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I took a hybrid work/vacation trip to Minnesota in September. Work flew me up for meetings mid-week, and then my wife flew up on Thursday and we spent the weekend there and flew back home.
Pangur ignoring me as I prepared to leave.
This is a great mural in the middle of the main concourse in the
Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. Just right of center is an image of the
airport itself. In the lower left is an image of FCM (Flying Cloud),
where I landed and parked my plane when I was in town in early July.
I stayed in "The Saint Paul Hotel" in downtown St. Paul. It's a
super-swank hotel; the doorman had tux and top-hat; I felt a bit out
of place. The phones there remind me of #2's phones in "The
Prisoner":
The in-room phones have multiple lines:
9 pillows per bed--and not a large bed at that.
All the furniture is really nice with real wood finish. The TV was
inside a wood cabinet; but on a flexible stand so it can be positioned
so you can see it in the bed.
After one of the days of meetings, I snagged a ride with my friend
Laura from college. She picked me up in downtown. This is us heading
north on 35W, stopped in a traffice jam. Laura said "nothing good comes when the flashy-light
truck passes you". True that.
For many years, I've employed the Zen method of renting cras. I
sometimes have some idea of what I want when I go to the rental
counter, but I usually take the recommendation of the person there, so
I rarely get what I was thinking I would.
However, this time that backfired on me. I got a Focus, which is a
fine car, but I've driven them on rentals before. However, when I
went to the parking lot, THIS was parked next to it in the rental lot:
It's a NEW New VW Beetle; I've been wanting to try one out since they
came out a couple of years ago. I was so annoyed. :-P
The Focus I did end up driving was fine.
This is the first car I can remember that TELLS you how fast you have
the cruise control set:
And then still shows the speed you HAD set it, but with it crossed
out, when you have the cruise dis-engaged:
I realize I'm biased because I was born in Minneapolis, and growing up
it was always the "big city" that we'd go visit. But I've always
liked the downtown Minneapolis skyline:
In particular I like the IDS tower, which was build around the time
that I was born, so it was kind of a destination when I was growing
up:
Driving north on 35W:
Laura's 3D printer printing a captured thrust-bearing. (I will talk
about that another time. It's a lovely fidget-toy; it lives in my
office.)
We also visited Uncle Hugo's:
I liked our gate number
Pangur inspecting the take, and my new suitcase.
