88 thoughts on “February 1, 2021: Give `Em The Heater!”

  2. You know how sometimes you have a day where everything clicks, everything flows, and you get way more done than you thought you would?

    Today does not resemble that sort of day in any way whatsoever.

    2. Well, it is a Monday, so there is that. It feels like every Monday can be like that. For me, I scheduled myself a project day. Got to the joint at 930 to find that we had quite a few deliveries roll in. With a newer manager on, I worked on those deliveries until Noon. So my project day is turning into a project 1/2 day. Since it is a Monday, I anticipate lots of phone calls and people stopping in to talk to me, so it will probably turn into a 1/4 day of catching up.

    3. That's how my January was (losing a few weeks to Covid didn't help, obviously). February is shaping up as more of the same so far...

      1. Philo, how is your family doing at this point in terms of recovery? I feel like parenting through a pandemic with a healthy household is hard enough!

        1. We're mostly better. Aquinas got to go back to school on Friday, since he tested positive and his timeline therefore ended sooner. The other 3 have to wait until next Monday. Philosofette and I find ourselves more tired more often - it's like a deeper level of exhaustion than you'd expect, and it can come on pretty quickly. Smell and taste are very slowly improving, but I suspect that will be a long time before it is actually back. Basically, we lost the month of January, so just getting our feet back under us is a lot of work, and we have to be okay expecting less from ourselves.

          1. Oh, that sounds rough. I'm glad you're all doing better, and here's sending wishes for a continued recovery!

  3. So, doc says get your shit in order, and I was like but 2020! And she was like it’s 2021.

    So, I bought a water rower. In 6-8 weeks I’ll get on that healthy living.

    1. I'm still wanting a rower, but the sticker price has me like "Nah"

      I'm torn between wanting to not get a POS but also not spend a mortgage payment on one.

      1. I spent a little less than a months rent. Cheaper than the annual gym. Should have done this 8’months ago.

        1. Should have done this 8’months ago.

          I mean . . . I think if we'd all had a sense of how long this would all go on, there's a lot of things we might've done 8 months ago. (Written while sitting on a couch and still thinking about buying a desk so I can have a proper workspace.)

      2. For what little a recommendation is worth...I wanted the "good one," Concept2, rower when we were doing our search because I've used them at work, and...certain fitness organizations...use them exclusively.
        Finding few available new or used (it was somewhere between the sourdough and some other phase of pandemic adjustment buying), and considering mortgage payment, I got a BodySolid Endurance R300 for about half the price. As far as I can tell, it is a very near equivalent to the Concept2.

        1. I haven't actually seen a coyote around here in maybe 6 months, but I probably average about once a week hearing their horrible yipping/yelling sounds. Those are especially unpleasant while standing outside with a small puppy.

          1. I've seen them in Eagan, including one just before Christmas, but I've never heard them. Probably too much ambient noise from cars.

  5. Daughter got the Sputnik vaccine yesterday. Today: chills and slight fever. Lots of muscle soreness, but, as she said, that's probably because she wasn't thinking and did "leg day" at her gym the day before the vaccination.

    1. "Laser" now among words that shouldn't have political connotation, but regrettably do. There are so few left.

        2. I am in. When it comes around, I wonder if there would be enough interest to rent a charter bus and pick up citizens and family along the way. Bus launches in Alex and meanders through MPLS, WI, Chicago, etc. That could be a fun pilgrimage!

                  1. Why don't you drive up to Rochester, snag us some John Hardy's, and we'll meet you at the 90/94 convergence east of Tomah?

                    6. That's a 2.5 hr flight to turn a 3 hr drive into a 19 hr drive.

                      You sure you want to spend time with us that badly?

                    7. Mags - I once flew from DC to Minneapolis to take a road trip to Salem, VA for the D3 Football championship. Almost exactly what you describe.

                    8. I like where this discussion is going! I just may have a good relationship with a tour bus company, and if our numbers were a bit lower, I have a line on a smaller party bus. It may mean an overnight stop for lodging somewhere, but if there happens to be a good game scheduled in Chicago or Cleveland....

                    9. The think the only way this idea blows up any more would be if we could get a former Twin on board. Personally, I would go after Mr Hrbek as I think he would be fun. I once knew Al Newman pretty well when he managed the local Northwoods League team and I fed him often.

          2. That would be a lot of fun. Such a bus could not go, though, unless it passed by the World Headquarters and picked me up. No need to actually come down into the basement, though.

            1. Or you could take the opportunity to travel further north on 94, and join the start of the caravan!

              1. Meet at the Clearwater Travel Plaza, home to one of the hokiest local commercials to air on FSN.

    2. I"m committed to not reading Souhan's article about this when it happens. Not gonna be a heavy lift, for sure.

  9. I know a lot of the basketball folk don't care about the NCAA style of BB, and a most didn't go to Drake (though there is a caucus of sorts), but 17-0 is great for Des Moines and what a fun ride. I look forward to the 'What Just Happened' I sat through in Crystal City in 2008. Hopefully Drake doesn't have to worry about coach flight when his son starts next year, but being Creighton people I dread the long con.

    4. I watched the game last night while I was on a Drake parent info session zoom last night. The senior is down to Drake, Gonzaga, and St Olaf. I've tried talking her into applying to Baylor to get all three undefeated teams in there.

      1. That seems like just about as good a decision criterion as most.

        But St. Olaf?? Really, Algonadjr? Really?

        Nobody looks good in old gold and black. Just sayin'.

        1. She liked Carleton until we saw that the number of undergrads was right around the number of students in her high school. She has a hard rule in her head that college has to have more than 2,000 students. 3,000 students is good. 1,500 students is bad.

          I suppose you have to eliminate them somehow!

          1. Ha! My graduating class was 500 students and I was specifically looking for a college that was smaller than my high school.

                4. My graduating class was 159 and I only remember that cuz I finished 16th in GPA which cost me some scholarship money. The sad thing was I had the highest PSAT score in my class. Never took the SAT or ACT as that PSAT score got me into SCSU easily. Yes, I was an underachiever.

            2. I went to a big high school, about 900 kids in the graduating class. I also wanted a smaller class for college, but starting at such a high number made it pretty easy.

              1. I remember my dad took me to tour the U of M Twin Cities campus, and I eliminated it from consideration out of fear that I'd get lost.

                Which . . . for a smart kid was some pretty silly reasoning. That said, I think a small school was still better for me.

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