Category: Opinion

9:23am
Saint Paul

Ahh.

I’m recharged after a family trip to Montreal.

We visited friends, saw the city, climbed a ropes course (Voiles en Voiles), and ate our share of gravy-soaked Poutine.

Now I’m back to it and realized there are 99 days until Black Friday.

Do you have your offers dialed in?

If not? No worry.

I’ve got 15 ways you can structure your Black Friday deals.

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8:32am
Saint Paul

“I have something for you.”

The waitress took the lotto ticket from my hand.

“What’s this for?”

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3:33pm
Saint Paul Minn

Last we chatted, I told you my son and I had camped out in the back yard.

Here’s the sequel.

So, because “income,” I spent Friday working.

Which means the tent didn’t come down.

Which gave my son Sam a reason to bug me to sleep a second night in the tent.

He was relentless, and so I relented.

Come Friday night, we followed the same routine:

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10:51am
Saint Paul

Skreeeeek!

“That’s a howler monkey,” I said.

“Dad.”

Last night, my son and I pitched a tent and camped in the backyard.

“And that growl? I think that’s a wolf.”

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12:17pm
Minneapolis, Minnesota

She slams down my Big Mac with more anger than most cashiers.

“Nobody has spoken that language in thousands of years,” she says.

My eyes pop. I didn’t think this was possible. Not anymore. Not in 2023.

The cashier follows me to my booth.

“How did you do that.”

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2:44pm Thursday
Saint Paul

Yesterday I wrote about the muffled radio I could hear at midnight…

which was no where to be found.

I was telling my kids about it. My wife chimed in:

“Oh, I heard it too!”

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3:!7pm
Saint Paul

I slept in today.

Just a little, like 15 minutes past my usual.

Because I was up late, hearing voices and music in my house like a muffled radio somewhere.

It wasn’t coming from the basement bathroom radio.

It wasn’t coming from the living room hi-fi.

It wasn’t coming from outside.

In fact, I couldn’t find it anywhere.

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2:05pm
Saint Paul

In a Newsweek article from 1995, computer engineer Clifford Stoll predicted the Internet would be dead within a year.

Boy was he wrong!

Stoll couldn’t foresee the tech advancements that have since transformed… well, everything.

But Stoll did get this part right:

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