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The men of card weekend assembled once again this past weekend in St. Cloud, MN for the 12th annual 500 tournament of champions.  The card gods were brought together to determine supreme authority for another year.  Here’s the setup, adjusted slightly from my 2007 article: The Wikipedia article on 500 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_%28card_game%29 – has aContinue reading “The Gang of 8”

We walked into Day Care to pick up the girls tonight, and found Katie was wearing a different shirt from what she wore to school.  This happens every once and a while when she spills on her shirt or has some kind of accident, so we assumed that was the case.  Instead, we were veryContinue reading “Student of the Month for April”

Katie had her annual Spring Just4Kix dance show on Friday night at the High School gym.  Here are a couple videos from the show: That was “Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now” with her friends Tessa and Anna getting to do a couple of the acting parts early on.  They had done that dance beforeContinue reading “Katie’s Spring Dance Show”

I have the honor of playing for the HELPERS annual Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser tomorrow night.  I believe I have that honor because I’m the only one who will play for free.  Here are the tunes I plan to rock the house with tomorrow night: Scenes from an Italian Restaurant – Billy Joel (only fitting sinceContinue reading “Spaghetti Dinner Set List”

We have another girl in the family – David and Alicia are the proud parents of a newborn baby girl – Macia Lynn Newell.  She was born Monday, April 25th at 12:58 and weighed in at 8lbs 9oz and 21in long. It was a long weekend for Alicia as she started having contractions Friday afternoonContinue reading “Baby Macia”

We hit a big milestone yesterday as Katie was finally able to bike without her training wheels.  It’s not that she’s too old or anything, it’s just that we’ve been trying for the past month to get her to ride by herself.  I realize how little patience I really have when I’ve been pushing herContinue reading “Finally – Biking without Training Wheels”

Today was the Twins Home Opener – the first game in their new ballpark in downtown Minneapolis.  I’m on my way to Seattle for work, so I’m going to the game and flying out from the Minneapolis airport afterwards.  The game started at 3:10, but they were opening the gates earlier than normal – atContinue reading “Twins Opening Day”

  Here’s Katie all decked out for her first school Christmas program, last Thursday night. 

I’m filing this report late, but better late than never.  For Thanksgiving, we always make the trek out to Onida for the actual holiday.  What was different is that since Katie has school this year, we can’t ditch out as early on the Wednesday before, so we ended up getting into town about 10pm.  OnContinue reading “Thanksgiving Recap”

Not by Jack Handy.  I’m on my way to Seattle again this week, so that’s always a good time to try to catch up on the blog.  There’s a new Windows Live Writer tool which makes the process of writing the blog much easier – I should’ve downloaded it earlier.  It’s easy to embed picturesContinue reading “Random Thoughts (Dec 09 edition)”