A month or so ago I went looking for the location of a restaurant in Sioux Falls, and wound up having to look through a list of supposedly all of the Sioux Falls restaurants. I eventually found the one I was looking for and confirmed its location, but in the process I saw an entry for a place called Pickle Barrel.

When I was attending UW- ( Read more... )

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Saturday was generally uneventful for me. I did go and see Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, but before that went to KFC for lunch. KFC has "boneless wings" which are indeed boneless and probably are wings, but somehow didn't do much for me. Even with having lunch before going to the theater, I wound up at the concession stand. ( Read more... )

I'll be staying home or at least close to home Saturday while jmaynard is in the Twin Cities for something parliamentarian related. I'm pondering going to see the Wallace & Gromit movie.

Sunday will be different. If Jay feels like travelling after the trip to the Cities and back and all, we'll both go to Sioux Falls. If he's not feeling up to travel, ( Read more... )

Sunday I called melissasutton to make sure we'd agree on a time and place to meet for lunch. She suggested the HuHot Mongolian Grill. A couple hours later I was there, not too long after the agreed upon time (it took me longer than expected to get on the road).

The food was good and there was plenty of it, with a very good selection. I've been to a ( Read more... )

Saturday afternoon jmaynard and I went to Sioux Falls and joined a few folks from the Siouxland Renaissance Festival (Hi melissasutton!) at the water park for a few hours. I'd never been to any water park before, so I wasn't sure just what exactly to expect. The music seemed loud going in but once in seemed not to be too bad. I think the deepest water there was ( Read more... )

Unlike last time today's trip to Sioux Falls didn't have any lengthy setbacks. Thus I was able to dine at Taste of India. I opted not to do the buffet thing though it was early enough and would have been cheaper. Instead I ordered off the menu and got exactly what I wanted rather than the luck of the buffet. I had a glass of mango juice along ( Read more... )

While Jay stayed in Fairmont today, I set out to go to Sioux Falls today and did, eventually. I went to South Dakota twice today. On my way to Sioux Falls I passed a beat up Ford Escort, which was no big deal. A while later that same Escort passed me, which was also no big deal. I left the cruise control where I had set it and went along. It ( Read more... )

Friday: Cleaned up the dining room some. Various boxes and packing material are now taking up much less room and the boxes can be picked up on the next recycling day. The table is still strewn various bits of computers, but that's not likely to change until the office is sorted out - and that won't be for a while, mainly due to furniture ( Read more... )

Last night as we were about to go into a restaurant we heard an announcement over the city public address/civil defense/storm warning system. The July 4th fireworks were being postponed. While the sky did not look promising, that was not the reason. The pyrotechnics had not yet arrived from the vendor. Whoops.

There were fireworks, though. The ( Read more... )