Dinner view tonight

Some pics from my run this morning in Marquette, MI. Charming and lovely. Even found a cute garage!

Finally done driving for today and I’m so happy to eat my bagged salad while lying in a hotel bed

We have achieved “we have too much food, come over” with neighbors status this summer and it is the best

Can you bike over the 35e bridge from Lilydale to Shepherd road currently? Asking because I tried to follow detour signs and just gave up and turned around

I have a very important question on this chip-centric holiday weekend: what is the best shape of tortilla chip? Rounds, strips, triangles, something else?!?! I don't have an answer to this yet, but I think it depends on the dip

Update on my wetsuit saga: I have one that fits! It sucks ass because I hate these fuckers, my body longs to be FREE in water but my body also longs to be NOT FROZEN so fine whatever I'll wear it exactly one more time Also, the weedy parts of Nokomis are VERY WEEDY

Researching places to eat on our road trip and most of my notes include whether or not it has hot dogs for the kiddo

I didn’t actually meet them but one of the runners at intervals this morning was joggling, which is juggling while running??? Incredible

Okay, if you want to be humbled, just be a human body attempting to put on a full sleeved wetsuit. First, I struggled to get it over my feet?! Then came the hip test, which worked, but barely. But now I’ve got a droopy crotch and thick knees.

Sunset cruise to end our week of pretending to be people who own lake property

Whenever someone mentions Kalshi I just think of hippie granola cereal

Do we think the wetsuit I wore 11 years ago to swim in Lake Superior still fits? I did not plan this upcoming swim in Lake Michigan very well 🤦🏻‍♀️

SO MANY SPAM CALLS LATELY

Nothing like getting a notification about a Dave Matthews Band show being delayed to make me run to my settings and turn that shit off immediately The notification that broke me on my phone many years ago was about Louis CK's shenanigans

Seeing Anthony Edwards on a fashion blog I read is like…wait what are you doing here?

I'm sorry I made it rain, I paid money planning to swim tonight and it's cancelled now

I think I heard the Longfellow boom twice overnight

Metro Transit mishaps I have seen: a bus driving ON the light rail tracks on the U campus, the 94 bus making an incredibly awkward u-turn on Hiawatha (presumably to get back to 94, oops)

"walking around carrying spreadsheets in their brains at all times" ughhh yes turn it off

TIL the leader of a private school that serves approximately 1000 students earns more than $760k a year?!? Insanity

I attempted to get a new battery in my iPhone mini to get another year or two out of it, but the corner is dented and they couldn’t do the repair. The Apple dude understood I like a small phone and offered another mini, or the 17e. But now I’m researching 17e vs 17 and getting tech pilled aghhh

I accidentally hit voice to text after sending a message while at the mall with my kid and it’s a pretty good encapsulation of being a parent at the mall

Bought some jean shorts at the consignment store so brb, need to workshop this outfit

MPLS Parks and Recreation isn't doing a free open swim on Tuesday nights, because this need money, and my first impulse is to skirt paying because $60 is too much to swim in the lake maybe a handful of times, and my second (better) impulse is to just give them money and think of it as a donation

...woof

Strength update: I am now dead-lifting my weight and totally hitting the wall on overhead press

The texts from my neighborhood auto shop guy are the funniest. "Haven't seen you lately. How are you? How's the Honda?" Well William, let me tell you about the OTHER Honda that had a catalytic converter stolen and we didn't get it fixed by your place because we knew your shop would be too expensive

The little browser tab icon for Hyatt hotels looks very similar to the one for Hennepin County Libraries. Hyatt is crisper, though.

We're going to the UP and the other part of Michigan too and the only time I've been to the UP was in high school when we had to travel farther north to find snow during our cross country ski trip, and my only memory is that there were places selling "Ho-Made Cookies" which is still funny

Feel like I’ve been going non-stop since Thursday and it’s been awesome and I am so so tired

Two retirement parties in two days and now I need to make approximately 8 gallons of pasta salad for a grad party tomorrow

Looking up recipes and coming upon sites like Apron and Sneakers? Peas and Crayons? What the fuck is happening with you all

So we had an awards and talent show for the last day of school and some students were practicing guitar down the hall and I’m like….zombie?? Are they playing Zombie later today? “Maybe, but they don’t really have anyone to sing.”

**sneezes five times in a row** oh right, I went swimming

A woman in the weight room said that she came there for inspiration after seeing me bench and thank you stranger I’ve been hitting a wall lately! (I also tried to tell her that I started from nothing)

Reddit is now asking me to get the app to read posts and I am upset What next, make me make an account?!?

I have a point to point race tomorrow that doesn’t have a bag check (dumb) so my stupid debate is do I bike with a pannier I don’t care that much about so I can throw random shit in it and just hope it doesn’t get taken or drive and fight for parking and then have to run back to my car?

Trying to do choir practice while this storm rolls in 👀

Late to the party, but the awoo signal is SO CLOSE to my classroom and it is SO LOUD

Well, I am definitely NOT sharing this news with my seven year old

Hard hitting journalism from the elementary news page! We will see!

I’m helping direct people into the parking lot for graduation on a street with a bike lane. I’m at the top of a hill and my anecdotal survey says that people on e-bikes are happier

So much of my Bluesky experience is me saying, “…who?”

Had a dream that @dude3000.bsky.social bought us a cool riverfront condo with skyline views and I wasn’t even mad because the mortgage was ridiculously low but I was mad that he got a 30 year one

Saw a chartreuse car with the vanity plate 365BRAT Commitment!

Some Chicago houses

OPE, get yer checks cashed

Airbnb life is choosing between a too large or too small golden spoon

Got to Chicago and immediately went to a delicious Puerto Rican restaurant