Woof, woof!

I haven’t written about the pups for a while. It strikes me that I’m overdue, not that they would notice.

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More Misadventures in Brewing

Some of you who have checked in here for a while might remember my lager adventure last January. I had another brewing mishap this weekend. While the lager marathon went down in the cold, this time my friend Dave and I just did our Laurel and Hardy routine in the warmth of an October Sunday afternoon.

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Surprises, surprises

I keep meaning to get back to surprises, and derailing myself. Well this is it.

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All doe-eyed and sweet

I was channel surfing for playoff baseball last night (which now flips around from network to network like William Shatner seeking cameras and microphones), looking for the Red Sox/Indians game, when I happened on the hunting and fishing channel.

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Little Color, Except for the Personal

Okay, a little research would have let me know it wasn’t the best year to visit the Upper Midwest looking for autumn color. The Midwest had a dry spring and summer, then a very stormy September.

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At first, just puppies and kittens

At first it was just puppies and kittens. They bounced off the pavement and ran down the gutters with a hissing sound. Then they grew bigger, tabbies and Pekinese, and wilder, Maine Coon and Schnauzers pouring down, and walking round a building I was hit with a gust of wind and doused with whippets, the sidewalk slick with slithering Russian Blue, Finnish Spitz, and then it all opened up, baying beagles and bloodhounds, I saw spots, a whole dizzying Disney-full of Dalmatians, and bent forward and surged on, howling like Yukon Huskies.

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Of Maps and Minds

Our hotel in Minneapolis required three separate elevators to get from the parking ramp to our room.

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and here we are home again

When I talk to people, home from their travels, I like to ask them, “what surprised you?” because I might find out something new, or at least what people’s expectations of a place were, or maybe something in between the two. So I’m going to write about that but first I have to say,

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Monkeys and Spanners and Wrenches Oh My

I had plans

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The Work Around, Part Two

Yesterday I described finding something not meant for my eyes; here’s how it played out.

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