Got up early to get breakfast and coffee ready. My girlfriend Chris drove to school as she has tutoring after so I stayed home and worked. I took a brief walk and settled into work. Most of the day was an intellectual struggle with finishing my updated website and not worrying about it being perfect. … Read more
We got up early and I drove my girlfriend Chris to her first day back at work / school since her surgery. She said overall it went well though she was a little sore. I spent the day working on my website and some marketing things. It continues to be pretty nice outside. I’m behind … Read more
Today was a pretty relaxing day. We made a couple of grocery store trips and I made another batch of Beef Bourguignon and it was delicious again. This is the second time I’m using pearl onions and I really enjoy them. The trick was reading that to peel them easily, first boil them for a … Read more
February this year, Minnesota had the most snow of any February either in forever or a very long time. And I got to see it. I like weather. The thing with snow, though, is it is temporarily stored water. It melts back to liquid. And that has to flow somewhere. A lot of it flows … Read more
I took a walk around the lake that is one housing subdivision over. The lake level looks like it is a foot to a foot and a half higher than normal with mostly thin ice covering the lake. Walking down to the fishing dock, I could hear water rushing through the storm drains leading to … Read more
Today was a pretty regular day back at my girlfriend Chris’ house. I’m working on revising my company websites and a website revision for one of my existing clients. I also learned how to set up a YouTube account for business properly. And I’m utterly amazed at how complicated YouTube is. For all of the … Read more
My girlfriend Chris and I got up early again to head back to her house in Minnesota. Today happily there was a Caribou Coffee right next to the hotel so we could at least start with good coffee. Before leaving Mitchell, Chris wanted to drive by and see the major attraction in town: The World’s … Read more
We managed to wake up at 5:30am and got on the road early again. Chris did the drive in 2 days (Minnesota to Utah) and I wanted to take 3 days back as I don’t enjoy driving long distances as much. We still have a lot of ground to cover, hence the early starts. Because … Read more
My girlfriend Chris and I got up early and started driving. It was dark for a while which is a shame, the mountains around Salt Lake City looked really pretty last night. Overall I really enjoyed the scenery in Utah and into Wyoming. We stopped for lunch at a restaurant in Casper, WY that had … Read more
I had a relaxing morning packing up and chatting with Elizabeth. I fly out today. We took a quick trip over to the mansion museum on the JHU campus for a tour. It was pretty interesting about the very wealthy Maryland family that used it as a summer home. Afterwards we took a ride to … Read more