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December 30, 2016: No Plan’s Eve

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NYE has never meant as much to me.  Can't really think of a fun one in recent memory (well, last year was pretty good).  Nothing fun this year for sure.

You guys got better plans?

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  3. Mentioned last night: I have a cousin's wedding NYE. Since there were 50 of us Grandkids (and now 75 (more?) Great-grandkids) this turns into quite the crowd. And since I know all of them... especially with our Grandpa's passing, this will be a meaningful chance to all be together. Looking forward to it. Plus, we're heading up tonight to hang out at the hotel with the kids for an extra night, so they can get some swimming in, and the like.

  4. Saw a post on FB reminding of the fact the deaths of non-pop culture "celebrities" in 2016. Was reminded that Dr. Warren Warwick passed in 2016 too. This article (is long, but amazing) is well, well worth the read. I'm sure I've shared it before. Anyway, Dr. Warwick was the reason my sister made it 23 years, and he's probably the reason my brother is still kicking (and has lived to see the day when the drugs for CF have improved dramatically). That was a big loss.

    1. One of my younger brothers likely saw him at one point. He was suspected of having CF for some time, though his final diagnosis was substantially different. (Essentially, he completely lost his immune system at 22 months.) He utilized the Vest Airway Clearance System Dr. Warwick co-invented for years to help treat pulmonary issues related to his illness. I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have him today if he hadn't gotten the kind of care he did at the UofM.

      1. My mom confirmed my brother saw Dr. Warwick (and remembered that he invented the Vest), but his primary doc was Regelmann. Don't know if that name rings a bell, Philos. I'm sending the article you shared to my mom.

        1. Regelmann became the primary for one of my sibs, but I don't recall which. I have the impression that he was a solid Dr., but lacked Warwick's gifts.

          1. Very solid, at least anecdotally. Regelmann and an immunologist kept my brother alive, without the ability to generate his own immune system and with severe lung damage, from 22 months through adolescence, when his body somehow started producing its own IgG again. He's in his mid-twenties now, a father who works doubles a couple days each week.

            Warwick was clearly in a class of his own. I'm just glad he surrounded himself with other doctors that embraced relentlessness in advancing their treatments and their own practices.

  5. Taking the Girl to the ABQ airport at like 4:00 a.m. Saturday morning. So I am guessing I will be asleep by about 9 or 10.

      1. The big contest is "tortillas or buns?"

        We are leaning toward buns, which means coleslaw on the side (or in the sandwiches).

        1. Oh just the push I needed. Korean Pulled Pork, asian slaw, tortillas.

          Maybe. I might switch to beef, get some taters and do something more ethiopean/NorthAfrican but I don't have a canned recipe for something like that yet.

          Can't go wrong w/ tortillas or buns, but my mom sent us home with a couple dozen of her homemade buns last weekend. I made sure they're all gone, so I'm leaning the other direction.

          1. Oh man, Korean pork would have been awesome. The wife and kids went out of town tonight, so I'm making sardine curry. I've had a big ass can of sardines ice been trying to find an opportunity to use and tonight is the perfect night. I'm hoping it'll clear out my sinuses some.

            1. Dido on Korean pork. Gotta try that sometime soon.

              Sardine curry? Really? Recipe and pics, or it never happened.

              1. I don't have a specific recipe, just making a red curry sauce and simmering some sardines in it. I've had a can of sardines in tomato sauce and this seemed like a good idea to use them.

              2. So, the verdict: it was good, but it was good in, like, the way curry is good. The sardines really didn't add much aside from a different texture.

  7. We will be flying by back to Cali. Flight leaves MSP around 8:30, lands at LAX at 10. So depending on baggage and traffic, will have either be driving home or we will have just made it back.

    Not much excitement, but it means I might be out of the house at midnight on NYE for the first time in years.

  8. I got an inhaler and prednisone for my cough. My symptoms are finally starting to improve slightly after 2 weeks. Doctor told me most people are taking 4-6 weeks to clear this completely.

    I am sure I'll be at the hospital with mother-in-law for New Year's, which is just fine by me because she's still improving.

  9. "Winter Wonderland" will take New Year's weekend off. If all goes according to plan, it will be back Monday. I don't suppose there'll be too many games going on then anyway.

  10. Watching the Wild in the afternoon, going to brother-in-law's for games and beers and steaks in the evening.

    Hopefully, anyway. The last three years have been cancelled because of sickness, either parental or child (on, as was the case last year, both).

    2. A little bummed that I am working during the Wild game tomorrow. Lots of build up for the game.

  11. Always fun to bring the car to the dealership for an oil change and have the guy look the car up and say "whoah" because there are four frickin recalls you had no idea about. (nothing too critical, but still, I registered with kia so they'd let me know about these things.)

  13. Having the fam over tomorrow for Chili feed, with bread (jalapeño cheddar sourdough) from Great Harvest Bakery in Stillwater.

    Second day of a sinusy-blech-cold - hope it clears up - was hoping to do bon-fire in the back yard and get rid of a pile of brush from clearing out trees earlier this fall.

  14. BatAMR-signal. Two birds at the feeder - maybe finches - one pink at crown and breast, the other plain - smaller than Cardinal but bigger than nuthatch.

    I called Crabtree's (just down the hill from us, where I buy birdseed) and the lady there said she thot might be Purple Finches, but they really don't look like the Purple Finches in my bird book(for instance, no coloration on the back, not a big beak), which also says they aren't in this area except for 'irruption years'.

    2. Since you already ruled out Purple Finches (and your reasons look like ones to rule out House Finches), Look at Redpolls, which are erratic winter finches. I've had one in my yard once, on the thistle sock with a flock of Goldfinches.
      This compares the males of all three:

      Redpolls are the smallest of the three, about halfway between Goldfinches and the other two. The other two are about the same size. However, those two are about the same size as a White-breasted Nuthatch (though maybe nuthatches being upside-down all the time is deceiving). If you meant Red-breasted Nuthatches: never mind.

  15. What is it about this time of year that I always crave meat(usually summer sausage)/cheese/Ritz cracker sandwiches?

    1. Dido. Also meatballs, and little smokies sausages in BBQ sauce, or wrapped in bacon, sprinkled with brown sugar and baked until a delectable sweet glaze coats the savory cured meats.

      2. Since we are coastal elites, we do water chestnuts wrapped in bacon and baked in a sweet chilli sauce.

  16. Working for the man on NY Eve. Wait? I am the man now. Whole family is working for the man. Tonight I am stopping by our new Tap Room - Copper Trail Brewing to check out their beers. Two blocks away, so may be dangerous for this guy. Just got back from a long hockey road trip that led me from Alex, to Warroad to Hibbing on very crappy roads. Good times!

  17. Celebrating Christmas with the in-laws tomorrow afternoon. White elephant, secret Santa, and kids' gifts.
    Will be back home well before the ball drops (because kids).
    Probably counting down to 8pm at SiL's place. (Which I used to call "Newfoundland Time", but I see that's wrong. They celebrate new Year's at 9:30 pm.)
    Have some sparkling apple cider chilling.
    No particular plans after home. Church in the morning.

  18. The holidays have kind of been a disappointment this year. I ended up getting Mrs. Twayn's respiratory virus two weeks ago and was so sick we cancelled our plans to visit my mom for Christmas, then Pam injured her knee. She had an MRI yesterday and she has a cartilage tear behind the kneecap with some bone/bone contact, which makes it sound like it's on the inner edge of the meniscus, but we haven't seen the image. We got her crutches today and they put her on a six day round of steroids. She'll get a cortisone shot next Thursday, and they'll schedule the surgery after the inflammation is minimized. Fortunately, the timing works out so we'll get to pay a whole new deductible after the new year. We'll be low, low key this new year's eve. Younger Daughter works until 9:00, when she gets home we'll watch a movie and have some drinks and snacks. A bottle of bubbly at midnight and then I'll be off to sleep.

  20. Quality win for the Timberpups . High flying acts by Wiggins and KAT makes the win even better.

    1. Nice to get 32 points off the bench. Not sure it's so nice when only 2 players off the bench combined for those 32. I'll take the win though.

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