I’m going to have to retrace my steps with the dogs tomorrow morning, I was looking at the sky the whole time this last trip out with them tonight

Fuckin’ bullshit world, nothin’s good

Anybody have a body shop in Saint Paul that they like? We’ve got a new driver so the trusty old Forester is picking up some scrapes I’d like to get patched up Since I’ll be paying for this myself I’m hoping to find a place that knows what I mean when I say I want it made presentable, not pristine

When I think of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I think of Captain Cooper on the Arthur M Anderson, and the courage it took to turn the Anderson around to go back out and look for the Fitzgerald. His conversation with the Coast Guard still gives shivers shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-...

Been looking for a non-alcoholic lager that can be a daily driver that’s tasty, available at my local store, <100 calories/12 oz. These Clausthaler Originals are pretty good; despite the green bottle they don’t taste skunky like a Heineken 0.0 What I really want is a Hamm’s or Deer Brand 0.0

It’d be fun to be a professional soccer player and have Olivia Moultrie drop perfect crosses right on your head

Somebody’s building maintenance i. Downtown Saint Paul salted the sidewalk today, seems performative

I’ll never know if Target employees are friendlier or more helpful. I quit going because they quit their commitment to DEI. Until there’s real change in *that* direction, I’m a hard pass

“I just need a hand getting a nut on this” is a sentence I just said

Did you ever cut your finger in the shop after thinking “I’d better hold this with a pliers or I’m gonna cut myself”. Me, just the once here

Just had one of those interactions at a bike shop that’ll keep me from going back there again, too annoyed to even talk about it

We’re all lookin’ for the person responsible

Just read this sentence in the NYT: Waking up to relieve your bladder, formally known as nocturia, is only a medical issue if you have to do it more than twice a night — or if you have trouble going back to sleep afterward I think with a good logo nocturia could be the name of my metal band

I bounce between earworms Bastards of Young an The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. There must never be a mashup

Woooooooooooooo🚨🚨🚨

Remembered to check the pockets of my raincoat before I washed it with dog treats in there

Saint Paul needs a Summit Ave NIMBY mayor like a bicycle needs a fish but heeeeeere we aaaaare. If only there had been a way for Carter to run a campaign

About how this applies to music, my buddy, with vast experience in bands, always says: If a [rock] musician can play it, you can play it. They’re not thinking very hard up there and If you can’t play something after a reasonable amount of practice, your problem is you just don’t know the trick

Regarding Minneapolis and Saint Paul and their relative fame abroad: In Ireland recently I militantly answered “Saint Paul, Minnesota” when people asked where I’m from, and I’m quite confident that every single person I told had no idea where that was

There’s a server at Francis on Lake who works with a song in her heart, and if you’re very lucky you’ll hear her low-key singing along to the music. Last night she was wiping tables softly singing along to an 80’s Whitney song and just killing it

Our two cats and two dogs keep time like trainmasters and there’s no convincing them during the fall time change that “it’s ok, the clocks changed”. Pics to show how overmatched we are numerically

I trademarked “twopeat”, excited to cash in

Vikings are on at noon tomorrow, think I’ll head over to La Cucaracha and make a fool of myself at the buffet

Well, at least I wore my Blue Jays fandom lightly

My only comfort is knowing those guys at that bar in LA weren’t able to see that

This is who I’m talking about

Had a good talk with her about the time change tomorrow and what that’s going to do to mealtimes. I feel like we’re on the same page

Who’s Pages going to hurt now?

Please please please please walk off walk

That was more the pitch than the hitter

As a man of science I know it’s bad luck to count the outs down

Quick, tape ad is on

geddy lee claps for the blue jays in 7/4 time

I personally wouldn’t have Scherzer back out in the 5th but if he can steal 3 more outs the Jays could sure use them

Easiest lip-read this season

Crazy catches from the Blue Jays

Haha I’ll give Bo that lingering look before the trot

Note to my biographer: Disregard all previous posts about having made “the worst omelette so far,” today’s omelette is the current worst

Turned into a pretty fun evening

Was raining hard here at 5 when we set up, so we don’t have our usual bonfire, but our neighbors said fuck it at 6:30 and lit one

We’re having a pretty normal (busy) Halloween, despite the rain. Our block is pretty turned-out with decorations. I’m almost through two costco bags

You’ll never hear me complaining about pumpkin carving tools. Million times better than the knives we used as kids

Like the line in Guy Clark’s Dublin Blues: I have seen the David, mmm-hmm I’ve seen the Mona Lisa, too And I have had smoked cod roe Eaten straight out of the tube

The key to my equanimity is not watching scary shit

Wooster is curious about the new cat wheel. It appeared over the weekend and he was given treats for investigating it

People have told me “I like John Scalzi’s books” or “You should read John Scalzi’s books” but where I fault them is for not sitting me down with “Starter Villain” or “Redshirts” and making me read page 1 of either to get me hooked. I need to be led by the nose, people!

You love to see Otahni whipping around on the mound to watch one fly out

Looks like MN United went a little long last night, too

Woke up this morning in Dublin wondering who won last night‘s World Series game but I guess I‘ll have to wait and see