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Jan. 19th, 2004 06:57 amBig spread on ice palaces in today's Stribune: http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/4321176.html; http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/4323691.html
Jan. 19th, 2004
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Jan. 19th, 2004 08:08 amWe had a good meeting at the Millennium yesterday. I ran from home, where I suddenly got obsessed with cleaning out my desk and trying to recover all of the gift certificates that I've stashed there, and a brief run to a Sears store to buy detergent for a high efficiency washing machine that I've had for a year or so. I saw Larry Jones, who I ustta interact with at Lord Fletchers whilst various ancient cooling systems went on the blink, and Jeanne Smith, a friend of my aunt's. We nattered briefly about her mother and her mother's vacuum, which she was there buying a replacement for.
A quite cute guy waited on me after I flagged him over to look at replacing my dryer with a match to the washer I've had for a year. Not sure if I will, but it led me to dig out the gift certificate from my desk that I got for 5 years of working at IDeaS. So, if I swing past the MoA, and buy the dryer at that Sears store, I can cash it in.
I, being shy, did not talk with Mr. Jones.
Sears' shelves was wiped clean of the fragrance free high-efficiency washer detergent, probably by the mention in the Stribune's Mr. Fixit, but I spied two buckets sitting up high on their display in the Paint Department (dontchaknow), and left with one in tow to head downtown to the Millennium Hotel, where I parked in the lot and saw Mr. Friauf inside the hotel. We chatted briefly, and then I headed up to the fourteenth floor, where Mr. Dudda was reading the Sunday paper in a large room with a HUGE table.
We met for about half an hour, and after Mr. & Mrs. Phillips arrived, we began wandering around the hotel. Ms Kahn hit up the manager as we were leaving for free parking, and we all wandered off. I went home, had some Vietnamese chicken soup, dug further into the desk whilst trying to avoid a cave-in, and went to sleep early.
This morning, while attempting the normal conference call to India, I sat on hold for 13 minutes before I bailed.
Stribune has a big article on Ice Palaces. Yesterday's NY Times had an article on an Ice Mansion in Canada...
Tomorrow is a party/meeting for the DFL caucus. It costs to get in. Actually, it costs lots to get in for a MN DFL event. And I, sucker that I am, am bringing bread and olives. I just hope the French Meadow doesn't burn the rye again. At least their Levain seemed back to normal when I bought bread there Saturday for the MNSTF meeting/Minicon work party. (I'm still partially traumatized by the failure of the baker to show up on New Year's Day and their subsequent lack of bread for my Hair-of-the-Dog Party, but I suspect that with generous psychoanalysis, I may be able to recover... any class action lawyers out there?)
A quite cute guy waited on me after I flagged him over to look at replacing my dryer with a match to the washer I've had for a year. Not sure if I will, but it led me to dig out the gift certificate from my desk that I got for 5 years of working at IDeaS. So, if I swing past the MoA, and buy the dryer at that Sears store, I can cash it in.
I, being shy, did not talk with Mr. Jones.
Sears' shelves was wiped clean of the fragrance free high-efficiency washer detergent, probably by the mention in the Stribune's Mr. Fixit, but I spied two buckets sitting up high on their display in the Paint Department (dontchaknow), and left with one in tow to head downtown to the Millennium Hotel, where I parked in the lot and saw Mr. Friauf inside the hotel. We chatted briefly, and then I headed up to the fourteenth floor, where Mr. Dudda was reading the Sunday paper in a large room with a HUGE table.
We met for about half an hour, and after Mr. & Mrs. Phillips arrived, we began wandering around the hotel. Ms Kahn hit up the manager as we were leaving for free parking, and we all wandered off. I went home, had some Vietnamese chicken soup, dug further into the desk whilst trying to avoid a cave-in, and went to sleep early.
This morning, while attempting the normal conference call to India, I sat on hold for 13 minutes before I bailed.
Stribune has a big article on Ice Palaces. Yesterday's NY Times had an article on an Ice Mansion in Canada...
Tomorrow is a party/meeting for the DFL caucus. It costs to get in. Actually, it costs lots to get in for a MN DFL event. And I, sucker that I am, am bringing bread and olives. I just hope the French Meadow doesn't burn the rye again. At least their Levain seemed back to normal when I bought bread there Saturday for the MNSTF meeting/Minicon work party. (I'm still partially traumatized by the failure of the baker to show up on New Year's Day and their subsequent lack of bread for my Hair-of-the-Dog Party, but I suspect that with generous psychoanalysis, I may be able to recover... any class action lawyers out there?)