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Lost all sense of time at Minneapolis Central Library.

Picked up my bike from a tune-up at Midtown Bike Center.

On my walk today: one final view of the Chicago skyline before heading to O’Hare.

Wrote about glass houses and buried museums.

Enjoying beer waiting for Chicago’s The Second City to start. Improv’s holy of holies. The beer will help me to ROFL.

Visited Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, self-described cornerstone of modern architecture. Nothing modest here.

Walked into architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s idea: the Farnsworth House, near Plano, Illinois.

Bike to Midtown (where I left my bike for a service), bus, LRT to airport, got paid for voluntary bump to earlier flight to Chicago MDW, El to downtown.

Walked past bleachers for tonight’s Aquatennial Parade. I prefer to walk than to watch people walking.

Nephews ingested unnaturally colored dipped cones. Returned them to Mom covered in fake tattoos and cycling wounds.

Hot, humid day, so made a breeze by cycling from Fort Snelling to St. Paul. Explored Mendota Heights on the way back.

Breakfast at Bread and Pickle on Lake Harriet, then continued cycling past the receding floodwaters of Minnehaha Creek.

A run, gardening, lunch with a friend in our kitchen, a nap, reading, cycle to Victory 44 for good eats. A good day.

Fed my inner child: some Lego Technic pieces arrived in the mail. My nephews *might* get these in 2 or 3 years.

At the end of my cycle ride, bought some crap at Ax-Man Surplus, left a tip, then took the LRT back to Minneapolis.

Did my annual ride to the airport via Fort Snelling State Park. MSP is my favorite Minneapolis place in the winter.