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Sipped a pre-show drink near the amber windows of Level 9 of the Guthrie Theater. In the play, “Grey Rock,” ordinary people rose above oppression with love… and a moon rocket. The playwright and cast were from the Palestinian territories.

Enjoyed the fruits of my Tuesday multicultural walk. For dinner: sautéed Chinese broccoli with risotto (bitter versus sweet), Japanese Kit-Kats for dessert. For lunch: Norwegian-style lefse, butter, no sugar, with stinky cheeses.

Walked over to the Guthrie for “Noura,” a play about an Iraqi refugee family in today’s New York: holding on to identity, and letting go; “finding identity in places that are worlds apart.

On my diverse walk: an art gallery, a gingerbread Hardanger violin, and lefse for later at Norway House; American Indian galleries at All My Relations and the Minneapolis American Indian Center; tonkotsu ramen, and Chinese broccoli (for later) at United Noodles, an Asian supermarket.

Used ultrasonic sound waves to measure the depth of water in the tank for our houseplant irrigation system. Drilling holes in the little project box attached to the top of the tank resulted in a trip to UrgentCare yesterday. My thumb and my pride are healing well.

Got sewn back together after an incident involving an electric drill. The staff at Urgent Care were lovely, and I had a nice lie down.

While Minneapolis dug out from a snowstorm, our amaryllis provided a pop of color.

Acquired empty space.

The Minneapolis skyways were 80 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the streets below, so I walked the skyways. Spotted a model of Downtown in Cesar Pelli’s Wells Fargo Center. For me, the Wells Fargo Center seems outclassed by the restraint of Philip Johnson’s IDS Center.

Grateful for good dentistry: a cleaning and 6-month checkup.

Managed to stay upright on icy paths as I walked our jogging route.

Posted The Impossible Takes a Little Longer.

Bought household essentials at the Downtown Target.

Bought household essentials at the Downtown Target.

It’s beyond freezing out there, so I jogged on a treadmill for the first time in decades. For most of the run I held on for dear life, concerned I’d be launched backwards off the contraption. Then I noticed the clip attached to a cord attached to an emergency Off switch.

Built a fully working prototype of a water flow meter using $25 of parts, including an Arduino microcomputer. It behaves exactly like a meter costing ten times as much. I’ll build a “production” version of this and incorporate it into our indoor irrigation system.