Just uncovered the stack of new CDs and iTunes gift cards on my desk – time to rip and load

Need to do better than 2017 – started with a slow treadmill 5K

Maybe I’m an outlier, but I can’t remember the last time I watched *any* cable news channel

It seems like half of these Sabres players spent time in Minnesota at some point

Walked in to @ticasino with my $100 free play card and walked out with $94 cash

Rough treadmill five miler while watching this AFC “old-school battle of field position”

All new Apple patches tested and successfully deployed at home (tomorrow = 150+ more at work)

No wonder Kendrick is wearing that coat – it’s currently 37F with 100% humidity in Hotlanta

These iPads are liars

The 1961 Ferrari 250GT California. Less than a hundred were made…

Another great G. Love show tonight @mysticlake

That time when T-Pain did your warm-up music

Can’t wait for the post-game meeting on the field

So wait, did they flag Diggs for taking off his helmet – then pick it up?

More people need to visit Sea Change for weekday lunch

All sites successfully updated to WordPress 4.9.2

It was a pretty good day for concert announcements

I was starting to think no one sold gum drops any more

The watch says my little jaunt on the catwalk yesterday took my heart rate from 72 to 128

Heart rate during the “Minneapolis Miracle” was 133

Zach is wearing my hat

Come on, Minnesotans, it’s not *that* much snow

This is some solid engineering right here

Really enjoyed the Robbie and Janney performances in I, Tonya

Florida all-stars: NFL in Orlando, NHL in Tampa

Updated the about page on 7minutemiles – now on to the biography page (which hasn’t changed since 2015)

The little exercise in narcissism has been updated for all you insomniacs and show hole peeps

Good luck to all the “perfectly sane” participants in the Arrowhead 135 tomorrow ❄️

Feel like I work for the CIA this week (and can’t share anything), but I do have to say – how great is the green line? 🚈💚

The Chef Experience food was awesome, but my feet are still unthawing

Nice chatting with Saints GM @DerekSharrer this morning – that organization does it right

Cool to meet Tod Leiweke and hear him speak. Bonus: free lunch from the always amazing @4waytest

Keeping stadium nerds happy since 2015

And just like that, it’s Super Bowl month

OK, visitors, here’s the deal. Most Minnesotans embrace the concept of four seasons, but the reality of winter is often horrible

Thank you @MPR for doing stuff like Films at the Fitz – good, free neighborhood fun

Hey Atlanta, don’t blink – you are almost on the clock

Started the morning with Morrissey’s Something is Squeezing My Skull (and it’s -6F)

AmpThink is the best

I couldn’t do what I do without this amazing team

VPN access restored, SSIDs changed back, radios returned, 50% off sale shopped – time to go home and relax a little

Almost have all parts of post-SB vacation booked – see you soon, Vegas and LA 🌞

If you only had websites, email and texting, how much would you miss out on?

The Masters is still my favorite tournament to watch, but Pebble gets me ready for the season

Great to see @gabrieldouglas at the @MplsDowntown annual meeting

Slow 5K at stadium run club – nice to be back for at least one this season

These men’s combined crashes are freaking me out – flashbacks to that orange fence at Lutsen

The Pines and the Turtles at the Palace? Yes, please

Not your average Tuesday: met Morneau, got Turtles tickets, ate the @SaintDinette burger and now headed to Wild/Rangers

Hockey is intense

Have you backed up your httpd.conf and httpd-hosts.conf files lately? How about your “normal” files?

Is this real? Mac mini web server with Homebrew, upgraded from 10.12.6 to 10.13.3 and everything just seems to be working

Lady Lark before Clueless at the Fitz

Had to pick up the kid from Eagan and realized the only time I now leave Minneapolis and St. Paul is to go to Mystic Lake

Great to catch up with @AndrewRCraven and @KristaCraven at the always excellent @SaintDinette brunch

Studying the move to https – two sites I’m surprised don’t have it yet: startribune.com and krypted.com

Oh to have a body that’s hecka-slammin’

121-157-135-154-153 (and MK almost won 3/5)

After spending time with my dad at the VA Hospital today, I will never complain about the DMV ever again

Still not a fan of the shoot-out, but that was some good Olympics TV 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

This should be kinda fun

My latest phone seems to be extremely challenged by concert photography

Davanni’s on Hennepin: I order, then dude behind me grabs the cheap Apple headphones out of my pocket and dashes out the door

Phone was in the other pocket, plus he completely ignored my wallet. Clerk was like – what just happened?

Fun going away happy hour at Grumpy’s for Gabby – good luck and see you in the SOC

Really enjoyed the Avett movie May It Last – Rick Rubin is my hero

Big congrats to all the @CharlieAwards winners, but extra love to @tniver and the teams at @MuccisItalian and @SaintDinette

Somehow I think a cup holder with only an inch and a half of support doesn’t quite do the job

You guys, the days are getting longer – ran 3.5 slushy miles along the river

Cool father of the year nominee?

4:30am alarm and here I am watching Kings versus Vegas 🏒

Helped kid one with her taxes (first year not as my dependent), then freaked out about mine. All good, though

Happiness is a warm caramel roll

It really is like riding a bike

Big shout out to Jim @GiantsRidge and the Burnt Onion crew – great food!

One symbol away from a $7660 jackpot at Hinckley – I’ll just be over here in the corner weeping quietly

On the 3:32 train for my 4:30 baseball shift – wonder if the players will make it ⚾️

Not sure it’s a positive thing to close your 12-hour stand ring at three in the afternoon

I’d totally shop here

It’s that dreaded five goal lead

Really interesting to see NIGA in Las Vegas this year – good luck to @KevinLeecy at the Paiute tournament

Best hockey tournament in the country – I need one of those 218 Hockey shirts

I’m sensing that there are a lot of regulars on the 3:32am train

Not hearing glowing reviews about the newly remodeled Carbone’s on Randolph 😢

I’d say there is a 95% chance daylight savings messes up my train schedule for the 3:30am baseball shift

Longest run since November – six slow miles on the treadmill

Saw a Range Rover ad, built my “ski bum” car for the low, low price of $91,300

Not one to jump on and off the bandwagon, but I don’t think I’ll be wagering any money on the Wild in the playoffs

Great dinner at Cafe Alma before heading to the State Theater

Experimented with riding my bike to work – not super practical, but good exercise and a scenic river route

I think my ideal solution will be take the bike on the train to work, change clothes there, then ride home

Last minute impulse purchase

First back of house kitchen shift @bigriverpizza for MK

Another last minute decision (with an Irish tilt 🍀 🇮🇪)

It takes a special kind of person to be a gate agent at a major airport

The home of Super Bowl LIII is impressive – thanks to the tech team in Atlanta for the tour and hospitality

1) Happy the Wild game was nationally televised so I could watch it here, 2) big lightning and thunder outside ⛈

Seems like we nearing the point of TSA Pre✓ saturation

Wonder why Liz Phair got booked at Turf Club – could’ve easily sold out a bigger room

Finally watching Mr. Robot S3 – so cool to see Wallace Shawn

The Audi Quattro seats aren’t bad

How did I not know about “Country Mike’s Greatest Hits” until today?

As a former airline employee, we never used to travel during spring break. Fingers crossed, but so far, so good

The first timers have arrived

It amazes me how little the slot floor layouts change at most strip properties

Food prices in Vegas sure seem to be on the upswing, but everything has been fantastic

Bucket list item achieved: took the fish to see “O”

Does hotel TV check-out ever work or am I just unlucky?

Pulled in to Anaheim just in time to watch the end of the Wild game on national TV – Norm still sucks

It’s hard to comprehend just how much change has occurred at the Disneyland Hotel in my lifetime

Just calculated how long ago I first visited Disneyland – congrats to both of us for lasting this long

Today BBC America introduced me to Premiere League Darts in Dublin – never knew that was a thing

Younger me: driving in LA is invigorating. Older me: I never want to drive here again

Happiness is walking right on Big Thunder and Pirates on a Sunday night

Never would’ve guessed Knott’s Berry Farm on Monday would be way worse than Sunday at Disneyland

Not a speck of snow to be found (see you soon, Minnesota)

Hmm: Live Nation, House of Blues, Fillmore Theater, Target Field Station

Brought 9-year-old Lapzilla back to life with some single user mode, fsck, mount and rm wizardry

Came out of semi-retirement for the @WeRunMPLS birthday party at Bauhaus Brew Labs

Always have admired the masters.org website and now the AppleTV app continues the tradition

Ideal Sunday: Isle of Dogs, final nine at the Masters and dinner @youngjoni_mn

Finished laundry from vacation and packed away those clothes for another month

Spent two hours looking for a photo that turns out isn’t from the timeframe I thought – never going to get these organized, am I?

Best Buy hasn’t opened a big-box store in the U.S. for seven years?

I bet whatever Tom Waits is doing right now is pretty cool

Disappointed in the L, but was (mostly) happy with the effort from the Wild (and congrats to the Wolves and Golden Knights)

Enjoyed the Amazon/BBC series Fleabag with Phoebe Waller-Bridge (who voices L3-37 in Solo)

Back to hockey: Tod Leiweke quits as NFL COO and is named CEO and president of potential Seattle NHL expansion franchise

Not the viewing party I wanted, but thanks to the Xcel crew for opening the doors

No offense to the new guys, but when the announcers say Soucy, Greenway & Seeler more than Staal, Zucker & Parise, the Wild are in trouble

And of course it was Tuch and Haula scoring in Vegas

The 2018 Coachella live streams on YouTube are so good – need to go some year

Worked 14 hours and still had to do about 30 flights of steps to close my last stupid ring

This David Byrne choreography is really something – think I need a new suit

We need Iron Range Red towels, not Surrender White

Tropicana Entertainment was worth $1.85B? Also didn’t know Carl Icahn owned it

Armchair Wild GMs: be more like Chicago, be more like the Blues, be more like the Ducks, be more like the Kings. All will be golfing soon

WSJ: On average, a CFM56-powered plane takes off somewhere in the world every two seconds

Train tickets to Chicago acquired – Union Station to Union Station

Love the Vikings schedule – no holidays, lots of noon games, good broadcasters

Some of the old Phil Collins songs that weren’t played to death are really quite good

Not sure what to expect with this one

Does it still count as a walk of shame if you are leaving work?

Wonder what my life would be like if I never had to set an alarm to wake up again? Barely made brunch today

Really enjoyed the Andre the Giant documentary on HBO

Funny that after one trip to Vegas, I now get free room offers there (just as Mystic stopped giving them to me)

Great, now I want to run this one again

A Donut Run the morning after Kenny Chesney? Sure, why not

When your routes include the Mississippi, Summit Avenue and the Greenway, the May bike challenge is looking pretty good

Totally makes my day that my brother and I can still do a 10K in under an hour

The sunburn will hurt, but the 89 at Willingers felt great

Kinda sad that the last of the vacation posts dropped off the front page of my website

Ready for the May bike challenge at work – even coded a new bike log page

I’ll be tired tomorrow, but playoff hockey is the best

172-167-140-175-180 🎳

The new L.A. stadium is within one mile of the San Andreas fault?

Bike challenge week one: 65.9 miles, rode all five days, down six pounds from my winter high

No comment on the Palace audience, but so great to have TBT back

They have beer in Mexico on Cinco de Mayo?

How are there still so many burgers in town that I haven’t tried?

I’ve been downtown almost three years and didn’t know this location was here until today

h/t to @grayter1 for Harmy’s Star Wars Trilogy Despecialized Editions – I am almost in tears over here

Realized during my (almost all into the wind) ride home, my bike has 24 speeds, but I only use three

Things I could use less of on the golf course: bad hot dogs, golf carts, music on golf carts, cart paths for golf carts

Had a great time last night at Travail family meal (and so funny to run into @T_McKee on the way out)

Sports betting for all (glad I did poorly in Business Law and don’t have to read things like this every day) – supremecourt.gov

After editing several thousand lines of PHP/MySQL code, maybe I was too harsh on SCOTUS legal decisions

How it should work: broken site, look at web server logs, Google, apply fix for “scoping issue,” site back up

Surprised at how many zombie Twitter accounts I follow – probably safe to unfollow those with a last tweet > 1,000 days ago

Imagine multiple floors of slot machines in downtown St. Paul…

Thanks Jeremy, Steve and Sam for another great @MarianHillMusic show

Our neighborhood summer music fest lineup looks 💯 – musicinmears.com

Really need to stop forgetting my headphones during late night train rides – the crazy was strong tonight

Three weeks of bike challenge: 310 miles, down 9 pounds (burgers not helping)

What a great story

Monday night with the Twins

Tuesday night with the Saints

Wednesday night party on the roof

Thursday night in Minnehaha with @WeRunMPLS

Don’t know who in the food chain eats gnats, but they’ve hit the motherlode tonight along the Mississippi

Keys to 96F golf: Gatorade, (reluctant) cart, shade, new clubs, shoot 86

Learned so many things I didn’t know while watching The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling

When the neighbors have the good stuff

Saw more St. Paul squad cars on my bike ride today than I’ve seen in the past two weeks

Great stories on both sides (didn’t know T.J. Oshie is a member at Southview), but I gotta go with (500-1) Haula, Tuch and Bark-Andre Furry

Ha! 🐶 🏒

Finished season two of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” in two sessions – Patrick Warburton has the coolest voice

Cheers to (almost) the end of bike challenge month

Never know when I run across a system that has 673 days of uptime whether to be impressed or terrified

Celebrating CK’s annual review with some special @SaintDinette hospitality

Ready for Tapemark Drawing Night @SouthviewCClub

For what it’s worth, I liked Solo a lot more than I liked The Last Jedi

Never been a “real” developer, but I did attend at least ten WWDCs – still fun to watch those keynotes

There are quite a few things in Mohave and watchOS 5 that I will use on a daily basis – when is “fall” again?

154-141-130-185-182 🎳

First night of Music in Mears with Alex Rossi and @TOTBOSStruck

Nothing beats playoff hockey as far as I’m concerned

Celebrating 47 years of @tapemarkgolf (17 in a row personally) at @SouthviewCClub

Switched my traditional Sunday Tapemark breakfast to Saturday due to travel

Landed safely (and on time) at MCO – thanks @Delta

Best attraction theming ever? Definitely one of my all-time faves

It’s a bit telling that I need to tether to my phone to get a data connection for my laptop at this convention

Also telling how many terms used in the keynote today that I hadn’t heard before: SD-LAN, Kubernetes, Tetration

Only halfway through day two and I’m already nearing peak nerd fatigue

Never thought I’d hear so much love for open source at a Cisco convention

Florida does have perks

Three days into my conference and this is the first session on phones

There might be more people in the park during this private party than they normally have

Florida rainy season is intense – every single day has included a brief downpour with a side of lightning

Great feeling waiting for my flight back to MN, Sony Studio headphones blocking the chaos and @munsongs singing in my ear 🎶

Update from ATL: managed to get from end of concourse E to gate A4 and eat dinner from the clown before boarding 🍟 ✈️

So much for our Saturday round at Ridges

Not a Phil fan and I cancelled my USGA membership a few years ago – they deserve each other

Opening hole: 400 yards (irons off the tee, wedges in). Second hole: 264 yard par three

Sounds like the new Spago is open at Bellagio (hard to believe the old one was at Caesar’s Forum for 25 years)

The MPR raccoon has nothing on this show

Much love to Thomas, Kat and Kyu (and everyone @EatDrinkRabbit) – hope your new journeys are 💯

Mornings with electricity are waaaaay better than mornings without electricity

Paid for an upgrade tonight – these should work

Not sure if I’m more surprised by the Twins winning the first two vs. Boston or that Dozier stole third ⚾️

Quick binge of HBO’s Barry – didn’t realize Milton from Office Space has been in so many shows

Beautiful morning along Sand Creek – shot an 87 from the whites (the new gear is starting to work)

Birthday dinner for CK 🎉 🐇 ❤️

Damn, Meat Loaf, Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad is harsh

Don’t really understand all the changes to the @instagram API, but it sure would be nice to have easy access to my 1080 original images

Nothing runs like a Deere

Have I mentioned how much I hate time calculations in PHP? Just took me an hour to use MPH instead of pace on the bike log

Guessing a job working the big river isn’t as romantic as I like to think it is

Happy we decided to drive to Buffalo Tap for dinner

Perfect summer vacation golf day at the Meadows – shot a (generous) 86 from the white tees

RIP Rainmaker Fireworks of St. Croix Falls 💥

Not sure what to think about the top searches on my website today being “egg planes” and “middle school butt”

So wait, Lady Aberlin was in Zack and Miri Make a Porno?

Ugh, why do I run updates on a Friday? StackOverflow

Really glad we drove up early to revisit Glensheen

Just witnessed one of the oddest drunk ejections ever at Bayfront – nice job by the Duluth PD (and the adjacent fans)

“Charlie’s on stage and roof may collapse. No one seems to worry about the light in the gap…”

Zipper merge: wouldn’t it help if we didn’t tell people which lane was ending?

Gooseberry is my favorite “rest stop” ever

Just your average 53-year-old Rafael Palmeiro in the lineup tonight

Perfect summer riding weather tonight after work

I’m not anti-car, but this summer it’s my fourth favorite form of transportation ✈️🚈🚲🚗

So much stuff today: X Games, World Cup, day baseball (x2), Cisco Umbrella, Sony RX100 VI, burger special, Sonos AirPlay 2, DirecTV/ESPN

Frustrating day troubleshooting trunked fiber connections between switches, but we’ll try again tomorrow

Can’t believe I didn’t sign up for VaultPress earlier – $39 a year seems like a great deal

Felt great closing with five pars at Bluff Creek in Chaska – shot an 86 from the gold tees in the heat

Watched Goodbye Christopher Robin, then fell down a Milne rabbit hole for an hour

Read the story about Lumines on the Verge – $15 and four hours later, the battery in my Switch is dead

That Eric Idle song at the end of the HBO Robin Williams documentary = ❤️❤️❤️

What these athletes do on skateboards on the Big Air jump is surreal – I can’t ride down the hall safely

Love it when initial troubleshooting identifies a tripped breaker that powered everything down

It’s been 15 years, but I’m headed back to the TC 10 Mile in October

This crew, though 😎

Happy the shelf life of my Dumba jersey has been extended

All of my former teams make me proud, but big congrats to Alex Cook, the new IT Director @FortuneBay

So I think this explains things more than carbs – started officially training for the TC 10 Mile tonight

Japanese casino legislation very interesting: no limits on foreign visitors, but locals must pay $53 entry fee (with limited entries/month)

Still no Chrome 68 on the Mac side, but my Windows VM just updated – guess it’s time to finally finish the Let’s Encrypt testing

Such a nice evening at Saints baseball tonight: shutout win, helmet taco salad, reindeer grounds crew

Awesome to be back with @WeRunMPLS tonight @ Indeed

Not sure all Def Leppard songs age equally well, but Rick Allen is still The Thunder God

Just so, so conflicted about Fake Journey

Had two birdies on my way to an 87 from the white tees at Dahlgreen

When the mandolin Turtle plays in your neighborhood ❤️🎶

Currently down 14-9, but these are the nights we will dream about in January

Just saw the most adorable buskers ever in Lowertown – two kids with a ukulele singing “I’d Like to Visit the Moon”

How amazing is it to be a major league batter who can face a 95mph fastball from either side of the plate

The turf looks amazing – you should all come down and check out some European football tomorrow night @usbankstadium

The Moneyball guys aren’t making a lot of friends in Twins Territory right now

Planned to work on https tonight, but ran a server OS update and spent four hours rebuilding Apache and PHP

On the plus side, I’m finally running PHP 7 now (and only have one version of Apache)

Vastly underestimated how early it gets dark now, how cold it can be in August and how many bugs are still along the river

Waaaaay bigger up close

PSA: Mary and the Witch’s Flower is now on Netflix

Thank you @TOTBOSStruck for your continued support of Hazelfest

Thanks @Mike_Doughty_ for coming to Hazelfest – so great listening to you speak (and play)

Really liking the new Gorillaz album – a return to the stylings of old

Can’t believe how low the water is right now

Great to be back at my “home” course – shot an 88 from the white tees @ Willingers GC

U.S. currency: why are nickels so popular and when did the back of the $5 bill start to look awful?

Only have one Saints game left, two Twins games and the State Fair starts in ten days

Pocket treasure: the “youngest” wheat pennies are now 62 years old (first minted in 1909)

When there’s a tailgate downstairs, you tailgate downstairs

Sounds like I should’ve headed to the zoo tonight for David Huckfelt and Son Volt

Not a fan of primary voting, but cast vote #4 this morning

Wonder what % of the world’s digital storage is consumed by bad photos

Surprised to learn that last year in the MSP market, the Orpheum sold more tickets than Xcel and Target Center (388,475)

I don’t think airplanes (and the engineers who design them) get enough credit for being amazing

Greetings from Wrigleyville

Let’s play two

Abe Frohman sighting in Chicago

Chef Dan always said, if you visit Chicago, eat at Blackbird. Smart guy, that Chef Dan

Do we have to get off the train in the Twin Cities?

The differences between air travel policies and procedures and rail are honestly quite incredible

Riding the rails through small town America while listening to Wilco and Charlie Parr has been highly therapeutic

“Can you picture what will be? So limitless and free. Desperately in need, of some stranger’s hand, in a desperate land”

Shot an 84 from the whites at Sand Creek – the new gear is really starting to pay off

The first week away from social has been a good learning experience

Too bad Birch’s Lowertown is going to miss most of Saints season

I’m never prepared for the first day with a hint of fall, but I love it 🍁

Hey, Minneapolis, MAKE SOME NOISE

Thumbs way down on my one new item this year – the pepperoni chips (and I love pepperoni)

What the heck, Google? The new Chrome update has come crazy UI going on…

Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin popped up on iTunes shuffle and 29 minutes later, we are still rocking

Wow, 24F in northern Minnesota this morning – that was quick

Shot a shaky 87 from the whites at Columbia – too many poor shots

Congrats to Kaitlyn (50 miles) and all the other amazing Superior fall trail racers

Rough night for the home team ⚾️

If it’s Apple update day, that must mean WordPress 5.0 will drop any minute

No, Apple, I really *don’t* want a passcode on these iPads – please stopping asking me three times

Apple is now officially as bad as Microsoft when it comes to time remaining bars for OS updates

The music reorganization project is nothing compared to the picture reorganization project

415,978 temp files for one program seems like a lot, no?

Um…OK ❄️ ⛄️

Word on the street was bad for Disenchantment, but I really liked it (plus music by Mark Mothersbaugh!)

The hot shower was kinda hard (balance, removing stuff), but still amazing

Hello again, Twitter. Headed to my first two outpatient therapy sessions

It was really a strange feeling walking past the spot where I nearly died three weeks ago

My new look

Physical therapy has to start somewhere: 21:40 walking on the treadmill, 1.5 incline, 2.0 mph, 0.7 miles

Haven’t watched a Wild game like this in quite a long time – nice job down in St. Louis

Good luck to @angelakay629, who is about to run New York today with Team Bright Pink in honor of her sister Melissa

So proud of my favorite team in the league – can’t wait to join you again ❤️🏈

Thanks to @T_McKee and @lorinzinter for teaching Sasha so much the past year at Octo

Planned to use Shutterfly for my cards, but Simply to Impress had better editing tools and options (and cost just slightly more)

Big fluffy flakes outside and these in the oven ❄️ 🍪

Another 20 minutes of treadmill time for PT – this time with some new D on the headphones

Doing my own laundry has never felt so satisfying

Amazon Prime video finally has Justified season 6 for free – love Sam Elliott’s voice, Timothy Olyphant’s acting and Ava and Boyd Crowder

You be you, Bears

Successfully increased my treadmill physical therapy today, while keeping heart rate in line

Heartbreaking news about the Zup’s fire in Cook – hope they can get back up and running soon

I could be wrong, but selling 100,000 $45 tickets to the 3M Open on a holiday weekend in MN seems like a tough job

To all my tweeps, thank you for all the love and support after my aneurysm ❤️

The cinematography in the first three minutes of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is incredible

Watch out internet, I’m attempting to code with one eye open (and a brain injury)

My return to live music is going well so far

Four hours of tough therapy this morning, but now I feel like I could build a rocket and decode the Enigma cipher in my head

Really looking forward to my first approved Wild game tonight

Don’t even know where to begin today: 🏃🏻 🚊 👮‍♀️ 🚑 👨‍⚕️ 👩‍⚕️ 🤕👨‍👩‍👧‍👧❤️🦃😎

Successful visit to the eye doctor – my eyepatch days should be over

Today would’ve been my grandfather’s 99th birthday 🎂 ❤️

My awesome wife returns to work next week, so I’m experimenting with transporting myself home tonight 🚊

Update: Mumford & Sons are still missing their banjo

Didn’t know if I’d like Narcos: Mexico without (lots of) Pablo, but it was really good

Still some cleanup to do, but finally got High Sierra, Apache, Let’s Encrypt and TLS to display 7minutemiles.com using https

Got my Qualys A+ SSL scan result, but broke emoji display

The Wild deserved better tonight – I thought it was going to be 7-2 for sure

Best booth at the ice fishing show by far

Grew up in St. Paul and love the place to death, but man are the downtown skyways weird and creepy

How did I not know about this Oak Island thing until now?

Some exciting news coming to 7minutemiles.com this afternoon

Can’t believe the downtown Minneapolis Arby’s closed at some point while I’ve been out – will have to hop the train to University now

Upgraded to WordPress 5.0, turned on the classic editor for now (and the emoji issue persists)

Back in my airline days, people used Minny all the time to refer to MSP. Plus: Minnie and Paul?

Didn’t know if the Christmas CD would happen this year or not, but making progress

Got though it, but not even the Valium and the “calming nature video and soothing music & lights” made the MRI experience cool

It’s not every day you get a home visit from George Bailey, followed by dinner with old friends ❤️

Back at it – green line to work on a brisk, sunny morning

When you come back to your office computer after two months, you get *two* full Office updates

A little Lucy before DMW light up the Furnace

New laptop setup day

Still a long way to go, but it’s nice watching hockey with two eyes again

Ryan Suter plays hockey like Ernie Els plays golf

Kid two remembered! Thanks, MK ❤️

Going to regret this at 4:45am, but @atmosphere is totally worth it

If you are a Talking Heads fan, run (don’t walk) and listen to True Stories, The Complete Soundtrack

My word of the day yesterday: infundibulum, a funnel-shaped cavity or structure (of which I apparently have a prominent one)

Has Target eliminated paper bags everywhere now?

My Force number was more secure than my college ID

Got approved this morning to return to running (treadmill only for now) – very happy about this, as the weight is recovering fast

Very happy to report: light dumbbell reps and two slow treadmill miles

Woke up this morning and I could read my phone without the prism glasses – starting to get there!

Season’s Greetings from Lowertown Saint Paul

Hope it breaks the other way, but Vikings losing to the Bears and the Eagles beating the Cardinals doesn’t seem like huge odds

Had my playoff options mixed up, but I don’t see the Cardinals beating the Seahawks in Seattle either

Plans for my 50th birthday changed after my little incident, but this will be nice too

NYE 2018: alive ✅ treadmill 5K ✅ Curse of Oak Island marathon ✅ early bedtime ✅