9. May, 2003 - schedule chaos

• This morning my schedule got all kerfuffled. First there was last night’s Wild game to watch on the TV, leading to me being up past my bedtime. But this morning, starting at 8am, the city was going to be working on the water mains, so the water would be shut off at 8 (they actually shut it off at 7:55am) until they’re done with whatever work needs doing. The guy said a couple hours, unless something goes wrong. Anyway, my normal morning routine is to wake up sometime between 5:30 and 7:30, spend an hour or two surfing the web and putting together Dave’s Picks for the day (if you guessed I’m normally attired in fluffy bunny slippers and a ratty bathrobe during that process, you’d be half-right), then a bit of breakfast, and the morning ablutions, which end up being between 8 and 9 am, and then it’s time to start working for the day.
  But that wouldn’t work today. Instead, the schedule was: wake at 6:45, sit down to check overnight email, read message I’d sent to myself reminding me about the water, shower, breakfast, brush teeth, and then finally get to surfing around the web. All basically a very long-winded way of saying it’s the city’s fault I’m running behind on getting the stuff posted for the day. Sorry. But hey, at least I’m wearing pants!
• Wild stuns Vancouver 4-2 in game 7: The way things are going for the Wild, the NHL should just spot the Mighty Ducks a 3-1 lead right now and let the Wild roar back and break that record, too. I don’t watch much NHL hockey normally, and to be honest, I wasn’t expecting much of the Wild this year. Heck, I’m still a little bitter about the Sharks and the Stars moving out of town (when the North Stars got split into two teams), but I watched games 5, 6, and 7 of the series against Vancouver, and it’s been some good hockey. [strib]

• the wild’s chances?

  the wild’s chances now

  Colby Cosh NHL Playoffs Page says it best: Anaheim-Minnesota in the final? Haw haw—that’s a good bet in 2005, all right. Sometimes the great game of hockey makes delirious fools of us all. In Cosh’s case, it would seem he might still be mistaken, as Minnesota started out ranked higher than the Ducks. Time will tell. [colby cosh]
• Speaking of hockey, there are more updates on the Hockey Riot 2003. One explusion and the regents at the U are suitably concerned and doing something.
• Dinkytown revives with new businesses. It’s interesting watching it from my perspective. I’ve been living in the area for most of the past twenty years, and Dinkytown has always been the commercial hub for me. The resurgence lately has actually hurt it a bit from my point of view, since the hardware store has moved on, but it’s nice to see more businesses making a go of it in Dinkytown.
• Pawlenty offers a deal: 2 a.m. bar close and more cops, which seems relatively fair. A 2am closing time would probably be a big change in Dinkytown, and I’ve wondered for years why there isn’t one squad always stationed there weekend evenings at bar close. It might cut down on the drunks playing bumper-cars in the parking lot at 1:15am. [strib]

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