I have now hit the 25 week mark of my committment from earlier this year, to use a reusable coffee cup instead of un-recyclable paper cups. What started out as a bit of a lark, has turned into a full blown habit. I’m on my second mug, as it took me a while to find […]
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I’m just not sure where to even start. Once again we’re in the same place we’ve been all too many times, another shooting that takes massive amounts of innocent lives. I’m numb again, and have nothing much to say that others aren’t already saying. So instead, I’m going to talk about the Vegas that I […]
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Last year, the wife and I did a spur of the moment race up on the north shore called Grand Traverse. This is a low-key event with four different distances (27, 21, 16, 10), that runs along the Superior Hiking Trail from Jay Cooke State Park to Fitgers Brewhouse. It’s a small event, but it’s […]
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This weekend I’m out of town for a race, so I’m making this post a quick photo post. A few weeks ago I went outside and saw this amazing storm front moving in. I played with it a bit in Lightroom and liked the results so I’m sharing it here.
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The wife and I finally got done watching the latest in the Netflix Marvel extravaganza, The Defenders. In order to get to The Defenders we had to suffer through the mediocrity that was Iron Fist, but frankly, seeing how Danny Rand was portrayed in The Defenders made everything in Iron Fist make a lot more […]
Read moreOne of the assignments that my son had in school recently was to do something called Cornell Notes for his math problems. He’s been a typical teenager and complaining about them, but whatever, he’s a teenager. Then as another part of the assignment, he had to send them to me to show what he’s working […]
Read moreI recently test drove a new model of the VW Tiguan, a car I really like driving. I would really love to get one in the next year or so as my kids get older and graduate, but there’s something that keeps showing up on my news feed to make me thinks twice… the rise […]
Read moreI feel like I need to make some type of comment on the hype that is permeating media right now around the national anthem and athletes. What began as a small protest by one football player, about racial inequality in America, turned into a massive circus this past weekend. Even President Trump got into the […]
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Our house is a traditional 1960s rambler style house, and one of the things that has bugged me about it for a long time is a little half-wall right inside the front door. It’s been somewhat useful to have, but it breaks up the living room area in a weird way and made the entryway […]
Read moreHot. That was the word for the day on Saturday when I ran the Surly Trail Loppet Half Marathon. I had signed up for this race a few weeks ago, since my wife was gone during this same weekend running a Trail Ragnar. I had never run this race before, and had only ran at […]
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With the warm weather over the summer, spending time in a hot kitchen and baking bread for hours was low on my list of things to do. However, with the cooler temps of Fall approaching I decided to put my kneading hands and yeast knowledge to the test. I was spurred on by my friend […]
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I’m working in Minneapolis today so I decided to walk down to the food truck alley (2nd Ave S) and see what I could find. It’s absolutely crazy how much the food truck craze has grown. There were dozens of trucks lined up along the street, butting right up against each other. The proprietors could literally […]
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Second Runnings 