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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Sometimes, Mother Nature can be a real bitch. This year has been one of those times. From the snowpocalyptic winter we just emerged from to the summer-like spring we’re in now, the old gal has turned out to be full of surprises.
This has been an another atypical year weather-wise. After the snowpocalyptic winter we just endured and the tornado that ransacked St. Louis Park and North Minneapolis last month, we’re now dealing with a June which – for a few days at least – thought it was July or August. Yesterday the thermometer peaked at 103ºF, the highest temperature recorded here since the horrific drought summer of 1988 and only the second time this century the temperature …
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Jim is back from his annual ski trip with his family. At one point on the trip, he made the comment that he had never injured himself skiing. Apparently he forgot to knock on wood, because the very next day he went out and did just that. He took a bad spill on a slope he probably shouldn’t have been on and broke a couple of the metacarpals in his right hand. I’ve seen the x-rays – they let him bring them back with him so he could show them to the doctor here. So now he’s in a splint and needs me to do just about everything for him. So I’m back to driving him around, which right …
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
“Chapter read and lesson learned.”
Barenaked Ladies ”Who Needs Sleep?”
Giving a speech at an event such as last night’s memorial in Tucson following the tragic shooting rampage of Jared Lee Loughner – a name not even mentioned during the proceedings – is kind of like walking across a frozen lake in Minnesota this time of year. Hazards are all around, and in many places the ice is so thin that nobody in their right mind should tread there, lest they fall through into an icy, watery grave. We learned that lesson in 2002, when a memorial for Senator Paul Wellstone, who had died in a plane crash twelve days before the election, ended up turning …
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