Project Scorpion (Top Secret) D minus 4. Requisitioned essential materiel at Ax-Man surplus store.
Category: In This Together
Vault
Today is D-Day minus 4. Top Secret. Project Scorpion. Prepared vault that can only be opened with the secret code.
IDs
Today is D-Day minus 5. Top Secret. Project Scorpion. C, D: Stand by for further information and orders.
Too Cold for School
Today it was too cold for the schools to open, but not too cold for nephew C. to snowboard.
Frozen Lakes and Lost Places
Frozen Lake of the Isles, Minneapolis Kilauea caldera, Hawaii Big Island “Why do you live in Minnesota?–The winters are too cold. You should move.” I hear this from a person who brought up a family in a Minneapolis suburb. When her husband retired, they moved to a new subdivision in the Arizona desert. There is… Continue reading Frozen Lakes and Lost Places
Finding Work and Health Insurance
Library afternoon. Helped people to navigate poorly designed Web forms to find jobs and decent health insurance.
Art for Everyone
Spoonbridge and Cherry (Oldenburg), Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Today, on my walk to The Wedge Co-op to pick up some groceries, I popped into the Walker Art Center to catch their Claes Oldenburg exhibition before it ends its run in January. Afterwards, it struck me there were learning moments for my nephews (5 and 6). This… Continue reading Art for Everyone
Art for Everyone
Walked over to Walker Art Center then wrote a blog entry about art for my nephews.
Unplanned Beer
My walk home this afternoon after unplanned Beer with Bob–in town from Oregon. I miss our after-work conversations.
Creating the Rules
The object of the game was to get as *few* marbles as possible. The boys preferred the game otherwise.