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Posted LEGO Mindstorms Warehouse Picker: Teardown.

Posted LEGO Mindstorms Warehouse Picker.

Cycled past city workers who were busy refreshing bicycle-friendly road surface markings.

My breakfast sandwich runneth over at Lake Harriet. Life’s good.

Most Tuesdays I cycle with a friend, often looking for things we’ve not seen before. Our ride, today, included sidewalk art on Downtown’s Nicollet Mall

Made a chicken pot pie inspired by comic book character, Desperate Dan. He appeared in a weekly Scottish comic paper, the Dandy, when I was a kid. His favorite meal was cow pie, a steak pie which always featured a pair of cow horns sticking out of the crust.

On our Sunday walk: memorial to the August 2007 collapse of Interstate 35W Mississippi Bridge.

Posted Should I open this?

Cycled across one of the more unusual Mississippi bridges. This double-decker bridge connects two campuses of the University of Minnesota. The upper deck has walking and cycle paths, including an enclosed walkway. The lower deck has bus lanes and the Green Line LRT.

Cycled through a residential neighborhood dotted with small bars built in the early 1900’s. Knight Cap Bar is known for its weekly meat raffle.

Couldn’t out-pedal this storm.

Cycled to black history points of interest in St. Paul I’d plotted on a map. The 46 elements of Spiral For Justice represent the 46 years of Roy Wilkins’ leadership of the NAACP. The walls depict efforts to impede progress to racial justice

Chatted with friends.

How I spent my Sunday afternoon. I keep taking things apart in my quest for a better design. One day, some variant of all this will be one machine… or not.

Eliminated parts from my current LEGO Technic project. I’m going for minimal.

A triple header slowly hauled dozens of freight cars as I waited to continue my cycle ride.