The Saints cancelled their midnight-madness training-camp opening last night, and things get going today. I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to make it over there or not. I’ve got work to do, plus the lawn has gotten to the point that I need to mow it pretty soon, or it’s going to be a lost cause. And I woke up this morning with my head completely stubbed ub. I guess that means allergy season is here for real and I have to get to the store to stock up on various drugs. Ugh.
Yesterday had some good fun. My ex-co-worker from Apple, Mark was in town and we ran around during the afternoon as I showed him some areas of the Twin Cities. He’s interviewing for a job over in Hudson, so we ventured into the suburbs east of St. Paul and then wound our way back along the river, culminating in dinner down at Tuggs. As we were sitting outside, I got tapped on the shoulder, and who should be down checking things out but my old boss, Larry Lukis, who was investigating the Segway rental office down in St. Anthony Main which is run by another ex-co-worker, Bill Neuenschwander.
I generally have a fun time playing tour-guide around Minneapolis, and chance meetings like the one with Larry yesterday make it even more fun. And we got to talk about the 3-D lithography stuff that Larry’s making a business out of, which was cool. Apparently they’re doing real well, and I found out about another ex-LM person that Larry just hired.
- Joe Soucheray points out a Sure sign of spring: subscription peddlers. I haven’t seen many lately, but in my neighborhood it’s almost always either high-school (or just out) minority kids or teams of college-age gals who turn on the cute and flirtatious to sell a magazine subscription. At least one of the groups that was doing this made the news a couple years back for not actually delivering and for not paying the kids who were out selling. I wish Souch had bothered to look that up. [press-patch]
- A St. Paul smoking ban is in the air, and if it goes through, that’ll certainly make compiling the data for Smokin’ easier. Of course one of these days I should finish writing the code behind that so we can do a real update of it, too. [strib]
- The City Pages Hit By Pitch discusses the plans for new baseball and football stadiums here in the Twin Cities, and says they’re just bad ideas.