It was a lot warmer today, if you can call somewhere between 5 and 10F warmer. Look at it this way. When it was -28F in Rochester, it felt like my face was going to freeze off. When it was 8F and I was walking to the grocery store, my face just felt chilly. I … Read more
I was up around 3am helping my girlfriend Chris get around and looked outside and saw a couple of deer lounging in the front yard snow. One was sitting on the ground with it’s head up looking around. The other was a indistinct fuzzy ball on the ground. Something spooked them and they ran off … Read more
I slept well and got up around 7am and headed back to the hospital. Thankfully the car started. This time the car thermostat showed -28F and it wasn’t a very happy car. It ran ok but some things seemed sluggish. Like when I shifted the transmission, the dashboard indicator was slow. The windshield wipers were … Read more
From calling the night before, my girlfriend Chris learned we needed to report to the hospital at Mayo at 5:30am so we got up early and got ready. The morning weather was still merely very cold vs the incredibly cold it would become so we got up, I got the car warmed up and we … Read more
I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep. We had the curtains open all night to watch the snow and an 18″ long icicle had formed dripping off the bottom of a light outside the window. We went over to Mayo for pre-surgery appointments and all went well. My girlfriend Chris is … Read more
My girlfriend Chris and I have plans to be in Rochester MN tomorrow for surgery she is having on Tuesday. We will be there several days. However, there is a big storm coming in and we are going to check in a day early so we don’t have to try to drive an hour through … Read more
Today I woke up and there was a light snowfall which was pretty. Today my girlfriend Chris and I planned to drive to Brainerd to visit her parents. It was a pretty drive and not slippery. We were ferrying a car so we drove separately and it was a pretty easy drive. We had a … Read more
I was able to wake up at 5:45am without any trouble. My preparing for the time change worked. Yay. I got up and made breakfast since my girlfriend Chris leaves for work around 6:30am. She has the chorizo sausage that dreams are made of so I cooked that and eggs and it was delicious. Then … Read more
Today I flew to visit my girlfriend Chris in Minnesota. I’ll be here for a few months. As it happened, my daughter Elizabeth was flying back to Baltimore at about the same time and also on Southwest so we went over to the airport together and had a nice visit. I was concerned about possible … Read more
I did my last Sacramento networking meeting for a while. It was good to see people and all. I also got some feedback that people are seeing my Facebook posts. I’m posting a lot more than I was both marketing related and personal on my personal profile as an experiment. For now I’ll continue with … Read more