On Saturday, Patty and I took a tour of the Wabasha Street Caves. We got the idea last weekend when we went on a long walk around our neighborhood and came across a group of people standing outside the entrance, waiting for the tour to start. I had heard of the caves before, and without [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 18, 2008
Sesquicentennial Flyby #2
Faster planes this time, but still pretty anticlimactic… In the video, a flight of four F-16s from the Minnesota Air National Guard overflies the Capitol Building during Diana Pierce’s keynote address at the Minnesota Sesquicentennial. It’s not very impressive to watch, I know, but you try taking footage of jets going 350 miles per hour [...]
May 17, 2008
Sesquicentennial Flyby
The House has been going in and out of session all day, so I’ve had a lot of free time. Earlier this afternoon I walked around the Capitol Mall and checked out the Minnesota Sesquicentennial festivities. In addition to the (admittedly poorly shot) video above, I took a whole series of pictures that you can [...]
May 12, 2008
Dog Days at the Legislature
I love working at the Capitol. You see something new practically every day. Today I looked out of my office window and saw approximately two dozen St. Paul canine officers and their dogs assembling on the steps of the State Office Building for a picture. Why? Don’t ask me, although I would assume it could [...]
May 11, 2008
Beef! Beef! Beef!
Be forewarned, this post is probably going to sound like an advertisement. Not that anyone would pay me for my endorsement of anything. I’ve been wanting to try grass-fed beef for a while now after learning about the health benefits. Grass-fed beef has a dramatically lower fat content, and more of the “good fat” that’s [...]
May 11, 2008
St. Paul Farmers' Market
For Mother’s Day, I wanted to do something a little more original for my stepmother than just buy her a run-of-the-mill Hallmark card, so I decided to check out the St. Paul Farmers’ Market and see what they had to offer. My wife goes here virtually every weekend. It’s a pretty cool farmers’ market, if [...]
May 10, 2008
A Drive Through Downtown
I promise I’ll try to write some more substantive blogs soon, but I’ve been pulling a lot of late nights at work and haven’t been able to do much in the last week. So for now, enjoy another time-lapse video of driving through downtown St. Paul at night.
May 5, 2008
Living Green Expo
With the weather being so copacetic for a change, Patty and I decided to spend the weekend doing outdoorsy, environmenty-type things. First, on Saturday, we walked over to this really cool place down the street from us called Capital Deals and bought a couple of used bicycles. We then spent the remainder of the day [...]
