Goodness, this hanging out on a beach and doing nothing stuff is nice...

Karen's mom passed last night. I'll likely take a couple days off later this week to console her. Norma will be cremated at the place on Nicollet, and buried next to Barkley at Ft. Snelling. It's tentative, but the service will likely be at the Mt Olivet Chapel on Lyndale, maybe Friday.

I gotta call the boss and arrange the time off and also the

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After a truly awesome time in Vegas (pics to come), I got home to a ssshhhh-ing sound in the house. The cold weather had burst a pipe in the basement, and it sprayed for at least a day, if not two. Not too much was damaged by the wet, as at least it was pretty much right above the floor drain. Also, it was a really simple fix, if you are a ( Read more... )

Planning my getaway. I'm off to the Flamingo, in March. This winter is just been too long.

I had an idea in my head for maybe a year, that I ought to go to Clear Lake, Iowa, for the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly's death, and see if I could get to the crash site, and maybe light some candles or something. It would be a cool thing to do ( Read more... )

Karen picked up (dumpster dove) one of these grills last summer, and it's just been sitting around gathering dust, so I decided to see if it worked, and if so how well ( Read more... )

I just found out that I'm actually gonna be off work this New Year's Eve, for the first time in years. I don't even know who's got a party or anything going on. Any suggestions?

We have a tradition in my family, post-thanksgiving, we eat these. Recipe first, then the story ( Read more... )