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At Minnehaha Park, on our cycle ride this morning, we passed the annual Norway Day festival.

Visited a LEGO club in a former WW2 bombsight factory. Viewed complex models, and the nephews built vehicles to race.

We have them for two days. We started with them bouncing off the walls.

We resisted the temptation to cycle right up to the counter.

Life, Phase 3: On walk to downtown library, coffee in a real cup, muffin on a real plate, and time to Tweet about it.

Signed up for fiber to the home: half the price of DSL or cable. Local service provider, no teaser rates or bundling.

A friend and I cycled past “Sperry Univac, Plant 4, Building 3” (now Unisys) in Roseville where we worked in 1979.

WW1 started 100 years ago. I posted to commemorate my grandfather who fell in the Great War.

Used a low-tech solution to bring an ancient CPU back to life: a blast of air at the connectors. Pure, dumb luck.

Spent the morning gardening among happy flowers, and unhappy weeds.

Run, cycle, lunch. Later, friend arrives, grill burgers. 7 p.m. this modest firework show. Plenty excitement.

Cycled N. Minneapolis with a UK friend. Enjoyed Surly and tater tots at Psycho Suzi’s where tiki meets Mississippi.

Walked under a grey sky to the downtown library. The sun then came out and looked rather fine in the atrium.

Wrote about ignoring barriers.

Got out the car, ignored the rain, started cycling the Gateway Trail. The rain then ignored us, and the sun came out.

Breakfast at Lake Harriet, then onwards to overflowing Minnehaha Creek.