The weather forecast for yesterday missed in a pretty big way. They were predicting rain for most of the day on Tuesday night, and I woke up expecting a grey day. But by about 7am the rain had stopped and the sky had cleared, and it was a bright sunshiney day (and a lot warmer than I expected). That was nice for the drive up to mom’s and for mowing the lawn when I got home, but my thought last week that I wouldn’t need an air conditioner again this season was overly optimistic.
As for work, the less said about that the better. I guess a quick version would be I’ve had more productive weeks.
If my energy-level were a publicly traded stock this week, analysts would be talking about a meltdown
. And that’s already more than I really want to say about it.
Oh well, it’s Thursday. That means that the (fully-booked) weekend sort of begins tomorrow. Something to look forward to, I guess.
- Last Sunday’s Game To Be Re-Broadcast Thursday On Comcast. If you missed Game 5 of the Northern League Championship, and live somewhere that you can get Comcast, you get a chance to watch the game again tonight at 7pm. If you’ve got a TiVo Series 1 and could snarf the game, I’d be grateful, since I’d like to have it on DVD at some point (we can worry about the details of getting it off the machine later).
- The Minnesota Independence Party’s case [is] on fast track, hoping to get their candidates back on the ballot. They’ve been removed from the ballot by an obscure law (which was not used against them in 2000) that was passed by Republicans in 1939, which killed off the Farmer Labor party in 1943. This all reminds me of a book mentioned in this month’s Liberty (the review is one of the things that isn’t online) that I want to get: Others: Third Party Politics From the Nation’s Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party ISBN:0595317235. [strib]
- Yesterday I spotted the headline that Swimming in syrup is as easy as swimming in water! (A shorter version is here in case Nature’s server is flaky, as it has been for me.) It’s based on research done at the University of Minnesota last year, so I went looking. Here’s the story from the U. [fark!]
- The Minneapolis Smoking ban to have impact on local businesses, and I’m tempted to go ask the proponents of the ban to name three people who have been hurt by secondhand smoke. But hey, it’s a good time to be demonizing tobacco so maybe I should just go with the flow. [daily]