Happy Birthday Classy Lady

Yeah I am talking about you Mom, I know this is a picture you enjoy. Poor Dad, always in trouble for something and she is loving it, check out the grin! I hope your birthday is great just like you!

Well summer is winding down and I won't see these two crazy cats at the lake every weekend, but I have a feeling I will be home plenty trying to plan the nuptials. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers, planning is not my forte.

In a moment of weakness, after an unfortunate weigh-in, I signed up for the Las Vegas Marathon. So now I am studying for my PE, training for a marathon and planning a big party, all in the next four months. Sweet.

Fish have feelings too.

Here are our fish, Fish 1 and Fish 2. When the fish died I felt bad but my Dad reminded me they are only reptiles. (but I guess they aren't but they are still without a soul or something.......? Physics Major here!) We cleaned them and ate them so they didn't die in vain but still I am sad for them, they were nice fish.

Snakes are reptiles and they all can die. I hate them. And no I will not be going to see Snakes on a Plane. I saw Anaconda and that was enough for me, I still have nightmares.

Well, fall is right around the corner and I am back in school. Wednesday nights I have a 3 hour prep course for the Professional Engineering Exam at the U of M. It's a little odd to be in one of my old college classrooms, being taught by an old college classmate, subjects I used to understand when I was in college. But don't worry I was able to maintain my old college form, I showed up to class without the textbook, without my calculator and I am sure come Tuesday night I will scrambling to get my homework done for Wednesday. What joy, at least Ben is taking the exam too so we can find comfort in each other's dread.

Yeah Good Morning

I had my yearly physical this morning which was of course awesome. I mean I love the open back robe, 12 hours of fasting, needles, cups....... BLECH, what a drag but I got through it, hungry but unharmed. I finished my appointment, got to work, made my daily oatmeal, grabbed it out of the microwave and placed it on top of my coffee mug, just like I do EVERY morning. But today, I only made it halfway down the hall. Oh joy and I left a stain, a stain that will probably be there for awhile. Hopefully I didn't also leave an invitation for the ants to come back, they are not wanted here, not at all.

Tonight is the Twins Joe Mauer sideburn night, Go Twins! We would go but I don't think I would look too good in black sideburns, Ben already has his own pair, and we have plans for a movie with some friends. We are planning on seeing World Trade Center which opened yesterday, I have heard it is good, please don't tell me if you heard differently.

Hard to believe but people really fall for that Nigerian money scam. I don't know if you recall the Tennessee preacher's wife who shot her husband in the back 6 months ago or so. I was intrigued by the story because there seemed to be no motive, he was a nice enough guy, they got along, really nothing out of the ordinary. Then you find out she lost $17,000 to some Nigerian scam artist claiming to be some prince with extra cash, things got heated and the guy gets shot. What a drag, I guess I should stop crying over my spilled oatmeal.

It's time to move on........

I am preparing to vacate my one bedroom hideaway on the river. Goodbye StoneArch it's been a good 3 year ride, but I am moving to uptown. Oh sad day. And the commute, that is going to be a change, I guess 6 blocks just can't last forever.

This letter came through on our fax today. Apparently Tillie G. has some real problems with "them windmills", poor Tillie, if you don't like wind turbines you sure live in the wrong part of the state. But don't worry, being you told us 3 times "don't put no windmills on my land", I don't think we will. And on the plus side you have Ted Kennedy and a bunch of other ignorant "not in my backyard" idiots on your side. We have been waiting 2 months for the Department of Homeland Security to allow us to begin construction in SW Minnesota because they claim their radar can't tell the difference between the spinning blade of a turbine and some crazy terrorist plane attacking via Canada. Wow, our governemnt agencies are intelligent.

Goodbye July.

Well I am sorry to say I did not make it to RAGBRAI this year, but Lance did. He mingled with the crowd, signed autographs and hung out, how cool! I guess he liked it too as the quote in the paper was "So this is RAGBRAI, I wasted all those Julys in France"

My friend Darcie and I did some biking of our own, not in Iowa but in Elk River and I need some practice, I took two tumbles and had multiple near misses, see photo. It was hard to believe we were the only ones on the trail at noon on Friday, it was only like a 100 degrees out.

Oh this is great, Joe Mauer is the new Sports Illustrated cover!