The Short Version: conandammit and I took an unauthorized tour of the abandoned Hamms Brewery.

The Last Time I posted about Hamms, I posted a picture from one of their labs and in response, MPuzzle posted an old-timey picture he found in the MN Historical Society of the same lab.


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Killing time while trying to find someone who was both available and willing to slip into a new hole in Pillsbury, last night, I took a bunch of pictures from the bridge ( Read more... )

LJ Idol - Week 20: Playing House

This is some guy's house.


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A half hour until the end of yet another miserable shit of a work day, my phone vibrates in my pocket. Hunter's voice sings out the muffled cry of " Sloppy Joes! Sloppy Joes!" and I shut off the ringer and fish the phone out of my pocket to see who texted and why. "Going to hamms wednesday night. Let me know if you're interested." ("Hamms" being an ( Read more... )

Two months after MPuzzle and I went through Purina together, I finally got around to finishing up cleaning and filing our pics and so now I post them for giggles. (There were related frustrations that created a series of avoidance behaviors.)


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So we've been eyeballing the Pillsbury building, among others. I'd walked around it a few times recently and, in spite of a report of access over the 4th of July, I'd written the place off as inaccessible, for the time being at least. In addition to that, there is a harrowing account by a local who was chased around inside by cops with dogs! (They ( Read more... )

Pillsbury's Best Flour. Yup.


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Adventure Tuesday! Now Featuring: My Sister.


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Hunter has become... How can I put this delicately?

We're in another phase where we're getting, what I can only assume is, a preview of his teenage years. There's been a lot of testing and a lot of mouth. Smart talk, one might say. It's unpleasant and I don't care for it.

It's frustrating, sometimes. Especially, I think, because he's still cute ( Read more... )

[This format might be completely sucky. I had a rotten-busy day at work yesterday, though, and I feel like trying something new ( Read more... )