2. February, 2004 - more snow

• Snowfall of season hits region, and is still coming down. I shovelled the sidewalks yesterday morning, and I’ll probably be out there both this morning and sometime this afternoon or evening when the snow finally winds down. There’s a snow-emergency in St. Paul, but Minneapolis is holding off (as they usually do) until the snow actually stops falling has declared a snow emergency beginning at 9pm this evening. They’ll start plowing the alleys this morning (which is something new to me, since this is the first time I’ve actually had a garage on an alley to worry about) and I’m trying to decide if I’m going to try and get out there to push the snow from in front of my garage into the middle of the alley, or whether I’ll just wait until the snow stops. [press-patch]
• Meanwhile, over at the Strib, All-day snow in store as storm sets up shop in Twin Cities says that the snow probably won’t stop until 9pm today. I’m thinking this is a Very Good Day to be working from home. [strib]
• Major changes advance for U-area renters as city housing inspectors will now be able to revoke the rental license of landlords who are repeat violators of housing codes. On the other side of the issue, landlords around the U are working to put together a uniform lease. Even if it’s a huge nightmare of a document, I think that will be a step forward, since a renter will only have to figure it out once, and places like the U will likely go through it with a fine-tooth comb.
• New Landlord-Student Group Mum On Meetings, but seem to be going after SECIA the official group for my new neighborhood. It’s a little frustrating though. I don’t get the Southeast Angle here, since I live on the wrong side of Hennepin, so I either have to pick it up with groceries or read it online to find out about this sort of thing. And SECIA doesn’t have general meetings like Marcy-Holmes does, so I don’t get the news there, either. I’m not ready to jump in and start working in a new neighborhood, but it would sure be nice to be able to go to a meeting and find out what’s going on.
• Finally, with the end of football season, it’s time to start thinking about spring (even with nearly a foot of snow coming down). Minnesota Twins 2004 Spring Training starts with pitchers and catchers doing their first workouts three weeks from now, and the first spring training game is just a little over a month away.
• I’ve also been thinking about riding again. I’d really like to have a GPS on the trike so I could map my various rides around town, but the handheld units just don’t work all that well, in my experience, and suck batteries down pretty fast. I wonder how the unit described in For the Jogger Craving Data, a GPS Tracker work on a trike.

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:56:42.