Had a great time competing in the Spies v Spies rooms at Trapped Puzzle rooms with #TeamSPS tech leaders! Orange team FTW! πŸ‘πŸ™Œ

Stop & go traffic is by far my favorite use case for Tesla Auto Pilot. Way less stress! πŸ‘πŸ»

My daughter taught me a new typography fact tonight! Uppercase letters are called that because they were kept in an “upper case”, above the “lower case”, that had the lowercase letters in it! 🀩 Wikipedia backs it up – Fun!

Early Christmas today – Weekly Thing pen! πŸ‘πŸ»

Family selfie from our new house. We don’t move until January, but are exploring today!

Made my annual donation to Internet Archive! Join me in supporting this great organization! 🌎

Minnesota Wild v Montreal Canadiens

Minnesota Wild v Montreal Canadiens! πŸ’

Hockey time with Amy Patton Amy Patton, Ian Redlin and Paul Birkbeck Paul Birkbeck! πŸ’

Wild take 2-0 lead over Montreal! πŸ’

Wild win! 7-1! πŸ’

Watched Pick of the Litter tonight. Nice movie, particularly for dog lovers. The training guide dogs go through is impressive. πŸ•

We explored the Walker Art Center today. Modern art still makes me go β€œHuh?” a lot.

We had a fun time at the 2018 British Arrows Awards today at the Walker. Liked the Nike, FIFA Soccer and Mini Cooper ads!

Solid boxing workout this morning at TITLE Boxing.

I know I should be impressed with our amazing, modern technology, but this happens so often and drives me a bit bonkers.

I am “fixing” my Twitter import into micro.blog and needed to get rid of hundreds of those tweets, now imported as posts.

Pro Tip: You can use MarsEdit and set the number of posts to get to “9,999” and select any number of posts to delete in bulk.

Parked at SPS Tower for a concert at the State Theater. Took skyways and skipped jackets on way there. Didn’t think anout skyways being closed later. It was a very frigid walk back to the car! πŸ₯Ά

2018 New Standards Holiday Show

First half of The New Standards Holiday Show was awesome. Okee Dokee Brothers, The Owls, Chris Koza, Jeremy Messersmith, Matt Wilson, Dessa, Tina Schleske, and Caroline Steele. 🎢

The New Standards brought it home with β€œSnow Days”, on the permanent playlist for the Holiday Show! πŸŽΆβ„οΈ

New Standards Holiday Shows: 2023, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2013, and 2012.

The Kingfield at Five Watt is definitely a treat, not an everyday coffee, but it sure is delicious. Fancy coffee time! β˜•οΈ

Tried Boludo Empanadas today β€” wow! I got three empanadas: Pollo, Carne, and Jamon y Queso. All were delicious! Good review in City Pages. 🀀

Mt. Olivet Lutefisk Dinner

Had fun at the 89th annual Mt. Olivet Lutefisk Dinner tonight! Swedish Meatballs, Rice Pudding with Lingonberries, and Lefse for me.

Big Crowd for the Lutefisk Dinner My nephew Garrett and I having lefse. family selfie! family selfie!

Finally got my Bluetooth blood pressure monitor to re-pair with my phone, after much troubleshooting. It’s the little things. πŸ₯³

There was a lot of very pretty looking snow to deal with this morning.