CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

One of the dogs, or maybe both, were very mad we left them home this afternoon. Went into my crochet project bag, pulled out my bag of hooks, someone unzipped it nicely, then did this to these hooks. All the metal ones had a nice sleeve on them. How they got bent like this, I don’t know.

I bought Mrs Meyers Gingerbread hand soap. It doesn’t smell like gingerbread and leaves a strong lingering scent of Japanese curry on your hands for hours. I kept waking up in the night wondering why I smelled curry. 1/10, too strong and weird smelling.

@kcmpls.bsky.social and Hannah out for walk down at Fort Snelling State Park on one of the last beautiful days.

I knew I didn’t want my labor to make money for someone else, so I got a government/union job. Started as entry level in the welfare office and ten positions later, I manage an IT project management office.

Got outside and hiked a bit. Two hours to go about a mile with the kid at Fort Snelling SP. Just too many cool things to look at to cover much distance.

Everything in this cookbook looks so good. Maybe I’m a Polish grandma at heart?

I always freeze when a medical provider asks what music I'd like to listen to. Today I had an MRI and for a couple seconds, I couldn't think of a single artist I liked. Then I heard "Wilco" pop out of my mouth, which was a surprise. Wilco is a good band, just not one I listen to much these days.

Went to the Cedar Ave reconstruction open house today. I want a slower, safer street that pedestrians can use. There were two very vocal older white dudes taking up a lot of space in the room. One telling everyone to scrap the whole project. The other bitching about not enough parking.

On my lunch break of this conference I’m getting second holes in my ears at this totally overpriced piercing studio at MOA. No one will have as productive lunch as me!

It’s terrible. The STEM magnet at MPS we were interested in only had 40% of the kids vaccinated. Amazes me that parents who don’t believe in science send their kids to a science magnet (though I know why this particular school is like this.)

Minnesota now has one of the nation’s lowest kindergarten vaccination rates More Minnesota kindergartners have nonmedical exemptions for the MMR vaccine, especially at private schools. Too many parents love to have their children suffer in unnecessary ways www.startribune.com/minnesota-no...

After a long day, we decided to skip the planned dinner and picked up food at Burritos El Patron (in the old Flag Foods on 42nd.) A+ highly recommended

Anyone at the MN Government IT Symposium this week? I’m here all three days.

And Hennepin County Library has a free limited subscription to Kanopy for all cardholders.

This looks awesome. What a great project!

We are required under policy to call people by their preferred names, pronounced correctly. Not doing so can lead to discipline. So who keeps posting lists on the internal website with only legal names? HR does. And where does the complaint need to go about it- HR. Great system here.

We have season tickets to the Stages Theater, a children’s theater that mostly uses local kids in their plays. Today we saw “Spookly and the Christmas Kittens,” based on a Netflix cartoon. 🙄 The story was pretty awful but the performances were top notch. 5 year old loved it, which is the point.

I know its federal law, but once again I get test results for Melanoma in MyChart before a doctor can contact me. She doesn't work until Monday, so I won't even hear from her this weekend. Second time with melanoma where I get the results online and once with the tumor in my knee.

Where in the twin cities can I get Diamond Crystal kosher salt? I know I've picked it up locally in the past, but can't remember where.

Anyone have some crafty evenings free? Winter is my favorite time for projects ❤️ this might feel too small to matter, not as important as heat, or cheesy, but for the people who choose to take one I promise it means so much.

Filled out the paperwork to enroll my kid in Kindergarten in MPS! First and only choice is our neighborhood school- Northrup.

Lake Hiawatha sunset

I wrote about roller skating and my return to the rink for @nextavenue.bsky.social today. www.nextavenue.org/a-return-to-...

Went to a happy hour today with some coworkers. A woman I had never met asked me if my lock screen is my daughter, after she had a quick glance. My lock screen:

Hi Minnesotan Bluesky: The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party. Join me: abetterdfl.org.

I live in hope . . .

I had a meeting on Thursday about moving off our current faxing application on to one in the cloud. I asked the obviously idiotic question of “but what if we just didn’t accept faxes anymore?” and everyone was like “impossible!” Anyways, I’ve done all these things.

Work goal for the day: to get through all my required leadership and annual training. Personal goals for today: get a tasty lunch and stop in at Wet Paint for art supplies. Watch GBBO.

While it isn’t impossible, not having a federal direct file makes it difficult for states to have their own, including Minnesota.

Just a little bit of family promotion- my brother has a YouTube channel that posts shorts of him winning at vending machines every Monday. The best one minute of time you will spend each week. www.youtube.com/@Vend_Me_An_...

Ope, I chose the wrong second vote for Park Board! I got the guys mixed up. Hope it just doesn’t matter.

Voter 162 just after 9am at 40th Street Park. Very good turnout so far.

The University of Minnesota just announced the "Meal-A-Day Program" which will provide one meal a day for SNAP benefit recipients while the SNAP program is limited or unavailable. This makes me very happy. A lot of students, faculty, and staff at the U need this, unfortunately.

I just spent another hour+ on phone with Xcel, trying to get them to apply the appropriate winter electric rate for our heat-pump heated house with high-efficiency boiler backup. Xcel never responded to the *three* letters from the MN AG office on my behalf. Any reporters want to talk about this?!

In a parent Facebook group someone asks are there any good restaurants in walking distance to the Children's Theater and the answers were all "no, nothing in walking distance." It is THREE blocks to Eat Street, how close does something need to be to be walking distance? Fucking suburban moms...

He’s the only out #LGBTIA+ person running for #Minneapolis #Mayor. Upon election, he’ll be the first out gay black mayor of a major US City, and vows to NEVER leave our trans siblings behind. Let’s make history on Tuesday! #mayoralrace #wedeservebetter dewayneforminneapolis.com

We watched The Princess Bride tonight as a family. It was a hit with the 5yo.

Too much coughing/sickness to go trick-or-treating. It’s a bummer. We’ve got lights on, but it’s unlikely any kids show up. Thinking I may just go put my PJs on.

Kid is coughing, coughing, coughing since getting home. Just cancelled plans for grandparents to take her to Children’s Theater tomorrow and the Diane’s Place reservations me and my husband have. 😭

Today I am thankful for version history in SharePoint. Otherwise, I would have really fucked something up.

Off to preschool as a black cat this morning. Easy costumes are the best costumes.

Will I be able to bowl in this tonight? Hope so.

Preschool decided to not split up the rest of the year into winter and spring and just do one mega session for which I just got the bill. We have VERY inexpensive preschool through the Minneapolis Parks, but charging for January-May all at once is shocking. 🤯

the ketchup banchan is fucking destroying me

For the second year in a row, Minnesota saw a drop in overdose deaths and hospitalizations, with opioid overdoses dropping by 32%. Minnesotans dealing with addiction deserve support, respect, and dignity - and we’re making the investments to back that.

Why does Addams family keep getting redone but not the Munsters?

Outdoor adventure at the Falls today.

I got some thicc yarn and started a blanket.

Please strike “potential” with “blatant”