Airships and zero inflation y'all!


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I love local news items in old newspapers:

Mrs. Carl BRANDENBURG is suffering with a bad cold and sore throat.

Martin ANDERSON spent the holidays at home.

Miss Daisy CAPRON visited Miss Etta JOHNSON last week.

Mr. CARPENTER was seen on our streets on Tuesday.

This is not very good weather for making maple syrup

When I came back from Minnesota a month ago, it seemed like I'd more or less missed spring. Everything got progressively greener as I drove south, which was lovely. I stopped to drop things off in a town where we have another project and got out of the truck into evening air thick with the scent of lilacs. When I got back to Milwaukee, however, the ( Read more... )

So I had a last minute work-related trip to northern Minnesota last week. Really northern. I mean like "make a wrong turn and 'Whoops, that's a border crossing...'"* kind of northern.

It was extremely flat and more than a little swampy.

This weekend it was a trip south to visit my cousin. ( We went to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry )