Got out and snapped a few pics around town.
Enjoy!
Monday, June 30, 2008
The Weekend's Adventures
Sunday was really nice out. The kind of summer day you dream and long for during a long Minnesota winter.
Got out and snapped a few pics around town.
Enjoy!
Whitey. The Albino Squirrel
35W Bridge Construction
Got out and snapped a few pics around town.
Enjoy!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Duluth
About a week back the girlfriend and I celebrated our 1-year anniversary up in Duluth. What a great town and chance to get away! We stayed in a great hotel in Canal Park overlooking Lake Superior. Really was a fantastic time!!
Some of the highlights include: Canal Park, lighthouses, the Lift Bridge, Gooseberry Falls, seagulls, great food, and tons of stuff to take pictures of ;)
I’ve posted up the pics to my album, which can be viewed by clicking here.
Otherwise, below are a few of the pics.
Enjoy!
Mary took this pic. I love this one!
Some of the highlights include: Canal Park, lighthouses, the Lift Bridge, Gooseberry Falls, seagulls, great food, and tons of stuff to take pictures of ;)
I’ve posted up the pics to my album, which can be viewed by clicking here.
Otherwise, below are a few of the pics.
Enjoy!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
The (Utah) Salt Flats
My travels this week for work took me from Salt Lake City, Utah to Elko, NV and back. Not really a vacation (or work) destination I’d recommend ... at all. However, duty calls and I answered!
I’d say the highlight of the trip was making a rest stop along Hwy 80 West at the Utah (Bonneville) Salt Flats. Miles and miles of incredibly white, flat salt. As far as the eye could see. It was the weirdest and coolest thing. It was amazing how bright and whiter than snow that salt really was.
Below are a few pictures from the week’s adventures.
Polar Bear?!?
I’d say the highlight of the trip was making a rest stop along Hwy 80 West at the Utah (Bonneville) Salt Flats. Miles and miles of incredibly white, flat salt. As far as the eye could see. It was the weirdest and coolest thing. It was amazing how bright and whiter than snow that salt really was.
Below are a few pictures from the week’s adventures.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Ramblings from a bored mind…
Here I sit in my Salt Lake City Airport hotel room. I look out my window at an office park, a few birds, and a somewhat deserted parking lot with the exception of a few random unorganized cars.
The work trip. The purpose of this boredom. Here I sit waiting as time ticks away until the events of a busy tomorrow.
Why am I here in this sad place … this desolate place … this pathetic place?
Here I sit waiting for the occasional email or call.
I’ve explored all the nooks and crannies of my hotel room. For some reason I have 2 beds. Why? Is that if I really want to put my feet up, I mean really?
Who thought this was a good location for a hotel?
There is a creepy spider outside my window.
I’ve ironed 2 shirts.
I’m bored …
Can’t wait until this weekend and I’m back in Minneapolis!
The work trip. The purpose of this boredom. Here I sit waiting as time ticks away until the events of a busy tomorrow.
Why am I here in this sad place … this desolate place … this pathetic place?
Here I sit waiting for the occasional email or call.
I’ve explored all the nooks and crannies of my hotel room. For some reason I have 2 beds. Why? Is that if I really want to put my feet up, I mean really?
Who thought this was a good location for a hotel?
There is a creepy spider outside my window.
I’ve ironed 2 shirts.
I’m bored …
Can’t wait until this weekend and I’m back in Minneapolis!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Whole lotta shakin' going on
I work downtown Minneapolis in a high-rise building next to the new Twins ballpark stadium going up. I work on the 9th Floor, and actually my company has a rooftop patio on the 13th floor (top of the building). Our offices are a decent way up off the ground, and actually it offers one great view of downtown!
However, it hasn’t been so great as of late. You see next to our building various construction workers, who happen to look like bright orange ants from our windows (not saying they are ants from a social-economic perspective, they just look like bright-orange ants cause we’re so high up – visual perspective; just stick with me here). Anyways, these construction workers have been busting up the pavement and concrete with some pretty big machinery right outside our office. As you may or may not know, it takes quite a big force or blast to bust up pavement and concrete. Which gets me to my problem. Our building is shaking!
So, I’m sitting at my desk in the middle of the afternoon answering emails when I hear a huge *BOOM* outside and the 9th floor solid concrete floor beneath my feet and brick walls beside me begin to shake. And not a small amount, but a decent unsettling amount enough that people start to stand-up from their cubicles so you see their head and shoulders *pop up* as they start to look around like a bunch of frightened Prairie Dogs sensing danger in the wild. Side note: This classic cubical / office maneuver (just described here) is what is commonly known as “The Prairie Dog”.
So back to the blast outside and my whole office shaking beneath my feet. Now I’m not freaking out running across the office screaming, “We’re all going to die!!!” or anything like that. (Actually, that could be interesting.) No, I’m calm. However as this BOOM and shaking is repeated about 5-10 more times it’s not the most comforting feeling in the world. Actually it’s pretty creepy! It forces me to look around the office for reassurance that I'm NOT going to die and the walls and floor around me are NOT collapsing. I'm writing this blog entry, so I guess I'm still alive.
I don’t know that there is really point to this story, or a morale. Other then the construction outside my building is freaking my co-workers out. I guess if you do work in a tall building, quite high up, and feel the office shake around you and beneath you. Here’s some advice. Don’t worry it’s okay to be creeped out, but be aware of your surroundings. You may not be dying outright! From say, umm, an earthquake. It may just be a non-related incident like a bunch of less than bright construction workers outside your building with dangerous machinery and what may seem to be dynamite. No big deal.
However, it hasn’t been so great as of late. You see next to our building various construction workers, who happen to look like bright orange ants from our windows (not saying they are ants from a social-economic perspective, they just look like bright-orange ants cause we’re so high up – visual perspective; just stick with me here). Anyways, these construction workers have been busting up the pavement and concrete with some pretty big machinery right outside our office. As you may or may not know, it takes quite a big force or blast to bust up pavement and concrete. Which gets me to my problem. Our building is shaking!
So, I’m sitting at my desk in the middle of the afternoon answering emails when I hear a huge *BOOM* outside and the 9th floor solid concrete floor beneath my feet and brick walls beside me begin to shake. And not a small amount, but a decent unsettling amount enough that people start to stand-up from their cubicles so you see their head and shoulders *pop up* as they start to look around like a bunch of frightened Prairie Dogs sensing danger in the wild. Side note: This classic cubical / office maneuver (just described here) is what is commonly known as “The Prairie Dog”.
So back to the blast outside and my whole office shaking beneath my feet. Now I’m not freaking out running across the office screaming, “We’re all going to die!!!” or anything like that. (Actually, that could be interesting.) No, I’m calm. However as this BOOM and shaking is repeated about 5-10 more times it’s not the most comforting feeling in the world. Actually it’s pretty creepy! It forces me to look around the office for reassurance that I'm NOT going to die and the walls and floor around me are NOT collapsing. I'm writing this blog entry, so I guess I'm still alive.
I don’t know that there is really point to this story, or a morale. Other then the construction outside my building is freaking my co-workers out. I guess if you do work in a tall building, quite high up, and feel the office shake around you and beneath you. Here’s some advice. Don’t worry it’s okay to be creeped out, but be aware of your surroundings. You may not be dying outright! From say, umm, an earthquake. It may just be a non-related incident like a bunch of less than bright construction workers outside your building with dangerous machinery and what may seem to be dynamite. No big deal.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Weekend in Pictures
Some random pics from the weekend's adventures ... enjoy!
Saint Anthony Falls Lab. Here's a river stream test my girlfriend is helping to build. Believe it or not, she drives the Bobcat! ;)
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Bayfield, WI
Mary and I went to spend the past weekend together in Bayfield, WI. For those unfamiliar with Bayfield (like I was) it's a small sleepy little town off the coast of Lake Superior next to Madeleon Island (one of the Apostle Islands).
We rented and amazing place complete with full kitchen, study, 2 bathrooms, master bedroom and living room. Way too much space for us, but it was still great! If you ever go I recommend The Winfield Inn and renting their property Ada O'Day #4. You won't be disappointed!!
Of all the sites we took in I'd have to say the highlight was The Old Iron Bridge, and hiking the path underneath it. You see, the hiking path underneath it lead into the woods and through a special creek. In the creek were tons of "stacked rocks" that had been meticulously stacked, by someone (or something), to balance perfectly. I still say Gnomes did it! It was amazing, tons of rocks stacked all over the creek as if someone had been at it for months. It was sooo cool!
And since I just got my new DSLR camera I, of course, had to take way too many pictures. I've posted them in an album you can view by clicking here. Otherwise, I've posted a few pics below. Enjoy!
Bayfield in Bloom
The Old Iron Bridge
Rock Gnomes?!?
beach
We rented and amazing place complete with full kitchen, study, 2 bathrooms, master bedroom and living room. Way too much space for us, but it was still great! If you ever go I recommend The Winfield Inn and renting their property Ada O'Day #4. You won't be disappointed!!
Of all the sites we took in I'd have to say the highlight was The Old Iron Bridge, and hiking the path underneath it. You see, the hiking path underneath it lead into the woods and through a special creek. In the creek were tons of "stacked rocks" that had been meticulously stacked, by someone (or something), to balance perfectly. I still say Gnomes did it! It was amazing, tons of rocks stacked all over the creek as if someone had been at it for months. It was sooo cool!
And since I just got my new DSLR camera I, of course, had to take way too many pictures. I've posted them in an album you can view by clicking here. Otherwise, I've posted a few pics below. Enjoy!
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