Run Log and Bike Log code updated for 2020 – hoping to push both farther this year

Impressive Gophers win, 2021 Winter Classic at Target Field – can we pass on some of today to Sunday in New Orleans?

Never thought I’d miss iTunes, but Music (and Apple Music) are driving me crazy

It’s been fun watching the Sentry Tournament of Champions after being there around Halloween

It’s raining money tonight at the X

It’s been a very emotional 48 hours

Experimenting with Vimeo for concert videos on 7 Minute Miles – seems pretty nice so far

More engineers that helped us build and open the stadium retiring – congrats to Jim and Paul!

Slowly starting it back up again for 2020

This is warm in Fahrenheit, right?

King of the Castle, King of the Castle

Well, the first full day of ski vacation didn’t go as planned – both big areas closed due to conditions and I took MK to Banff Hospital

It may still be -26C outside, but I love this place so much

First post-aneurysm ski day in the books

Canadian five pin bowling is crazy hard

Lake Louise was wonderful, but I am a much more cautious skier now and some spots honestly scared me

Looks like Delta flight control will release us into the MSP snow drama

Thanks to the awesome plow crew at MSP and our Delta pilots for getting us back safely

So confused about Wes Walz: weird end of his playing career > coaching at Woodbury > FSN commentator

Having a January birthday gives one the opportunity to have two early checks on resolutions for the new year – excited for 2020

Today’s epiphany: the Mystic Lake Buffet has an A+ egg drop soup

Nice summary of my neighborhood by @JoyEstelle, but don’t miss out on Kyatchi

“He’s not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy!” RIP Terry Jones

Haven’t looked at raw Apache log files in a long time – there is so much crap in there now that they are almost worthless

I’m fine with anything that reminds people how lucky we were to have Prince in our lives

Caught up on Mrs. Maisel and Jessica Jones – now on to Bosch and Curb

Drip, drip, drip – the Vulcans win (at least for one day)

Congrats to everyone behind the scenes at Hard Rock Stadium (and the Populous crew) – it’s over!

More landmark birthdays: Target Field turns 10, Xcel Energy Center is 20 and Target Center is 30

Fun night listening to Juliana Hatfield sing Police and ONJ songs at the Turf Club

Hey @TheAthleticMIN, how about a feature on the app that reads <@RussoHockey tweets in my headphones during the game?

Well, I can’t seem to find anything wrong with you, Mr. Babar

A classic ❤️

The race is on between my new glasses and my new Real ID – been a month so far on both

This seems like an impossible project, but it has to happen #Lombard

Denial bubble has burst

Sent my first faxes in probably 10 years today – almost had to ask for help

The glasses beat the Real ID

Hoping I’ve turned the corner on the crud – too much change to deal with to be sick right now

Looking for a pair of entry-level nerds to join the stadium team in 2020

I wish we got Sweet Lou on every Wild broadcast

High school flashback night with Howard Jones in Saint Paul

Wait, Chris Pratt was born in Virginia, Minnesota and was discovered waiting tables at the Maui Bubba Gump?

So @T_McKee is a national treasure and Saint Paul is lucky to have him

Tonight I learned the next big Hummel auction is April 4th in Ohio

RIP Brewmeister Smith

Shout-out to Shoey at Richfield-Bloomington Honda for awesome service and assistance

Is the census survey shorter now? That hardly took any time at all…

Liked the beard look, but now I feel about five years younger (and hopefully won’t touch my face as much)

Thanks HBO for the escapism tonight – both Westworld and Curb were grade A entertainment

Just under two months

Seigo’s Heart Marathon

Admin is right – bring it back

At least nobody talks in my loft while Charlie plays

There is a lot of jackassery online right now, but this is so great

My weekend reading from @RickShefchik has arrived (h/t @BradleySKlein)

Just finished season one of Beforeigners (another h/t @BradleySKlein) – pretty sure Alfhildr is the Norwegian @JNomes

Finally left the couch and closed both a move ring *and* an exercise ring

This year has been crazy, but 1979 was apparently no walk in the park either

Casinos + Mexican drug cartels + KC mob = solid season of Ozark

A little something for those missing live music now – I’ll keep pulling them out of the archive

My hair is now approaching surfer territory, so I thought it appropriate to wear my pineapple Crazyshorts

2019 Top 100 viewed TV programs: 92 were sports and 78 of those were NFL games

The place looked great today

I think my iMac just had a kernel panic – can’t remember the last time that happened

Kid one watching Twin Peaks and I hear the voice of Disney’s Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln (Royal Dano)

I’ve been bad at the exercise part of the executive order, so I went for a walk

Just got my 12-year-old scanner to work (sort of) with my current iMac – so much old Lombard stuff to scan

Hardly anyone is going there now, but the road construction detours at MSP are no joke

“There’s no place like home”

Today’s family exercise (before the snow)

Temporarily not flying to MSP: Air Lingus, Air Canada, Air France, Condor, JetBlue, KLM and Spirit

Are there any good alternatives to Music and Photos for large libraries on an iMac with Catalina? Or reliable tips to optimize?

Kinda embarrassed I’ve lived right next door to Ontario for years and only now watched Letterkenny

Glad I found this one in the archive – one of my favorite concert moments of all time

Not entirely sure season three of Westworld is the best thing to watch in the current environment

Remind me of somethin’ James used 2 say

My inner Beavis made me turn around and get this shot

I’d never subject the world to this, but I kinda understand the appeal of nudist colonies now

Hey, wait, when did the Star Tribune get a live cert? Now about that auto-refresh…

Happy Earth Day, puppers

Springtime in Saint Paul still rocks

How did I ever run 7 minute miles? Very slow, not-so-virtual Get in Gear 10K complete

Last night I rediscovered listening to @TwoDots music with headphones – so calming

THE DOCUMENTARY THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

Any suggestions, @ct_turf?

It’s been fun listening to KROQ tonight – only took about an hour to hear Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Green Day

Looking for a good face mask? These are my favorites so far

Beautiful day to be outside in Jordan – shot an 88 from the white tees

I don’t know who all is on staff at The Economist, but I’d be fine with them running the world

Just saw “DDD” on an old CD – kinda forgot about that

Hard to believe Disney has hung on to go.com all these years

Two birds: help out our favorite club and get something to do

Hey Microsoft and VMware, now is not really the time to send out license audit demands

I’d be 110% OK with leaving Mississippi River Boulevard like this all the time

Saturday night excitement: cleaning 10+ years of saved bookmarks out of my Chrome account

PSA: the Wilco documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart is available to watch until 5/12 here

Every time I manually type out “sudo certbot renew” for my quarterly renewal, I feel like I’m letting @cedge318 down

While a brand new iMac would be nice, decided to visit my OWC friends to spruce up the old one

Bringin’ it back with @dasharez0ne

Missing @FirstAvenue and live @RthompsonMusic shows

What I was supposed to be doing at the office tonight

Just tested the restore capabilities of my cloud backup solution – have you tested yours lately?

Just had a plugging-in-the-lights moment up in here

Huh, I guess I did buy tickets to the Doobie Brothers

Didn’t think 2020 would be the year I’d take online classes from Yale and Johns Hopkins, but here we are (and for free)

First bike crash with the new(ish) bike and Woody is not amused

She did it! Bummer on the ceremony, but still so very proud of SK ❤️

Yesterday we saw one of those big car transport trucks driving across the Hwy 52 bridge, loaded with new hearses

Business Law was one of my worst grades in school, but there is a certain serenity to structured legal documents (like good PHP code)

Less than half of Minnesotans under age 30 voted in 2018

Trying to be hopeful, but then I read the comments

Manny is the best

Going all in on Twitter – this could take a while to get back to equalibrium

The greatest of lakes

Our @FirstAvenue weekend project – those tickets look familiar ❤️

I’ve been coming here my entire life, but today was the first time I walked out to this side of the @GrandMaraisMN harbor

Done! Thanks @Staciaann for the great idea to help @FirstAvenue

Since 1969 (just like me)

Anybody remember Rudy’s Fresh Fish in Croftville? Was this it?

Nothing is working right tonight

The Herb Hultgren tribute wall is complete

Johann Sebastian Bach had 20 kids?

My maternal grandmother was born 100 years ago today

Did Cisco buy the same “Go URL” Kool-Aid that Disney has been drinking?

Welcome back to Lowertown, just/us

Today I discovered the Lighthouse website auditing tool and have been busy learning ever since

Favorite Cisco Live! 2020 session so far – Deploying Office 365 within Cisco

First visit to the treadmill since January 26th – exercise really does help make you feel better

Bandcamp Friday: New live Jason Isbell, two old Turtles and nine (!) Charlie Parr albums I didn’t have

The Purple Current stream is awesome

Happy 5th birthday @SaintDinette – you guys are the best

Missing him today ❤️

Is it time to try out Amazon Lightsail for web hosting and VPS?

Happy birthday to @cmkingsbury ❤️

The new SSD has arrived, is installed and (so far) seems to be running OK

The new iMac drive is still going strong – hard to believe how many files I’ve accumulated over the years (easily a million+)

So great to see Angela, LZ and Tim again

Beautiful summer day in the capital city

The Dave Chappelle takeover on VH1 today has been golden

Lutsen didn’t work out, so now the whole week will be on Vermilion

Archived all 1804 pictures from my former Instagram account here

Today I learned The Wilderness is no longer a KemperSports course

Crisis averted: @TwoDots update 6.1.1 makes my levels playable again

The other kind of golf today (in the toasty heat)

The house-made bleu cheese at the Vermilion Club is still my favorite anywhere

Back from vacation and back to my $1.29 Party Pizzas

Power and protect your critical electronics

Now that I’m only on Twitter and 7minutemiles.com, trying really hard not to tweet all the tweets

That said, if you want to follow @7minutemiles here, you will only get links to longer posts I write there

It appears my Homebrew PHP issues are (mostly) cleared up: migrated from 7.1.33 to 7.4.7

Spoke too soon about Homebrew – thinking I need to move this project to a more stable (and current) platform

No thank you <Your Company>, I’m not interested

Contacts database cleanup day – amazing how messed up these services get over time

Wait, the PGA Tour is going to play the same course two weeks in a row?

Saint Paul traditions, now with social distancing

Nerd issues: SSD kernel panics might be heat/Power Nap related; cURL error 28 on web server unresolved

Great night on the PAMP patio in Bird Town with the fam

Nerd update: no kernel panics in two days; web server still a hot mess

Support your local @efetusmpls (and favorite artists)

It’s been so fun to hear Dick Bremer tonight on the Twins scrimmage webcast

Lowertown is now Twins Territory (hello, taxi squad)

UltraNerd: Per RFC 6844 (Certification Authority Authorization), I added a new resource record to whitelist my CA

New menu alert: the sourdough fried chicken @SaintDinette is excellent

My life this week

One small web server victory this week (still lots of other things to fix, though)

Support your local authors – congrats to @JoeBissen on the new book

Finding a few small issues with Bitnami, but still planning to go all in with AWS this week

Transitioned DNS services under the AWS umbrella (Route 53), but leaving domains at Hover for now

Still some small bugs to squash, but 7minutemiles.com is now running on AWS Lightsail

Hit a nice milestone yesterday 💯

Hearing rumors that Octo has closed for good 😢

Bike stores and golf shops apparently doing well: 3 week wait for a tune up and 2 weeks for a new golf bag

Not at all important in the grand scheme of things, but my watch losing activity data from yesterday is upsetting

Forgot we took this one by the river the other day ❤️

Our Queen of the Skies (December 1989)

Oh look, that thing I did with @cedge318 is online

Will, power of attorney and health directives all updated, thanks to Bob Espeset

Decided to take a little mental health break walk outside and it turned in to a three mile run

If you need lightly used furniture for your home office in Minnesota, please go see SOS on University

Hey @schutz, remember that time we played Harding Park?

Free pot on Bob Marley Night with the Saints

Kid two is looking to buy her first car – I’ll pay a finder’s fee for any good leads on a reliable used car around $5K

So #9 and #12 become par 4s, “my” tees play 6405 yards and the non-resident rate is now $300

If House of Balls can make it, there’s hope for us all, no?

Only 131 iPads (and phones) to remove this from

Really great to catch up with @KatherineHulett on an actual outdoor patio in Saint Paul tonight

Nothing like shopping for cemetery plots to put things in perspective

Shredding old tax documents is way more therapeutic than I thought it would be

My first W-2 was from Knowlan’s Super Markets, Inc. and I made a grand total of $2,676.34 that year

Play where the pros play – thanks @schutz for the great morning at TPC

Um, there are now a total of *five* spiders outside my window, watching, waiting…

Never used Photoshop for wireframes before, but this seems very useful so far

Ice cream of the future, Caddyshack bobbleheads and my two wonderful daughters

Only a tenth of the way into setting up this new iPad Pro and I can already tell my old eyes are going to love it

We miss you @mnstatefair, but thanks for all the fun stuff this week

Support your local Dinette – tonight’s bologna and esquites were 🔥

Sunday in Saint Paul

I’d pay more for my Star Tribune digital subscription if they permanently disabled comments

Still can’t get over the math on this photo from Four Queens in downtown Vegas

Great service and selection today at Brown & Greene Floral

The Great Alma Get Together helped fill the gap a little

It blows my mind that there are all these remixes of 80s Prince songs that I’ve never heard before

Hey @rstanzel – we finally made it to your place for Lil’ Chovi night

New daily case records: Guam, HI, IA, KY, MN, MO, MT, ND, SD & WV

Life is better with a mentor and I couldn’t ask for a better one in @PodolakUND – thanks, Doug!

The streak (technically) continues – every @mnstatefair since I was born

Happy birthday week, mom and dad ❤️

It’s been an extraordinarily unusual week getting ready for opening day, but things seem pretty good right now

The new fish fry TV dinner @SaintDinette is the best thing I’ve had in weeks – bravo, Nive Man

Still a few nice weather nights left in Minnesota – 16 mile bike ride along the Mississippi

Honestly don’t know if I have the patience to update all these super old Windows machines

Brisk on the patio with no sun, but Kado no Mise was legit

Hey @schutz – fun to see all these 2020 majors at our old haunts

Great to see the Phils @tapemarkgolf today – miss volunteering there

Followed the lead of @srgc_supt and trucked it over to @MuccisItalian

Notes + iCloud is my new Stickies

Rent-a-Doge seems like a winning business plan to me

A too brief flash of brilliance before the dreary gloom of winter

Saturday prep ➡️ Sunday calm 🏈

I’d really like to sit at the bar and put bread in his jar. Mmm…bread

Hats off to the NHL for pulling it off

Too bad fall in Minnesota is only a week long

Nerd alert: the AWS Lightsail Let’s Encrypt instructions don’t let you use “certbot renew” and now I’m locked out for an hour

Food Parade II highlights: both daughters, real Pronto Pups, my own cup of fries and a Vikings win

Kicked off bonus week on the patio @spoonandstable – thanks to @gavinkaysen and @pastrydiane for another fabulous experience

The flowers from @sushirocks are thriving

Every time I hear someone say “offices are dead and aren’t coming back,” I wonder how many companies they have actually worked for

Solid Weekend Update and Jack White made a strong case for the best SNL performance ever crown

Strongly endorse the apple and hard cider tasting kits @sweetlandorchrd – perfect day for a visit

Almost done with the JNUC 2020 sessions – thanks to all who shared their knowledge (for free)

Per the @kilbo tip, had Bezos send me one of these babies

Tonight’s rabbit hole: Lost Spur golf sign > Osman Shriners > Freemasonry > 1917 Code of Canon Law > OBE

The internet has all the answers

Not that I mind, but everyone else at Rayette seems to have forgotten that we have an exercise room

RIP to the legend whose namesake press box I sit in every game

A very different kind of Patch Tuesday

Pandemic drivers + first snowfall of the season = just about what you’d expect

Today’s life hacks: turned off all iMac notifications and new mail sounds, used iPad as a second monitor via Sidecar

Uptown was always the best – lots of good memories in that store

Thanks to everyone who made this Tom Petty stream possible – it’s been amazing

I could quarantine all winter and not get this photo library under control

Windows and macOS updates suddenly feel like a walk in the park

Congrats to MLB for also getting to the finish line in 2020 ⚾️

Remember the fail whale?

Ran across this old image from @twindependent – so much overlap with my set (miss you @FirstAvenue)

October 30th last year was a million ways different from today

Happy Halloween to Nive Man Tina and the gang @SaintDinette

Time makes little sense these days, but today marks five years at the stadium 🎉

Some chicken recon for @KeriFromKansas from Nashville Coop

Remember when the mouse used to sell clown fries in Frontierland? That was awesome

Making good progress on the photo library, but it’s a bummer lots of EXIF dates are wrong

That might be a wrap on the 2020 Minnesota golf season

Wait, I can work remotely from Aruba for up to 90 days?

Tonight’s snowfall has inspired me to find and reload all my Christmas music into the new library

It still blows my mind that Prince was 5’3’’ and 112 pounds

Million Case Club: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, France, India, Russia, Spain, UK and Texas

Double rainbows all the way 🌈🌈 Double ear infections, not so much

One down, seven to go

Is Pete Dye really buried behind #8 at Teeth of the Dog?

And did Pete ever visit Izaty’s (or was that just Dye Design)?

Lastly: what’s up with the old Eagle Pines/Osprey Ridge at WDW? Is Tranquilo a mix and match of Fazio and Dye?

Ultra-cold chains: -70C (or colder) 🥶

I played in one “real” golf tournament and had a 10, but I don’t recall following that up with five birdies

Checked out the free testing at Roy Wilkins tonight – surprising amount of mobile phone data entry

The soft fade transitions in the Big Sur Music MiniPlayer might be my favorite macOS change in a decade

Interesting pivot by two-year-old Vault Health and their former Amazon/Home Depot CEO Jason Feldman

For sale: 174 acres in Stillwater, includes StoneRidge Golf Club, $7.75 million

Might be jumping the gun, but no kernel panics so far on the iMac under Big Sur 🤞🏻

Wait, Jerry Jones borrowed a million dollars from Jimmy Hoffa to open up a string of Shakey’s Pizza Parlors?

Arrive home from the Vikings game to find…a kernel panic 😢

PHP 8 will break all the things

The sun is great, but still trying to mentally adjust from fall to winter temps

Ugh the Tug, Port of Saint Paul

Slow, virtual Turkey Trot 5K along the Mississippi – forgot how different outdoor running is vs. treadmill/walking/biking

Ten year old iPhone 3GS memories from Colorado

Pre-NHL/NFL Vegas

Every timeline can use more squirrels, right?

Time to make the donuts

Support your local record stores – thanks, @efetusmpls for the bonus surprise today

With the treadmill off-limits, I’ve resorted to jumping jacks and flights of stairs before eating a half dozen Christmas cookies

I should probably get serious about cold weather running and/or biking, as kid two just got a seasonal job at Candyland

MplsStPaul Mag: 150,000 people paid a quarter each to walk through the 1886 Winter Carnival ice palace ❄️

Hard to believe we are at the penultimate home game already 🏈

Lowertown PSA: Kyatchi is open again for take-out, Thursday-Sunday

The percentage of tech that I’m dealing with right now that is > 5 years old is vexing

Some of the peanut butter from my English muffin got on my nose and now it’s on my mask and it smells like cookies all the time 💯

Lowertown PSA #2: @SaintDinette now has awesome merch for sale

Between the MIT SARS-CoV-2 lectures and the AWS re:Invent keynote, my brain is fried 😐

It’s not Wonderwall, but this Brandi Carlile livestream is making me feel better

The UHK pop-up on Raymond is a hidden Saint Paul treasure

Sub-58:00 in a half marathon is nuts (4:23 pace)

PJ Murphy’s Bakery. Since 1921.

The ghosts of Luci and Corner Table ride again at Myriel

In 2019, the clown had 13,837 locations in the US (38,695 worldwide) 🍟

Fun drive with the fam through Nature Illuminated @MNZoo @MNLottery

Happy last of the twenty-somethings anniversary @cmkingsbury

Wow, there used to be a skyway going to my bedroom

Even though it wasn’t a concert, it was nice to be near @FirstAvenue again

This December round of software updates has been…rough

Got the breakfast burger take-out from @redcow_mn tonight and it was stupid good 🍔

Thrilled that I found OEM replacement ear pads for my ancient MDR-V6 headphones

Great reminder from Demme and @jtimberlake about how fun it is to work in the concert industry

Time to retire? 35th…IN THE WORLD @TwoDots

Stunned by the passing of Tom Hanneman – how did we get so lucky to have him on air in MN for almost 50 years?

The iMac kernel panics have stopped, but unfortunately it’s because the SSD is now dead 😡

Seven down, one to go 🏈

Finally starting to see a clear path forward from my MrJackpot kernel panic tribulations

The scale apparently doesn’t give a damn what the watch says

In just under the wire – be safe, Minnesota friends ❄️

Broke down and decided to evaluate streaming music services. The Tenacious D station on Apple Music might seal the deal 🤘

Well that went by way too fast

Last day at Candyland for kid two before she goes back to college

Probably have looked at 1,000 listings in the Twin Cities the past two months. People sure do make some interesting decisions…

Last work day of 2020 – Happy New Year, y’all 💜

New Year’s Eve was so different during my casino years – good luck to everyone at the Bay tonight