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Thrill du jour: temperature inside our exterior walls right now. It has been a quiet day.

Installed sensor to control pipe temperature when it’s really cold outside. It should prevent another frozen pipe.

Today it was too cold for the schools to open, but not too cold for nephew C. to snowboard.

False dilemma: “The winters are too cold. Why don’t you move?” Here’s my reply.

Sunny winter’s day, a good day to walk on the squeaky sub-zero snow. Spotted a snow monster and a cyclist on the lake.

Ran around Lake of the Isles. Now, this is my preferred view until Wednesday when the high will next be above zero F.

Today, temperature soared to 18F so walked across Lake of the Isles and Lake Calhoun. Watched people ski-sailing.

Tonight, at the Guthrie Theater: “Born Yesterday”–corruption in Washington, written 1945, and as fresh as ever.

First beer of 2014. New Year’s Day tradition: walk + lunch. Frigid weather = short walk.

Researched jam-free designs for a LEGO Mindstorms ball dispenser. I’ll be asleep when the ball drops in Times Square.

Library afternoon. Helped people to navigate poorly designed Web forms to find jobs and decent health insurance.

-2 Fahrenheit, and dropping. A good day to stay inside, and do a bunch of work for a client.

Today (hopefully) saved the roof: figured out a heat tape problem. Melt water is now flowing where I want it to flow.

Walked over to Walker Art Center then wrote a blog entry about art for my nephews.

A UK friend and I walked from Minneapolis to St. Paul, following the route of the light rail that will open in 2014.

Our yard this morning, still snowing: definitely a white Christmas. We went for a run on the fresh snow.