Heated Garages

I knew when I woke up this morning we’d be driving between heated underground garages this evening.

Categorized as Living

The Antithesis of Fast Fashion

Wallked the Minneapolis Skyways to avoid frostbite. At a small tailoring business, Dwight dropped off a much-loved, 25-year-old shirt for a $6 repair: the antithesis of fast fashion.

Measuring Angles

Worked on my latest “science project.” I’m trying to move an arm smoothly to any angle using a pneumatic piston. This brings together LEGO Mindstorms and Pneumatics, as well as 3rd-party digital sensors to measure air pressure and angles. This is proving surprisingly challenging.

Categorized as LEGO

Moody Mississippi

It warmed up sufficiently to comfortably walk outside. The reflection in the icy Mississippi reminded me of a moody Turner painting.

Categorized as Walk

Loose Goals

The chill continues: walked for about an hour through corridors and stairways in the two towers of our building. My daily workout goal is “move” but I’ve yet to figure out how to explain that to the software.

Categorized as IT

New Year’s Day Tradition

Our New Year’s Day tradition is a long walk and a bar lunch. With subzero weather all day we achieved one out of two. Maxwell’s is our local, a chilly two-block walk.

New Year’s Paella

Our annual tradition: celebrated the new year in Madrid at 5:00 p.m. Central then made paella.