barbette might just be my perfect meal


DK @kingsbury • January 30, 2009

weekly visit to the tropics (Wise swim school) over – back to the -2 freezer


DK @kingsbury • January 30, 2009

building a new “lite” eMac image; creating DMGs for iLife and iWork; fixing printer access and getting ready to build new Xserves – busy!


DK @kingsbury • January 30, 2009

need some square mounting screws for a telecom rack – will stop at the hardware store on Raymond after lunch with Studio Phil


DK @kingsbury • January 30, 2009

Picked Jay’s Cafe for lunch – mmm, Romeo’s Turkey and black cherry soda


DK @kingsbury • January 30, 2009

I think the HSRA server is dying a slow, painful death


DK @kingsbury • January 31, 2009

ran 6 miles outside in the Minnesota heat wave – 44 and sunny


DK @kingsbury • February 1, 2009

Dinner at Snuffy’s Malt Shop with wife and kid two


DK @kingsbury • February 1, 2009

Kid two: “Dad, have you ever been in jail?”


DK @kingsbury • February 1, 2009

stopped at B&N on the way home, bought 3 new nerd books for work, watched an iPhone video & Nip/Tuck, now the end of the Wild game


DK @kingsbury • February 1, 2009

finally beat Bonnie on FB’s Word Challenge – now I can move my obsession to iPhone development


DK @kingsbury • February 1, 2009

picked more Tintin at the library, returned the extra firewall at Best Buy and did some grocery shopping at Byerly’s Eagan


DK @kingsbury • February 1, 2009

headed to the Super Bowl party at the Cooks


DK @kingsbury • February 2, 2009

Racking up donated Xserves and Xserve RAIDs – I’m getting too old for this


DK @kingsbury • February 3, 2009

Family movie night with sick kid one: Harry Plopper #4


DK @kingsbury • February 3, 2009

taking kid one to the doctor for a strep test


DK @kingsbury • February 3, 2009

finished with most of the HSRA server room re-design; now shopping for new KVM and UPS options


DK @kingsbury • February 4, 2009

watching WWDC videos (and trying not to fall asleep)


DK @kingsbury • February 4, 2009

interesting – Nike just sent me a survey request about the Nike+ and it was administered using Survey Monkey


DK @kingsbury • February 4, 2009

my post must have hexed things – heading in to work to get server back online


DK @kingsbury • February 4, 2009

I think I found the problem – dead switch (that didn’t look dead). Pulled all wires out of patch panel and rebuilt it from scratch


DK @kingsbury • February 4, 2009

the commute to and from St. Paul is *so* much better at 3:30AM


DK @kingsbury • February 4, 2009

back in the server room – yeah


DK @kingsbury • February 4, 2009

this is the calmest and most relaxed I’ve been in the server room in months – the tech zen is returning to my world


DK @kingsbury • February 4, 2009

and then it was gone: network outage at 1PM – now the firewall is suspect


DK @kingsbury • February 5, 2009

Was hoping to watch the Wild, but I’m heading back to the server room from hell


DK @kingsbury • February 5, 2009

Not sure what will happen at work next, but maybe $27,000 worth of new switches will help


DK @kingsbury • February 5, 2009

Stuff is actually working this morning – waiting for the other shoe to drop any time now


DK @kingsbury • February 6, 2009

You know it’s a rough day when you don’t have time to tweet


DK @kingsbury • February 6, 2009

At least I had time for lunch at the Blue Door – the Breakfast Blucy sure was something


DK @kingsbury • February 6, 2009

It’s 10:30PM, must be time to head back to HSRA and work on the network


DK @kingsbury • February 6, 2009

Met Timberwolves guard Rashad McCants tonight in studio A


DK @kingsbury • February 6, 2009

Network issues return – shoot me now


DK @kingsbury • February 6, 2009

leaving my network hell and heading to the Wild-Nashville game to get away from it all for a few hours


DK @kingsbury • February 7, 2009

Heat wave – driving home from Wild game with windows down


DK @kingsbury • February 7, 2009

Belated 40th birthday lunch at the mother-in-law’s house – Carbone’s pizza is still the best


DK @kingsbury • February 7, 2009

The new Best Buy store at Mall of America is pretty nice. Picked up a couple of USB Ethernet adaptors


DK @kingsbury • February 7, 2009

Going to Target with kid one and kid two – gift cards burning a hole in their pockets


DK @kingsbury • February 8, 2009

dropped off kid two at a birthday party, now heading to the Wild-Oilers game with Mr. Miller


DK @kingsbury • February 9, 2009

Watching the Grammy Awards – I miss Joe C


DK @kingsbury • February 9, 2009

Stevie Wonder and the Jonas Brothers? Pah-leese


DK @kingsbury • February 9, 2009

Morgan Freeman is a liar


DK @kingsbury • February 9, 2009

All the record of the year peeps were British, eh?


DK @kingsbury • February 9, 2009

A very preggers M.I.A. with the “Rap Pack”


DK @kingsbury • February 9, 2009

Is this the Grammy Awards or the BRIT Awards?


DK @kingsbury • February 9, 2009

Grammy Awards over – now in the HSRA server room trying to figure out what the hell is going on here (still)


DK @kingsbury • February 9, 2009

After an all-nighter at HSRA, found a faulty network card in one of the copiers. Please, please, please let this be “it”


DK @kingsbury • February 10, 2009

It was not “it” and now I’m looking for a good network consultant who knows Macs and Xserves


DK @kingsbury • February 10, 2009

Found another bad device on the wired network – been up for a few hours now


DK @kingsbury • February 10, 2009

Club sandwich at the Broiler with Studio Phil


DK @kingsbury • February 11, 2009

taking kid one to Wise Swim School for team


DK @kingsbury • February 11, 2009

Today’s schedule: HSRA board meeting, haircut, lunch at Zantigo, install new server network card and cross fingers


DK @kingsbury • February 11, 2009

Switched over HSRA network to be primarily wireless – waiting for a fail


DK @kingsbury • February 11, 2009

wow, I think the network made it through the day – I’m in shock


DK @kingsbury • February 12, 2009

it’s so nice not to be worried 24/7 about my school network


DK @kingsbury • February 13, 2009

made some good progress on work issues today – will next week be back to normal?


DK @kingsbury • February 14, 2009

Network uptime celebration dinner at Raising Cane’s with the family


DK @kingsbury • February 14, 2009

Just realized I had chicken for breakfast, lunch AND dinner – all bird, all the time


DK @kingsbury • February 14, 2009

nice, laid-back day – just got dressed at 4PM and now watching Pebble Beach in HD


DK @kingsbury • February 15, 2009

Clearance sale at Circuit City was *so* depressing


DK @kingsbury • February 15, 2009

Lunch at the Outback Steakhouse with kid one and the wife – Australia in Burnsville, who knew?


DK @kingsbury • February 16, 2009

watching Survivor and CSI via HD On Demand – Comcast gets points for this offering


DK @kingsbury • February 16, 2009

Working the school holiday to get the final touches in place for the restoration of the HSRA network


DK @kingsbury • February 16, 2009

Damn, eMacs are heavy. It’s like having a free workout at the club


DK @kingsbury • February 16, 2009

taking a break from iWork ’09 and iLife ’09 upgrades to get some food from the clown


DK @kingsbury • February 17, 2009

actually had time tonight to update 7minutemiles.com and watch some HD hockey on Versus (Blues vs. Rangers)


DK @kingsbury • February 17, 2009

Lunch with Studio Phil at Town Talk Diner – mmm, cheese curds


DK @kingsbury • February 17, 2009

Happy Birthday kid one! Birthday dinner at Punch Pizza in Highland


DK @kingsbury • February 18, 2009

Had yet another network “event” this afternoon, but it seems I missed the network settings change on one iMac in another room


DK @kingsbury • February 18, 2009

Heading in tonight after swim team to wire the place back and test


DK @kingsbury • February 18, 2009

Too much slippery snow and ice tonight to risk driving in to work on the network. Wireless is up and running, so screw it (until tomorrow)


DK @kingsbury • February 18, 2009

HSRA wired network connected again – let’s see how long it goes today


DK @kingsbury • February 18, 2009

Lunch with Justin at Cecil’s – got called back to HSRA with a server down issue (different from network down)


DK @kingsbury • February 18, 2009

just finished the most detailed diagram I think I’ve ever made – Omnigraffle is both the most awesome drawing program and also the suckiest


DK @kingsbury • February 19, 2009

cleaning my home office tonight while watching live hockey online via the “pirate” site (Wings, Caps and now Kings)


DK @kingsbury • February 19, 2009

Nice sunshine coming in through my office window – too bad the temperature isn’t nicer


DK @kingsbury • February 20, 2009

At Wise Swim School with both kids and the grandparents


DK @kingsbury • February 20, 2009

updating work diagrams so I can call in outside help


DK @kingsbury • February 20, 2009

Wow, today is the birthday of Ansel Adams, Kurt Cobain and Robert Altman. Quite a trio, there.


DK @kingsbury • February 20, 2009

made some changes to the HSRA network this morning and now monitoring 30 student computers – OMG MySpace works!


DK @kingsbury • February 20, 2009

the bane of my existence: “TX ring is hung. Resetting chip.”


DK @kingsbury • February 20, 2009

just ordered a new gig-e Watchguard firewall for school – enough of this crap, already


DK @kingsbury • February 21, 2009

upgraded 7minutemiles.com to WordPress 2.7.1 – seems to work so far


DK @kingsbury • February 21, 2009

Hockey in Minnesota (hockey.mn) upgraded to the new WordPress – a few more issues this time, mainly with WP-Sticky and WPG2 plugins


DK @kingsbury • February 21, 2009

Finished upgrading all the WordPress sites on my server to 2.7.1


DK @kingsbury • February 21, 2009

slept in til noon, shoveled 4-5 inches of heavy snow, took kid one to Target for more party items, then got lunch from the King


DK @kingsbury • February 22, 2009

nice, quiet night at home with just kid one – watching the Wild in HD


DK @kingsbury • February 22, 2009

kid one’s birthday party about to start – the theme is day spa, joy


DK @kingsbury • February 23, 2009

massive headache; watching the Wild-Blackhawks game


DK @kingsbury • February 23, 2009

maybe it’s the headache talking, but I can’t stand the “new” Oscars format – just read the names and tell me who won, dammit


DK @kingsbury • February 23, 2009

hanging out in the HSRA server room, waiting for my new gear to arrive


DK @kingsbury • February 23, 2009

“ARIA will also offer a new Cirque du Soleil production celebrating the musical legacy of Elvis Presley.” Hmm…


DK @kingsbury • February 24, 2009

got a few things up and running today: $20 KVM I bought on eBay works, installed new web and database server successfully


DK @kingsbury • February 24, 2009

I forgot just how bad the out of box experience is on OS X Server for web development – have to re-do everything, basically


DK @kingsbury • February 24, 2009

compiling Apache 2 and PHP with GD and mcrypt support from scratch


DK @kingsbury • February 24, 2009

hurray! new custom web server up and running – tweaks can wait until tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • February 24, 2009

donated Xserve RAID chugging away on the re-initialization: two 1TB RAID5 volumes named Run and DMC


DK @kingsbury • February 24, 2009

preparing for arrival of my new baby: a Watchguard Firebox® X1250e


DK @kingsbury • February 24, 2009

Taking kid two to the Wild-Kings game at the X


DK @kingsbury • February 25, 2009

Can’t believe I got a parking ticket – no signs, curb is covered in snow, tiny car. $25 for parking “within 20 feet of a crosswalk”


DK @kingsbury • February 25, 2009

running Windows update on my XP VMware volume – need it for the Watchguard configuration tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • February 25, 2009

successfully installed the Watchguard software in VMware, now I need to read the manual before setting it lose on the network


DK @kingsbury • February 25, 2009

This Watchguard thingy is just a tad more complex than our current firewall/router


DK @kingsbury • February 25, 2009

this firewall better freakin’ rock, because it’s taking me all day and all night to get it installed


DK @kingsbury • February 26, 2009

finished what I wanted to do today at work – need to beat the traffic home tonight during the big snow storm


DK @kingsbury • February 26, 2009

made it home safely, but don’t think I left second gear the whole way


DK @kingsbury • February 27, 2009

Happy to have the Word Challenge crown back from Bonnie – can I ever catch Al?


DK @kingsbury • February 27, 2009

VPN Tracker supports the Watchguard – full VPN to HSRA will again be a reality soon


DK @kingsbury • February 27, 2009

The plow job on Interstate 35E was almost as bad as the main St. Paul thoroughfares – icy ruts and traffic moving at a crawl


DK @kingsbury • February 27, 2009

Cleaning up my laptop – way too many files on the desktop


DK @kingsbury • February 27, 2009

Trying out the Safari 4 Beta – not sure what I think yet


DK @kingsbury • February 27, 2009

Lunch at the Broiler with Phil and Justin


DK @kingsbury • February 27, 2009

Final changes made to the Watchguard – will try a switchover later this afternoon


DK @kingsbury • February 27, 2009

Switchover had a few port forwarding glitches, but those are resolved and everything seems to be working fine (so far)


DK @kingsbury • February 28, 2009

final preparations for dinner party with Jake and Rebecca (and perhaps Nappy too)


DK @kingsbury • February 28, 2009

Just checked the server and the new firewall didn’t fix the link hung error – something still lurks on the floor (or at the switches)


DK @kingsbury • February 28, 2009

ran back-to-back 5Ks on the treadmill – slow and boring (62:00), but at least I’m finally “in training” again


DK @kingsbury • February 28, 2009

backed up my laptop today – have you backed up your computer lately?


DK @kingsbury • March 1, 2009

If the mysterious owners of the golf.mn and ski.mn domains want to sell them, please contact me


DK @kingsbury • March 1, 2009

After a mad day of laundry and watching golf on TV, now taking the family out to dinner at Fuddrucker’s


DK @kingsbury • March 2, 2009

Just cleaned up and copied over bookmarks from Firefox to Safari 4 – I think I’m staying with the beta browser


DK @kingsbury • March 2, 2009

walked for 35 minutes, then ran a 5K in 28:12 – feels pretty good to be training again


DK @kingsbury • March 2, 2009

waiting for a new windshield to be installed on the MINI


DK @kingsbury • March 2, 2009

talked to the California switch vendor and the order has been placed – the HP ProCurve 2848s should be here in 4-5 days


DK @kingsbury • March 2, 2009

starting to set up databases on the new Studio 4 server, PHP and Apache config up next


DK @kingsbury • March 3, 2009

cleaning up the office for the big fundraising meeting tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • March 4, 2009

Swim team for kid one at Wise – so nice and tropical in here tonight


DK @kingsbury • March 4, 2009

Ran 10K on the treadmill while watching the Wild give up a two-goal lead to the Canucks


DK @kingsbury • March 4, 2009

Lunch with Phil at El Norteno – Mexican Coke no more 🙁


DK @kingsbury • March 5, 2009

The Friends of HSRA meeting in my office went pretty good this afternoon – glad I picked up the place


DK @kingsbury • March 5, 2009

Finally got virtual host settings on the new Apache2 server set the way I want, with 8 out of 34 domains now moved over successfully


DK @kingsbury • March 5, 2009

transferred another dozen domains to the new web server – all the rest need databases moved first; tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • March 5, 2009

fighting with a plug-in Mikey used for photo galleries in WordPress that doesn’t like the new server


DK @kingsbury • March 5, 2009

Lunch with the studio guys at Famous Dave’s


DK @kingsbury • March 5, 2009

finished moving a number of database-driven sites to the new Studio 4 web server, only minor issues remain (+ the HSRA sites)


DK @kingsbury • March 6, 2009

Drove to Lake Street in MPLS to change flat tire for wife; not at Wise Swim School with kids 1 & 2


DK @kingsbury • March 6, 2009

Home from Wise and trying to motivate myself to run on the treadmill during the Wild-Sharks game


DK @kingsbury • March 6, 2009

Imagine that – the state tax refund arrived just as the wife’s car needs 4 new tires


DK @kingsbury • March 6, 2009

ran 5K on the treadmill during the first period, but now I’m eating half a box of Girl Scout cookies


DK @kingsbury • March 6, 2009

still waiting for the cable guy – switched over a few more websites while I wait


DK @kingsbury • March 6, 2009

New, faster Comcast connection (50/10) initially worked, but is now offline (along with the new server). They are rebuilding the router now


DK @kingsbury • March 6, 2009

ran 10.24 slow miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. nice MN winter day – sunny and 42. much nicer running with the wind, though.


DK @kingsbury • March 6, 2009

seems that Comcast has resolved all of the issues with the new 50/10 internet connection at HSRA


DK @kingsbury • March 6, 2009

there’s nothing quite like a long, hot shower after a cold, wet run


DK @kingsbury • March 7, 2009

hanging out in my office while the family visits my mother-in-law’s house, then off to O’Gara’s for a late lunch


DK @kingsbury • March 8, 2009

grilling some steak and chicken out on the deck


DK @kingsbury • March 8, 2009

ran 4 miles on the cold, icy sidewalks of Eagan in 37:44


DK @kingsbury • March 8, 2009

Bowling at Cedarvale with the Cooks – will break 100!


DK @kingsbury • March 8, 2009

Belated birthday dinner at Bibo in Eagan with my parents


DK @kingsbury • March 9, 2009

Mailed putter in for restoration, deposited $ at credit union, switched cars with mom, now lunch in River Falls


DK @kingsbury • March 9, 2009

made it back from lunch with Garrett in time to meet the kids at the bus stop


DK @kingsbury • March 9, 2009

Dinner at Champps Butler Square with Brad, then Timberpuppies game vs the Wizards


DK @kingsbury • March 10, 2009

UPS says new tires on truck for delivery -working from home until they arrive


DK @kingsbury • March 10, 2009

didn’t feel great this morning – feel asleep waiting for the Accord’s new tires to arrive. much better now, though


DK @kingsbury • March 11, 2009

Nice and warm inside Wise Swim School; outside, not so much


DK @kingsbury • March 11, 2009

Online tires I ordered were too big for the Accord – tire store 1, nerds 0


DK @kingsbury • March 11, 2009

Tires on Accord replaced; working on returning the Pirelli’s, but now the MINI is in the shop getting the fluids flushed


DK @kingsbury • March 11, 2009

I like the new shuffle, but you’d have to use the supplied headphones or it won’t work, no?


DK @kingsbury • March 11, 2009

walked over to Kowalski’s to get some lunch; stopped at the gas station to pick up my lucky Gopher 5 ticket


DK @kingsbury • March 11, 2009

MINI needs new input shaft seal, tie rods and control arm bushings (and maybe a new clutch), $2500+


DK @kingsbury • March 11, 2009

building a new online HSRA photo gallery using Gallery2


DK @kingsbury • March 12, 2009

not sure if I like Twitter hashtags or not – people are asking me to use them, but I don’t like the look and they use up your 140 characters


DK @kingsbury • March 12, 2009

finally got some good news – the bad-ass new HP gigabit switches have arrived at work


DK @kingsbury • March 12, 2009

Lunch with Phil and Justin at Vina in Highland Park


DK @kingsbury • March 12, 2009

trying to plan the logistics of moving 5 servers from Seattle to Minnesota with minimum downtime is more challenging than I thought


DK @kingsbury • March 13, 2009

Swim team and lessons for both kids, then maybe Target for groceries


DK @kingsbury • March 13, 2009

Waiting for my car to be finished. Almost done with the new online photo server for HSRA


DK @kingsbury • March 13, 2009

Car ready at Motorworks MINI – total damage is $2800+


DK @kingsbury • March 13, 2009

expensive car repairs and now the network issues at work have returned (after being fine for almost three weeks)


DK @kingsbury • March 14, 2009

two working cars in the garage (with no extra tires) and new bad-ass switches installed and configured at work – life is getting better


DK @kingsbury • March 14, 2009

Spring skiing at Welch Village – I wouldn’t hate winter so much if it was always like this


DK @kingsbury • March 14, 2009

Dinner with the family at the new Sonic Drive-In in Burnsville


DK @kingsbury • March 15, 2009

ran 4 icy miles in Eagan


DK @kingsbury • March 16, 2009

sitting in the server room – can’t wait for lunch


DK @kingsbury • March 16, 2009

Lunch with Phil at Leeann Chins, then bought some Nikon Coolpix cams at Target


DK @kingsbury • March 16, 2009

ran 6 miles in Eagan & Apple Valley – top random song of the run: Tom Waits – “You Can Never Hold Back Spring”


DK @kingsbury • March 16, 2009

dammit, I don’t get to call in rich tomorrow yet again – stupid Minnesota Lottery


DK @kingsbury • March 17, 2009

fixed email, WordPress image upload issues for Dr. Rossi, now need to figure out why his Mac Book Pro hates my wireless network


DK @kingsbury • March 17, 2009

heading to the Apple Store to get some last minute things for the LA trip contingent – Rosedale or Mall of America?


DK @kingsbury • March 17, 2009

got stuff at Rosedale, made some crappy lunch in the microwave, finished moving sites off the Seattle server; now watching iPhone 3.0 news


DK @kingsbury • March 17, 2009

ran 7 miles in Eagan – seems strange to be running by frozen lakes in shorts and a T-shirt


DK @kingsbury • March 18, 2009

Spending St. Patrick’s Day eve at Wise swim school watching kid one


DK @kingsbury • March 18, 2009

stupid cough – got 3 hours of sleep last night


DK @kingsbury • March 18, 2009

coughing and tired, but sitting in my office hoping to get primary DNS set up today on the new server (and maybe some ping-pong with Phil)


DK @kingsbury • March 18, 2009

the logistics of this server move is blowing my mind – DNS alone is a pain in the ass


DK @kingsbury • March 18, 2009

Lunch at Kims with Phil and Colleen


DK @kingsbury • March 19, 2009

Google mail for domains is acting a little weird this morning


DK @kingsbury • March 19, 2009

What is it was all of my web services this morning? Google webmail for HSRA is acting weird and now Twitter is losing my tweets


DK @kingsbury • March 19, 2009

ordered a Dell netbook for work – can’t wait to see what you get for $350


DK @kingsbury • March 20, 2009

Wise swim school with kid one and two – mom and dad here tonight too


DK @kingsbury • March 20, 2009

Added Twitter integration to the Tapemark Charity Pro-Am site (http://proam.mn) – follow them @proam


DK @kingsbury • March 20, 2009

damn, now I’m addicted to the word twist part of Word Challenge – 2AM, sigh


DK @kingsbury • March 20, 2009

spring in Minnesota – enough snow overnight in St. Paul to scrape windshields


DK @kingsbury • March 20, 2009

installed Elgg and Drupal test environments on the Minnesota server before having lunch at Cecil’s with Justin, Opal and Mikey Boom-Boom


DK @kingsbury • March 20, 2009

plans for this afternoon: install a BuddyPress test environment on the Minnesota server; try to keep growing gut from bursting


DK @kingsbury • March 21, 2009

WAVE swim team meet at Wise for kid one


DK @kingsbury • March 21, 2009

Memory Lanes in Minneapolis with Colleen


DK @kingsbury • March 21, 2009

Another Dave bowled my first frame by accident and I still broke 100 despite his “1”


DK @kingsbury • March 21, 2009

Awake at 12:30 PM – can’t remember the last time I slept in until after noon


DK @kingsbury • March 21, 2009

library and Best Buy – the girls bought Twilight and I got a Linkin Park EP; guilty pleasures


DK @kingsbury • March 21, 2009

Beautiful day in Eagan – ran 8 miles, then brought all of the deck furniture out of storage


DK @kingsbury • March 22, 2009

Windier, but another nice day – ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley at a brisker pace (53:05)


DK @kingsbury • March 22, 2009

My first robin sightings of the year today


DK @kingsbury • March 22, 2009

off to family dinner night at Jake’s in Eagan


DK @kingsbury • March 23, 2009

damn, awake at 2:30AM again


DK @kingsbury • March 23, 2009

cold and rainy outside my office, cold and drafty inside – glad I still have a blanket here


DK @kingsbury • March 23, 2009

just finished moving primary DNS over to the new Minnesota server and notifying registrars – fingers crossed that nothing breaks too badly


DK @kingsbury • March 23, 2009

uploaded a bunch of updates to the Tapemark Charity Pro-Am website


DK @kingsbury • March 23, 2009

finished moving two test advisories over to the new network switches and ran software update on a bunch of machines


DK @kingsbury • March 23, 2009

taking kid two to see Coraline 3D at the Eagan Regal Cinema tonight


DK @kingsbury • March 24, 2009

got my federal tax refund direct deposited, but they stiffed me $200 – wonder what I did wrong *this* year


DK @kingsbury • March 24, 2009

due to the wind, rain and cold outside, ran 5K on the treadmill (28:08)


DK @kingsbury • March 24, 2009

decided to remove Google Analytics tracking code from my personal sites; also Amazon Store links and very close to axing AdSense ads


DK @kingsbury • March 24, 2009

watching 24 online while trying to recover the hard drives of two advisory iMacs


DK @kingsbury • March 24, 2009

Wife taking kids to swimming so I can stay home and watch the Wild in HD


DK @kingsbury • March 25, 2009

Listening to new Brother Ali EP – the iTunes Music Store is dangerous for budgets


DK @kingsbury • March 25, 2009

just finished removing Google Ads from my sites and re-validating all of them for XHTML 1.0 Strict


DK @kingsbury • March 25, 2009

NatGeo: In all of history, only 161,000 tons of gold have been mined, barely enough to fill two Olympic pools – can that possibly be true?


DK @kingsbury • March 25, 2009

time for errands: gas station, hair cut, then lunch with my mom and the girls at Midtown Global Market


DK @kingsbury • March 25, 2009

Eating lunch at Andy’s Garage in the MGM


DK @kingsbury • March 26, 2009

Dinner with Colleen at Green Mill Eagan


DK @kingsbury • March 26, 2009

Prince pumpin’ the Minneapolis sound on the Tonight Show – nice catches by the roadie


DK @kingsbury • March 26, 2009

web standards troubleshooting is sort of a time suck, but very satisfying once you pass


DK @kingsbury • March 26, 2009

Got dreaded “network is down” calls this morning, but it was really just a power outage; new bad-ass switches still bad-ass


DK @kingsbury • March 26, 2009

Yeah me – successfully found the reason for slow internet in my St. Paul office (duplicate DNS settings)


DK @kingsbury • March 26, 2009

Turkey club at the St. Clair Broiler with Studio Phil


DK @kingsbury • March 26, 2009

trying to use Lingon to create a launchd startup item that will run as root on server startup to launch my custom Apache2 install


DK @kingsbury • March 26, 2009

Lingon created plist seems to load on restart, but not as root. Permission issue?


DK @kingsbury • March 27, 2009

just found the fix to the server startup item issue – owner (root) did not have execute permissions; seems to work now


DK @kingsbury • March 27, 2009

Wise Swim School with kid one – nice and tropical inside, cold and craptacular outside


DK @kingsbury • March 27, 2009

watched some Dexter with Colleen, now waiting to watch the second night of Prince on the Tonight Show


DK @kingsbury • March 27, 2009

Prince tonight: more guitar, 2nd night with a harmonica and was that big Michael Bland on drums?


DK @kingsbury • March 27, 2009

Decided it was time to set up Google Apps for Domains on baseball.mn and basketball.mn (along with the associated Twitter handles)


DK @kingsbury • March 27, 2009

Logos and colors selected for Baseball in Minnesota and Basketball in Minnesota – see @baseballmn and @basketballmn


DK @kingsbury • March 27, 2009

Ran 12 miles this afternoon in the sunny, but cold and windy Eagan and Apple Valley


DK @kingsbury • March 28, 2009

Pizza for dinner at the Cooks


DK @kingsbury • March 28, 2009

heading to Afton Alps for one last ski day


DK @kingsbury • March 29, 2009

cleaned and vacuumed the house, watched some Dexter and now catching up on EyeTV recordings


DK @kingsbury • March 29, 2009

trying to get some spring cleaning done in the garage before winter returns this week


DK @kingsbury • March 29, 2009

ran a quick 4 miler in Eagan – it’s not nearing as warm as it looks


DK @kingsbury • March 29, 2009

watching Tiger try to catch O’Hair on NBC


DK @kingsbury • March 30, 2009

Tiger closes the deal with a birdie on 18; now on to see what the Wild will do now that they are “nearly” dead


DK @kingsbury • March 30, 2009

Final preparations for the Seattle trip tomorrow; also watching the Sunday shows


DK @kingsbury • March 30, 2009

Taking the kids out to dinner as the wife goes swimming


DK @kingsbury • March 31, 2009

decided I needed a break from running tonight, but after all the crappy food today, walked 2 miles on the treadmill to make up for it


DK @kingsbury • March 31, 2009

just made copies of the HSRA Excellence databases in anticipation of tomorrow’s server move


DK @kingsbury • March 31, 2009

heading for the airport – quick out and back to Seattle today


DK @kingsbury • March 31, 2009

Forgot just how much the main terminal experience at MSP sucks compared to Humphrey


DK @kingsbury • March 31, 2009

Two good things about the main terminal – breakfast with the clown and free access to the Delta Club


DK @kingsbury • March 31, 2009

Full plane to Seattle – should leave close to on-time. Aircraft continuing on to Maui. Smart aircraft


DK @kingsbury • March 31, 2009

Landed in SEA – the new Delta is just as crappy as the old Northwest


DK @kingsbury • March 31, 2009

All but two servers un-racked at digital.forest – visiting with Chuck in his office


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

Had a nice dinner and drinks with Chuck Goolsbee of digital.forest at the Airport Hilton; now hanging out at the SEA-TAC WorldClub


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

Oh yeah, so Delta/NWA didn’t want to accept my Anvil case loaded with 2 servers. Their scale said 81 pounds – finally took it for $175 fee


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

It feels weird having all of my personal websites offline – hopefully back up and running in about 7 hours


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

Just made notes on server setup in Minnesota once I get back – it’s going to be a long morning


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

On the plane early in my damn exit row aisle seat


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

Landed safely in Minnesota – can I blame the crying baby on the new Delta? Sure!


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

one of of three servers mostly back up – still a lot of work to do


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

taking kid two to the doctor – possible pink eye. Then she wants Noodles for lunch


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

moving servers is a royal pain in the ass – not sure if it’s worth the cost savings


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

submitted reverse DNS requests to Comcast business – the Ruby server still doesn’t like the new IP address


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

got “the letter” from the IRS today – it was my error, but it only cost $200 this year


DK @kingsbury • April 1, 2009

Man I wish Jake still worked for Studio 4 – he saves the day again, getting the Ruby machine back up and running with the new IP


DK @kingsbury • April 2, 2009

travel fatigue and lack of sleep catching up with me


DK @kingsbury • April 2, 2009

picked up a chicken sandwich from the King, now ready to finish off the server move project at HSRA


DK @kingsbury • April 2, 2009

the school is such a peaceful place when no one else is here


DK @kingsbury • April 2, 2009

successfully upgraded the Watchguard to version 10.2.8


DK @kingsbury • April 2, 2009

got all of the floor workstations connected to the new bad-ass switches and ran software updates; waiting for Watchguard to call back


DK @kingsbury • April 2, 2009

my first Dell has arrived – an Inspiron Mini 9. It says to please wait


DK @kingsbury • April 3, 2009

all Windows updates, anti-virus and crapware tools installed on the Dell mini – it’s nicer than I expected


DK @kingsbury • April 3, 2009

finished most of the mini 9 config – need to get a 16GB card next


DK @kingsbury • April 3, 2009

installed another ProCurve switch, connected it to new secondary DNS server, 70+ domains transferred over, dig works = much joy


DK @kingsbury • April 3, 2009

Sense of joy diminished as brake light comes on again MINI


DK @kingsbury • April 3, 2009

Dropped off graphics computer at FirstTech, Best Buy had nothing form me, now having lunch with the wife at BWW


DK @kingsbury • April 3, 2009

Installing Watchguard software on Mini 9, then off for a run


DK @kingsbury • April 3, 2009

ran 10 easy, sunny miles in Eagan and Apple Valley – saw one bald eagle and two large birds that looked like swans


DK @kingsbury • April 4, 2009

Dishes, laundry and vacuuming – what an exciting Saturday


DK @kingsbury • April 5, 2009

Poker at Todd’s house


DK @kingsbury • April 5, 2009

Due to the stupid April snow and cold weather, had to run on the treadmill today – 10K in 55:32 while watching the Houston Open – go Fred!


DK @kingsbury • April 5, 2009

depressing TV today on NBC: Wild lose to the Red Wings and Freddie Couples blows it on the last three holes


DK @kingsbury • April 6, 2009

Hanging out in the HSRA server room today with fingers crossed (and headphones blaring)


DK @kingsbury • April 6, 2009

Students have been here for more than an hour and the network is still up (but fingers still crossed)


DK @kingsbury • April 6, 2009

Lunch at Kim’s with Studio Phil


DK @kingsbury • April 6, 2009

90 minutes to go before students leave for the day and the network is still standing


DK @kingsbury • April 6, 2009

so the fastest upload speed Qwest offers via DSL on *any* package is only 896Kbps? That seems really low


DK @kingsbury • April 6, 2009

More Chinese food – Lee Ann Chin for dinner with Colleen, then off to see Morrissey at the State Theater in Minneapolis


DK @kingsbury • April 7, 2009

HSRA network still stable, so I’ve been working on clearing out the backlog of stupid stuff – day becoming very long


DK @kingsbury • April 7, 2009

Still not used to Facebook chats – it works fine, but doesn’t really fit into my work flow


DK @kingsbury • April 8, 2009

Ran a new 11.7 mile route in Eagan and Apple Valley just for Bonnie; now swimming for both kids


DK @kingsbury • April 8, 2009

Not feeling so great this morning. Maybe lunch with kid two at school will help


DK @kingsbury • April 8, 2009

Ordered new rear brake pads for the MINI (will wait on the caliper for now); watching the Masters par 3 tournament


DK @kingsbury • April 8, 2009

Finally finished updating HSRA network diagrams for the day (about 90% done). Hmm, what to do the rest of the day?


DK @kingsbury • April 9, 2009

Got phone system admin software installed on the netbook; now watching old CSI episodes from Netflix


DK @kingsbury • April 9, 2009

Finishing the HSRA reference diagrams and watching the Masters live stream from Amen Corner (still the best online video quality ever)


DK @kingsbury • April 9, 2009

Having a cheese dog with fries at the Wienery with Studio Phil


DK @kingsbury • April 9, 2009

added a 16GB SDHC card from Amazon to the netbook, doubling storage for about $35


DK @kingsbury • April 9, 2009

finishing lots of little stupid things today while watching the Masters; just got VPN working on the new firewall and it’s way fast


DK @kingsbury • April 10, 2009

Brought Carbone’s Pizza over to the Cooks for dinner; up next – taking kid one to swim team


DK @kingsbury • April 10, 2009

No school for the kids, so I’m taking the day off. Headed to see farm babies at the Minnesota Zoo this morning


DK @kingsbury • April 10, 2009

looks sunny and nice outside, but really cold and windy: ran 10K on the treadmill while watching the Masters


DK @kingsbury • April 11, 2009

Heading to the first round of the year with the Millers at Columbia in Minneapolis


DK @kingsbury • April 11, 2009

Shot 88 from the whites at Columbia in the season opener; birdied the first hole and added one more on 14


DK @kingsbury • April 11, 2009

Dinner at Ghengis Grill with the Millers


DK @kingsbury • April 12, 2009

ran a nice 15.5 mile route in Eagan and Apple Valley – would have been almost perfect with a little less wind and flatter hills


DK @kingsbury • April 12, 2009

Easter lunch at the mother-in-law’s house; now watching the Masters in HD


DK @kingsbury • April 13, 2009

Mmmm: multi-colored Jello Easter eggs


DK @kingsbury • April 13, 2009

too many metal grinding noises coming from the MINI – will wait to drive it again until after the new pads arrive tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • April 13, 2009

so I’ll work from home today and tomorrow; updating project list, review digital still and video camera options, troubleshoot Excellence


DK @kingsbury • April 13, 2009

running backups – thanks for the reminder Time Machine


DK @kingsbury • April 13, 2009

dealing with registrars is a pain in the ass


DK @kingsbury • April 13, 2009

Kid number one while watching Grease (with John Travolta): “This is like an old version of High School Musical”


DK @kingsbury • April 14, 2009

Watching an old CSI with Colleen – HD On Demand is the best thing about cable


DK @kingsbury • April 14, 2009

Very pleased with the speed of the new VPN


DK @kingsbury • April 14, 2009

updating Coda to version 1.6.4


DK @kingsbury • April 14, 2009

heading to lunch with Todd at BWW in Eagan


DK @kingsbury • April 14, 2009

MINI rear brake pads have arrived; headed to the garage this afternoon


DK @kingsbury • April 14, 2009

Finally done with the brake job (thanks to @chuckgoolsbee) – test drive around the block went fine, but I still may get it checked out


DK @kingsbury • April 14, 2009

taking the kids to Wise Swim School (in the other car, as I still need to bleed the brake line in the MINI)


DK @kingsbury • April 15, 2009

my arms and hands are killing me from trying to compress that piston, so I guess I’ll go for a late night run to make my legs hurt too


DK @kingsbury • April 15, 2009

ran a brisk 4 miles in the dark – Eagan really could use some more street lights


DK @kingsbury • April 15, 2009

Sue McLean is keeping Zoo dates a secret, but Pollstar spills a few beans


DK @kingsbury • April 15, 2009

Concern over caliper leads to me dropping off MINI at neighborhood shop – they will flush the fluid too


DK @kingsbury • April 15, 2009

Finally listening to Gruber & Mann’s talk from SXSW – need some inspiration for my publishing sites


DK @kingsbury • April 15, 2009

House all to myself for an hour and I don’t have to work either. Making a little dinner, then maybe a run


DK @kingsbury • April 16, 2009

Colleen decided on LA for her 40th birthday trip: Manhattan Beach, Hollywood and Disneyland


DK @kingsbury • April 16, 2009

could only manage a 5K on the treadmill tonight during the Canucks-Blues game, so I did some sit-ups and hand weights to compensate


DK @kingsbury • April 16, 2009

In a good mood to start the work day – let’s see how long that lasts


DK @kingsbury • April 16, 2009

I’ve been celebrating lechery since at least 1979


DK @kingsbury • April 16, 2009

In Uptown with Studio Phil – lunch at Green Mill (mmm, Walleye Fritters), then pick up graphics iMac at FirstTech


DK @kingsbury • April 16, 2009

Very productive, positive day at work today; the MINI brakes worked; heading for a run in the 70 degree spring day


DK @kingsbury • April 17, 2009

ran the 6 mile Eagan/New Zoo route. 70 degrees + sun = a very sweaty run – forgot about that after a long, cold winter


DK @kingsbury • April 17, 2009

Three marathons in one year – what the hell am I thinking?


DK @kingsbury • April 17, 2009

Back from a productive business development day; picked up dinner from the King for Colleen and kid two


DK @kingsbury • April 18, 2009

Late night hockey with kid one – watching the Canucks beat St. Louis in HD


DK @kingsbury • April 18, 2009

Also updating HSRA workstations via the new VPN while watching Bobby Lou


DK @kingsbury • April 18, 2009

Finally went to Home Depot to get lawn junk, but wore my arms out raking (still lots to do). Had lunch with the clown; now Lynn’s graduation


DK @kingsbury • April 18, 2009

Wow – 500 people graduating from Le Cordon Bleu today. Guest speaker was the executive chef from Murray’s. Mmm, butterknife steak


DK @kingsbury • April 18, 2009

lawn care done – let the rain begin!


DK @kingsbury • April 19, 2009

Nice dinner at my grandfather’s house with a bunch of relatives. Rooster’s chicken and fries and high fives all around for the Riser firing


DK @kingsbury • April 19, 2009

heading out for a long Sunday run in the rain – not sure how far yet


DK @kingsbury • April 19, 2009

Today’s training run brought to you by the letter “W” and the number “13.” Rain and 42 degrees – just like the 2008 TCM


DK @kingsbury • April 20, 2009

Taking the wife out to dinner tonight, just the two of us – Bibo?


DK @kingsbury • April 20, 2009

Bibo was awesome – Colleen had Prosciutto pizza and some Valpolicella wine, while I had Perciatelli Carbonara


DK @kingsbury • April 20, 2009

Everyone else is asleep now, so I get to watch my third playoff hockey game of the day – go Sharks!


DK @kingsbury • April 20, 2009

They are off and running in Boston – hope I can be there someday


DK @kingsbury • April 20, 2009

Working on the disaster recover plan while watching Boston online


DK @kingsbury • April 20, 2009

Trying out the free version of Mozy online backup for Mac


DK @kingsbury • April 20, 2009

The desktop version of Tweetie is even better than the iPhone version – goodbye Twitterific (and the Safari tab)


DK @kingsbury • April 21, 2009

Made it 45 minutes into the agape meal for kid two before I got into trouble; now I get to watch the C of Red on Versus HD


DK @kingsbury • April 21, 2009

So I wonder how long “shortly” will be regarding PowerPC support for Retrospect 8.0


DK @kingsbury • April 21, 2009

MozyPro purchased and installed on main file server, but the lack of pre-built sets for Open Directory, iCal Server, etc. is disappointing


DK @kingsbury • April 21, 2009

Lunch with Phil at Cecil’s


DK @kingsbury • April 21, 2009

Our Exabyte VXA tape drive didn’t like the trip back from Seattle – POST failed & servo errors


DK @kingsbury • April 21, 2009

The “secret” screen sharing app in Leopard is very handy when you don’t have ARD around; also got SSH-forwarding set up on the WatchGuard


DK @kingsbury • April 21, 2009

Trying to find the best (and easiest) way to securely sync folders between two servers


DK @kingsbury • April 21, 2009

Enough backup script research for one day, time to take both offspring to swim school


DK @kingsbury • April 22, 2009

Finished a quick 10K on the treadmill while watching the Sharks-Ducks game


DK @kingsbury • April 22, 2009

Signed up for the personal unlimited Mozy account, but I think it may take a week for the initial upload (that’s with no music or pix too)


DK @kingsbury • April 22, 2009

Off to Minneapolis Golf Club for Minnesota Section PGA media day; then a Tapemark Pro-Am meeting


DK @kingsbury • April 22, 2009

Great networking day at MGC – even got to talk Wild with Gorg


DK @kingsbury • April 22, 2009

Nice to spend a day away from the computer, but wow was there a lot of email and news to catch up on


DK @kingsbury • April 22, 2009

Sitting on the front porch reflecting on what an awesome day it was – I really like talking with people outside my normal circle


DK @kingsbury • April 23, 2009

Can’t believe I left my office keys at home – I really need a second set for the backpack


DK @kingsbury • April 23, 2009

Sorry marketing people, I’m done spending time answering “customer satisfaction” surveys


DK @kingsbury • April 23, 2009

If you don’t hear from me (either way), you can assume I’m moderately satisfied


DK @kingsbury • April 23, 2009

Updated Ubuntu in VMware today, but not to version 9


DK @kingsbury • April 23, 2009

Got some new keys made at the hardware store on Raymond; now lunch at Keys with Phil


DK @kingsbury • April 23, 2009

I wonder how many different accounts I actually have with Apple and the ADC – guess I needed a new one to get another copy of the dev tools


DK @kingsbury • April 23, 2009

Giving rsync a whirl on the secure copy between servers thing from earlier this week


DK @kingsbury • April 24, 2009

Ran a semi-quick 5K on the treadmill while watching the Sharks lose again. Last run before Get in Gear 10K on Saturday morning


DK @kingsbury • April 24, 2009

Going to get in a half day of work, pick up my race packet for Get in Gear and then do house prep for this weekend’s events


DK @kingsbury • April 24, 2009

Season 5 of Weeds premiers Monday, June 8th


DK @kingsbury • April 24, 2009

Hooray – Scotty is shipping my putter back to me today! FedEx should have it here by Wednesday


DK @kingsbury • April 24, 2009

House is ready for Colleen’s book club; grilling some turkey breast & waiting for more playoff hockey tonight


DK @kingsbury • April 25, 2009

Took kid two to Best Buy for a new Airport Extreme base station and also TJ Maxx. North Stars trucker hats for $3!


DK @kingsbury • April 25, 2009

Friday, April 24, 2009 – the day Gina turned down a drink


DK @kingsbury • April 25, 2009

Weather doesn’t look *too* bad for the race this morning – heading to Minnehaha Park


DK @kingsbury • April 25, 2009

Set new 10K PR at Get in Gear – 49:01


DK @kingsbury • April 25, 2009

Showered and changed – time to head for the Cannon Falls Bakery to pick up first communion cakes


DK @kingsbury • April 25, 2009

Stopped for lunch in Hampton at Little Oscar’s – choo choo


DK @kingsbury • April 25, 2009

This Philly-Pittsburgh game is nuts


DK @kingsbury • April 26, 2009

Watching Doubt on DVD while cleaning my office


DK @kingsbury • April 26, 2009

Getting the house ready for kid two’s first communion after party (4PM) – wish it would stop raining


DK @kingsbury • April 26, 2009

Lazy Sunday: a little lunch at Wendy’s with the family, library, playoff hockey, City Pages Best Of issue and rain. Only missing cupcakes


DK @kingsbury • April 26, 2009

Do potential MINI owners really consider the Suzuki SX4 Crossover a viable alternative? Seems like wasted ad money to me


DK @kingsbury • April 27, 2009

Ran 4 slow and easy recovery miles in Eagan, dodging rain drops and earthworms


DK @kingsbury • April 27, 2009

Compressing Acrobat files, prepping online test environments, updating web sites and entering student test results – and it’s not even 10


DK @kingsbury • April 27, 2009

Mom still sick, so I’m now working from home this afternoon. Aside from the ant party in the family room, not a bad deal


DK @kingsbury • April 27, 2009

Think I found a fix to obscure Gallery2/WPG2 sidebar issue with private galleries – what an exciting life I lead


DK @kingsbury • April 28, 2009

Wow, NWEA re-wrote their Intel Mac version of the TestTaker app using X windows – WTF?


DK @kingsbury • April 28, 2009

If I were NWEA, I think I’d be moving to an all web solution, not X11. But that’s just me


DK @kingsbury • April 28, 2009

And speaking of suck, why is it taking half an hour to upgrade Acrobat Reader on my old WinXP workstation?


DK @kingsbury • April 28, 2009

Trying to remember how to code a web page from scratch – too many templates these days


DK @kingsbury • April 28, 2009

Lunch with Phil at Vina in Highland


DK @kingsbury • April 28, 2009

NWEA even has a center for me


DK @kingsbury • April 28, 2009

Just how many Twitter accounts do I really need? Up to nine now in the Tweetie sidebar


DK @kingsbury • April 29, 2009

Ran the 10 mile Johnny Cake Ridge Road route, with an intermission to watch kid one and two swim – Brad also stopped and said hi


DK @kingsbury • April 29, 2009

Oh yeah – Kid Rock at the MN State Fair Grandstand August 29th with Lynyrd Skynyrd


DK @kingsbury • April 29, 2009

Learning more about Subversion this morning as I wait for FedEx to deliver the restored Cameron putter


DK @kingsbury • April 29, 2009

Updated HSRA site with new board minutes; reading first few chapters of the Subversion book – still no putter


DK @kingsbury • April 29, 2009

Restored putter in the house – pictures at 11


DK @kingsbury • April 29, 2009

Pirate English on Facebook is pretty damn creative


DK @kingsbury • April 29, 2009

Had almost all the Subversion training I can absorb for one day; five kids now in the basement playing and pizza in the oven for dinner


DK @kingsbury • April 29, 2009

Pepsi Throwback would taste better in a glass bottle, but overall is pretty good. Throwback Mountain Dew? Not so much


DK @kingsbury • April 30, 2009

Got lots done this morning already: installed NWEA on 3 advisories, fixed a printing issue, reset 2 security cams, answered email


DK @kingsbury • April 30, 2009

Screw swine flu: having lunch with Colleen at El Norteno on Lake Street


DK @kingsbury • April 30, 2009

Helped Tomas move desks into his new space across the hall and got my new white shirt all dirty; fixed Rossi’s JMC issue & TC’s mail issue


DK @kingsbury • April 30, 2009

Heading to kid one music concert, which will include a tuba solo by said kid


DK @kingsbury • May 1, 2009

Post concert treats for the tuba star at DQ


DK @kingsbury • May 1, 2009

Ran 5 miles on the treadmill while watching Hawks-Canucks game on Versus. That should get me to 110 miles for April


DK @kingsbury • May 1, 2009

Ran 4 miles in Eagan with the absentee runner


DK @kingsbury • May 1, 2009

Today’s plan: load new NWEA app on remaining iMacs, roll out old eMacs back to the floor, run 100ft ethernet cable & hit Best Buy


DK @kingsbury • May 2, 2009

Amazing how many tweets pile up when you are offline for half a day; now at Herbergers with Colleen for her health care worker sale


DK @kingsbury • May 2, 2009

Spent a nice early evening with Mr. Schuster and his friend Randy in Stillwater


DK @kingsbury • May 2, 2009

Stopped at Kowalski’s Eagan on the way home (love that store); now watching CSI via HD On Demand


DK @kingsbury • May 2, 2009

Driving to Hayfield, Minnesota this morning to play golf with the Millers at the Oaks


DK @kingsbury • May 2, 2009

Mowed lawn for the first time this year, turned on sprinkler system and tested; now Derby Time!


DK @kingsbury • May 2, 2009

Fun Derby – now watching Bolt with kid two


DK @kingsbury • May 3, 2009

Awesome night for a walk, now it’s time for Harper’s Island


DK @kingsbury • May 3, 2009

Ran six miles with Gina in Eagan and Apple Valley – perfect weather today. This might be a good day to spend on the deck in the sun


DK @kingsbury • May 3, 2009

Showered, changed, dirty clothes in the wash, stack of magazine to read on the deck ready to go


DK @kingsbury • May 3, 2009

Best name in an Economist story: industry analyst Ferdinand Dudenhoffer


DK @kingsbury • May 3, 2009

Finished what seems like the 10th load of laundry, watched the 3OT Detroit game, now watching Boston while catching up on office stuff


DK @kingsbury • May 4, 2009

Time for walkies


DK @kingsbury • May 4, 2009

Checking out the University of Minnesota Press and the Quadrant program


DK @kingsbury • May 4, 2009

It’s way too nice to be at work, but baby needs a new pair of shoes


DK @kingsbury • May 4, 2009

Running 100ft of Ethernet cable 20ft off the ground – ladders are fun!


DK @kingsbury • May 4, 2009

The ceilings here are filthy – glad to have most of the cable run finished. All that’s left is installing another switch and a second cable


DK @kingsbury • May 4, 2009

First half of cable pull working perfectly – setting up an iMac for Bonnie’s JMC access upstairs


DK @kingsbury • May 4, 2009

How come replacement APC UPS batteries cost almost as much as a new unit?


DK @kingsbury • May 4, 2009

My fear of heights and my hatred of being dirty combine to make for a pretty crappy Monday. Cable run completed and working, though


DK @kingsbury • May 4, 2009

Had a nice visit with my new office neighbor Tomas – his space is coming along great


DK @kingsbury • May 4, 2009

HSRA staff meeting almost over


DK @kingsbury • May 4, 2009

No wife, so taking three kids to Raising Cane’s for dinner. A chef I am not


DK @kingsbury • May 5, 2009

Sat out in the garage reading the Economist until it got dark, then filled out the online form for PGA media credentials – fingers crossed


DK @kingsbury • May 5, 2009

Ran 8 humid, after-the-rain miles in Eagan & Apple Valley; crossed paths with a wild turkey near the zoo


DK @kingsbury • May 5, 2009

Lunch with Studio Phil at Annie’s Parlour in Dinkytown


DK @kingsbury • May 5, 2009

The smoky sharp cheddar at Annie’s just might be my favorite cheese of all time. Definitely top three


DK @kingsbury • May 5, 2009

Back to reading about Subversion (finally)


DK @kingsbury • May 5, 2009

Taking everyone to Wise Swim School tonight


DK @kingsbury • May 6, 2009

It’s amazing how much a good set of headphones and some great music can totally change your mood


DK @kingsbury • May 6, 2009

Mozy has finally finished backing up my laptop


DK @kingsbury • May 6, 2009

Ran 4 early morning miles with Gina in Eagan


DK @kingsbury • May 6, 2009

Morning server maintenance and backups, then some BuddyPress upgrades, followed by a haircut and Zantigos for lunch


DK @kingsbury • May 6, 2009

Appears that I successfully upgraded WordPress Multi-user to 2.7.1 and BuddyPress to 1.0, but this learning curve is a little steep


DK @kingsbury • May 6, 2009

Minnesota’s version of CHiPs was out in force on I-94; got clocked, but not going fast enough over limit to get stopped. Phew.


DK @kingsbury • May 6, 2009

Ah, sweet Zantigo, greatest feast on Earth


DK @kingsbury • May 6, 2009

So much for severe thunderstorms after 3PM – working on the driveway in the sun


DK @kingsbury • May 6, 2009

OK, so what do you do when you forget the password to the spreadsheet with all the passwords in it?


DK @kingsbury • May 6, 2009

Oooh, here comes a storm now – better start packing it up


DK @kingsbury • May 7, 2009

I think that storm just totally broke up once it hit the metro area – sun coming back out.


DK @kingsbury • May 7, 2009

Watching Caps-Pens on Versus HD and checking out the Bloomington Public School District


DK @kingsbury • May 7, 2009

My mind is all over the place this morning – time to enter some test scores and zone out


DK @kingsbury • May 7, 2009

Reading up on iCal Server


DK @kingsbury • May 7, 2009

Now moving on from iCal Server to Google Calendar – iCal sync


DK @kingsbury • May 7, 2009

Leave the building for 30 minutes to get my kids and Comcast kills the net connection at HSRA – chaos ensues


DK @kingsbury • May 7, 2009

The Comcast business connection at HSRA is back up and running, preventing a commute back to St. Paul. Glad we have redundant networks


DK @kingsbury • May 7, 2009

Done troubleshooting from the garage chair – time to take kid two for a bike ride to the Deerwood playground (kid one to swim team)


DK @kingsbury • May 8, 2009

Milk Run flier came in the mail today – kid one and I are now registered


DK @kingsbury • May 8, 2009

Looks like all our Google Apps mail accounts are “temporary unavailable” right now


DK @kingsbury • May 8, 2009

Ran 4 pre-dawn miles in Eagan with Gina


DK @kingsbury • May 8, 2009

Google Apps is back, so I’m heading to Minneapolis Golf Club for the Minnesota Golf Champions tournament


DK @kingsbury • May 8, 2009

Late lunch meeting at the Eagan BWW with Todd from Accenture


DK @kingsbury • May 8, 2009

Back in the Eagan office – lots to work on


DK @kingsbury • May 9, 2009

Watched some CSI and hockey in HD, now off to do some reading before bed


DK @kingsbury • May 9, 2009

Ran the Eminem run in Eagan with Gina (8 miles). Perfect Minnesota spring weather


DK @kingsbury • May 9, 2009

Heading to Clearwater, Minnesota to golf at Eagle Trace with Mikey and the Duke


DK @kingsbury • May 9, 2009

Shot 90 from the whites at Eagle Trace, now getting some food at Keith’s Kettle


DK @kingsbury • May 10, 2009

Nice evening in front of the fire at the Cooks – first S’mores of the season


DK @kingsbury • May 10, 2009

Watching Private Practice season finale in one window, Canucks-Blackhawks in another and Facebook on the laptop. Multitask FTW!


DK @kingsbury • May 10, 2009

Oh man, this SNL is the best one I’ve seen in ages


DK @kingsbury • May 10, 2009

Taking Colleen to the new Crave restaurant at MOA for Mother’s Day lunch, then to Archivers


DK @kingsbury • May 10, 2009

Not so many people at MOA now – I think everyone left after race for the cure


DK @kingsbury • May 11, 2009

Colleen wants pancakes for dinner, so no Bibo – headed to Perkins


DK @kingsbury • May 11, 2009

The South sure knows comfort food: had Perkin’s “Southern Fried Chicken Biscuit Platter” tonight and now just waiting for my heart to stop


DK @kingsbury • May 11, 2009

Ran 5 miles in Eagan with Gina. 40 degrees – is summer ever going to arrive?


DK @kingsbury • May 11, 2009

Time Machine says it’s time to back up the hard drive – have you backed up lately?


DK @kingsbury • May 11, 2009

Setting up another test WordPress MU/Buddypress environment this morning


DK @kingsbury • May 11, 2009

Heading to Southview for a Tapemark Charity Pro-Am meeting – hoping they have a club sandwich with my name on it


DK @kingsbury • May 11, 2009

A little overwhelmed after the lunch meeting – we some very ambitious plans with not a lot of time to work on them


DK @kingsbury • May 11, 2009

I hate typos in Tweets, but I never really stop to proof-read them either


DK @kingsbury • May 11, 2009

Reading up on mobile-optimized web design principals and tips


DK @kingsbury • May 12, 2009

Creating the foundation for the online scoring functions of the 2009 Tapemark Charity Pro-Am while watching the Pens game


DK @kingsbury • May 12, 2009

Monty Python and the Holy Grail has aged nicely after almost 35 years. Camelot is a silly place, indeed


DK @kingsbury • May 12, 2009

My college employer has been demolished


DK @kingsbury • May 12, 2009

About halfway finished with 2009 updates to the Tapemark scoring code


DK @kingsbury • May 12, 2009

Heading to the original Carbone’s in St. Paul for lunch with Mr. Skoglund


DK @kingsbury • May 12, 2009

2009 scoring code edited and uploaded – should be ready for golfer entry and initialization now. Might clean up some CSS and layout stuff


DK @kingsbury • May 12, 2009

tapemark08 duplicated to tapemark09, which is now active and being backed up by the dumpdb script


DK @kingsbury • May 12, 2009

Still freaks me out getting tweets from @natalie_gulbis in my Tweetie sidebar – restores my faith in technology every time


DK @kingsbury • May 12, 2009

Tapemark sponsor updates finished and Basecamp volunteer config ready – now on to Keynote automation and mobile-optimized web design


DK @kingsbury • May 12, 2009

Watched a Matter of Loaf and Death (thanks DS), now off to Wise Swim School


DK @kingsbury • May 13, 2009

Want to stay up and watch the Red Wings – Ducks game, but that 4:30AM alarm clock is taunting me


DK @kingsbury • May 13, 2009

Ran 4 windy and damp miles in Eagan with Gina. More rain on the way


DK @kingsbury • May 13, 2009

Early morning is a good time to catch up on TV shows: watched Scrubs and Simpsons


DK @kingsbury • May 13, 2009

Upgraded the laptop to 10.5.7 – took a really long time. Good thing I brought The Wrestler in to watch on the big screen


DK @kingsbury • May 13, 2009

Aside from Marisa Tomei naked and the great Springsteen song at the end, didn’t much care for The Wrestler


DK @kingsbury • May 13, 2009

Just bought the new David Byrne Live fundraiser EP


DK @kingsbury • May 13, 2009

Damn KFC bait and switch bastards -“overwhelming demand” means that won’t give me my free Oprah meal. Mail me a rain check? WTF?


DK @kingsbury • May 13, 2009

Researching Keynote and Numbers automation and integration – do they? The Applescript dictionary seems a little light


DK @kingsbury • May 13, 2009

Heading to Oak Marsh to sub in Dan’s golf league


DK @kingsbury • May 14, 2009

Shot 42 in league play at Oak Marsh (from the whites); ordering the free sampler at the Oakdale BWW


DK @kingsbury • May 14, 2009

This Twins game is going way too long – need to get some sleep before the 5AM alarm


DK @kingsbury • May 14, 2009

Ran 4 windy, cold miles in Eagan with Gina. Shorts and a T-shirt were not the correct choice


DK @kingsbury • May 14, 2009

After reading Cabel Sasser’s review, now thinking about a Canon SD960


DK @kingsbury • May 14, 2009

Today’s work cinema – The Princess Bride


DK @kingsbury • May 14, 2009

“Get back witch! I’m not a witch, I’m your wife!”


DK @kingsbury • May 14, 2009

Off to Best Buy and Barnes and Noble, then maybe lunch somewhere.


DK @kingsbury • May 14, 2009

Got the new camera at Best Buy, but their printer selection stinks, so I went to Staples. They had printers, but no ink. Ordered from Amazon


DK @kingsbury • May 14, 2009

Barnes and Noble only had one mobile web design book (and it was written for marketers). Ordered two books from Amazon


DK @kingsbury • May 14, 2009

Meeting with Randy from LubeTech at their Golden Valley office at 3


DK @kingsbury • May 14, 2009

Back from Golden Valley. Don’t know how people drive 169 and 494 on a daily basis


DK @kingsbury • May 15, 2009

Wife-less tonight: fed the kids, watched 24 and a bit of hockey and Survivor. Now off to swim team for kid one


DK @kingsbury • May 15, 2009

Tip from the Canon SD960 manual: Be careful not to accidentally bang people. I’ll be sure to make a note of that


DK @kingsbury • May 15, 2009

Ran 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – much less wind today (finally)


DK @kingsbury • May 15, 2009

Breakfast with Colleen at the clown’s place, then a stop at the credit union for weekend money. Now on to writing a meeting agenda


DK @kingsbury • May 15, 2009

First (and currently only) person at the pre-meeting lunch at Famous Dave’s


DK @kingsbury • May 15, 2009

Done with meeting, now waiting for the rest of the family to pick me up for Twins night at Allina Commons


DK @kingsbury • May 16, 2009

Golfing with the Miller brothers this morning at Ridges of Sand Creek in Jordan


DK @kingsbury • May 16, 2009

Spilled peanut butter on my pants and the wind is gusting to 37, but it’s still golf


DK @kingsbury • May 16, 2009

Did I mention it’s windy today? Geez


DK @kingsbury • May 16, 2009

Shot 92 from the whites at Ridges – so happy to be out of the wind


DK @kingsbury • May 16, 2009

Dropped off plants at Grandma Karen’s house, now taking kid one to Target


DK @kingsbury • May 16, 2009

Mowed the lawn and now I’ve had enough wind and grass for one day. Trying to catch up on The Office now via hulu


DK @kingsbury • May 17, 2009

Poker night at Todd’s house


DK @kingsbury • May 17, 2009

Poker night ended like 3 hours ago and I’m going out for run? What’s wrong with this picture?


DK @kingsbury • May 17, 2009

Beautiful morning for a run (despite the sleep deprivation) – ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley


DK @kingsbury • May 17, 2009

Got some laundry in and watching the last couple of episodes of The Office


DK @kingsbury • May 17, 2009

Perfect day to live the country club life


DK @kingsbury • May 17, 2009

Shot 92 from the whites at Southview CC – and that was with five 7’s on the card


DK @kingsbury • May 18, 2009

Who will be the sole Survivor? Here goes three hours of my life down the drain


DK @kingsbury • May 18, 2009

Ran 4 miles in Eagan with Gina – decided to push the hilly route run to Wednesday


DK @kingsbury • May 18, 2009

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”


DK @kingsbury • May 18, 2009

Yikes, I was born 14,729 days ago


DK @kingsbury • May 18, 2009

Are these the winds of change that have been blowing the past two weeks?


DK @kingsbury • May 18, 2009

Time to enter some student test results into Excellence


DK @kingsbury • May 18, 2009

Entering test scores gives me the blues – time for a Robert Cray marathon in iTunes


DK @kingsbury • May 18, 2009

Printing the 40-page manuals from MDE and Pearson to figure how to set up the online science tests that have to be done by Friday


DK @kingsbury • May 18, 2009

Heading to Kim’s for some chicken chow mein with Studio Phil


DK @kingsbury • May 18, 2009

Reading the Pearson manuals so I can ready to test tomorrow (if needed)


DK @kingsbury • May 18, 2009

Just got back from the ‘Hawk Middle School parent orientation. I hope the sorting hat picks Gryffindor House for kid one


DK @kingsbury • May 19, 2009

Abandoned the kids at home, used their free junior Frosty’s coupons at Wendy’s. Parents of the Year!


DK @kingsbury • May 19, 2009

Finally gonna mess around with video, iMovie ’09 and the YouTube account I opened two years ago and never used


DK @kingsbury • May 19, 2009

Trying to stay up to watch the 24 season finale that I recording earlier


DK @kingsbury • May 19, 2009

Was thinking about a Honda Insight until I read this: Eco Assist™ helps you develop fuel-efficient driving habits over the long term. Nope.


DK @kingsbury • May 19, 2009

Hmm, the 2010 Porsche Panamera Turbo would make for a nice Minnesota family car, no? 4WD, 0-60 in 4 seconds and a top speed of 188MPH. Nice!


DK @kingsbury • May 19, 2009

Why am I still up? Oh yeah, I get to sleep in until 7 tomorrow/today. Safari beta upgraded, car sites visited, 24 watched. Time for bed


DK @kingsbury • May 19, 2009

More Pearson test prep this morning – hope to finally have this ready by noon


DK @kingsbury • May 19, 2009

Test environment set up, now having a chicken Caesar salad at Cafe Latte with Studio Phil. Weather here today is perfect


DK @kingsbury • May 19, 2009

Left work early for a Texas-style run in the 84 degree heat. Science test admin can be done tonight from home, right?


DK @kingsbury • May 19, 2009

Now I remember why I don’t live in Texas. 12 miles cut to 8, temp really 93, walked for 2 miles and Gina drove by when I started – busted


DK @kingsbury • May 19, 2009

Flashback: my mother made me Kraft macaroni and cheese with chopped up hot dogs for dinner tonight


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Swimming lessons for kid two, followed by swim team for kid one


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Karen was right, it does feel like the Amazon rain forest in here tonight


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Ran a new 4 mile hill route in Eagan with Gina. Only 70 degrees and windy – much better than yesterday


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Pearson’s java-based TestNav app takes like 10 minutes to launch on a new Intel iMac – decrypt and load


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

TestNav installed, TestTaker fixed, now on to the dentist


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Clean bill of health at the dentist, now on to Target, gas station and lunch


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Sweet – Robert Cray at the Cabooze, Thursday, July 2. Colleen just stopped by there and got us two tickets – never been there


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Chatted with Jack Skoglund, Studio Phil and Hans Erik this afternoon. Great to hear from all of them


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Minnesota Pearson tech support was quick, courteous and very helpful. Will be ready to test our three science students tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Hurray for USA First-Class Forever stamps – glad I picked up a stack of those way back when


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Can’t remember the last time I bought 3 physical CDs on the same day: Green Day, Eminem and Tori Amos


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Tried the Mongolian chicken at Leeann Chin today for lunch – stay away from our wall, you freakin’ Mongrolians!


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Caliper replacement repair estimate scheduled with Motorwerks for next Friday – sick of worrying about it


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Plumber coming tomorrow to fix the back flow regulator – getting all our broken stuff fixed


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Off to the post office, then pick up kid one and two (and maybe kid three) for Wild Select-A-Seat at the X


DK @kingsbury • May 20, 2009

Toured almost every inch of the X tonight. Aunt and uncle got to move, warehouse sale was great and now we are at the DQ on 7th


DK @kingsbury • May 21, 2009

Ran 5 miles in Eagan with Gina – saw Brad heading to Lifetime and had a few raindrops during the last mile


DK @kingsbury • May 21, 2009

Science tests ready to go, now I just need the students to show up


DK @kingsbury • May 21, 2009

Office way too hot – glad the A/C fired right up with no issues


DK @kingsbury • May 21, 2009

Made a few updates to bradjamesgolf.com – bigger re-design coming this summer


DK @kingsbury • May 21, 2009

Still no students to test, so I’m cleaning up my desktop, writing some posts, uploading some photos and waiting for lunch with Colleen


DK @kingsbury • May 21, 2009

Turned off java on Safari 4 beta due to the security threat, but quickly needed it again and now it seems to be hosed.


DK @kingsbury • May 21, 2009

Off to fix printers I guess


DK @kingsbury • May 21, 2009

One student tested, one student refused (!) – that’s a wrap


DK @kingsbury • May 21, 2009

Program director and development director caught the refusing student and now I’m proctoring listening to a lot of attitude and sighs


DK @kingsbury • May 21, 2009

I’m not sure who wants to get out of here more – me or the student taking the science test on the day before a long weekend


DK @kingsbury • May 21, 2009

Plumber did a bang-up job, no more sprinkler system leaks. Kid two gone, kid one about to leave – time to sit in the lawn chairs & relax


DK @kingsbury • May 22, 2009

Ran a new 7.4 mile route in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – perfect weather today with no wind (finally)


DK @kingsbury • May 22, 2009

Awesome breakfast at J’s, now a Target stop


DK @kingsbury • May 22, 2009

Washin’ the MINI, then off to downtown Minneapolis to visit Mike and try out Fogo de Chão


DK @kingsbury • May 22, 2009

OMG, I’ve never seen anything like this before – it’s a total meat party


DK @kingsbury • May 22, 2009

I don’t think the Stillwater Marathon was quite ready today for people. Got my packet and now family dinner at Brine’s


DK @kingsbury • May 23, 2009

Where did this rain come from? Heading to golf with the Millers at Theodore Worth


DK @kingsbury • May 23, 2009

Shot an ugly 96 from the whites at Wirth; great weather and it felt like I played much better than 96


DK @kingsbury • May 23, 2009

Ate late lunch at home (for once), replaced nasty grill parts, picking up kid one from birthday party, housework, then dinner at Luci


DK @kingsbury • May 23, 2009

One addition to today’s agenda: taking kid one and friend to Old Navy


DK @kingsbury • May 23, 2009

Booked our room at the Belamar in Manhattan Beach for Colleen’s b-day trip – also got two tix to see Craig Ferguson (guest Jeff Foxworthy)


DK @kingsbury • May 24, 2009

Thanks Bonnie and Eric for a nice evening at Luci – had Insalata Cesare, Spaghetti alla Carbonara and Kobe Beef. Great food & great company!


DK @kingsbury • May 24, 2009

Off to Stillwater


DK @kingsbury • May 24, 2009

Everyone safe and sound at the Stillwater Half – finished around 2:25


DK @kingsbury • May 25, 2009

Dinner and another nice visit with old Central friends at Champps in St. Paul


DK @kingsbury • May 25, 2009

Chip times are up now for the Stillwater race – 2:24:57


DK @kingsbury • May 25, 2009

Upgraded two servers to 10.5.7, even though I said I wasn’t going to do any work this weekend. Back to vacation for the rest of the day


DK @kingsbury • May 25, 2009

Two goals for today: laundry and a clean office (lofty and exciting, I know)


DK @kingsbury • May 25, 2009

Memorial Day dinner at Jean’s house – sketching out future plans for 7minutemiles.com


DK @kingsbury • May 26, 2009

Totally not feeling it today – how many days left in the school year?


DK @kingsbury • May 26, 2009

Studying WordPress <> Twitter plug-in code


DK @kingsbury • May 26, 2009

Heading to a lunch meeting with Studio Phil at the Broiler


DK @kingsbury • May 26, 2009

Trying out some DNS and Apache2 re-direct stuff


DK @kingsbury • May 26, 2009

Runner’s World online training log too slow (and seems partially broken) – time to write my own


DK @kingsbury • May 26, 2009

Crazy new Flash-based movie overlay now live at proam.mn


DK @kingsbury • May 26, 2009

Studying the “Writing a Plugin” section of the WordPress Codex


DK @kingsbury • May 26, 2009

Time for kid one and two to go to swimming at Wise


DK @kingsbury • May 27, 2009

Stayed up late last night watching Dexter and Craig Ferguson; home this morning with sick kid one


DK @kingsbury • May 27, 2009

Checking out Starkey Labs


DK @kingsbury • May 27, 2009

Off to Wendy’s to get a frosty for the sickie


DK @kingsbury • May 27, 2009

Great lunch and meeting with Doug at Sunsets in Wayzata


DK @kingsbury • May 28, 2009

Ran 10.2 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley, followed by a Davanni’s sub and some NHL playoff hockey


DK @kingsbury • May 28, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – now it’s time to taper until Saturday (Burnsville Half)


DK @kingsbury • May 28, 2009

Kid one off to writer’s conference, kid two field trip to Children’s Theater


DK @kingsbury • May 28, 2009

Back in the office after a long, troubling chaperone trip for kid two to the Children’s Theater


DK @kingsbury • May 28, 2009

Changed Irwin video to only play on the front page of proam.mn, uploaded raffle PDF


DK @kingsbury • May 28, 2009

Got a few things done in the school before the big parent night event: installed new printer, fixed old printer, uploaded NWEA data, etc.


DK @kingsbury • May 28, 2009

Skipped out on Famous Dave’s catering to catch the end of kid one’s swim meet


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

This meet just might last all night


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Watched kid one win all 3 of her individual heats (a first!), then dropped off the MINI to have the caliper looked at in the morning


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Taleo must die


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Best Buy, Federal Reserve, General Mills and Thomson Reuters


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Oh, and Jostens too


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Set up DNS for new subdomain: golf.hsra.org


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Motorworks wants almost $800 to replace one brake caliper (and almost $500 to fix the door lock) – time to look elsewhere


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Visual voicemail not working on my phone today – AT&T issue?


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Circuit breakers blown at HSRA – messed up everything. Emergency visit to bring systems back up before I get the car back from Motorworks


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

EDGE back, power back, web sites live again, all servers online. Now back to south metro to pick up wife and MINI


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Off to pick up (un-fixed) car and have lunch with Colleen


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Lunch at David Fong’s in Bloomington – established 1958


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Picked up the MINI and will research other mechanics in town – thinking about the import place in Uptown


DK @kingsbury • May 29, 2009

Got a last minute invite from Schuster to join him at Highland National in an hour. Kids covered, wife approved – hurray! A brief respite


DK @kingsbury • May 30, 2009

Now that’s more like it – shot 85 from the whites at Highland National


DK @kingsbury • May 30, 2009

Sweet! Just received an application for 2010 Masters Tournament practice round tickets in my email this morning


DK @kingsbury • May 30, 2009

1.5 hours away from the start of the 2009 Heart of the City half marathon in Burnsville – Go Gina!


DK @kingsbury • May 30, 2009

Great day for a race – finished with a watch time of 2:10:37


DK @kingsbury • May 30, 2009

Nice (but cold and windy) lunch on the patio at Doolittle’s with the Cooks


DK @kingsbury • May 31, 2009

It’s time to drop the puck


DK @kingsbury • May 31, 2009

Fire and s’mores at the Cooks, now some late night TV


DK @kingsbury • May 31, 2009

Heading to work on a Sunday morning – what fun


DK @kingsbury • May 31, 2009

Uploaded test data, installed 4 kiosks, upgraded all iMacs to 10.5.7, reimaged 1 machine, repaired 1 drive, installed Office patches


DK @kingsbury • May 31, 2009

Trash, recycling, lawn waste, dishwasher, laundry, gift wrapping & now a little golf in HD. Tonight: Up in 3D at Eagan Regal


DK @kingsbury • May 31, 2009

Almost $50 to get the family in to this movie – and that’s before the price gouging at the snack bar


DK @kingsbury • June 1, 2009

$50 was totally worth it – my favorite Pixar movie so far


DK @kingsbury • June 1, 2009

I didn’t cry as much as I did when I first watched Life is Beautiful, but it was awfully close – Up is a very touching story


DK @kingsbury • June 1, 2009

Ran 4 recovery miles in Eagan with Gina – beautiful spring morning


DK @kingsbury • June 1, 2009

Alright, time to get this HSRA golf tournament web site built – July 18, 2009 at Majestic Oaks, if you want to save the date


DK @kingsbury • June 1, 2009

Good progress on the HSRA golf tournament, now off to a Tapemark Pro-Am meeting at SVCC


DK @kingsbury • June 1, 2009

Good meeting at SVCC, nice phone call with TC, kids left with Grandma to see Up again and wife is swimming – all alone in empty house


DK @kingsbury • June 1, 2009

Fafinski Mark & Johnson open house at Flying Cloud airport in Eden Prairie


DK @kingsbury • June 2, 2009

Home from the awesome open house – got to sit in a Citation CJ1 business jet and saw lots of Garmin gear. Congrats on 10 years KJ!


DK @kingsbury • June 2, 2009

Tapemark meeting at SVCC with Phil, Mark and Sean


DK @kingsbury • June 2, 2009

Decent meeting at Tapemark, now it’s time for an open faced club sand wedge (sorry CMK)


DK @kingsbury • June 2, 2009

Wow: U.S. May sales for Toyota drop 41%, Honda 39%


DK @kingsbury • June 2, 2009

Time to install some software updates – back in a bit (hopefully)


DK @kingsbury • June 2, 2009

Firmware updates scare me, but this one seems to have gone smoothly. Laptop done, server databases backed up, time for NWEA data entry


DK @kingsbury • June 2, 2009

Spaghetti at home, now off to Wise swim school for kids one and two


DK @kingsbury • June 3, 2009

Home in time to watch the third period of the Wings-Pens game, then a little Economist and early to bed to prepare for big day tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • June 3, 2009

Happy National Running Day! Ran 5 miles with Gina in Eagan


DK @kingsbury • June 3, 2009

Busy day today – first up: MGCSA fundraiser round of golf at Town and Country


DK @kingsbury • June 3, 2009

The new Pearl Jam song sounds great


DK @kingsbury • June 3, 2009

Shot an ugly 96 at Town and Country from the whites – fast greens and lots of elevation changes. Cool course, but it’s different


DK @kingsbury • June 3, 2009

HSRA golf tournament planning meeting


DK @kingsbury • June 3, 2009

Too much going on now – isn’t summer supposed to be relaxing? Leaving to meet Dan at Oak Marsh


DK @kingsbury • June 4, 2009

Played OK in league – shot 45 from the whites with 2 missed putts under 2 feet


DK @kingsbury • June 4, 2009

Skipped the post-league bar trip and went to Zantigo instead. Morning run cancelled, so I can sleep in until 6, then Willinger’s with DGG


DK @kingsbury • June 4, 2009

Picking up Duke and heading to Northfield – looks like a great day


DK @kingsbury • June 4, 2009

Shot 90 from the whites at Willinger’s on an absolutely gorgeous day; now lunch at Raising Cane’s


DK @kingsbury • June 4, 2009

Too nice to be inside, so I’m working from the driveway this afternoon. Wish this screen was a little brighter


DK @kingsbury • June 4, 2009

More software updates today: iLife Support, iDVD/iMovie/iPhoto Updates, new Airport Utility and new Digital Camera RAW support


DK @kingsbury • June 4, 2009

Farmer’s Market dinner on the driveway: fresh bread, cheese and salami from Cossetta + watermelon. Spring in Minnesota can be wonderful


DK @kingsbury • June 4, 2009

In case any of you are interested, I also tweet here: @golfingmn, @hockeymn, @runmn, @baseballmn, @skiingmn and next season, @basketballmn


DK @kingsbury • June 5, 2009

I’ve been informed our grass in “too long” and needs to be cut “immediately”


DK @kingsbury • June 5, 2009

Happy Birthday Gina! Went for a 3 mile walk with the birthday girl in Eagan


DK @kingsbury • June 5, 2009

Library, breakfast with CMK at Junior’s, credit union, Target, then finish the HSRA golf web site


DK @kingsbury • June 5, 2009

I like David Lynch, but wow, Eraserhead is one messed up movie


DK @kingsbury • June 5, 2009

Some remote tech support, proam.mn and anotherlevelrecords.com updates, lunch with the clown and found stuff for Canterbury tonight


DK @kingsbury • June 5, 2009

Oh, I so want to go here


DK @kingsbury • June 5, 2009

Glad I just read my Chase credit card statement – just ordered seven free $25 Target gift cards with the points I didn’t know I had


DK @kingsbury • June 5, 2009

Getting ready for an evening at the track to celebrate Gina’s birthday. And I’m not talking about a running track


DK @kingsbury • June 6, 2009

One $87.20 exacta win so far (plus quite a few losers). Will be up for the night, though


DK @kingsbury • June 6, 2009

Finally hit a trifecta and it only paid $18 – but I shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth, right?


DK @kingsbury • June 6, 2009

Finished the night up like $65. Thanks to Todd for the reservations and happy birthday one last time to Gina


DK @kingsbury • June 6, 2009

Slept in ’til 10, then ran a cold and wet 14 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. Drought’s over


DK @kingsbury • June 7, 2009

Family minus kid one watched Matilda on DVD; now time for some DQ on a rainy night


DK @kingsbury • June 7, 2009

Heading out to play Troy Burne with Tim in the brisk *June* weather


DK @kingsbury • June 7, 2009

Shot 95 from the Players tees at Troy Burne with Tim and Gordie – no rain, great course


DK @kingsbury • June 7, 2009

Trying to help kid one with math homework, but can’t remember how to multiply & divide fractions. Gee, when was the last time I did that?


DK @kingsbury • June 8, 2009

One goal for today – finish the HSRA golf tournament web site and letters


DK @kingsbury • June 8, 2009

Managed to stay focused at work all morning, so I decided to have lunch with CMK at Chiang Mai Thai in Uptown


DK @kingsbury • June 8, 2009

Mixed feelings about missing WWDC this year – would like to be there, but have so much going on this week and next, it’s almost a relief


DK @kingsbury • June 8, 2009

If I have one more red or orange light come on while driving the MINI, I think I’m going to scream. Today’s culprit: Service Engine Soon


DK @kingsbury • June 9, 2009

Stayed off the computer and phone for one entire night. It was wonderful


DK @kingsbury • June 9, 2009

Ran 8 miles in Eagan – the cold weather is much more pleasant when it isn’t combined with rain


DK @kingsbury • June 9, 2009

Shuffled meetings around today – now at Sonic for lunch, then haircut, then HSRA golf meeting, then Tapemark


DK @kingsbury • June 9, 2009

Done with meetings, skipping dinner (at least for now), final swimming at Wise tonight for kid one and two, hope Wings loss = more hockey


DK @kingsbury • June 10, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. 57 degrees, humid and a few rain drops


DK @kingsbury • June 10, 2009

Breakfast with Terry at Keys on Raymond – great to finally catch up with him after a long school year


DK @kingsbury • June 10, 2009

Meeting at Majestic Oaks with Randy, now a quick round in the rain


DK @kingsbury • June 11, 2009

Being a procrastinator is not good for my blood pressure – ready for the Tapemark drawing with 45 minutes to spare


DK @kingsbury • June 11, 2009

2009 drawing night is complete – now to crunch the numbers and get the tee sheet ready


DK @kingsbury • June 11, 2009

Lots of code changes and updates to the Tapemark site


DK @kingsbury • June 12, 2009

In the tent at Southview – 38th Annual Tapemark Charity Pro-Am begins in less than 20 minutes!


DK @kingsbury • June 12, 2009

Time to start entering scores – watch the leaderboards online


DK @kingsbury • June 12, 2009

Sweet – my media credentials for the PGA Championship at Hazeltine have been approved


DK @kingsbury • June 12, 2009

Coding in the tent FTW!


DK @kingsbury • June 12, 2009

Found the bug in the locator code and now we are waiting for Dillon and the White Castle order


DK @kingsbury • June 12, 2009

Waiting for 13 more teams to report in on day one at the Tapemark


DK @kingsbury • June 13, 2009

I feel so new media special right now – kingsbury on both Twitter and Facebook. Go me!


DK @kingsbury • June 13, 2009

Can’t sleep, but I need to wake up in less than 4 hours for day two of the Tapemark (and my cousin’s wedding)


DK @kingsbury • June 13, 2009

Earliest I’ve ever been in the tent at the Tapemark – and I wasn’t the first one here even


DK @kingsbury • June 14, 2009

Almost done in the tent – all teams in the database, just need the tee time PDF


DK @kingsbury • June 14, 2009

Feeling better today – got some sleep, made it to the wedding, Tapemark cut night went fine and play is underway in the final round


DK @kingsbury • June 15, 2009

Settling in at home for the first time in 3 days. Happy with the tournament and anxious to get out and run again in the morning


DK @kingsbury • June 15, 2009

Ran 4 miles in Eagan this morning – Grandma’s weekend approaching rapidly


DK @kingsbury • June 16, 2009

Long, crazy day today – both literally and figuratively


DK @kingsbury • June 16, 2009

Safely in Manhattan Beach at the Belamar. Uncle Bill’s for breakfast, then up to Hollywood for Ferguson, Farmer’s Market and Roscoe’s


DK @kingsbury • June 17, 2009

Ran 10 peaceful and contemplative miles along the Pacific Ocean – last run before Grandma’s


DK @kingsbury • June 18, 2009

Up early: 3rd time to Uncle Bill’s for breakfast, Disneyland from 8AM-9PM, then a redeye flight home


DK @kingsbury • June 21, 2009

I’m offline for just a day and Facebook and Twitter go crazy on me – finally caught up


DK @kingsbury • June 21, 2009

Grandma’s was sunny & hot again this year (global warming is not helping this race), but ran a 4:21 after a fast start. Thanks @bhollnagel!


DK @kingsbury • June 21, 2009

Time to catch up on sleep tomorrow after a hectic 10 days of non-stop events and activities


DK @kingsbury • June 22, 2009

Trouble sleeping again last night, but up early to drive kid one (and friend) to swim camp at the U and pay for yet another car repair.


DK @kingsbury • June 22, 2009

Nice finish to the Open, but was pulling for Duval. Time for some mac and cheese, then a trip into St. Paul


DK @kingsbury • June 23, 2009

Ran 5 miles in the hot and humid evening. Ran into Gina around mile 3 – glad to have her healthy again, as there are only 15 weeks until TCM


DK @kingsbury • June 23, 2009

Happy 40th birthday to my dear wife – hope you have a great day!


DK @kingsbury • June 23, 2009

Dropped off kid one and friend at the U, breakfast with Tricksy at Al’s in Dinkytown, short Target run, now staying in the AC all day


DK @kingsbury • June 23, 2009

Five places I could totally live: North Shore, Portland, 17-Mile Drive, Victoria Island, Manhattan Beach


DK @kingsbury • June 23, 2009

Installed NetNewsWire on my sister’s computer and I think it will take me two days to catch up on feeds – information overload!


DK @kingsbury • June 23, 2009

Heading to Lucky’s in Mendota for Colleen’s 40th birthday party – stop by and say hi


DK @kingsbury • June 24, 2009

Learning about Bollywood this morning


DK @kingsbury • June 24, 2009

Grilling on the deck, researching the university press environment and waiting for kid one and the wife to return home


DK @kingsbury • June 25, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley – cooler than yesterday, but still warm


DK @kingsbury • June 25, 2009

Taking kid one and friend to last day of swim camp at the U – get to watch races too


DK @kingsbury • June 26, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – right leg still a little sore from last weekend


DK @kingsbury • June 26, 2009

Heading to SVCC to meet with Phil and Bob, Jr.


DK @kingsbury • June 28, 2009

Ran 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – the long training run progression for TCM has begun (12 miles next weekend)


DK @kingsbury • June 29, 2009

All kids now under one roof again


DK @kingsbury • June 29, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – very nice morning


DK @kingsbury • June 29, 2009

Two words I didn’t want to hear today: orthodontic examination. Kid one *and* kid two


DK @kingsbury • June 29, 2009

7minutemiles.com will be offline for about a day as we move to a new provider – thanks for your patience!


DK @kingsbury • June 30, 2009

On the road to Ruttger’s with kid one and two


DK @kingsbury • June 30, 2009

Ah, sweet, sweet iPhone. Exactly 2 years ago today, eh? Even works at Ruttger’s Sugar Lake Lodge


DK @kingsbury • June 30, 2009

Shot 85 from the whites at Eagle Ridge in Coleraine with Brad. Windy and freakin’ cold


DK @kingsbury • June 30, 2009

7minutemiles.com is back online – waiting for DNS on the MN sites to get updated


DK @kingsbury • July 1, 2009

Home from a nice visit with the Millers (and Mr. Last). Now watching Captain EO video for the first time in years (thanks Andrew!)


DK @kingsbury • July 1, 2009

Tapemark Charity Pro-Am post-tournament meeting at SVCC


DK @kingsbury • July 1, 2009

Meeting Dan at Oak Marsh to sub in his league


DK @kingsbury • July 2, 2009

Played pretty bad at Oak Marsh in league play – a 45 doesn’t hold up very well when you are giving up 6 shots to your opponent


DK @kingsbury • July 2, 2009

North Shore icon shutting down operations – Monson trucking of Duluth closing after 94 years


DK @kingsbury • July 2, 2009

Ran the 7.4 mile Valleywood route in Eagan and Apple Valley – much harder to wake up early when you are running solo


DK @kingsbury • July 2, 2009

Second round of ortho consults this morning, then a stop at the library


DK @kingsbury • July 2, 2009

All kids gone to the beach with Gina while I work in my office looking for $6200 for kid one braces


DK @kingsbury • July 2, 2009

Who are those handsome young men on the cover of the Summer 2009 edition of Minnesota Golfer?


DK @kingsbury • July 3, 2009

Robert Cray tonight at the Cabooze – can’t wait!


DK @kingsbury • July 3, 2009

First time at the Cabooze – much smaller and narrower than I expected. Reach out and touch the stage, eh?


DK @kingsbury • July 3, 2009

Not many better things in life than watching masters at work – after concert drinks now at Lucky’s (no kids tonight)


DK @kingsbury • July 3, 2009

Testing twitpic http://yfrog.com/5xhb7j


DK @kingsbury • July 3, 2009

I was *this* far from the second ace of my golf career


DK @kingsbury • July 3, 2009

I’m pretty sure about 90% of the country was on vacation today – is there anybody out there?


DK @kingsbury • July 4, 2009

Ran a new 7.6 mile hill route in Eagan with Gina – very humid for 6 in the morning


DK @kingsbury • July 4, 2009

Off to Luck, Wisconsin for Fourth of July picnic, fireworks, jet ski and family reunion on Bone Lake


DK @kingsbury • July 5, 2009

Ran the hilly 12 mile route in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – tennis later with Studio Phil?


DK @kingsbury • July 5, 2009

Wow, my running log at runnersworld.com says I passed the 500 mile mark today for 2009 runs


DK @kingsbury • July 5, 2009

Looks like no tennis today, but mowed the lawn, cleaned up the garage, moved to a new golf bag and did some reading. Need to work tonight


DK @kingsbury • July 6, 2009

Updates to womenstapemark.org, cammackmarshall.org back online, uploading pictures to 7minutemiles.com, heading to drug store for toothpaste


DK @kingsbury • July 6, 2009

Rembrandt Canker Sore toothpaste is the best thing that’s ever happened to my teeth, but $8 a tube? Sheesh


DK @kingsbury • July 6, 2009

Know anyone looking for a web publisher, system administrator and/or technology consultant?


DK @kingsbury • July 6, 2009

Heading out soon to meet with Gophers director of golf Brad James on campus


DK @kingsbury • July 7, 2009

And it begins anew: taking kid one to a tuba lesson at Black Hawk


DK @kingsbury • July 7, 2009

Grand Marais newspaper: conservation officer took enforcement action for a watercraft registration violation. Guy owned pontoon since 2006..


DK @kingsbury • July 7, 2009

..but didn’t register it because he “didn’t want a bunch of crappy numbers on his boat.”


DK @kingsbury • July 7, 2009

Grandma is here to take the kids to Ice Age and to Raising Cane’s for lunch. Might join them for the lunch part


DK @kingsbury • July 8, 2009

Ran 5 miles in Eagan with Gina. 4:30 is really, really early


DK @kingsbury • July 8, 2009

Upgraded two sites to WordPress 2.8 and all seems well so far


DK @kingsbury • July 8, 2009

Off to join course architect Paul Miller for a round of golf at Meadows of Mystic Lake in Prior Lake


DK @kingsbury • July 8, 2009

More MINI trouble: gas smell under hood and in cabin. No visible leaks, but mechanic to review on Friday AM


DK @kingsbury • July 8, 2009

Shot an adjusted 92 from the blues at Mystic Lake. Don’t even want to know my real score on 18 – 10? 11?


DK @kingsbury • July 8, 2009

Blogger night at Kooza in downtown St. Paul


DK @kingsbury • July 9, 2009

First half of Kooza was pretty amazing -even the clowns are good in this one


DK @kingsbury • July 9, 2009

Two thumbs up for Kooza – full review coming soon on 7minutemiles.com


DK @kingsbury • July 9, 2009

About to head to downtown Minneapolis for my meeting at the University of Minnesota Press – nervous and excited!


DK @kingsbury • July 9, 2009

Late lunch at the Eagan BWW after a nice meeting downtown


DK @kingsbury • July 10, 2009

Everyone in the neighborhood is doing stuff tonight, so kid two and I are using her free meal reading card at Applebee’s


DK @kingsbury • July 10, 2009

Now everyone has left me. Time for some system updates and photo uploads, I guess


DK @kingsbury • July 10, 2009

Upgrades to server OS and WordPress 2.8.1 going smoothly so far


DK @kingsbury • July 10, 2009

Ran 12 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina. Very humid this morning, but the sun didn’t break through until the very end (thankfully)


DK @kingsbury • July 10, 2009

Time to get the MINI checked – fingers crossed


DK @kingsbury • July 10, 2009

My new favorite mechanics, Fixt Rite in South Minneapolis, found the leak, fixed it, took a 5 mile test drive and charged me $0


DK @kingsbury • July 10, 2009

Then my friend Brad bought me lunch at Chipotle – first time there for me, believe it or not


DK @kingsbury • July 10, 2009

Trying out Silverlight 3 on Colleen’s Mac Book so I can watch Californication via Netflix streaming – pretty decent quality so far


DK @kingsbury • July 10, 2009

All sites now updated to WordPress 2.8.1


DK @kingsbury • July 11, 2009

Out doing some freakin’ back to school shopping for kid one and two at Target


DK @kingsbury • July 11, 2009

Heading out to Baker National to meet the Millers this morning


DK @kingsbury • July 11, 2009

Wow, it’s like my arms forgot how to swing a club today – shot an adjusted 99 from the whites at Baker National


DK @kingsbury • July 11, 2009

Something in the neighborhood is on fire – going out to investigate


DK @kingsbury • July 11, 2009

Heard sirens, now smoke has stopped – brush fire near I-35E?


DK @kingsbury • July 11, 2009

Extended family over for dinner tonight – ate way too much Rooster’s chicken


DK @kingsbury • July 12, 2009

Murder-mystery two hour finale – one by one!


DK @kingsbury • July 12, 2009

SJN Summer Sizzle with Grandma Jean and the family. Kid one serving up the Sno-Cones


DK @kingsbury • July 12, 2009

Got to catch the first half of the Wild scrimmage before the picnic too – pictures later at hockey.mn


DK @kingsbury • July 13, 2009

RIP Marlys Podolak


DK @kingsbury • July 13, 2009

Crazy errand Monday: credit union, jeweler, Home Depot, Hallmark, Famous Footwear, TJ Maxx, Running Room, Run N Fun, BK, Golf Galaxy, Target


DK @kingsbury • July 13, 2009

Kid two at first tennis lesson


DK @kingsbury • July 14, 2009

Used Senuti to move kid iPod music over to Colleen’s laptop, then erased and re-synced. Add in gift card purchases = very happy kids


DK @kingsbury • July 14, 2009

Watching the Google Wave video via Charles Edge’s site


DK @kingsbury • July 14, 2009

I could get used to be a househusband – any one want to pay my mortgage for the next 20 years?


DK @kingsbury • July 14, 2009

I hate when I make typos in Twitter, but it seems to happen all the time. Why can’t I edit my own tweets?


DK @kingsbury • July 14, 2009

I wonder how hard it would be to integrate Lightbox2 support into my Gallery2 custom theme that is called from the WPG2 plugin in WordPress


DK @kingsbury • July 14, 2009

Starting to dislike the whole RT concept, as my timeline keeps filling up with the same message multiple times whenever something happens


DK @kingsbury • July 14, 2009

New double-sided business cards arrived today from sharpdots.com – love that place: low prices, high quality and quick turn-around times


DK @kingsbury • July 14, 2009

Getting two watch batteries replaced at Waldeland Jewelers in Eagan – one for the Timex running watch & one for the Movado


DK @kingsbury • July 15, 2009

Upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0 on first generation hardware seems to have gone smoothly – no major changes to the basic operation so far


DK @kingsbury • July 15, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – decided it’s been a pretty decent summer for running weather-wise in MN this year


DK @kingsbury • July 15, 2009

Last ortho consult for both kids


DK @kingsbury • July 15, 2009

Testing Gallery2 version 2.3 upgrades – seems to work fine so far. Next up: WordPress plugin updates


DK @kingsbury • July 16, 2009

Oh, crap, the WPG2 plugin is now unsupported


DK @kingsbury • July 16, 2009

All hosted web sites now running latest version of Gallery2 (2.3) and WordPress (2.8.1) with updated plugins


DK @kingsbury • July 16, 2009

Looks like I will be trying out the new beta 2 release of Gallery3 later today. Not sure how it will embed within WordPress yet, though


DK @kingsbury • July 16, 2009

Heading to lunch at Cecil’s in Highland Park


DK @kingsbury • July 16, 2009

No Cecil’s today – heading home


DK @kingsbury • July 16, 2009

Kid two off to a birthday party overnight at Treasure Island, but not much else going on tonight. Trying to catch up on blog posts


DK @kingsbury • July 17, 2009

Watched some Entourage, Dexter up next


DK @kingsbury • July 17, 2009

Got the beta of Gallery3 installed and configured – will load some test images after Dexter


DK @kingsbury • July 17, 2009

Woke up at 5AM (by choice!) and ran a solo 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. 15 mile headwind on the return leg was not fun, though


DK @kingsbury • July 17, 2009

Nice lunch and visit with Mr. Skoglund at the Roseville Fuddruckers


DK @kingsbury • July 17, 2009

Off to pick up mom for the 4PM performance of Kooza


DK @kingsbury • July 17, 2009

Kooza update: one act in the first half was different than the last time I was here


DK @kingsbury • July 18, 2009

Dinner with mom at Savoy’s Pizza


DK @kingsbury • July 18, 2009

Nice early fall night around the fire in July – widget says 63, but I’m pretty sure it’s in the 50s


DK @kingsbury • July 18, 2009

Dropped off kid two with Grandma – they are off to see Mercy Watson & Kate DiCamillo at the Red Balloon


DK @kingsbury • July 18, 2009

Good sign: not yet August and I just had to go refill the gas tank on the grill


DK @kingsbury • July 18, 2009

Inspired by Mr. Watson, ran a quick 7.5 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley (59:59). Old guys of the world, unite!


DK @kingsbury • July 19, 2009

66 degrees – perfect weather to roast marshmellows and make smores


DK @kingsbury • July 19, 2009

Ran 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina. Perfect weather for a fall run in July


DK @kingsbury • July 19, 2009

Just visited the Disney Christmas Carol train at the Amtrak station in St. Paul. Disney sure knows marketing


DK @kingsbury • July 19, 2009

Finished lawn duties and took all the bins to the curb – beautiful day in Minnesota today


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

Monday Errand Day: Mall of America, Run-N-Fun Burnsville


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

Ran into Phil Keeney and his wife at the MOA Apple Store


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

It’s pretzel time!


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

Kids decided my music isn’t “cool” enough, so I had to add KDWB to the radio presets. Ugh.


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

The fortune cookie said the current year will bring you much happiness. I’m still waiting, current year


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

Upgraded all web sites to WordPress 2.8.2 and the Akismet plug-in to 2.2.6. Also applied for a web designer job at Thomson Reuters in Eagan


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

Kid two picked up by one dad to go to tennis lessons, kid one picked up by another dad to go to Cascade Bay. Feeling like a slacker dad


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

Whoa, Bellanotte closed?


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

Get well Adam Yauch – Beastie Boy MCA diagnosed with cancer (tumor found in left parotid gland)


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

Applied for a web design job with HealthPartners in Bloomington


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

What a sad dinner: two left-over chicken strips, some pretzels, a banana and a Coke


DK @kingsbury • July 20, 2009

I wonder if those storms out by Willmar will hit us this time. Everything seems to go north or south of the metro area these days


DK @kingsbury • July 21, 2009

Ran 2 miles in the new shoes with a very reluctant kid one – need to practice up for the State Fair Milk Run 5K


DK @kingsbury • July 21, 2009

Heading over to see Kim for a haircut; applied for the “Managing Editor, Team Content” job with the Minnesota Wild


DK @kingsbury • July 21, 2009

How come the Facebook iPhone app and the regular online Facebook site always seem to show different things? Feels like I’m missing things


DK @kingsbury • July 21, 2009

Treating myself to some lunch at the Woodbury Zantigo. I really need to open one of these in Eagan


DK @kingsbury • July 21, 2009

Tried to make appointment with the Sister Kenny RunSMART program, but you need a doctor’s referral first, it seems


DK @kingsbury • July 21, 2009

Well-written reject email from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. Sort of forgot I applied with them


DK @kingsbury • July 21, 2009

Heading to an MNPEP (Minnesota Non-Profit Event Planners) meeting at the Aloft Hotel in Minneapolis. Backing up Jammi to talk about proam.mn


DK @kingsbury • July 21, 2009

The Aloft is very hip for not being a “real” W hotel. How did we get one of these here? Especially with the Foshay just down the road


DK @kingsbury • July 21, 2009

So it turns out there aren’t a lot of male non-profit event planners. I’d say the ratio is about 25:2


DK @kingsbury • July 22, 2009

Totally pushing this poor iMac G5 to the limit – now able to watch the Twins again in a window


DK @kingsbury • July 22, 2009

Day off to a good start – received free Senuti license (@senutiapp) for mentioning them on Twitter; scale showed a new post-school low


DK @kingsbury • July 22, 2009

Compared to the usual bad rap they get, Comcast totally made my day today


DK @kingsbury • July 22, 2009

Kid one has finally started blogging again


DK @kingsbury • July 22, 2009

Leaving for Oak Marsh to play in my brother-in-law’s league


DK @kingsbury • July 23, 2009

Shot a lucky 45 at Oak Marsh in league (was +7 after 3). Free post-round food at BWW with Dan and Todd


DK @kingsbury • July 23, 2009

Ran 14 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina (her longest run yet). New shoes are working great – should have bought them weeks ago


DK @kingsbury • July 23, 2009

Taking kid one to the orthodontist and regular dentist in Edina


DK @kingsbury • July 23, 2009

Waiting to meet Colleen for lunch at Cosetta’s in St. Paul with kid one and kid two – sun on the patio and Louis Prima on the speakers


DK @kingsbury • July 23, 2009

Stopped at Girl Scouts office to pick up camp gear; kid one and two headed to the beach with the neighbors


DK @kingsbury • July 23, 2009

Just heard my aunt and uncle in St. Paul bought a Chihuahua/Dachshound mix – my kids are going to freak


DK @kingsbury • July 23, 2009

Wow, Fanball was using Coldfusion and FoxPro?


DK @kingsbury • July 23, 2009

Pancakes and bacon for dinner, followed by a trip to library, where I picked up a bunch of unique CDs. Think we’ll watch Hung on HBO tonight


DK @kingsbury • July 24, 2009

Dropped off the Honda in Burnsville for 60K mile service. Stopping at Jensen’s Cafe for breakfast


DK @kingsbury • July 24, 2009

Feeling guilty about the Eggs Montreal for breakfast (poached eggs on sausage on pancakes, topped with sausage gravy), so now I’m cleaning


DK @kingsbury • July 24, 2009

Strangely entranced by HBO’s True Blood


DK @kingsbury • July 25, 2009

So when did golf Saturday get replaced by chore day? Laundry, dishes, cleaning, ugh.


DK @kingsbury • July 25, 2009

Walked to the gas station to buy a lottery ticket. Pathetic on so many levels


DK @kingsbury • July 25, 2009

Creating some new 16+ miles routes on runnersworld.com


DK @kingsbury • July 25, 2009

Gave wife a quick lesson on HTML tags and CSS basics. Her work makes her update internal web sites using Lotus Notes templates


DK @kingsbury • July 25, 2009

Need to work on some Gallery2 theme troubleshooting after dinner (steaks on the grill!)


DK @kingsbury • July 25, 2009

Uh-oh, I’ve been challenged to a game of Scrabble on the deck


DK @kingsbury • July 26, 2009

The editor has fallen. Final tiles: “F” and “U”


DK @kingsbury • July 26, 2009

I think this is the latest I’ve stayed up in some time. Re-living lots of old history tonight


DK @kingsbury • July 26, 2009

Checked out Clarity Coverdale Fury and Target.com this morning


DK @kingsbury • July 26, 2009

Time for a little re-modeling on 7minutemiles.com


DK @kingsbury • July 26, 2009

Added new social media buttons on 7minutemiles.com (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) and uploaded new header graphics. Now re-writing about page


DK @kingsbury • July 26, 2009

Also decided to just re-direct davidkingsbury.com to 7minutemiles.com


DK @kingsbury • July 26, 2009

The changes to the about page are finished (for now)


DK @kingsbury • July 26, 2009

7 Minute Miles reference page now updated


DK @kingsbury • July 27, 2009

Actually stopped watching a movie we got from Netflix today due to boredom


DK @kingsbury • July 27, 2009

Ran 4 miles in Eagan with Gina – warm night, but the humidity was low


DK @kingsbury • July 27, 2009

Early morning ortho visits, girl scout camp for kid two, library


DK @kingsbury • July 27, 2009

Ran an errand, then returned to find my initial PGA media credential and instructions for the first day – can’t wait!


DK @kingsbury • July 27, 2009

Just got off the phone with one of my first Northwest Airlines bosses (he’s now retired) – fun to catch up after all these years


DK @kingsbury • July 27, 2009

Kid one helping me clean and re-organize my office


DK @kingsbury • July 27, 2009

Office changes: furiture moved and all cables re-wired. Computer back online – now just need to clean up the odds and ends


DK @kingsbury • July 28, 2009

Went for a family walk around the block. Busy day tomorrow (golf, meeting, kid one road trip, kid two camp with Colleen) – need some sleep


DK @kingsbury • July 28, 2009

Back from a great day with Garrett and Matt at White Eagle. Garrett and I stopped for lunch at Barker’s Bar and Grill in Hudson – yum!


DK @kingsbury • July 28, 2009

Beautiful night tonight – got the lawn work finished, washed the car and stopped at the gas station. Now to find some dinner and sit outside


DK @kingsbury • July 29, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. Surprisingly, people outnumbered bunnies today


DK @kingsbury • July 29, 2009

80th Annual Fisherman’s Picnic starts today in Grand Marais – wish I was there


DK @kingsbury • July 29, 2009

Girls scouts dropped off at camp; taking kid one for a bike ride


DK @kingsbury • July 29, 2009

I think I have a new love: Lebanon Hills mountain bike trail – 6.36 miles of fun and beautiful terrain located less than 2 miles from home


DK @kingsbury • July 29, 2009

The new Brother Ali is hot


DK @kingsbury • July 29, 2009

Ran errands earlier (credit union, lunch at Jimmy John’s, CPAP repair for CMK, Target) – now taking kid one to oral surgeon in Woodbury


DK @kingsbury • July 29, 2009

Wish house husband paid better – I’m getting good at it


DK @kingsbury • July 29, 2009

Last car payment on MINI next month. Might as well sell it now in exchange for new teeth for kid one and kid two


DK @kingsbury • July 29, 2009

Off to watch the Twins play the White Sox at the Dome. Seems weird it might be my last baseball game there


DK @kingsbury • July 30, 2009

Play ball!


DK @kingsbury • July 30, 2009

So tired and up too late, but needed to catch up online after the big Twins game. Will try to fit in an early morning run too – in 5 hours?


DK @kingsbury • July 30, 2009

5:30 came way too early – legs tired and a small sore throat kept me in bed until now. Taking kid two to last day of girl scout camp


DK @kingsbury • July 30, 2009

I wonder how many billions of terabytes of storage in the world are devoted to storing blurry digicam snapshots that no one ever looks at


DK @kingsbury • July 30, 2009

Just purchased two tickets to the November Brother Ali show at First Avenue – only $35 including fees!


DK @kingsbury • July 30, 2009

Cook County News: Grand Portage State Park getting new 5800 square foot visitors center at the High Falls, set to open June 2010


DK @kingsbury • July 30, 2009

I would like one of these please: D300s SLR Digital Camera w/18-200mm VR II Lens. Need it by the PGA Championship, though


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

Just got back from the Summer ’09 AITG (advertising information technology group) event at Martin Williams. Nice group of people – cool shop


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

Ran 7.4 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. Zero bunnies (!), but 3 adult wild turkeys with 5 babies.


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

It’s so nice out, I think I’ll hit the mountain bike trail before taking a shower


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

My legs frickin’ hate me now – did the Lebanon Hills mountain bike trail in 42 minutes. Much harder without kid one giving me breaks


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

Time to catch up on some Angry Mac Bastards


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

Richard Thompson: Walking On a Wire (1968-2009) – the new Box-set, available from Free Reed for £37.99


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

Almost time to pick up kid two from the girl scout camp sleepover – can’t wait to hear how it went!


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

Had lunch at the gas station customer appreciation event, then took kid one to a new swim park. Now kid two gets to go back to ortho office


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

My almost-paid-for 2005 MINI just hit 70K miles today


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

Kid one (and friend) decided water park number one was lame; asked to be dropped off at water park number two instead


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

“Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.”


DK @kingsbury • July 31, 2009

Even more driving today – off to the running store, then a BBQ party at the Kellgrens. Later tonight: poker at the neighbors


DK @kingsbury • August 1, 2009

Heading down to Cannon Falls this morning to play the Summit (today’s score could be painful), visit the bakery and maybe get some jerky


DK @kingsbury • August 1, 2009

Finally had a nice bounce-back round of golf: shot 86 from the whites at The Summit in Cannon Falls. October-like temps at the start


DK @kingsbury • August 2, 2009

Suckiest fire of the year – think the wood is too wet


DK @kingsbury • August 2, 2009

Visiting Colleen’s friend Sarah in Plymouth at their new house


DK @kingsbury • August 3, 2009

Ran 8 miles in Eagan with Gina – very hot & humid (especially compared to yesterday)


DK @kingsbury • August 3, 2009

Taking kid two (and friends) to first day of VBS, then off to meeting at Clarity Coverdale Fury


DK @kingsbury • August 3, 2009

Lunch at the Eagan Green Mill with Grandma Karen and the kids – had an urge for the Parmesan walleye sammy


DK @kingsbury • August 3, 2009

My server in Seattle seems to be down – just opened an emergency ticket with digital.forest


DK @kingsbury • August 3, 2009

Yes! Server looks to be back up and running – digital.forest support rocks


DK @kingsbury • August 3, 2009

Looks like my server shut down by itself sometime yesterday evening – logs don’t show anything unusual. Weird.


DK @kingsbury • August 3, 2009

Whoa, new logo and site design for netsol.com


DK @kingsbury • August 3, 2009

Waiting for DNS changes to propagate on gilldesigninc.com and gillgolfgroup.com


DK @kingsbury • August 4, 2009

Slept in a little this morning, but have to take kid two and friends to VBS now. Today’s project: clean the “un-cleanable” loft


DK @kingsbury • August 4, 2009

Successfully switched Gill Design email accounts to Google Apps this morning


DK @kingsbury • August 4, 2009

I’m beginning to think the un-cleanable loft truly is


DK @kingsbury • August 4, 2009

New version 2.0 of Alex King’s excellent Twitter Tools plugin released yesterday


DK @kingsbury • August 4, 2009

Damn, a new WordPress security update (2.8.3) also came out yesterday


DK @kingsbury • August 4, 2009

Love summer – house full of neighborhood kids, plans of sleep-overs, water parks, BBQ. Working on a Hazeltine National story for golfing.mn


DK @kingsbury • August 4, 2009

Internet connection being flaky this afternoon (just as I was getting stuff done)


DK @kingsbury • August 5, 2009

Grilled some brats, visited mini-Cub to buy state fair tickets (and ran into Gina), then rode the mountain bike trail – scary in the dark


DK @kingsbury • August 5, 2009

Internet outage at home this morning (after being slow all day yesterday)


DK @kingsbury • August 5, 2009

After lots of flashing light sequences on the cable modem, the internet seems to be back up and running at our house


DK @kingsbury • August 5, 2009

Gearing up to play golf reporter for next week’s PGA Championship at Hazeltine. Check out the coverage at golfing.mn


DK @kingsbury • August 5, 2009

Comcast home internet just slowed to a crawl again – wonder if the local road construction is messing things up?


DK @kingsbury • August 6, 2009

Feeling some over eating guilt today, so tonight was 3 mile bike with kids, solo mountain bike trail, then 3 mile run with kid one & friend


DK @kingsbury • August 6, 2009

Beautiful day this morning – should be outside, but it’s laundry time. Also checked out the Science Museum of Minnesota listings


DK @kingsbury • August 6, 2009

Damn, the Minnesota Twins have a great technology position open, but they use things I don’t


DK @kingsbury • August 6, 2009

Updated laptop to 10.5.8 and installed GarageBand updater. Comcast still a little slow (but working). Twitter wonky. Go technology!


DK @kingsbury • August 6, 2009

Checked my mom in online for her AirTran flight tomorrow. Do they really have Wi-Fi and live XM radio on every flight?


DK @kingsbury • August 6, 2009

I like to think that party pizzas are much smaller now, but in reality, I’m just eating too much


DK @kingsbury • August 6, 2009

Trying to finish up my “research” today – season two of Mad Men via Comcast HD On Demand


DK @kingsbury • August 6, 2009

VBS dinner in Eagan, kids on the playground, skinks at the traveling zoo


DK @kingsbury • August 7, 2009

Wow, kid one just said, “Ha, dad, you just got powned”


DK @kingsbury • August 7, 2009

Gizmodo just reminded me I was in Boston 12 years ago today


DK @kingsbury • August 7, 2009

Ran 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – rare scattered rain today (which we really need)


DK @kingsbury • August 7, 2009

Nice, heavy rain now falling in Eagan. Getting kid one ready for the oral surgeon – two impacted wisdom teeth coming out this morning


DK @kingsbury • August 7, 2009

Kid one safely home with two less teeth in her mouth. Resting on the couch with the Disney Channel and some ice cream


DK @kingsbury • August 8, 2009

Kid one at a birthday party sleep-over; kid two hosting a sleep-over; I’m doing laundry and watching this weird Twins game


DK @kingsbury • August 8, 2009

Ran 8 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina; off to play 18 at Pioneer Creek in Maple Plain with the Millers


DK @kingsbury • August 8, 2009

Shot 91 from the whites at Pioneer Creek – I think we experienced several seasons in a few hours. Sunny, hot & humid now


DK @kingsbury • August 8, 2009

Sweet – nothing scheduled for the rest of the day. Might try to finish season 2 of Mad Men and stay in the A/C


DK @kingsbury • August 9, 2009

Overtime in front of TV this weekend: Mad Men, Entourage, Men in Black, Bee Movie, Shrek 3. Kid one still not dealing well with the teeth


DK @kingsbury • August 9, 2009

Welcome to the media center at the 91st PGA Championship!


DK @kingsbury • August 9, 2009

Just got back from Hazeltine. Follow Golfing in Minnesota (@golfingmn) this week for our coverage of the PGA Championship


DK @kingsbury • August 10, 2009

Dropped off the redbox DVDs, then stopped at Target to pick up soft stuff for kid one (mouth is finally getting better)


DK @kingsbury • August 10, 2009

Lunch at BWW Apple Valley, then to Crystal Lake for the Hawgs for Dogs golf tournament


DK @kingsbury • August 11, 2009

Trader Joe’s, Sixth Chamber Books, Science Museum, then Hazeltine


DK @kingsbury • August 11, 2009

Cooling off in the PGA media center, then heading home. Back early AM tomorrow to get the Amex tour


DK @kingsbury • August 12, 2009

So much to do – photo sorting and uploading, golfing.mn posts, thank you note to write and news/email to catch up on. 5:30 wake-up too


DK @kingsbury • August 12, 2009

Oh yeah, there’s another WordPress security update out too (2.8.4) – need a few more hours added to each day this week, it seems


DK @kingsbury • August 12, 2009

WordPress 2.8.4 seems to be playing nice – guess I’ll do all of them before I crash


DK @kingsbury • August 12, 2009

Up an hour late, but now headed to Hazletine


DK @kingsbury • August 12, 2009

Did I hear that right – Suzanne Vega for 3 nights at the Dakota?


DK @kingsbury • August 12, 2009

Finished talking to the Amex people, had a nice lunch, might visit the Lehman interview, then off to St. Paul to meet at Macalester


DK @kingsbury • August 12, 2009

Back at home base, buried in photos and press releases


DK @kingsbury • August 13, 2009

Getting a bit loopy from lack of sleep and all the activity this week. Need to get up at 5 for a run, though


DK @kingsbury • August 13, 2009

Run cancelled, kid one won’t stop puking. Doctor’s office this morning – or ER


DK @kingsbury • August 13, 2009

Leaving the course early today – kid one needs surgery (appendix)


DK @kingsbury • August 13, 2009

Kid one surgery completed successfully. Appendix did not rupture and we’ll be going home tomorrow afternoon


DK @kingsbury • August 14, 2009

Short break at home for a quick dinner, run and shower. Uploaded some photos to golfing.mn and now back to the hospital for the night


DK @kingsbury • August 14, 2009

Getting ready to spend the night at United Hospital with kid one. This is sort of like trying to sleep on a red-eye flight


DK @kingsbury • August 14, 2009

The waiting room lounge with the free wireless internet and the TV with Craig Ferguson is much, much better than the chair in kid one’s room


DK @kingsbury • August 14, 2009

Last night was just like a red-eye, but with less sleep. The replacement crew is here, so it’s off to the PGA soon


DK @kingsbury • August 15, 2009

Ran 16+ miles on the TCM course in St. Paul and Minneapolis with Gina – the race will be here before we know it


DK @kingsbury • August 16, 2009

Just got my clock cleaned at poker – thanks guys


DK @kingsbury • August 16, 2009

On the road to Glory’s Last Shot


DK @kingsbury • August 16, 2009

Home from the PGA – only had 2 1/2 hours of sleep, so hopefully I can stay awake for the last 6 holes


DK @kingsbury • August 17, 2009

So tired, but need to stay up for must see TV tonight: True Blood, Mad Men, Hung


DK @kingsbury • August 17, 2009

Dinner tonight: chips, clam dip and cherry Coke. The media dining room has spoiled me for life


DK @kingsbury • August 17, 2009

Took kid one for tooth follow-up in Stillwater, then shot 94 from the whites at Sawmill – too many swing thoughts in my mind now


DK @kingsbury • August 18, 2009

The only thing that got exercise tonight was the TV remote – watched 1 Mad Men, 2 Hung and 8 episodes of Entourage


DK @kingsbury • August 18, 2009

Office getting cleaner (stack of PGA stuff is a foot tall). Heading to Bloomington to meet with StoryTeller Media


DK @kingsbury • August 18, 2009

Home internet connection so slow today, it’s driving me crazy. Standard troubleshooting not working – might have to go somewhere for wi-fi


DK @kingsbury • August 18, 2009

Computers and wireless base station eliminated as causes for slowdown – either cable modem or service


DK @kingsbury • August 19, 2009

Ran 7.4 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina. Wildlife sightings tonight: a doe and her baby


DK @kingsbury • August 19, 2009

Internet working fine this morning, so it must be the service. Time to get organized


DK @kingsbury • August 19, 2009

It’s pouring rain in Eagan today – good time to sync up my Twitter followers on all accounts (hungry for lunch too)


DK @kingsbury • August 19, 2009

Total worm party happening now on the driveway. No snail mail today – weird.


DK @kingsbury • August 19, 2009

Hmm, second tornado siren of the afternoon in Eagan


DK @kingsbury • August 19, 2009

Heading north on Cedar – hope none of that is flooded. Need to pick up wife at Midtown Market – plans for Burger Jones tonight


DK @kingsbury • August 20, 2009

Ran 5 miles in Eagan with Gina – looks like another rainy day in Minnesota


DK @kingsbury • August 20, 2009

Apparently I was more sleep deprived than I thought – just got an 11:00AM wake-up call from the wife


DK @kingsbury • August 20, 2009

Hayao Miyazaki-san day – watching Spirited Away this afternoon; going to see Ponyo tonight


DK @kingsbury • August 20, 2009

Can’t remember the last time I took out my umbrella and went for a walk – needed to pick up Northstar Cash tickets at the gas station


DK @kingsbury • August 20, 2009

Hmm, 18 months interest-free financing at Best Buy for purchases over $500. New laptop?


DK @kingsbury • August 20, 2009

Working outside near the rain and cool breeze. Think we’ll skip the movie until the kids come back. Netflix and Wendy’s, FTW!


DK @kingsbury • August 21, 2009

Took wife for 1.1 mile walk, then got phone call from crying kid one. Unplanned late night road trip to Grand Marais to rescue them


DK @kingsbury • August 21, 2009

Duluth – rained entire way


DK @kingsbury • August 21, 2009

Silver Bay


DK @kingsbury • August 21, 2009

Back from kid rescue mission to North Shore. Ate some world’s best donuts and had lunch at the newly re-modeled Lutsen restaurant, Moguls


DK @kingsbury • August 22, 2009

Ran 16.8 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina by mistake – thought I was running the 14 mile route


DK @kingsbury • August 22, 2009

Such a beautiful day today – off to play 18 holes at the Ridges of Sand Creek in Jordan with Mr. Miller


DK @kingsbury • August 22, 2009

Went 43-52-95 from the whites at Sand Creek. Wonder what caused the back nine melt-down: the 17 mile run or the injured wrist


DK @kingsbury • August 23, 2009

Had no fun at neighborhood bonfire – offered no drinks, math skills made fun of and Twitter skills mocked 🙂


DK @kingsbury • August 23, 2009

Slept in til 10 – think I’ll clean the basement, then take wife for 2 mile walk. Blubber Run is < 3 weeks away


DK @kingsbury • August 23, 2009

2009 Blubber Run registration complete


DK @kingsbury • August 23, 2009

Basement seems unclean-able – moving on to lawn care


DK @kingsbury • August 23, 2009

Nice: David Kingsbury’s anagram name is ASK VIRGIN BUDDY


DK @kingsbury • August 24, 2009

Ran 4 miles in Eagan with Gina, watched end of True Blood, now eating World’s Best donuts and waiting for Hung and Entourage


DK @kingsbury • August 24, 2009

Heading to a Tapemark breakfast meeting with Phil Callen at Southview CC


DK @kingsbury • August 24, 2009

Just set up tee times for Mendakota and Bearpath – today is a good, good day


DK @kingsbury • August 24, 2009

According to the credit union site, my 2005 MINI Cooper loan was paid in full 4 days ago. This of course means it should break any time now


DK @kingsbury • August 24, 2009

Taking kid one & two (and friend) to Target and Mall of America


DK @kingsbury • August 24, 2009

American Girl, Forever 21, Ragstock, lunch at Ruby Tuesday. When does the dad stuff start?


DK @kingsbury • August 24, 2009

Libby Lu at MOA is no more – sad kids comforted by Claire’s and Justice


DK @kingsbury • August 24, 2009

Home from MOA. Did my part for the economy (and Best Buy’s bottom line) – new 17-inch MacBook Pro


DK @kingsbury • August 24, 2009

Cold Stone Creamery in Eagan with whole family – “The fun starts here.” Who knew?


DK @kingsbury • August 25, 2009

Massive laptop data integration project taking longer than I’d like – need to take a Mad Men break soon


DK @kingsbury • August 25, 2009

Everyone gone for a while and getting closer to a fully loaded and organized laptop. Think it’s time for a bike ride, then finally Mad Men


DK @kingsbury • August 26, 2009

Rode 16 miles (6 on the muddy mtn bike trail that had 3+ trees down and 10 for a quick visit to the Hovde residence). Time for food and TV


DK @kingsbury • August 26, 2009

Damn, is there anything smoother at 1AM than Lou Rawls?


DK @kingsbury • August 26, 2009

Back to school jamboree at Black Hawk Middle school – kid one is very happy (2T)


DK @kingsbury • August 26, 2009

Ten points for Gryffindor!


DK @kingsbury • August 27, 2009

Had a great time at Bearpath today – shot 96 from the member tees (wrist still hurts), saw Favre’s new house


DK @kingsbury • August 27, 2009

Both of my trainees bailed tonight (runner and walker), so I started watching season 1 of True Blood. Now back to laptop setup


DK @kingsbury • August 27, 2009

Old Northwest co-worker from 17 years ago called me out of the blue yesterday. Credit Division reunion Friday at Joe Senser’s Eagan, 4PM


DK @kingsbury • August 27, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – shout out to Joe!


DK @kingsbury • August 27, 2009

The wheels are in motion for my new company – exciting times


DK @kingsbury • August 27, 2009

Talked to lawyer, started laundry, changed burned out light bulbs, loaded dishwasher, visited with bird, working on newco – good day so far


DK @kingsbury • August 27, 2009

My lawyer rocks: Fafinski Mark and Johnson’s “Startup Stimulus” plan


DK @kingsbury • August 27, 2009

Thumbs up on the new iPhone Facebook app – much better than before


DK @kingsbury • August 28, 2009

Hashing out some DNS and mail delivery issues with Digital Forest for gilldesigninc.com


DK @kingsbury • August 28, 2009

Consolidating all of my music and photos on one machine for the first time in ages (ever?) – might need a new 750GB laptop drive soon


DK @kingsbury • August 28, 2009

Ordered new P.O. box online for 7 Minute Miles, LLC


DK @kingsbury • August 28, 2009

Lots of kid summer reading = free lunch at Chili’s Eagan with the whole family. Go books!


DK @kingsbury • August 28, 2009

Stopped at Target to get shipping material to send backup hard drive to Seattle; getting ready to find out kid two’s 09-10 class assignment


DK @kingsbury • August 29, 2009

The NWA event at Joe Senser’s was a blast – helps to have a friend with an old list of people’s names


DK @kingsbury • August 29, 2009

Finished with all the music and photo transfers and still have 110GB left for Creative Suite 4 and Office 2008 installs


DK @kingsbury • August 29, 2009

Ran 7.4 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – fall is in the air today


DK @kingsbury • August 29, 2009

h/k Soundsticks back in office hooked up to new laptop – love those things


DK @kingsbury • August 29, 2009

Seattle server successfully upgraded to latest pre-Snow Leopard software. I wish there weren’t so many updates that require a restart


DK @kingsbury • August 29, 2009

Off to the MN State Fair for Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd (and about nine thousand calories)


DK @kingsbury • August 29, 2009

Holy crap – most people I’ve seen at the fair in years! Pronto Pup and Danielson’s onion rings done…what next?


DK @kingsbury • August 29, 2009

The lines here today are worse than Disney – lots of time to tweet while I wait


DK @kingsbury • August 29, 2009

Added French fries, Dairy Building vanilla malt, cheese curds. Think I’m done until after the concert


DK @kingsbury • August 29, 2009

Sweet, my fair food is paid for – just hit 4 out of 5 numbers on Northstar Cash (and was off by 3 on the fifth)


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

The Kid Rock concert is freakin’ awesome – and the music hasn’t even started. Very interesting crowd…


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

This “fake Skynyrd” is sort of like watching an episode of South Park


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

Kid Rock concert was very entertaining, saw Redpath and Art on the way out, then stopped at Lucky’s on the way home to pick up neighbors


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

4 hours of sleep, now back to the fair for the Milk Run 5K and a full day there with the kids


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

Also saw Kim and our old Girl Scout cookie leader at the fair. Love seeing people there (and the fact they don’t search your bags to get in)


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

What a surprise – far less fair traffic (and people) at 7AM. Waiting in the tent for the 7:45 milk run start


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

With minimal cajoling, kid one finishes Milk Run in 34:34 – time to eat!


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

Forgot to bring a belt with the jeans I changed into after the race, so I had the Heritage Square leathersmith make me a new one


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

Peach-glazed pig cheeks, pronto pups and corn from Mrs. Fischer – off to the Kidway next for Tilt-a-whirl marathon (aka pukefest)


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

Kids out of gas at fair – baby animals building, then home


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

Finished lawn work and cleaned the state fair parking lot dust off the MINI. Thinking about taking up Famous Dave on his free dinner offer


DK @kingsbury • August 30, 2009

“I never knew there were so many Daves” – server at Famous Dave’s Apple Valley on Dave’s Day (free meal to all Davids & Daves)


DK @kingsbury • August 31, 2009

This Famous Dave’s has so many Daves here, they ran out of pig numbers. Could be here a while


DK @kingsbury • August 31, 2009

MN State Fair pictures uploaded to Facebook and 7minutemiles.com photo gallery


DK @kingsbury • August 31, 2009

Thinking about backup today (now that the new laptop is almost fully loaded). Mailing old backup drive to Seattle and buying a new one at BB


DK @kingsbury • August 31, 2009

With Seagate 1.5TB external hard drives at Best Buy for $149, how can you not be backing up your data?


DK @kingsbury • August 31, 2009

Finished some sponsor work on proam.mn and sent out emails about banking, insurance and general startup advice. New backup ~7% complete


DK @kingsbury • August 31, 2009

Snow Leopard upgrade DVD arrived in the mail today, but Time Machine still has nearly 300GB to go


DK @kingsbury • September 1, 2009

Up and running on Snow Leopard. Only issue so far was GrowlMail – more testing after the Vikings game


DK @kingsbury • September 1, 2009

Done for the day – had some issues with Snow Leopard and Coda, but that was mainly due to moving machines


DK @kingsbury • September 1, 2009

The week of the follow-up begins – taking kid one back to the oral surgeon in Cottage Grove this morning


DK @kingsbury • September 1, 2009

Kid one got the all clear from the doctor. Now reading the Siracusa SL review, then maybe the mountain bike trail


DK @kingsbury • September 1, 2009

Back from mountain bike park. Found “hidden” expert trail – crashed once and almost had a tree fall on me (no joke). Pizza for lunch


DK @kingsbury • September 1, 2009

Creative Suite 4 installed, but not tested. Need to research email issues first (Google and others)


DK @kingsbury • September 1, 2009

All new apps working great. Now I just need to re-purchase Office 2008 and I’ll be all set


DK @kingsbury • September 1, 2009

Back to School night at the middle school for kid one, then birthday dinner for mom at our house


DK @kingsbury • September 2, 2009

10 points for Gryffindor! Now grilling steaks and chicken on the deck – beautiful night in MN for my mom’s 65th birthday


DK @kingsbury • September 2, 2009

Third day in a row waking up to a sore throat. I blame those kids in front of me at the fair coughing and hacking – and the swine barn


DK @kingsbury • September 2, 2009

Dropped kid one off at WEB and now I think I’ll take kid two for lunch with the clown


DK @kingsbury • September 2, 2009

Kid two and I took a bike spy trip around Blackhawk and Deerwood – no sign of WEBers. Now prepping for Tapemark meeting at SVCC


DK @kingsbury • September 3, 2009

Registering new domains for my next big web project – watch for an announcement on 7minutemiles.com soon


DK @kingsbury • September 3, 2009

Leftovers lunch today: cold pizza, a full chicken breast, a small piece of steak and a cherry Coke. Yum.


DK @kingsbury • September 3, 2009

Reviewing magazine-style WordPress themes for the new project


DK @kingsbury • September 3, 2009

New domains set up for DNS, placeholder pages created in Apache, registrar notified and secondary DNS setup requested at ISP


DK @kingsbury • September 3, 2009

Hurray – client number two has been secured for the new venture


DK @kingsbury • September 4, 2009

After a long break, got back to training today – ran 5 miles in Eagan with Gina


DK @kingsbury • September 4, 2009

Time Machine, SuperDuper! and Mozy backups on Mac mini all up and running – that should be one safeguarded machine


DK @kingsbury • September 4, 2009

Doctor visits this morning for both kids, then online software demo at 1PM


DK @kingsbury • September 4, 2009

How is it possible I only golfed four times in August? That should be a crime in Minnesota


DK @kingsbury • September 4, 2009

Finally added back the “view slideshow” link to all of the .mn sport site photo galleries (just in time for Gallery3 to make it all moot)


DK @kingsbury • September 5, 2009

Blubber Run training walk with wife and kid two, then poker night at the Thornburghs


DK @kingsbury • September 5, 2009

Cut my poker losses in half from last time. Popping Claratin and spraying Cepacol before heading out to haircuts and Zantigo


DK @kingsbury • September 5, 2009

Spend some time cleaning up iTunes meta data (got through all A-B albums). Takes so long, but that crap is more and more useful all the time


DK @kingsbury • September 5, 2009

KROQ online is perfect: all the great music, none of the crappy traffic


DK @kingsbury • September 5, 2009

So nice outside today – about to grill up some dinner on the deck. Gotta love the seasons in Minnesota


DK @kingsbury • September 5, 2009

Heading to Mall of America Apple Store to pick up copy of FileMaker Pro 10 for Macalester project


DK @kingsbury • September 6, 2009

Hmm, where did my extended version of Erotic City go? Must go search the stacks of CDs in the basement


DK @kingsbury • September 6, 2009

I love how Wikipedia is becoming a great source of missing album/CD artwork for iTunes – especially rare, obscure stuff


DK @kingsbury • September 6, 2009

Ran 8 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – 20 miler on tap later this week. TCM in less than a month!


DK @kingsbury • September 6, 2009

Laundry, laundry, laundry. Watching DVDs while folding: Snakes on a Plane and Young Frankenstein


DK @kingsbury • September 7, 2009

Bike totals for today: wife – 1 mile, kid one – 3 miles, kid two (and me) – 7 miles. Way to go, kid two!


DK @kingsbury • September 7, 2009

Made too good a fire tonight for s’mores – still smoldering at midnight, but I need to get up for morning golf at Willingers


DK @kingsbury • September 7, 2009

Interesting day at Willingers – shot a crappy 97 from the whites, but lots of other stuff to report (will do a post on golfing.mn later)


DK @kingsbury • September 7, 2009

Watched Ponyo at Regal with four ladies – another great Miyazaki world to explore


DK @kingsbury • September 8, 2009

Ten points for Gryffindor! Whole family did 3 mile bike ride on back-to-school eve


DK @kingsbury • September 8, 2009

Tried to run a 5K on the treadmill at 7:00 pace – stopped at 2 miles and switched to sit-ups and hand weights. Try again tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • September 8, 2009

Sigh – kid one off to day one of middle school. Kid two leaves in 20 minutes


DK @kingsbury • September 8, 2009

Quiet, empty house…


DK @kingsbury • September 8, 2009

Trying to simplify my online presence is really quite complicated


DK @kingsbury • September 8, 2009

7 Minute Miles, LLC now has a PO Box – please mail all million dollar checks to 7MM, PO Box 21262, Eagan, MN 55121


DK @kingsbury • September 8, 2009

Time for a quick trip to the mountain bike park before the kids get home from day one


DK @kingsbury • September 8, 2009

Lots of leaves and colors on the trail today (but no people). Fall is on the way


DK @kingsbury • September 8, 2009

Sweet! Going to talk with someone from Beaver Creek on Thursday at the Bloomington REI


DK @kingsbury • September 9, 2009

Back from another family bike ride – waiting for kid one to return from after school visit to Nickelodeon Universe at MOA


DK @kingsbury • September 9, 2009

I hate the MOA web site, BTW – less Flash, please


DK @kingsbury • September 9, 2009

Did a 5K on the treadmill in 22:02 (7:05 pace) – couldn’t quite do the 7:00. Now watching season two of Californication


DK @kingsbury • September 9, 2009

Working on more improvements to 7minutemiles.com. Why do I start thinking about lunch before 10AM now?


DK @kingsbury • September 9, 2009

Reviewing the process to export and import data from one WordPress blog to another. WXR seems easy enough – wonder how much gets screwed up


DK @kingsbury • September 9, 2009

Sort of surprised that the nano is the thing I’m most excited about today, although it’s probably just time to upgrade to an iPhone 3GS


DK @kingsbury • September 9, 2009

Can’t wait to read Al Capone Shines My Shoes – Moose is back!


DK @kingsbury • September 9, 2009

Wife says “do you want Fuddrucker’s for dinner or cook at home?” Did she even have to ask? Heading to Bloomington…


DK @kingsbury • September 10, 2009

Hoping to stay up for Letterman and Craiger tonight while I continue to transfer photos. Haven’t done this in a while, surprisingly


DK @kingsbury • September 10, 2009

So when did Craig Ferguson switch to HD? Finally!


DK @kingsbury • September 10, 2009

Great informational interview with Carrie from Beaver Creek, but I may be too old to be a ski bum – maybe kid one?


DK @kingsbury • September 10, 2009

Busy day so far: ski talk, mailed legal papers, credit union, library, laundry, email, CD ripping and now database design for Macalester


DK @kingsbury • September 10, 2009

Feelin’ a little sick to the stomach today – physically and mentally


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

Time for some basement exercise while watching football, then more web site work while watching late night TV – I’m hooked again


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

Installed 10.6.1 and iTunes 9 – so far, so good


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

also successfully upgraded iPhone to OS 3.1


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

Did WCCO and the Minnesota Wild buy the same font pack?


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

Hate the new option-click thing to minimize iTunes 9, but the new Beatles remasters are awesome


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

Waiting for the wife to bring home a Culver’s butter burger. Mmm, butter burger…


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

It’s not pretty, but inline CSS styles, FTW!


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

More CSS goodness – finally fixed next and previous links on 7minutemiles.com


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

Oops – sorry for those. Experimenting with importing stories from one WordPress site to another


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

Skiing.mn and baseball.mn re-directs in place (sending traffic to 7minutemiles.com instead). Run.mn, hockey.mn and golfing.mn to follow


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

Run.mn re-direct in place (sending traffic to 7minutemiles.com). Hockey.mn and golfing.mn are left, but those are both bigger projects


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

My million dollar check must have been put in someone else’s box


DK @kingsbury • September 11, 2009

Hockey.mn re-direct to https://7minutemiles.com/category/hockey is now live. Golfing.mn is all that’s left now


DK @kingsbury • September 12, 2009

Implemented the .MN site re-directs with the much nicer RedirectMatch 301 method


DK @kingsbury • September 12, 2009

Finished the golfing.mn import of posts and photos, but now I need to edit categories and links on 300+ posts


DK @kingsbury • September 12, 2009

Damn, it’s *how* late already? I better stop and get some rest before the big Blubber Run in nine hours


DK @kingsbury • September 12, 2009

Ran the Blubber Run 5K this morning in 23:12. Would have been the #3 female finisher


DK @kingsbury • September 12, 2009

Now headed to Stillwater Country Club with the Millers. Hope they allow stinky guys on the course


DK @kingsbury • September 12, 2009

Shot 93 from the whites at Stillwater CC – nice course (and no tee times!)


DK @kingsbury • September 13, 2009

Wow, that took forever – all sports posts and photo galleries consolidated on 7minutemiles.com. 826 posts and 13,341 photos


DK @kingsbury • September 13, 2009

Ran 16.2 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina. Who knew the Blubber Run would wear me out so much – tough run today


DK @kingsbury • September 13, 2009

Watching the Vikings, catching up on blog posts, lunch and laundry. Want to finish Californication today and see all the HBO shows tonight


DK @kingsbury • September 13, 2009

Sunday + Fall + HDTV = hours wasted on the couch


DK @kingsbury • September 13, 2009

Way to go, Vikings! 34-20 over Cleveland. Favre (14-21, 110 yards, 1TD), Peterson (25 carries, 180 yards, 3TDs)


DK @kingsbury • September 14, 2009

Finished season two of Californication (loved it) – now to Sunday night on HBO


DK @kingsbury • September 14, 2009

Heading to the final round of the Gopher Invitational at Spring Hill


DK @kingsbury • September 14, 2009

Back from Spring Hill. Downloading hundreds of photos now


DK @kingsbury • September 15, 2009

Late solo dinner (party pizza), Mountain Dew and a late night getting caught up on stuff


DK @kingsbury • September 15, 2009

I have to wait until November 1st to get a pair of Pazeltines?


DK @kingsbury • September 15, 2009

Amazing what a few cans of Mt. Dew can accomplish – got a lot of “real” things crossed off the to-do list tonight. Will pay for it tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • September 15, 2009

Bus stop for kid two, then downtown St. Paul to open new business bank account


DK @kingsbury • September 15, 2009

Used the new CS4 versions of Illustrator and InDesign today for the first time. Wasn’t too lost, thankfully


DK @kingsbury • September 15, 2009

The mountain bike trail is calling my name – time for a little break before the kids get home


DK @kingsbury • September 15, 2009

Note to self: those large rocks and trees on the trail are not like slalom gates – you can’t go through them. Trail 1, Shoulder 0


DK @kingsbury • September 15, 2009

Nice surprise in the mail today – a $485 refund on kid one’s wisdom teeth surgery


DK @kingsbury • September 15, 2009

Issues today with Comcast email and the Spamhaus PBL blocking sent mail (& Google Apps for Domains email), but I think it’s just Allina.com


DK @kingsbury • September 16, 2009

Time for a little Mad Men on demand


DK @kingsbury • September 16, 2009

ick, bad stomach ache – heading for bed way too early


DK @kingsbury • September 16, 2009

7MM golf outing this morning with KJ, Meadows at Mystic Lake


DK @kingsbury • September 16, 2009

Shot 93 from the whites at the Meadows. Ordered a club sandwich at the Grille – can’t wait!


DK @kingsbury • September 16, 2009

Kid one to the eye doctor – back to glasses?


DK @kingsbury • September 17, 2009

Struck out on all three lottery games tonight – back to the grind tomorrow, I guess


DK @kingsbury • September 17, 2009

Best round of my life: shot 81 from the whites at Highland National


DK @kingsbury • September 17, 2009

Time for Macalester client meeting in St. Paul


DK @kingsbury • September 17, 2009

Bittersweet emotions – dropped off kid ski gear at the Joe’s ski swap. The smallest boots were really small


DK @kingsbury • September 17, 2009

Grandma Karen staying late tonight so we can finally see Inglourious Basterds


DK @kingsbury • September 18, 2009

Everyone else keeps raving about Inglourious Basterds, but it was my least favorite Tarantino movie yet (and I love most of them)


DK @kingsbury • September 18, 2009

Ran 13.7 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – only 14 days until marathon weekend!


DK @kingsbury • September 18, 2009

Visited Mall of America to replace torn Vans at Nordstrom Rack, but got a pair of Borns instead. Also stopped at Wings FCU and US Bank


DK @kingsbury • September 19, 2009

Prosciutto pizza from Brianno’s at the Thornburghs tonight. So good


DK @kingsbury • September 19, 2009

Server and plugin upgrades on the Seattle server


DK @kingsbury • September 19, 2009

Bradley Klein story in GolfWeek about ND golf mentions 1984 US Mid-Am champ Mike Podolak, brother of my friend Doug


DK @kingsbury • September 19, 2009

Laundry and cleaning day today. I can almost see the surface of my desk now


DK @kingsbury • September 19, 2009

Bike ride with kid one to drop off library stuff and buy milk and bread at Kowalski’s Eagan


DK @kingsbury • September 19, 2009

Beautiful night on the mountain bike trail – passed 5 guys and only cross-checked one tree


DK @kingsbury • September 20, 2009

Ran the 11.7 mile route in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – taper time begins now (TCM two weeks from today)


DK @kingsbury • September 20, 2009

Enjoying the Vikings season so far – hope everyone stays healthy so the bandwagon can grow really big


DK @kingsbury • September 20, 2009

Heading in to St. Paul for my first Wild game of the new (pre) season – Havlat to face his old teammates in Wild debut


DK @kingsbury • September 21, 2009

Wild win 3-0 in one of the best pre-season games I’ve ever been too. Two Havlat goals and five fighting majors – might be a decent season


DK @kingsbury • September 21, 2009

Attendance at the Wild game wasn’t announced – is the streak over?


DK @kingsbury • September 21, 2009

Currently snowing in Breckenridge. Check our tweets for more pics. (via @breckenridgemtn) And so it begins…


DK @kingsbury • September 21, 2009

Mall of America for some laptop supplies, then the Women’s Tapemark at Southview CC today. Hope the rain holds off for once


DK @kingsbury • September 21, 2009

Best Buy MOA totally made my day – had weird video cable in stock and matched Amazon’s price on Office 2008 (plus rewards points)


DK @kingsbury • September 21, 2009

Registration and lunch is now off and running for the 15th Annual Women’s Tapemark Golf Event at Southview Country Club


DK @kingsbury • September 21, 2009

The sun keeps peeking out at SVCC – nice afternoon for the Women’s Tapemark


DK @kingsbury • September 21, 2009

Didn’t know I’d be playing audio engineer today. Who needs the technology co-director? Dillon, I’m looking at you


DK @kingsbury • September 21, 2009

Pictures from women’s event downloaded and ready for presentation at the dinner. Re-mastered Beatles being piped from MBP to Southview PA


DK @kingsbury • September 22, 2009

Long day at the Tapemark, long talk with the wife, now a long(ish) late night walk to the grocery store


DK @kingsbury • September 22, 2009

Some quick, temporary updates to womenstapemark.org, a run through the upper body exercises in the basement, then sleep


DK @kingsbury • September 22, 2009

OK, I lied – workout, Mad Men, now sleep


DK @kingsbury • September 22, 2009

Women’s Tapemark site updated with 2009 scoreboards


DK @kingsbury • September 22, 2009

Programming can be so rewarding – just added some conditional formatting to 7minutemiles.com single post pages via custom PHP


DK @kingsbury • September 22, 2009

Leaving for the Spare Key Golf Benefit at Willingers in Northfield


DK @kingsbury • September 22, 2009

Four holes left in the charity golf death march – not much fun today


DK @kingsbury • September 23, 2009

Dinner with kid one at Joe Senser’s Eagan


DK @kingsbury • September 23, 2009

Maybe my luck is changing – won $103 from $5 worth of pull tabs at Senser’s


DK @kingsbury • September 23, 2009

Meeting with Hacker’s Guide author Bruce Stasch in St. Paul


DK @kingsbury • September 23, 2009

Amazed at the number of Snow Leopard books at Barnes and Noble


DK @kingsbury • September 23, 2009

Scheduling snafu with author meeting (re-scheduled for Friday); now at Eagan library looking for expensive books I saw at B&N


DK @kingsbury • September 23, 2009

The orthodontist office we didn’t pick wanted to bill me $165 for the consult, but just called to say they would do a “courtesy” write-off


DK @kingsbury • September 23, 2009

Installed the iTunes 9.0.1 updater – all hail the green button fix


DK @kingsbury • September 23, 2009

Still like WordPress.org running on my own server, but tumblr looks very interesting


DK @kingsbury • September 23, 2009

Is Google Apps for Domains mail hosed again, or does everyone just hate me now? Hmm


DK @kingsbury • September 23, 2009

Picked up kid two from Da Capo choir; kid one off to pick up new reading glasses


DK @kingsbury • September 24, 2009

Ran 5 miles in Eagan with Gina – 10 days left until the big race


DK @kingsbury • September 24, 2009

Outta Super Target for under $90 and Brother Ali at Best Buy for $7.99 = good day shopping. What’s with the Christmas stuff, though?


DK @kingsbury • September 24, 2009

ACN/Apple Retail meeting at Southdale


DK @kingsbury • September 25, 2009

Thumbs up on the new Brother Ali CD


DK @kingsbury • September 25, 2009

Meetings in St. Paul this morning – Hacker’s Guide author and lunch with Studio Phil (Cecil’s?)


DK @kingsbury • September 26, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – TCM a week from tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • September 26, 2009

Even with Powerade and English muffin with peanut butter afterwards, totally crashed out on the couch after the run this morning


DK @kingsbury • September 26, 2009

Meeting with Phil at Southview this afternoon – everyone should check his new play at the Illusion Theater too


DK @kingsbury • September 26, 2009

Shot 92 from the whites at SVCC. Normally would be happy with that, but I started with a 43 on the front. Beautiful day, though


DK @kingsbury • September 26, 2009

Getting ready for dinner and a concert at the Dakota tonight. First time eating there and first time seeing Dan Wilson


DK @kingsbury • September 27, 2009

Great night in downtown Minneapolis – I’ll write it up on 7minutemiles.com tomorrow after I recover


DK @kingsbury • September 27, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – we start the TCM exactly one week from right now


DK @kingsbury • September 27, 2009

Busy Sunday: run, laundry, football, neighbor visits, car wash and iPhone reconfiguration. Now a drive to Afton to see Gloria and get apples


DK @kingsbury • September 27, 2009

Never made it to the apple orchard, but had a great time visiting with Gloria in Afton


DK @kingsbury • September 28, 2009

Halloween Dots: ghosts = yummy, candy corn = sort of weird


DK @kingsbury • September 28, 2009

Hmm, Tweetie has started crashing under Snow Leopard a few times a day. Google not finding much to help yet


DK @kingsbury • September 28, 2009

Mendakota guest day (and NWA building B reunion) with Phil Keeney, Mark Bodurtha and Gary Zehnder


DK @kingsbury • September 28, 2009

45 mph winds do interesting things to my golf game, that’s for sure


DK @kingsbury • September 29, 2009

Crazy weather day today on the course, but great company and fun times in the clubhouse bar before and after


DK @kingsbury • September 29, 2009

Life is just full of interesting options – working on a new lead from today’s outing


DK @kingsbury • September 29, 2009

Wow – when it rains, it pours


DK @kingsbury • September 29, 2009

Another busy day – meeting with new accountant, lunch with DGS at Fuddrucker’s, pick up iPod Touch from Studio Phil, document re-writes


DK @kingsbury • September 29, 2009

Ate too much at Fuddrucker’s – heading for the mountain bike trail


DK @kingsbury • September 29, 2009

1/2 block from house, rear bike tire just comes off the frame. Flew off, stunned for a few minutes, fixed it, then continued on to trail


DK @kingsbury • September 29, 2009

Empty house = time to catch up on Mad Men


DK @kingsbury • September 30, 2009

Tom Petty fans – this is really well done


DK @kingsbury • September 30, 2009

Colleen got a free CanoScan D1250U2 scanner, but it doesn’t work on OS X (even with hacks)


DK @kingsbury • September 30, 2009

Stay at home day spoiled – off to library, credit union, lunch with Studio Phil, eye doctor and choir pick-up


DK @kingsbury • September 30, 2009

The original Davanni’s in St. Paul was packed with UST students. Thank goodness they were selling pizza by the slice or I’d still be there


DK @kingsbury • September 30, 2009

Big day for kid one – new Armani bi-focals and a new (used) iPod touch


DK @kingsbury • October 1, 2009

Ran 4 miles in the cold Eagan rain with Gina – last taper run before the Twin Cities Marathon


DK @kingsbury • October 1, 2009

Shot 92 from the whites at Crystal Lake with Todd – cold, windy, wet and rainy (but free)


DK @kingsbury • October 1, 2009

Printing my first batch of 7 Minute Miles, LLC invoices


DK @kingsbury • October 1, 2009

Super Happy Family Fun Night at the Hawk


DK @kingsbury • October 2, 2009

Restoring kid one’s old iPod nano – her new touch means the MINI gets a nano


DK @kingsbury • October 2, 2009

Feeling like a total slug today. Picked songs for iPod, mailed letters, did one load of wash and made popcorn. So much to do, too. Oh well


DK @kingsbury • October 2, 2009

Since I’m not getting anything else done today, decided to investigate the latest in DVD to iPhone/iPod tools


DK @kingsbury • October 2, 2009

Heading to the TCM Expo in a few minutes


DK @kingsbury • October 3, 2009

I think I need more RAM in my laptop already – encoding apparently needs more juice


DK @kingsbury • October 3, 2009

Off to the races – cold and rainy


DK @kingsbury • October 3, 2009

Successful morning at the TCM Family Day events – then stopped at St. Agnes Bread Company, the Kohners and TCM Expo to get a signed print


DK @kingsbury • October 3, 2009

Got home and went back to the Expo with Gina and the girls to get more free stuff. Can’t see the surface of my desk now


DK @kingsbury • October 3, 2009

Bonus day: got a free lower level ticket to the Wild home opener next week and a check in the mail from the Joe’s ski swap for $130


DK @kingsbury • October 3, 2009

More good stuff: Best Buy just sent me an email with a $50 rewards zone certificate


DK @kingsbury • October 4, 2009

Great pre-race dinner tonight (thanks Todd!). Getting everything ready for the morning, then a little reading before bed


DK @kingsbury • October 4, 2009

Finished TCM in 4:36:19 (10:33 pace) – off to get cleaned up and rest


DK @kingsbury • October 4, 2009

Having a little Raising Cane’s for dinner with kid two in Apple Valley


DK @kingsbury • October 4, 2009

Official run log entry – ran 26.2 miles in Minneapolis and St. Paul with Gina (Twin Cities Marathon) in 4:36:19. Way to go Gina, you rock!


DK @kingsbury • October 4, 2009

And thanks to the entire support group – family, volunteers and all the great spectators and friends who cheered us on the entire way


DK @kingsbury • October 5, 2009

Feeling refreshed this morning after 11 hours of sleep. Time to get caught up on things today


DK @kingsbury • October 5, 2009

Time to decide – is the online version of the Wall Street Journal worth $49 of my own money to renew?


DK @kingsbury • October 5, 2009

Hmm, when did Sun Country switch Seattle, San Francisco and LA to seasonal service only?


DK @kingsbury • October 5, 2009

I can see the surface of my desk again – time for a Mad Men break


DK @kingsbury • October 5, 2009

Loads of errands to run – frame shop, credit union, library, running store and Leeann Chins


DK @kingsbury • October 5, 2009

Morrissey at the Joint in Las Vegas 12/4? Hmm, need to find an excuse to make that happen


DK @kingsbury • October 5, 2009

It’s really hard to compress 21 years of work experience into one page, but that’s one résumé rule I just can’t get away from


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Oops, thought the Vikings game started at 8. Doesn’t look like I missed anything, though


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Having a grape Crush in honor of the purple and gold – Go Vikings!


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

My body needs the sleep, but my stupid brain won’t shut down for the day


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Damn you, @gruber, and your Canabalt recommendation. But since I’m still up anyway…


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Sort of glad it’s been rainy this week – removes any temptation to run or bike again too soon after the race


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Made some updates to the biography page on 7 Minute Miles. Hard to believe that’s my life up to now


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Liking the new VMware Fusion 3 features – I’ll have to buy a new copy on 10/27


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Updated the résumé page on 7 Minute Miles. New PDF version uploaded too


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

So worms come out when it rains so they can get it on, eh? Don’t remember learning that in school


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Time for a break – but only if HBO on demand finally added the last Entourage to the menu


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Hello Hawaii! It’s currently 47 degrees and raining here – how about you?


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Kid two decided to run for student council (all on her own, without telling us) and found out today she won!


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Geez, took me 10 minutes to find which channel had the Twins game. At least it’s in HD – are you listening NHL?


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

New iPhone version of NetNewsWire is screwing up my desktop reader. Guess I need to clean up the Google Reader intermediary first


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

I can feel the good Karma in the air today – hopefully just helped a buddy out this afternoon


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Even the Losers and Here Comes My Girl, both live in London, now up on the Tom Petty site. Much love put into the design of that site


DK @kingsbury • October 6, 2009

Off to the X for the Wild home opener


DK @kingsbury • October 7, 2009

Marathon, Vikings, Twins and Wild – woohoo! Way to screw it up, football Gophers


DK @kingsbury • October 7, 2009

First post-TCM run – 7.4 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. Beautiful morning, feelin’ fine – need to find the next race


DK @kingsbury • October 7, 2009

Decided to sign the whole family up for the Monster Dash 5K. I’m going to run the half, then the 5K


DK @kingsbury • October 7, 2009

Shopping for new MINI tires. Front-runner: Bridgestone Potenza G019 Grid for $87/tire at tirerack.com


DK @kingsbury • October 8, 2009

Nice surprise this morning – new Mike Doughty album with bonus tracks!


DK @kingsbury • October 8, 2009

Time for the fall pruning – would like to get it finished before the next wave of rain hits


DK @kingsbury • October 8, 2009

FYI – hedge trimmers go right through headphone wires too. Like butter.


DK @kingsbury • October 8, 2009

Lunch with mom at Carbone’s on Randolph


DK @kingsbury • October 8, 2009

Yardwork complete – took kid one & two on a 3 mile bike ride. Nice fall MN day, but a little cold when the sun hides


DK @kingsbury • October 9, 2009

Frost delay in Chaska – who plays golf in 30 degree weather anyway? Oh yeah, Minnesotans


DK @kingsbury • October 9, 2009

Ciao Bella – home of the three hour lunch (thanks Charles!)


DK @kingsbury • October 9, 2009

Dinner at the Duplex, followed by It Might Get Loud at the Lagoon. Best kind of day – eat out for all three meals!


DK @kingsbury • October 10, 2009

Big crowd at the tire store this morning -glad I had an appointment


DK @kingsbury • October 10, 2009

Wife wants an iPhone – off to Mall of America


DK @kingsbury • October 10, 2009

Beautiful fall colors (and some snow) on the mountain bike trail today. No crashes, but my legs are burning


DK @kingsbury • October 11, 2009

World-record pace at the Chicago Marathon this morning?


DK @kingsbury • October 11, 2009

Kenyan Sammy Wanjiru wins 2009 Chicago Marathon in 2:05:40, misses world record, but sets course record


DK @kingsbury • October 11, 2009

Dammit, I was promised sun and 44 degrees today. Hoping for a run or a bike ride, but 35 and clouds is no fun


DK @kingsbury • October 11, 2009

New bike pedals purchased and installed at Penn Cycle – now I just need warmer weather


DK @kingsbury • October 11, 2009

Brisk, but another beautiful day on the mountain bike trail


DK @kingsbury • October 11, 2009

Empty house for two hours – no TV, no music, just reading a book and waiting for the next snowstorm to hit


DK @kingsbury • October 11, 2009

Just finished Edward Tufte’s book Beautiful Evidence – a little over my head, but I liked the chapters on chartjunk and PowerPoint Phluff


DK @kingsbury • October 12, 2009

Restoring my old iPhone so kid two can use it like a Touch


DK @kingsbury • October 12, 2009

Nice – just uploaded first video to Facebook directly from new iPhone 3GS. That will be a nice new option to have with me


DK @kingsbury • October 12, 2009

Caught up on South Park season 13


DK @kingsbury • October 12, 2009

Setting up Google Apps for the new tapemarkgolf.org domain


DK @kingsbury • October 12, 2009

Two quick errands in the snow – time to test out the new tires


DK @kingsbury • October 12, 2009

Office walls re-decorated, desk mostly clear and to-do list updated. Ready to play some Monopoly at the clown’s place with kid one and two


DK @kingsbury • October 13, 2009

Just so totally out of it today – need to press the reset button


DK @kingsbury • October 13, 2009

Importing and digitizing old DV tapes – “my name is kid one and this is my movie”


DK @kingsbury • October 14, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and AV at race pace. Thought I tweaked my knee on Sunday, but it was fine – Monster Half in two weeks


DK @kingsbury • October 14, 2009

Today I felt like Chevy Chase sitting in the attic watching old movies


DK @kingsbury • October 14, 2009

Installing 659.2MB worth of Adobe updaters this morning


DK @kingsbury • October 14, 2009

Installing the iMovie 8.0.5 update, then I’ll load it up with 10+ hours of old kid footage from yesterday


DK @kingsbury • October 14, 2009

Trying to decide what to do about setting up an FTP server on my OS X box in Seattle


DK @kingsbury • October 14, 2009

Heading in to Minneapolis to have lunch with the wife at the Global Commons


DK @kingsbury • October 14, 2009

OK, so that was lunch from Jakeeno’s in the *Midtown Global Market* with Colleen at the *Allina Commons* round table. Damn names…


DK @kingsbury • October 14, 2009

Watching iMovie ’09 training videos – hope I can pick this up faster than when I tried to learn FCP


DK @kingsbury • October 15, 2009

Ran 4 wet and snowy miles in Eagan. Do I get extra credit for being stupid?


DK @kingsbury • October 15, 2009

Meeting with golf course architect Paul Miller in Northfield today – hope I don’t catch that Swine Flu thing he mentioned on the phone


DK @kingsbury • October 15, 2009

I heart Northfield


DK @kingsbury • October 15, 2009

Kid one and I getting haircuts with Kim, then dinner from Zantigo


DK @kingsbury • October 15, 2009

Leaving on a quest – a quest for miniature salted nut rolls to give away on Halloween


DK @kingsbury • October 15, 2009

Success! http://yfrog.com/3zc1okj


DK @kingsbury • October 15, 2009

Really enjoyed the Ole Cafe in Northfield today – thanks again Paul!


DK @kingsbury • October 16, 2009

Picked up kid two from sleepover and now she gets a flu shot she doesn’t know is coming


DK @kingsbury • October 16, 2009

Geez, can’t anyone do better than $309 RT to Vegas in early December? Come on, Sun Country, give me something to work with here


DK @kingsbury • October 16, 2009

Successfully enrolled in online banking for my business accounts at US Bank


DK @kingsbury • October 16, 2009

Good meeting with Ed at Storyteller Media this afternoon


DK @kingsbury • October 17, 2009

Finished one out of the money at the poker tournament tonight, but had a great time. Need to wake up for golf in ~5 hours


DK @kingsbury • October 17, 2009

Off to find Bristol Ridge golf course, somewhere near Somerset, Wisconsin


DK @kingsbury • October 17, 2009

Shot 93 from the whites at Bristol Ridge – incredible sunny fall day in Wisconsin


DK @kingsbury • October 18, 2009

Planning a little “The Wire” marathon tonight via Netflix


DK @kingsbury • October 18, 2009

Golf with Timo at Mystic Lake – last round of the year?


DK @kingsbury • October 18, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley in 46:31 – need to take advantage of the few remaining good weather days in MN


DK @kingsbury • October 19, 2009

All those sit-ups were totally worth having size 32×34 pants again


DK @kingsbury • October 19, 2009

I watch waaaay too much television – thanks a lot, internets


DK @kingsbury • October 19, 2009

Ran 14 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. Not eating or drinking before the run was a big mistake


DK @kingsbury • October 19, 2009

Just read the video chapter of Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into HTML5 book – good stuff


DK @kingsbury • October 19, 2009

Kid one wasp sting drama – aren’t those things dead yet?


DK @kingsbury • October 19, 2009

Changed all the batteries in the smoke detectors today – have you checked yours lately?


DK @kingsbury • October 20, 2009

Walking over to the Hawk this morning for kid one’s FACS open house – fresh cinnamon rolls!


DK @kingsbury • October 21, 2009

Upgraded all WordPress sites on my now-trendy mini server to version 2.8.5


DK @kingsbury • October 21, 2009

Walked around Lake Harriett and Lake Calhoun this morning, only to come home and seriously tweak my back changing a light bulb in my office


DK @kingsbury • October 22, 2009

Looking forward to a return trip to LA next month – Santa Monica, November 3-4


DK @kingsbury • October 22, 2009

Wild win! Wild win! That is two wins, at home – too bad about all those road games


DK @kingsbury • October 22, 2009

Just finished reading Paulo Coelho’s book The Alchemist. Thanks for the recommendation, Mr. Miller


DK @kingsbury • October 22, 2009

I thought that maybe Glee had peaked, but this week’s episode was great


DK @kingsbury • October 22, 2009

I wish I could take my kids to this


DK @kingsbury • October 22, 2009

“Friday, 11:32PM, Grand Marais: Deputy requested to speak to a neighbor and tell him to quit revving whatever it is he’s revving.”


DK @kingsbury • October 22, 2009

Dance card filling rapidly today


DK @kingsbury • October 22, 2009

The bears versus pumpkin video is pretty sweet


DK @kingsbury • October 23, 2009

Ran a 10K on the treadmill – the cold and snow showers outside were just too much for me today


DK @kingsbury • October 23, 2009

Taking kids to see Where the Wild Things Are this afternoon as the snow falls


DK @kingsbury • October 23, 2009

Not what I needed: Wild Things was totally depressing. Now my mother-in-law is coming for dinner, which I should follow with a Cure marathon


DK @kingsbury • October 24, 2009

Glad the Wild-Blues game is on the free Center Ice preview tonight


DK @kingsbury • October 24, 2009

It’s always interesting watching the broadcast team from the other team (and the commercials are fun too)


DK @kingsbury • October 24, 2009

Kid one gone at sleepover, kid two in bed, wife at party, Wild and Gophers lose and a visit with the exiled Timo. I love Friday nights


DK @kingsbury • October 24, 2009

Looks like a beautiful morning for the mountain bike trail


DK @kingsbury • October 24, 2009

Wet leaves and mud lend an “exciting” element to the trail – saw the sweet angel of death twice. And some deer


DK @kingsbury • October 24, 2009

So how long will the football Gophers continue to be featured on ESPN?


DK @kingsbury • October 24, 2009

Almost ready for Halloween-themed poker night at our house. Just need ice and cash to lose


DK @kingsbury • October 25, 2009

I will never be a professional poker player


DK @kingsbury • October 25, 2009

Ran 7.4 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley – weather is actually decent


DK @kingsbury • October 25, 2009

Finally watched Truth in 24. I’m not a big race fan, but that was a good story


DK @kingsbury • October 26, 2009

Curb Your Enthusiasm and now the end of The Shining before Mad Men starts – must see TV!


DK @kingsbury • October 26, 2009

I wonder if I’m getting an ulcer


DK @kingsbury • October 27, 2009

Breakfast meeting at Perkins, Target run, lunch with kid two and afternoon Boo Blast at Kowalski’s Eagan


DK @kingsbury • October 27, 2009

Heading in to St. Paul to pick up hockey tickets and drop off puppy pictures


DK @kingsbury • October 28, 2009

Sprinkler system winterized – it’s really over now


DK @kingsbury • October 28, 2009

Shooter: Bob Klas Jr. has been named this year’s Mr. Golf of Minnesota by Southview Country Club’s Diehard committee. Congrats!


DK @kingsbury • October 28, 2009

Busy tech morning: password changes, DNS and web server clean-up, Netscape and Coda updates, blog post, iPhone tweaks, support ticket to d.f


DK @kingsbury • October 28, 2009

Wild-Preds game tonight with Studio Phil – all they do is win at the X, right?


DK @kingsbury • October 28, 2009

Brand new course for the Monster Half on Saturday (Calhoun first, last mile on Harriet). Get the race guide PDF here


DK @kingsbury • October 28, 2009

Best “coincidence” I’ve seen in a long time


DK @kingsbury • October 28, 2009

$40 to fly one-way from MSP-LAS on Sun Country on Halloween? Sooooo tempting…


DK @kingsbury • October 28, 2009

Dropping kid one off for sleepover, picking up Studio Phil for hockey and buying new shoe inserts for injured wife at running store


DK @kingsbury • October 29, 2009

3 shots, 3 goals – unbelievable!


DK @kingsbury • October 29, 2009

Not sure what to say about the Wild at this point. I’ll try to think up something tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • October 29, 2009

Ran 5K on the treadmill at BQ pace. 23 more miles at that pace just doesn’t seem realistic to me yet


DK @kingsbury • October 29, 2009

Cleaning up databases on the Seattle server


DK @kingsbury • October 29, 2009

Just read the old Alley Agate Shop building in Grand Marais was torn down for more parking. Loved going to that place when I was a kid


DK @kingsbury • October 29, 2009

Installing a BuddyPress test bed while listening to a Kid Rock marathon – need something to offset the depressing rain


DK @kingsbury • October 29, 2009

Just signed up for the new CarlsonConnect social networking site – never heard of Affinity Circles, Inc. before today


DK @kingsbury • October 29, 2009

Conferences at two schools this time, plus some kid shuffling and chauffeuring


DK @kingsbury • October 30, 2009

Way too early for an ortho appointment – kid one doesn’t seem to care, though


DK @kingsbury • October 30, 2009

No big ortho bill for kid one yet (maybe in 3 months). Kid two might be getting sick, though


DK @kingsbury • October 30, 2009

It is with a mix of sadness and relief that I deleted all of my sports-related Twitter accounts today


DK @kingsbury • October 30, 2009

More Seattle server housecleaning – removing expired domains, archiving old sports sites, changes to DNS and setting up a wiki server


DK @kingsbury • October 30, 2009

Heading to lunch with Terry at Zantigo, then to the Minneapolis Convention Center to pick up Monster Dash packets


DK @kingsbury • October 30, 2009

What an afternoon – got race gear, babysitter (& babies) now fed, bought new clothes for LA from the experts at the MOA and now off to Ike’s


DK @kingsbury • October 31, 2009

36 degrees, west wind between 14 and 17 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph – sounds perfect for a half marathon in Minnesota. Doh!


DK @kingsbury • October 31, 2009

Ran the Monster Half in 1:39:13 – a new PR by 11 minutes (and near BQ pace)


DK @kingsbury • October 31, 2009

“You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.”


DK @kingsbury • October 31, 2009

Picked up Daniel Gilbert’s “Stumbling on Happiness” at the library. Liked the first three chapters – the PBS special should be good


DK @kingsbury • November 1, 2009

First time in years I was responsible for the candy and I freakin’ ran out


DK @kingsbury • November 1, 2009

Nice to have the extra hour of sleep today – my legs are really, really sore from yesterday


DK @kingsbury • November 1, 2009

Finally finished cleaning up Seattle server – finding it hard to generate interest in the Vikings/Packers game


DK @kingsbury • November 1, 2009

I like the new fare feature on suncountry.com, but $415 RT to Vegas is out of my price range


DK @kingsbury • November 1, 2009

Thought the backyard was on fire – smoke everywhere. Just a fall bonfire down the block


DK @kingsbury • November 2, 2009

Still not used to kid one having school store duty early on Mondays


DK @kingsbury • November 2, 2009

Err, make that kid two. You’d think that extra hour of sleep would be helping me out, but guess not…


DK @kingsbury • November 2, 2009

The PO box had money in it today – yeah! Stopped at the bank and at Target. The MINI needed oil, too


DK @kingsbury • November 2, 2009

Sting, Dylan and Tori Amos all coming out with Christmas albums this year?


DK @kingsbury • November 2, 2009

The cover of the new Weezer album is sweet


DK @kingsbury • November 2, 2009

Dammit, can’t find disc two of Rod Stewart Storyteller – accidental garage sale casualty?


DK @kingsbury • November 2, 2009

Catching up on Mad Men, Community and The Office before my physical at AMC Eagan


DK @kingsbury • November 2, 2009

Moon River…


DK @kingsbury • November 2, 2009

I feel like I live next door to the cabin in Fargo today


DK @kingsbury • November 2, 2009

The street names in this neighborhood are dumb: Oakbrooke Drive, Trail, Circle, Curve, Lane, Court, Way and Terrace. + Johnny Cake Ridge Rd


DK @kingsbury • November 3, 2009

Even *I* had to reject some of the music choices of kid one while she redeemed her Halloween gift card


DK @kingsbury • November 3, 2009

The Genius Mix feature in iTunes is pretty cool and I generally like the picks it makes, but wow, am I really that old?


DK @kingsbury • November 3, 2009

Rod Stewart, Bread, Steely Dan, America, Chicago, Fleetwood Mac and Al Stewart. Just a bit different from the mixes on kid one’s iPod


DK @kingsbury • November 3, 2009

Best part of fall/winter swim lessons for kid two? It’s like a sauna in here – love it!


DK @kingsbury • November 3, 2009

Voted, dropped off at airport, finished egg mcmuffin for breakfast, waiting for flight to LA


DK @kingsbury • November 3, 2009

On a Delta 757 for today’s flight to LAX


DK @kingsbury • November 3, 2009

Landed safely in warm and sunny California


DK @kingsbury • November 4, 2009

Long day of meetings in Santa Monica – headed for dinner at the World Cafe, then walking to the pier


DK @kingsbury • November 4, 2009

I just love eating outside in November


DK @kingsbury • November 4, 2009

4.4% voter turnout for the school board election? That’s just sad…


DK @kingsbury • November 4, 2009

Yes, I believe I know what you are saying


DK @kingsbury • November 4, 2009

Back at LAX – looks like an NWA 757 will be taking me home tonight


DK @kingsbury • November 4, 2009

This NWA 757 is a little smellier than the Delta 757


DK @kingsbury • November 5, 2009

Landed safely at MSP


DK @kingsbury • November 5, 2009

Library, credit union and now back to the clinic for my fasting lab visit that was ordered during my physical on Monday


DK @kingsbury • November 5, 2009

The mountain bike trail beckons on this beautiful Minnesota fall day


DK @kingsbury • November 5, 2009

Must have rained a fair amount while I was gone – the trail was covered with wet leaves and mud


DK @kingsbury • November 6, 2009

Lunch at BWW with Todd was delicious – it’s been too long since I was last there


DK @kingsbury • November 6, 2009

Experimenting with PureFTPd Manager on 10.5 client and WordPress MU automatic upgrades


DK @kingsbury • November 6, 2009

Now trying out contact syncing between Address Book and Google


DK @kingsbury • November 6, 2009

Kid two doctor appointment – time to get yelled at some more


DK @kingsbury • November 7, 2009

Congrats to kid two – got taller and lost weight. No yelling from the doctor this time


DK @kingsbury • November 7, 2009

Grilling some brats on the deck before heading out for one last round of golf at Valleywood


DK @kingsbury • November 7, 2009

Shot 88 from the MGA tees at Valleywood, just as darkness fell


DK @kingsbury • November 8, 2009

Flipping between the Wild and Gophers hockey while doing my basement workout


DK @kingsbury • November 8, 2009

Gophers redeem themselves and beat the Badgers 5-2 at the Kohl Center


DK @kingsbury • November 8, 2009

And the Wild hold on to beat the Stars 3-2. All is right in the State of Hockey tonight


DK @kingsbury • November 8, 2009

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley – looks like a another great weather day in Minnesota


DK @kingsbury • November 9, 2009

Thumbs up on the Mad Men season finale


DK @kingsbury • November 9, 2009

Ran 11.6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley – mountain bike trail closed for “deer hunt”


DK @kingsbury • November 9, 2009

Watch repair shop closed Mondays, bought 2 new (smaller) belts and picked up a walleye sandwich from Culver’s


DK @kingsbury • November 9, 2009

Great to see my friend (and extremely talented singer-songwriter) Hans with a new web site – nice!


DK @kingsbury • November 9, 2009

Noticed today that the newest Minnesota conservation license plate numbers are now 6 digits long instead of 5


DK @kingsbury • November 9, 2009

Got my upgraded Best Buy Reward Zone card in the mail today, but why is Premier Silver the “most exclusive” level? Does Gold exist?


DK @kingsbury • November 9, 2009

Purchased the new version of VMware Fusion – downloading now (along with Ubuntu 9.10). Still have to find a cheap copy of Win7 somewhere


DK @kingsbury • November 9, 2009

Better go get that chicken off the rotisserie grill before the deck burns down


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

Comcast is probably going to throttle my bandwidth – downloading iso images of Solaris 10 and Windows Server 2008


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

Looking for some new winter things to do – thinking this is the year to finally learn to skate and try indoor rock climbing


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

Taking kid two to swimming at BHMS (kid one riding along for fun)


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows Server 2008 up and running fine in VMware. Solaris 10, not so much


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

Upgrade to 10.6.2 seems OK so far on my MBP


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

Tweetie stills seems to not really like Spaces much


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

Stanley merges with Black and Decker for $4.5 billion? That’s a lot of tools


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

Ran 5 miles in Eagan – much nicer out now compared to this morning


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

Since the deer hunt ended at noon, took one last loop around the mountain bike trail. Much harder to do when your handlebar almost falls off


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

Sad state of affairs when Wild-Leafs game not on local TV tonight. Maybe someday I can justify the price for a Center Ice package


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

Picked up kid two from student council (and the fundraiser junk), got watch battery installed and finished loading MediaWiki on SEA server


DK @kingsbury • November 10, 2009

$75 for 3 one-day passes to Giants Ridge, Spirit Mountain and Welch Village seems like a pretty good deal (no blackout dates too)


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Listening to the audio broadcast of the Wild-Leafs game on my laptop seems so lame


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Oh great, Toronto is one of three cities where the Wild have never won a game. Newark and Raleigh (?) are the others


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Goal by Havlat and we don’t get to see it. Figures


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

That lead didn’t last long


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Zids continues to improve, eh?


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Do we have another 6-1 Wild victory in store for tonight? Way to go, Mikko and Bruno


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Time to switch from hockey audio to the World Series of Poker final table in HD on ESPN


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Stupid Twitter already told me who wins, but it will be fun to watch anyway


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Kid two sheet from school: 3 ways to let go of emotions – 1) go on a bike ride, 2) punch a pillow and 3) play in the leaves. Duly noted


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

16TB of storage in the Google cloud now available for only $4,096 a year (nice geek pricing structure too)


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Just watched Up again. They really should include a few Prozac in the DVD case. Think I’ll go try Five Guys for lunch to cheer up


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Nice to see the new Lyndale bridge over 494 is open now


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Doodle Jump on the iPhone is a bit addicting


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Just spent way too much time here


DK @kingsbury • November 11, 2009

Time for some Raising Cane’s chicken fingers with the girls, then swimming for kid two at BHMS


DK @kingsbury • November 12, 2009

New versions of RipIt, Office 2008 and Safari


DK @kingsbury • November 12, 2009

Solo grocery store run – house now stocked with items not normally in the house


DK @kingsbury • November 12, 2009

Lunch with the wife at Key’s on Raymond


DK @kingsbury • November 12, 2009

Hey, look, another Minnesota marathon


DK @kingsbury • November 12, 2009

Jealous of my almost 90-year-old grandfather – subscribes to Variety, goes to the club twice a week and is dating a women from his church!


DK @kingsbury • November 12, 2009

Back from delivering all of the school fundraising crap


DK @kingsbury • November 13, 2009

Wild-Tampa game features a few of my favorite old Wild nicknames – Ginger Boy, Bananas Foster and Fridge


DK @kingsbury • November 13, 2009

Irish God of War!!!!


DK @kingsbury • November 13, 2009

Can’t wait for Halloween candy to be gone – doing situps while eating Tootsie Rolls sort of defeats the whole purpose


DK @kingsbury • November 13, 2009

Got all my video publishing notes and research ready for the 11AM meeting. Also excited for 1:30PM meeting with new potential client


DK @kingsbury • November 13, 2009

Updated ftp and Apache settings for one of my friends so they can make their own site updates


DK @kingsbury • November 14, 2009

Registered for the Life Time Fitness Turkey Trot 5K. Brian is coming up from Florida to run too


DK @kingsbury • November 14, 2009

Taking the kids to the Dye for Haiti fundraiser at the Rueb ‘N Stein in Northfield today


DK @kingsbury • November 15, 2009

Ran 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. Sun and no wind actually made 27 degrees seem OK, believe it or not


DK @kingsbury • November 15, 2009

Each time we stop at the North Branch outlet mall, it seems a little smaller and a little sadder


DK @kingsbury • November 15, 2009

Muzak at the Nike Outlet Store playing “Fat Boys Are Back.” And how…


DK @kingsbury • November 16, 2009

Quick overnight trip to the Edge water park in Duluth – everyone playing hooky tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • November 17, 2009

More indoor, warm water fun for kid two tonight at BHMS


DK @kingsbury • November 17, 2009

Cleaning up lots of things today – laundry, vacuuming, work, sites


DK @kingsbury • November 17, 2009

“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.” – Cormac McCarthy


DK @kingsbury • November 18, 2009

Busy day today – heading to breakfast at Key’s on Raymond with Mr. Erben, client phone calls, choir concert, ortho, swimming, etc.


DK @kingsbury • November 18, 2009

What? Wild Mountain is open with a 12″-36″ base already?


DK @kingsbury • November 18, 2009

Time for a quick post-concert visit to Raising Cane’s before swimming


DK @kingsbury • November 19, 2009

Nightly 5K treadmill runs are torture – even worse tonight with Wild losing to Phoenix. Might have to buck up and learn to like the cold


DK @kingsbury • November 19, 2009

I wonder if the mom at swimming is actively trying for the Betty Draper look or it’s just a coincidence. Either way, it works


DK @kingsbury • November 19, 2009

Nice – you can ride a bike from Santa Monica all the way down the South Bay (and up to Malibu)


DK @kingsbury • November 19, 2009

I’m down to 96 fewer problems than Jay-Z


DK @kingsbury • November 19, 2009

Damn, the Whistling Bird Cafe in Gilbert shut down before I got to eat there


DK @kingsbury • November 19, 2009

Meeting Paul Miller in Northfield today


DK @kingsbury • November 20, 2009

Been running around since 10:30 this morning – time to sit on the couch under a blanket and catch up online while watching 3 hours of CBS TV


DK @kingsbury • November 20, 2009

Wife and kids headed to school play – weird having empty house at night


DK @kingsbury • November 20, 2009

Scratch that – two hours of CBS and one hour of ABC. Bowling on CSI brought back some good UW memories


DK @kingsbury • November 20, 2009

Cooper is an idiot and doesn’t deserve Charlotte. Send him back to jail for more beatings!


DK @kingsbury • November 20, 2009

Got all of my morning tasks finished, so now I can leave for one more round of golf at Willinger’s this afternoon with a clean conscience


DK @kingsbury • November 20, 2009

Bluebird day in Northfield


DK @kingsbury • November 20, 2009

Shot 89 from the whites at Willinger’s on this bonus Minnesota golf day


DK @kingsbury • November 21, 2009

Turned my office upside down looking for tonight’s Brother Ali concert tickets at First Ave – club office says they will be at will call


DK @kingsbury • November 21, 2009

Wow, can’t believe I slept in past the U2 ticket sale time this morning. Maybe I am getting too old for late night First Ave concerts


DK @kingsbury • November 21, 2009

Ran a reverse 7.4 mile route through Eagan and Apple Valley – weather really not as nice as it looks


DK @kingsbury • November 21, 2009

How can the new Cities 97 Sampler not be in CDDB yet? The local nerds must be slacking this year


DK @kingsbury • November 21, 2009

Think I’ll try this thing called “drinking” tonight that all the kids are talking about


DK @kingsbury • November 22, 2009

Screwdriver – yes; light beer, rum and Coke – no


DK @kingsbury • November 22, 2009

More than doubled my money at poker and didn’t get a headache – hope this still feels good in the morning


DK @kingsbury • November 22, 2009

Party #1 for my 90-year-old grandfather at Joseph’s Grill in St. Paul


DK @kingsbury • November 23, 2009

Today’s Lesson – Avoid the Crazy


DK @kingsbury • November 23, 2009

Wow, a SPoD joke in Family Guy


DK @kingsbury • November 23, 2009

If you’re going to a party and there’s no curried goat, there’s no party


DK @kingsbury • November 23, 2009

The University of Andy classes are pretty funny – season 5 of Weeds ships on my birthday


DK @kingsbury • November 23, 2009

Tech support house call, followed by some Christmas shopping at MOA


DK @kingsbury • November 23, 2009

No time for MOA today – maybe tomorrow


DK @kingsbury • November 24, 2009

My brother from Florida (and his wife) dropped in today – family week begins


DK @kingsbury • November 24, 2009

Just logged into Google wave for the first time, but need to take kid one to swimming now


DK @kingsbury • November 24, 2009

Damn, no Betty Draper tonight – sorry Joe


DK @kingsbury • November 24, 2009

Ran the 4 mile Eagan loop in 27:24 – wish that route would stay ice free and 44 degrees all winter long


DK @kingsbury • November 24, 2009

When I am ever going to find time to work on the 2009 Kingsbury Holiday Sampler?


DK @kingsbury • November 24, 2009

Oh man, I want the entire Bob Dylan Christmas album – how can I pick just one song?


DK @kingsbury • November 24, 2009

Scratch that, I think we have a winner in “Must Be Santa”


DK @kingsbury • November 24, 2009

The platform is in place for the new Tapemark site – now on to structure, content and look and feel (you know, the easy part)


DK @kingsbury • November 24, 2009

Lunch at Cupcake with the out-of-town relatives, then Archivers HQ, followed by the Tapemark check presentation. Crisscross, crisscross


DK @kingsbury • November 24, 2009

Better life lessons: horoscopes or songs played via random shuffle on my iPod?


DK @kingsbury • November 24, 2009

Dinner at the Lexington in St. Paul tonight to celebrate a big 9-0 for Mr. Smith


DK @kingsbury • November 25, 2009

Ran same 4 mile loop in Eagan as last night, but slower and with added fog and drizzle. Still warm, though


DK @kingsbury • November 25, 2009

Wait a minute, Whistler has 17 *feet* of snow already?


DK @kingsbury • November 25, 2009

Just checked Ticketmaster and you can buy pairs of $29 tickets for tomorrow’s Wild game. Tempting…


DK @kingsbury • November 25, 2009

Finally going to Mall of America for Christmas shopping, then haircut and Zantigo


DK @kingsbury • November 25, 2009

Wife and kids off for haircuts, so I get time to chill before dinner tonight at Luci


DK @kingsbury • November 25, 2009

I just got up to 33848 in #DoodleJump!!! Beat that!


DK @kingsbury • November 26, 2009

A Turkey Trot *seemed* like a good idea – 33F and windy this morning (but no snow)


DK @kingsbury • November 26, 2009

Bumper sticker: “married men don’t live longer, it just seems that way”


DK @kingsbury • November 26, 2009

Ran the Life Time Fitness Turkey Day 5K in 23:51 (7:42 pace). Large crowd of around 6,000 people – fun race!


DK @kingsbury • November 26, 2009

Something, Something, Something…Dark Side looks pretty damn funny


DK @kingsbury • November 26, 2009

Who needs to wake up early for Black Friday when you can get instant gratification online? Just bought the new Weezer CD from Amazon for $5


DK @kingsbury • November 26, 2009

Double bonus: the new Robert Cray album for $5 too


DK @kingsbury • November 26, 2009

Wife going crazy with the Christmas decorating today


DK @kingsbury • November 27, 2009

Settled back in at home after too many chips with clam dip. Survivor is a stupid fake episode and Private Practice isn’t on, but CSI is new


DK @kingsbury • November 27, 2009

Dammit, the internets lied – CSI is a repeat


DK @kingsbury • November 27, 2009

Been up for too long today – time to head to bed (and not set the alarm for tomorrow)


DK @kingsbury • November 27, 2009

Slept in, then ran 10 nice and easy post-turkey day miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. Gotta find a way to Vegas next weekend


DK @kingsbury • November 27, 2009

This Wild-Avs game is pretty entertaining. Wonder how many more goals left to be scored?


DK @kingsbury • November 27, 2009

Taking wife and kid two to see Fantastic Mr. Fox tonight (kid one at yet another sleepover)


DK @kingsbury • November 28, 2009

Big thumbs up for Fantastic Mr. Fox – one of the best movies I’ve seen this year


DK @kingsbury • November 28, 2009

Wife and kid one off to a sleepover in Forest Lake – need to think of something to keep kid two occupied today


DK @kingsbury • November 28, 2009

Library, breakfast with the clown, bookstore, TJ Maxx, then laundry and cleaning. Redbox tonight


DK @kingsbury • November 28, 2009

Actually making some progress on The Room That Could Not Be Cleaned


DK @kingsbury • November 29, 2009

Nice win for the Wild – the new guys seem to be working out, eh?


DK @kingsbury • November 29, 2009

I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: time, eagan, lunch


DK @kingsbury • November 29, 2009

Taking kid two to drop off the movies from the sleepover, then a visit to Cheapo’s St. Paul


DK @kingsbury • November 29, 2009

Had some issues with my old Epson Print CD app since I moved to the new laptop (and Snow Leopard), but downloading new drivers fixed it


DK @kingsbury • November 29, 2009

Listening to first draft of 2009 Christmas CD


DK @kingsbury • November 29, 2009

Congrats, Brett, on TD pass #500 – glad you’re on our side now


DK @kingsbury • November 30, 2009

So now that the Vikings are good again, it must mean it’s time for them to talk about moving to LA


DK @kingsbury • November 30, 2009

Wife hosting book club tonight – soon to be banished to the basement


DK @kingsbury • November 30, 2009

Still sort of freaked out that one of my Facebook friends died – RIP Greg


DK @kingsbury • November 30, 2009

Liking the late nights again, but also feeling I’ll pay for it tomorrow – Mt. Dew after 10PM can still work magic, though


DK @kingsbury • November 30, 2009

Pro-Am breakfast meeting with Phil at Key’s on Raymond. Can’t get enough of that place, I guess


DK @kingsbury • November 30, 2009

Not sure if I like the geotag functionality or not – Twitter is stalker-friendly enough as it is, no?


DK @kingsbury • November 30, 2009

Dropped way too much money at Best Buy on the way home. You’d think printer ink was made from unicorn tears or something


DK @kingsbury • November 30, 2009

Sun came out and temp is almost 40, but the wind and scattered clouds are telling me to stay in and work instead of going for a run


DK @kingsbury • November 30, 2009

The homophone spelling list for kid two is driving me nuts


DK @kingsbury • December 1, 2009

Damn, no Betty Draper in this swim session either


DK @kingsbury • December 1, 2009

Became a fan of Cyber Monday yesterday


DK @kingsbury • December 1, 2009

Finished one project and just mailed out the finished product. Now on to next 50,000 things to do


DK @kingsbury • December 1, 2009

Opened my first ever Flickr account – testing now. Thinking about moving from self-hosted Gallery2 to a Flickr Pro account


DK @kingsbury • December 1, 2009

Why is there no easy way to find 2010 Minnesota running races? Active, MDRA, Apple Raceberry JaM are all missing things


DK @kingsbury • December 2, 2009

Kid one is not amused that I know the tune “Doo Wacka Doo” from “olden days”


DK @kingsbury • December 2, 2009

Speaking of olden days, anybody remember Radiskull and Devil Doll? Can’t believe that was 10 years ago already


DK @kingsbury • December 2, 2009

Looking at the forecast, I decided outdoor running in Minnesota is over for a few months. Did a 5K on the dreaded treadmill, but it’s warm


DK @kingsbury • December 2, 2009

Headache hanging on today – maybe lunch at the crappy Chinese joint will fix it (not). Meeting Phil today, mom and sister on Friday


DK @kingsbury • December 2, 2009

I was right, the MSG isn’t helping – need to lay down for a bit


DK @kingsbury • December 2, 2009

Heading to the Wild-Preds game with my aunt


DK @kingsbury • December 3, 2009

Scratch that, Wild game with my uncle


DK @kingsbury • December 3, 2009

That was an entertaining first period – Go Wild!


DK @kingsbury • December 3, 2009

Is Havlat drunk?


DK @kingsbury • December 3, 2009

WordPress plug-ins, BuddyPress 1.1.3, research – nerd overload this morning. Lunch today with Jake at the Golden Nugget Grille in Minnetonka


DK @kingsbury • December 3, 2009

“Currently 22° feels like 7° with snow showers” – Afton Alps opens today at 4PM


DK @kingsbury • December 3, 2009

WordPress-MU and BuddyPress upgrades proceeding smoothly


DK @kingsbury • December 3, 2009

Spoke too soon – need to nuke and pave the testbed tonight


DK @kingsbury • December 3, 2009

Looks like a (real) new Survivor and a two-hour episode of Private Practice tonight, followed by some treadmill time during Jon Stewart


DK @kingsbury • December 4, 2009

Treadmill and weights didn’t happen until Letterman – tomorrow morning will be tough


DK @kingsbury • December 4, 2009

Reservations booked for lunch at 20*21, followed by the 2009 British Television Advertising Awards on the 19th


DK @kingsbury • December 4, 2009

New BuddyPress 1.1.3 test site back up and running on WordPress-MU 2.8.6


DK @kingsbury • December 4, 2009

Dome running has started again – Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-8PM. Only $1 with free parking in the lot outside gate D


DK @kingsbury • December 4, 2009

Had to shovel the driveway this morning after going on an early Target run. Lunch with my mom today at Brasa on Grand


DK @kingsbury • December 5, 2009

Lots of basement time tonight – Wild game, work-out and first stab at cleaning out all of the crap that’s built up over 9 years


DK @kingsbury • December 5, 2009

Como Park Zoo and Conservatory for the holiday flower show with Colleen and kid two


DK @kingsbury • December 6, 2009

Heading to the annual Pope holiday party in Forest Lake


DK @kingsbury • December 6, 2009

Now that’s a tree!


DK @kingsbury • December 6, 2009

Can’t believe the brake light came on in the MINI yet again. Thought the new caliper fixed this, but maybe it’s the other wheel now


DK @kingsbury • December 6, 2009

Christmas tree shoppin’ in Lilydale


DK @kingsbury • December 6, 2009

Thanks for nothing, Washington


DK @kingsbury • December 6, 2009

Designed and ordered the 2010 calendars for the grandparents. Sort of expensive, but it’s always one of the favorite gifts each year


DK @kingsbury • December 6, 2009

A quick 5K on the basement treadmill (6:59 pace) isn’t nearly as fulfilling as running today’s Las Vegas Marathon would have been


DK @kingsbury • December 7, 2009

Got the lights and garland hung, just in time for the Vikes in HD. Paul was right – I needed a Bumble for the angel on top


DK @kingsbury • December 7, 2009

I’m sure in a few days I’ll look back at this morning’s 17 degrees F and think it was awesome. Hardy, or just stupid?


DK @kingsbury • December 7, 2009

Nice Robert Mohns review of the new Mac mini server at MacInTouch


DK @kingsbury • December 7, 2009

I’d really like a couple of those boxes – one to hook up to our Sony HDTV and one to replace my server in Seattle


DK @kingsbury • December 7, 2009

Gas station, library, credit union, then lunch with Charles at the Red Stag


DK @kingsbury • December 8, 2009

Fun time at Mystic Lake last night with Todd, although we both lost $. Three dollar blackjack not available after 6PM


DK @kingsbury • December 8, 2009

For how much I hate Ticketmaster fees, you have to be impressed with how well their web site handles timed demand


DK @kingsbury • December 8, 2009

Time for a little walk break through the snowstorm to get a Northstar Cash ticket at the gas station


DK @kingsbury • December 8, 2009

Beavis and Butthead Do Christmas still makes me laugh 13 years later. Those fartknockers rock


DK @kingsbury • December 8, 2009

Maybe I’m just too impatient, but too many things take too long with my current technology. Today’s offender: iPhone’s “Sync in Progress”


DK @kingsbury • December 8, 2009

Coming in a close second: anything in Aperture


DK @kingsbury • December 8, 2009

Kid one band concert at BHMS tonight (Tuba! Tuba!)


DK @kingsbury • December 9, 2009

I’m a little frightened how much I actually enjoyed shovelling today – three times so far and it’s still coming down


DK @kingsbury • December 9, 2009

Traditional post-concert visit to DQ was pretty fun – even with the snow storm and crappy roads


DK @kingsbury • December 9, 2009

Seriously rethinking this whole “don’t use the snowblower so you can get some exercise” routine


DK @kingsbury • December 9, 2009

Back from Best Buy returns and the gas station, now off to family pizza dinner


DK @kingsbury • December 10, 2009

Taking kid two to swimming – looking forward to the warmth!


DK @kingsbury • December 10, 2009

Out for some Christmas shopping today all over town, starting at good old Target


DK @kingsbury • December 10, 2009

Heading to the ski shop to drool over things I can’t afford


DK @kingsbury • December 11, 2009

Late night screening of Rushmore – sort of forgot that was Wes Anderson too


DK @kingsbury • December 11, 2009

Almost didn’t tweet or leave the house all day – yeah, it’s been that kind of day


DK @kingsbury • December 12, 2009

Slept in til 10:30, sent kid two to a birthday party, lunch at Chipotle with wife, Michael’s Crafts and gas station. Now time 4 home repairs


DK @kingsbury • December 12, 2009

Time to clean house – dropped off about 8 pairs of old running shoes at REI


DK @kingsbury • December 12, 2009

Software updates all around: VMware, Java on the server, Ubuntu, WordPress plugins, Transmit, RipIt


DK @kingsbury • December 12, 2009

Testing out WP-Super-Cache on 7 Minute Miles


DK @kingsbury • December 12, 2009

And now adding in zlib compression


DK @kingsbury • December 14, 2009

18 years ago today in downtown St. Paul


DK @kingsbury • December 14, 2009

Took an extra 30 minutes to drive into St. Paul this morning


DK @kingsbury • December 14, 2009

Nice meeting with Dee and Gerald – check out their blog at TCB magazine


DK @kingsbury • December 14, 2009

Kid two doctor appointment, then errand in St. Paul. This extra 3 inches of snow is making things difficult


DK @kingsbury • December 15, 2009

Nice night out yesterday – thanks for all the well wishes, everybody


DK @kingsbury • December 15, 2009

Heading to the Eagan Community Center to check out their indoor track on this lovely below-zero morning


DK @kingsbury • December 15, 2009

10.3 laps per mile make for a pretty boring 5 mile run on the indoor track. Warm, though…


DK @kingsbury • December 15, 2009

What would you change in WordPress?


DK @kingsbury • December 15, 2009

Grand Marais police report: “7:53AM – Caller said her son is upset about his car and is yelling outside.” Thanks for calling the 5-0, mom


DK @kingsbury • December 15, 2009

1:43PM – Caller wanted to make someone aware of the constant partying and marijuana smoking going on near her residence.


DK @kingsbury • December 16, 2009

Today’s schedule: dentist, lunch with Terry at Zantigo, afternoon conference call, kid two swimming. Happy about the above zero temps, too


DK @kingsbury • December 16, 2009

Can’t seem to get away from St. Anthony Park – same dentist in same location on Como since I was in grade school


DK @kingsbury • December 16, 2009

Clean bill of health at the dentist – said my last filling was in 1991. Hurray for Mt. Dew and Cherry Coke!


DK @kingsbury • December 16, 2009

Registration now open for the 2010 Get in Gear races (April 24)


DK @kingsbury • December 16, 2009

Oh great, WordPress 2.9 by the end of the week?


DK @kingsbury • December 16, 2009

I wonder if my network connection issues are caused by my old wireless base station, my old cable modem or my old Comcast network


DK @kingsbury • December 17, 2009

Even Nip/Tuck can’t make 10K on the treadmill enjoyable


DK @kingsbury • December 17, 2009

Off to Southdale to meet with Pash and Charles, then lunch with Colleen at the Blue Door


DK @kingsbury • December 18, 2009

Intermission at It’s a Wonderful Life starring my friend Phil at the St. Paul Hotel – fun show and great food


DK @kingsbury • December 18, 2009

Got to sleep in a little today (thanks CK), but lots to do today


DK @kingsbury • December 18, 2009

Oh, potato chips, you complete me


DK @kingsbury • December 18, 2009

Troubleshooting WordPress issues with WP-Super-Cache and WPG2; automatic plugin updates and permissions


DK @kingsbury • December 18, 2009

First Tiger, now GM – not a great year for Sweden


DK @kingsbury • December 19, 2009

Captain EO returning to Disneyland in February for a limited run


DK @kingsbury • December 19, 2009

How was I so lucky to never see Frosty Returns until now? Shame on Lorne Michaels for producing that crap


DK @kingsbury • December 19, 2009

Now on eBay – 10 Years of Cities 97 Samplers (Volumes 12 – 21)


DK @kingsbury • December 19, 2009

H1N1 shots this morning, then we ditch the kids for lunch at 20.21, followed by the British Television Advertising Awards at the Walker


DK @kingsbury • December 20, 2009

Going to try a little workout in the basement while watching the post-fire Wild try to win in Ottawa with new equipment


DK @kingsbury • December 20, 2009

Ran 10K on the treadmill – took a cue from the Wild and slowed down the pace a little


DK @kingsbury • December 20, 2009

WordPress 2.9 seems to have broken my ancient (and deprecated) WeatherIcon plugin. Time to find a newer weather plugin, I guess


DK @kingsbury • December 20, 2009

Ran 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. The 1″ of snow was like running through the south bay beach sand – minus the bikinis (and warmth)


DK @kingsbury • December 20, 2009

I’m now 37.6 miles short of 1,000 for 2009 with 11 days to go


DK @kingsbury • December 20, 2009

Kid one and I hit four places and wrapped up all the shopping for the year. Now I just need to watch the mailbox


DK @kingsbury • December 20, 2009

Couch, laptop, blanket and TV remote – all set for the rest of the night


DK @kingsbury • December 21, 2009

Mike Tomlin must be some sort of football genius. Thank you Steelers!


DK @kingsbury • December 21, 2009

Hmm…Survivor finale or Vikings/Panthers game?


DK @kingsbury • December 21, 2009

All sites upgraded to WP 2.9 – now on to reviewing frameworks and widgetizing old themes


DK @kingsbury • December 21, 2009

So grey and depressing out today – hard to get motivated. Maybe this Code Red will help


DK @kingsbury • December 21, 2009

WordPress/BuddyPress overload this morning – tutorials, podcasts, videos


DK @kingsbury • December 21, 2009

Created a new test subdomain for 7minutemiles.com in DNS and configured Apache. Will load up WordPress MU and BuddyPress later today


DK @kingsbury • December 21, 2009

Taking kid two to the eye doctor for a follow-up, then to the credit union


DK @kingsbury • December 22, 2009

Second-to-last swim lesson of the year for kid two. Can’t wait to warm up in there tonight


DK @kingsbury • December 22, 2009

Ran another 10K on the treadmill during the Wild loss to the Avs – think I saw the best period of the game


DK @kingsbury • December 22, 2009

I wonder if going from 4GB to 8GB in my MBP would reduce the number of SPoDs I get per day – too bad it’s still $465 to find out


DK @kingsbury • December 22, 2009

One more gift to arrive via Fedex tomorrow, otherwise everything else is wrapped and ready. Off to the library and both banks


DK @kingsbury • December 22, 2009

TV advertising still works on me – trying the SnackPak at Culver’s


DK @kingsbury • December 22, 2009

Lovely: “Marian Gaborik scored his NHL-leading 25th goal and added an assist…”


DK @kingsbury • December 22, 2009

Building a localhost testing environment for Apache2, PHP and MySQL for theme testing. Can’t believe how far behind I was with phpMyAdmin


DK @kingsbury • December 22, 2009

New WordPress-related discoveries today: importing test data xml files (nice) and themes much, much more advanced than mine (Tarski)


DK @kingsbury • December 23, 2009

Riding along with Colleen and kid two to the big Fleet Farm store


DK @kingsbury • December 23, 2009

Ran another 10 miles outside in Eagan and Apple Valley. Hate to admit it, but the cold and weird easterly wind actually weren’t too bad


DK @kingsbury • December 23, 2009

My auction closes later today: 10 Years of Cities 97 Samplers (Volumes 12 – 21)


DK @kingsbury • December 23, 2009

Long, hot showers after doing anything outside in the Minnesota winter are total bliss


DK @kingsbury • December 23, 2009

The Fedex man brought me my last gifts, which are now wrapped and under the tree. Done!


DK @kingsbury • December 23, 2009

Great (decadent) lunch and visit with Brad at Al Baker’s in Eagan – club melt, waffle fries with seasoned sour cream and a cherry coke


DK @kingsbury • December 23, 2009

Better get to the grocery store and stock up before snowmageddon hits – mini Cub, here I come


DK @kingsbury • December 23, 2009

No snow yet, so heading in to St. Paul for the Oilers-Wild game at the X


DK @kingsbury • December 24, 2009

Wow, Hobbit Travel closed after 30+ years


DK @kingsbury • December 24, 2009

First night of snowmaggedon shoveled from the driveway. Snow total not bad so far, but the wind and drifts are pretty bad


DK @kingsbury • December 24, 2009

Lost 0.4 pound shoveling snow this morning instead of using the snowblower and people still look at me like I’m crazy


DK @kingsbury • December 24, 2009

Our weather radar looks wimpy compared to that line going through Louisiana and Arkansas


DK @kingsbury • December 24, 2009

Cossetta’s to pick up the Christmas lasagna (and get some pizza for lunch), then the mother-in-law’s house until midnight mass


DK @kingsbury • December 24, 2009

Mother-in-law’s 65th birthday party almost finished. Read all six magazines I brought, so I threw the Christmas Vacation DVD in the player


DK @kingsbury • December 25, 2009

This second wave of snow is much wetter and heavier – happy to be back home. Time for a basement workout


DK @kingsbury • December 25, 2009

Adding 5 pounds to each dumbbell has been pretty tough, but it’s getting easier each time. Ran another 5K too


DK @kingsbury • December 25, 2009

Shoveled again so we can take kid one to church to be an altar server for midnight mass at SJN


DK @kingsbury • December 25, 2009

I don’t think Santa is a big fan of midnight mass


DK @kingsbury • December 25, 2009

Never thought I hate to see 35 degrees – this sleet crap is awful!


DK @kingsbury • December 25, 2009

Thanks for all the gifts – kids got me a 4GB iPod shuffle inscribed with “Run Daddy Run”


DK @kingsbury • December 26, 2009

Back safely from all the festivities at Mr. Smith’s house. Finished upper body shovel workout, now on to the treadmill to work off the bird


DK @kingsbury • December 26, 2009

More shovel time, one exchange at Best Buy and kids using gift cards at Borders


DK @kingsbury • December 27, 2009

Every metro Target apparently out of sleds and Wii remotes. Good thing we extras of the former and that I was able to fix the latter


DK @kingsbury • December 27, 2009

Ran 10K on the treadmill while watching Wild-Blues. They look pretty good tonight


DK @kingsbury • December 27, 2009

Signed up for the New York City Marathon lottery this morning – race is November 7, 2010


DK @kingsbury • December 27, 2009

Can’t believe it’s snowing again. I can believe the Packers will easily make the playoffs


DK @kingsbury • December 28, 2009

Fun to have new Everest episodes on Discovery Channel. 15,000 calories burned in one day of climbing is crazy


DK @kingsbury • December 28, 2009

Kid winter break isn’t much of a break for me – so much stuff to do this week too


DK @kingsbury • December 29, 2009

Dear Vikings, you are now dead to me…40 years of heartbreak are enough. Maybe you’ll have better luck in LA


DK @kingsbury • December 29, 2009

Late night basement workout (10K on treadmill, situps and weights) while watching Wild snap Staples Center jinx


DK @kingsbury • December 29, 2009

Errands finished, now lunch at Allina Commons with the girls (kid one & two, Colleen, Amy and Megan) – Andy’s Garage?


DK @kingsbury • December 29, 2009

Ahh – kids went with grandma, so the house is quiet again. Plotting my escape from the snow and cold


DK @kingsbury • December 29, 2009

World’s Finest Chocolate makes everything better


DK @kingsbury • December 29, 2009

Last minute date night – It’s Complicated at Regal Eagan


DK @kingsbury • December 30, 2009

Visions of CSS tweaks dancing through my head


DK @kingsbury • December 30, 2009

Ran 5 miles on the indoor track at the Eagan Community Center. That should put me at 1002.1 miles for 2009 – sort of hard to believe


DK @kingsbury • December 30, 2009

I love open source code – easy to dig in and customize what you want and Google gives so many examples to learn from


DK @kingsbury • December 30, 2009

Nice lunch with DGS at the Circle Pines Carbone’s


DK @kingsbury • December 30, 2009

Eagan – Circle Pines – Eagan – Minnetonka – Eagan + 1 inch of snow = way too much car time today


DK @kingsbury • December 31, 2009

Isn’t this a sign of the apocalypse? #1 redbox rental of 2009 – Paul Blart: Mall Cop


DK @kingsbury • December 31, 2009

Disneyworld marathon finally full – guess I won’t be sneaking down there next weekend after all


DK @kingsbury • December 31, 2009

Smashburger coming to Eagan spring 2010 – wonder where exactly?


DK @kingsbury • December 31, 2009

Guess it’s going to be in the old Ethan Allen space over by the Panera Bread and BWW


DK @kingsbury • December 31, 2009

Late lunch with Studio Phil at Jake’s in Eagan. Tonight for NYE – warm blanket, book and maybe watch the latest Harry Potter DVD



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