Yum

We had some delicious food today.


It's after 8pm now, and Amanda and I have been cooking, eating or cleaning up after ourselves since 10:30am.

We also saw the first snow of the year. Notice, my pumpkin has proven more resilient and structurally sound than Amanda's. That's hers on the right.

WTF??

I walked over to the Saturn this evening to retrieve a few coins for the purpose of buying a stamp. Upon opening the driver’s side door, I witnessed this horrible sight.


During the course of the past few days, someone decided it’d be a good idea to break in my car’s window and…

That's the part that pisses me off; beyond a bunch of the contents having been shuffled about, nothing seems to have been removed from the car. The change slot still had all sorts of metallic currency in it; as much of the paperwork (insurance, etc.) as I can remember being in the glove box was present; the trunk still held all of its cargo. It doesn't make sense -- christ, at least TAKE something.

The perp did leave behind something to be remembered by.


Thanks asshole.

Nine more days of Uptown before I move on to more civilized environs. Good riddance.

Not Impressed

Within the last four or five months, Amanda and I learned of Minneapolis’ plan to connect its citizenry by way of a city-sponsored wireless network that was to be implemented by a Twin Cities tech company, USI Wireless.

We’ve both lucked out with wireless during the past few years; our iBooks have been pretty keen detectors of open networks within range of our respective apartments. Despite this, we were excited by the prospect of at-home wireless that was consistently available and circumvented traditional means that require package contracts for cable or DSL or the like.

Amanda decided to give the service a go and signed up for the latter of two options: rent/buy an expensive modem from USI wireless in addition to the cost of service that connects one’s computer to the wireless transmitters in the neighborhood, or log into the system’s “roaming service” by way of her laptop’s internal modem and the company’s website.

So far, I’d give this service a C-. She gets a signal at home but it’s weak – 1 out of a possible 5 bars. This makes for painfully sluggish web browsing and frequent site time-outs.

More lame than dial-up?

that's winter at the door

If you could be anywhere, would you choose this place?