It's sunny, warm-but-not-hot-and-humid, and my loud-obnoxious-drink-til-they-invariably-start-fighting-3-floors-down-neighbors are still sleeping it off, so it's also wonderfully quiet for the moment. Life is good. Now I think I'll go watch for some kids on the lawn so I can yell at 'em! (Kidding... KIDDING!)
I just biked around White Bear Lake for the first time in at least 4 years. It's not that it's a long ride (maybe 12 miles with incidental side trips) or particularly difficult, but I've been such lazy you-know-what that I never got around to it. Now my you-know-what is really really sore, but the rest of me feels pretty good! It's also a perfect...
Loud neighbors in the ground floor apartment (3 floors down.) Their grill smoke is filling my apartment, they're drinking excessively and racing really really loud gas-engined radio-controlled Mini Monster Trucks in the parking area below. They partied until about 3AM last night... soon it may be time to bring out the water balloons! (They'll...
Reminiscing about my first firecracker experience... when the visiting kid who had sneaked some of his dad's firecrackers asked me to "hold this" while he lit it. Not "hold this and then THROW IT RIGHT AWAY!" mind you. Just "hold this." That's when I learned that something weighing only a fraction of an ounce--when combined with sufficient...