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August 4, 2017: Packing

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We're getting to set to leave early Saturday for a wedding in Illinois that probably won't be my cup of tea, but I do like the cousin who's getting married, so whatever.

49 thoughts on “August 4, 2017: Packing”

  1. "Minor Details" will not appear today. It will be back sometime tomorrow, but possibly not until the afternoon or evening. No emergencies, just stuff.

    1. Dietrich Enns, who the Twins received in the Jaime Garcia trade, will get his first start in the system in tomorrow’s doubleheader with Rochester.

      per Parker Hageman

  2. I generally like a wedding. It's the getting babysitters for the kids and the packing and all that mess that makes things miserable.

      1. We're kind of in a wedding dead zone lately. Almost all the friends and cousins have married. By the time it picks back up, that might be where we are in life.
        Though not a lot of destination weddings for us...

        1. The nephews and nieces are starting to get married now. We have a wedding in Delaware (near Philly) beginning of October that we're stretching into a vacation to Niagara and Lake Placid.

        2. We're in that dead zone as well. My friends who were the marrying type almost all got married in the six-ish years after I did. A handful had second marriages, but they're out of the way as well. For the most part, now, I'm waiting on the next generation of family; but hopefully, my brother will find the time to fall in love with a woman that makes more sense for him than the last one and get married again before life has passed him by. I think he greatly resents the fact that he didn't get to have kids, and at 37 it isn't going to be a slam-dunk to find a woman who still wants that out of life.

          He's great with my kids, though, and I think he'd be relatively happy with being a fantastic uncle in the absence of his own offspring.

          A cousin of mine, too, ended up in a shocking divorce last year as her husband found himself unable to deal with the fact that she made way, way more money than he did. He came from a very rich family and I'm sure the pressures were huge to be the breadwinner, but all the same, I'm disappointed by his weakness.

    2. I don't love most weddings, but I typically love a good reception. This one, though, is guaranteed to have nothing but country music, and will be filled half by the side of the family I have nothing in common with, and half by a family I don't know and looks to be even farther from the type of people I'm comfortable being around. My family does know how difficult this kind of situation is for me, though, and we'll likely have some laughs about it.

          1. My wife's family all lives in St Louis. All weddings feature both kinds of beer: Bud and Bud Light.

            1. I have relatives who have been known to BYOB to family weddings if their pale domestic yellow of choice is not available.

                  1. Protectionism fails when the local conglomerate becomes a part of a foreign-owned conglomerate.

      2. I just went to a wedding a few weeks ago on one of the riverboats in Stillwater. That worked out great because all of the music/dancing was on the bottom deck and couldn't be heard from the top, outdoor deck.

  6. It is currently a lovely 68°. We kept the windows open last night. I came home to a stuffy house and was told the furnace was running because it was "too cold inside" today.

    So, I guess I can check "ran the furnace in August" off bucket list. Too bad I don't live in Zona Austral of Chilean Patagonia.

    2. It got down into the 50s last night. Had to thrown on a blanket but we slept with the windows wide open.

  7. The Twins' first "stats guy" Jack Goin has left the team. I'm guessing he wasn't going to be in charge of the expanded research department and either left because of it or the team just decided to let him go because he lacked the background and experience required.

    1. Church's Chicken – now that's a place I haven't heard or thought about for a long time.

      I'm disappointed they didn't rank Wienerschnitzel or DQ Brazier.

        1. I wouldn't choose it if presented with better alternatives, but I'm curious where it would fall on the list.

          Now I want a Double Double with a strawberry shake, plus a Polish sausage green chile chili cheese junkyard dog from Wienerschnitzel.

          1. Word especially to meat, but I just had a ten-ounce, green Chile bacon cheeseburger at Santa Fe Bite (the relocated Bobcat Bite).

            I am ready for my nap.

      2. I've been a Popeyes guy since my first taste back in the 80s. There's one by the Shiloh Temple in North Minneapolis that I hit every couple of weeks for lunch. Three piece combo, spicy white, with beans and rice and a big orange Fanta. Butter and honey for the biscuit, please.

      1. Has anybody heard the "How I Built This" podcast with the Five Guys founder? It was a pretty good one. He said that he just had the kids pick their favorite ingredients without looking at price. He figured the food costs should be 30% of the price so the ingredient costs determined the price.

    3. I am an In-N-Out guy, but all you need to know about that survey's validity is that it ranks White Castle middle-of-the-pack, ahead of Wendy's.

      Uh, no. Not before 2 a.m. anyway.

      1. And Whataburger ahead of both. I was with the rankings up until then, but I don't think I can trust a list where Whataburger ranks that highly.

        Also, Popeyes over Bojangles?!?!

          1. Other than Bojangles, I'd agree with the chicken list. And I'd quibble and swap Baja Fresh and Rubio's, but that burrito list looks pretty spot on to me.

            1. I love Rubio's (number five combo! Fish taco, fish burrito, chips and beans) but can see how people could make that call.

      2. We asked subscribers this direct question: On a scale of  1 to 10, from least delicious to most delicious you’ve ever eaten, how would you rate the taste? We heard about 53,745 burger chains’ burgers, chicken chains’ fried or roasted chicken, Mexican chains’ burritos, and sandwich chains’ sub—or heroes, hoagies, grinders, or wedges, depending on where you call home.

      3. White Castle is a different type of food.
        That's like comparing convenience store burritos with Chipotle's.

    4. In H'istan, for burgers I'd rate:
      1) Plan B
      2) Max Burger
      3) Corner Pug
      4) Half Door

    5. Now that I click through...
      1. Hardees beats Carl's Jr.
      But they were next to each other... a good control measure.

      2. KFC and Taco Bell are both rated too high.

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