My “to blog” list has grown increasinlgy longer over the past few weeks … so, in no particular order:
Wildfire. A few weeks back, Ryan and Paula invited us to the newest Twin Cities restaurant, Wildfire, of the “Lettuce Entertain You” crowd. After waiting two and half hours for a table, we were finally greeted with menus, which looked a lot like its sister restaurant, only with higher prices. Despite our grousing over the menus, the manager did come over and apologized for the wait, giving us a free appetizer. And, we were all so soused on cocktails, by the time our food came, no one cared that is was already 10:45 p.m. Overall: good food, high priced, average to good service. Will I return? Maybe.
Prayer Shawls. My co-worker tells me that knitting is “in.” This past weekend she chaperoned a group of junior high kids on a choir retreat and found them all gathered in one cabin … knitting (yeah, I thought she was going to say they were smoking or naked or something crazy like that). Apparently, some were knitting “prayer shawls.” The concept is that while you’re knitting, you pray. Then, these shawls are given to people in hospices or nursing homes, and when they wrap the shawls around them, they feel wrapped in prayer. Apparently, the concept’s been around forever, but since I don’t knit (or perform any other handicraft), I have never heard of them. A quick search on Google.
Snow Fences. If you’re not from around here (where it snows), you probably have no idea what a snow fence is. I was thinking about this on Monday when I drove onto campus … we got dumped by a whole lot of snow over the weekend and I was wondering how snow fences actually worked. I thought this would be a great article for the How Stuff Works web site (but it’s not there). The answer is here.
Portraits of Grief in the New York Times.
Blogging cliques. When I first started blogging a few years ago, a little page of jealousy always went through me when I read about a group of bloggers getting together for hiking, drinks, movies, conferences, etc. Now I, too, can say that “I and a couple of other bloggers got together for dinner last week.” (Eric, where’s that picture?)
Moving update. Our new address and phone number will be official next week! If you want it, send me an e-mail. Speaking of moving, all of utilities have nearly been established as well. All that’s left to do is find a garbarge collector. The city of Bloomington licenses three garbage collectors/recyclers. I need to call all three to get quotes. Weird. Calling around to get a quote on trash removal. The things you learn when you buy a house.
I’m blogged out. I’ve been reading Lileks a bit lately and he’s motivating me to write more frequently. Thus, my attempt. So, we’ll see if this trend continues.
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