Well, after a very busy but mercifully short work week, I am off to Wisconsin tomorrow morning to spend the long Thanksgiving weekend with my family. I'll have Internet there and everything, but I still don't know how much I'll be around until Sunday. If you are in or around Eau Claire, make sure to stop by the Acoustic Cafe on 7 p.m. this Friday ( Read more... )

Sometimes it pays to let Ticketmaster spam you. Thanks to chia_rhino giving me the heads-up, and a presale I just found out about today, dayzdark and I now have tickets to see Leonard Cohen at the Orpheum in Minneapolis on May 3! Yes, I know that this is the last day of DemiCon, and yes, I'll still be at the con to attend and perform; I'll just have to leave ( Read more... )

We will call this weekend the Weekend of Good Karma. To wit:

On Sunday kyrryn and mendeia found a cell phone in a snowbank. We called numbers in it and were able to return it to its rightful owner, who rewarded us with raspberry jam! Mmm, delicious tasty jam ( Read more... )

While looking at houses on Saturday, we drove past University and Dale where Saigon Restaurant & Bakery, home of these sandwiches, is located. I just about pooped my pants when I saw that the door was boarded up and the parking lot was empty. Well all I can say is THANK GOD they only moved down the street and didn't close. I am now scheming how ( Read more... )

It was 76 degrees today, and Minneapolis is currently in the grips of the first real rainstorm of the spring. I'm sitting in my office with all the windows open, enjoying the rain smell and the breeze while I catch up with paulkedarkhanna after far too long, enjoy some Wisconsin microbrew, and watch Fullmetal Alchemist. Life may be kind of complicated right now ( Read more... )

Is there anything in the entire world that feels better than perfectly fulfilling a craving? It certainly would not seem so at the moment, because I am eating exactly what I wanted for lunch, which is to say a "special" banh mi from Saigon Restaurant (aka the best way in the world of combining meat, bread, and vegetables, except maybe that kebab ( Read more... )

Every morning as I wait for my bus, I often peer into the newspaper boxes that are located at my stop. I rarely buy the paper, since I can just as easily read most of the news online as soon as I get to work, but reading the headlines is still a good way to pass the time. Well, this morning as I was carrying out my normal routine, a man came up ( Read more... )