Sometimes it seems as though all I need to do to solve a problem is to publicly gripe about it. Last night, I finally managed to get to sleep “on time” and today I woke up on my normal schedule, adjusted for daylight savings time and all. It helped that I had turned the furnace way down on Tuesday, back when it was warm outside, and had forgotten to turn it back up after closing the windows yesterday morning. When I woke up this morning, it was pretty darned chilly in the house and that makes for better sleeping and a brisk wakeup. Guess it’s a little too early in the season to be completely shutting off the furnace just yet, even with the freakishly warm weather we’ve had this spring.
Today, work. Two projects need to be completed before next week, and I’m going to try and get good chunks of both of them done before tomorrow evening. That means getting a lot done today, and ignoring the distractions like worrying about the taxes that aren’t even due until next week anyhow.
- Just down the road from me, the sign for the 1901 Lofts has gone up. Apparently the first model opens sometime this month. It’ll be interesting to see what effect those new lofts will have on the neighborhood. I’m hoping at a minimum that it will help East River Market, since lunch spots around here haven’t done all that well historically.
- Local Fools Rush In last week, as KSTP and the Star Tribune both reported an April Fools story from the Skyway News as fact, without attribution or any fact-checking. I’m not sure which is worse, but that’s one reason I prefer news stories that link to their sources (or even attribute them). KSTP clearly dropped the ball on that front, and thus made it more difficult for anyone to do the fact-checking for them.
- Was Bert Blyleven King of the Hill? Well, not if you ask the folks voting for baseball’s Hall of Fame, but he was a darned good pitcher, and one of the last to truly be a workhorse, pitching nearly three hundred innings a season. Considering how a mediocre pitcher who gets two hundred innings in a season today is considered a workhorse, I think Bert’s got a pretty good claim on a Hall of Fame spot. I just don’t know if he’ll ever get it.
- In science news: a physicist says Black holes ‘do not exist’, and they’re really dark-energy stars. The answer depends on how general relativity and quantum mechanics play together at singularities in space-time. Heady stuff. [slashdot]