There was really only so much more cold and dreary I could deal with…I felt my san­ity slip­ping away…running actu­ally, run­ning away from the cold grey.  “What?  You com­plain about cold and rainy yet you dream of Seat­tle?”  I know, but its different…way dif­fer­ent.  Seat­tle has an ocean, for that, I deal with rain.
But the infusion […]

Uptown is a lit­tle weird some­times.  I mean you rou­tinely ind stuff like this.  But I do love it.  Wouldn’t leave it for the world.  OK…maybe Seattle…but I imag­ine they’ve got the same sort of stuff going on there…

One of my favorite things to do when there is fresh snow on the side­walk is to match stride length with any foot prints that are already there so that it looks like one per­son with two dif­fer­ent shoes was care­fully hop­ping.
I was doing that today then came across a sec­tion that some­one had already […]

I’m not a fan of the thaw.  It makes every­thing wet, and dirty, and a bit sad.  The months of cig­a­rettes, the trash that was hid­den, the occa­sional unfor­tu­nate bird or squir­rel.  Bus trans­fers, bro­ken bot­tles, mit­tens, and bit’s of old food.  Occa­sion­ally though, you find a trea­sure, some­thing unex­pected in the slog.  I like […]

In the old apart­ment I would hear wind chimes on occa­sion.  I could
never find out where they were, where the sound came from, but it was
some­thing I loved.  One day in late fall I was look­ing for them, the
leaves were mostly gone from the trees, and I saw them.  It kind of
took the magic away.
The past […]

In the not so dis­tant past Sher­man and I were in the midst of a “dis­cus­sion” (re: argu­ment) with some­one about the price of goods.  The prices of goods in dif­fer­ent loca­tions to be more pre­cise.  For exam­ple, dia­pers in Edina, ver­sus dia­pers down­town.  Terms like “oper­a­tions cost” and “loss pre­ven­tion” were tossed around.  So […]

I’m try­ing to write about this and keep it halfway PG.  But I have no other words for fuck­ers like this guy.  I believe that there are Repub­li­cans out there that aren’t big­ots, and to them I say, guys like this are your prob­lem.  You seri­ously want a racist ass­hole like this to be the […]

You know that scene in “Back To The Future” where Dr. Brown is try­ing to hook up the mul­ti­ple exten­sion cords from the clock tower to the car, and he keeps pulling and pulling until it lets go and he has to run back and forth plug­ging the thing in before finally being elec­tro­cuted…
That was […]

So I have this thing for blue­grass music lately.  Sher­man laughs at me…for example…the fol­low­ing con­ver­sa­tion
Me– “1952 Vin­cent Black Light­en­ing” , Del McCoury Band I just heard this song  I love it

Sher­man– Nice. Write it down somewhere

Sher­man– “Red Hair and Black Leather. My favorite color scheme”
Me– I LOVE IT! They took it down to […]

Hav­ing some break­fast this morn­ing, doing a bit of read­ing, I think to myself “You know this red lure buis­ness seems to be a bit hyped up…I can under­stand a two tone with maybe a red back but the black and sil­ver or two tones with green seemed to do the trick…”
I sat back for a […]