31 thoughts on “November 29, 2022: Meet The New Boss”
It occurred to me today that Andrew is almost the same age now as I was when I started the old joint.
Our little McGoo is all growed up!
Well, older anyway.
Which was, what, my freshman year in college?
I think you were still in high school. Note: you are not *quite* as old as I was then, but you are creeping up on it pretty fast.
I started my site the summer between freshman and sophomore years. I think we started them the same summer?
Ah, well you are still a ways away from where I was when I started the old basement.
Seeing as how I'll never go to law school, I may never get there 😄
I was 17ish then and 36ish now
Driving to the airport was fun this morning. Slid through a red light on Normandale Blvd (the guy several lengths behind me in the other lane did as well, passing me).
I'm hoping my folks got home ok. Be careful out there, kids.
Days like this where the option to work from home makes a ton of sense. I'm much more productive when I'm not stuck in traffic.
👍
Yeah, or dead or otherwise incapacitated.
I am mostly work from home, but today was a day I was scheduled to be in MPLS. Canceled because I don’t want to go out in that.
I'm convinced I've added to my lifespan due to lack of commuter stress.
And they just reported in, safe and sound. A good day to stay home.
We were thankful for some pretty great driving conditions for us there and back.
Glad to hear it, and even more glad you got to spend some extended time with them.
Driving from Eagan to Hopkins was no good. I left ten minutes early to arrive ten minutes late. Even reliable 494 (from a road conditions standpoint, anyway) was pretty bad. The only upside was that there were clearly a lot of people off the road today, so keeping distance between cars was easy.
…now that I’m here at work, though, I figure we should close as soon as we can.
Just got messages that my kids' schools are closing early. I flew back to California last night, so I managed to miss all the mess.
Heh. I drove from ‘peterville to St. Louis through some really gnarly conditions. Started at 20 degrees and heavy snow and ended at 68 degrees and windy as all get out.
I’d still be on the road if everything from Memphis to New Orleans wasn’t currently in tornado watch.
@rhu, I can see the arch from here.
Residents are required by law to remark to everyone in the car when they first see the arch when heading that direction.
Yeah, it was real breezy here today, and the temp will be dropping before long.
I’m staying as some discount inn next door to the new soccer pitch. That looks like quite the facility. I’m starting to think that my European friend klaus and I may take a road trip to see a footy ball game next season.
StL is a good soccer town. A couple on USMNT are local guys.
Casa Rhu is ~40min NW of you on 70
Some people spend half their lives working their way up to a place of influence in their chosen profession; others get handed the reins of a sports franchise their grandfather bought as a distressed asset and folded into a multi-billion family wealth management portfolio.
I’m not saying Joe Pohlad is incapable of running the team; I’m saying we tell ourselves some awfully funny, edge-case stories about a meritocracy in this country.
The man is obviously smart. Look at the parents he chose!
To be fair, this been a family run business for awhile now.
I'm not a fan of nepotism but none of the professional sports teams in town are run like true businesses. They are generally rich people's hobbies that, due to the limits on competition, are guaranteed to make money. That seems like the perfect job to give to a relative.
Towns will miss 4-6 weeks with a right calf strain, per Woj.
If he misses 4 weeks, that's 13 games.
If he missed 6 weeks, that's 20 games.
Major gut check time for the Wolves over that span, whatever it ends up being.
On top of last night's game being so depressing because of the quality of play, the seemingly bad luck that always seems to follow this club around is part of the deal when rooting for the Wolves.
A key component of the Wolves history is horrible luck on top of all the bad decisions/coaching/play.
And to think I was this close to putting $100 on the Wolves hitting the over on wins for the season ( +/-48). Then I thought, forget Jake, it's the Timberwolves.
It occurred to me today that Andrew is almost the same age now as I was when I started the old joint.
Our little McGoo is all growed up!
Well, older anyway.
Which was, what, my freshman year in college?
I think you were still in high school. Note: you are not *quite* as old as I was then, but you are creeping up on it pretty fast.
I started my site the summer between freshman and sophomore years. I think we started them the same summer?
Ah, well you are still a ways away from where I was when I started the old basement.
Seeing as how I'll never go to law school, I may never get there 😄
I was 17ish then and 36ish now
Driving to the airport was fun this morning. Slid through a red light on Normandale Blvd (the guy several lengths behind me in the other lane did as well, passing me).
I'm hoping my folks got home ok. Be careful out there, kids.
Days like this where the option to work from home makes a ton of sense. I'm much more productive when I'm not stuck in traffic.
👍
Yeah, or dead or otherwise incapacitated.
I am mostly work from home, but today was a day I was scheduled to be in MPLS. Canceled because I don’t want to go out in that.
I'm convinced I've added to my lifespan due to lack of commuter stress.
And they just reported in, safe and sound. A good day to stay home.
We were thankful for some pretty great driving conditions for us there and back.
Glad to hear it, and even more glad you got to spend some extended time with them.
Driving from Eagan to Hopkins was no good. I left ten minutes early to arrive ten minutes late. Even reliable 494 (from a road conditions standpoint, anyway) was pretty bad. The only upside was that there were clearly a lot of people off the road today, so keeping distance between cars was easy.
…now that I’m here at work, though, I figure we should close as soon as we can.
Just got messages that my kids' schools are closing early. I flew back to California last night, so I managed to miss all the mess.
Heh. I drove from ‘peterville to St. Louis through some really gnarly conditions. Started at 20 degrees and heavy snow and ended at 68 degrees and windy as all get out.
I’d still be on the road if everything from Memphis to New Orleans wasn’t currently in tornado watch.
@rhu, I can see the arch from here.
Residents are required
by lawto remark to everyone in the car when they first see the arch when heading that direction.Yeah, it was real breezy here today, and the temp will be dropping before long.
I’m staying as some discount inn next door to the new soccer pitch. That looks like quite the facility. I’m starting to think that my European friend klaus and I may take a road trip to see a footy ball game next season.
StL is a good soccer town. A couple on USMNT are local guys.
Casa Rhu is ~40min NW of you on 70
Some people spend half their lives working their way up to a place of influence in their chosen profession; others get handed the reins of a sports franchise their grandfather bought as a distressed asset and folded into a multi-billion family wealth management portfolio.
I’m not saying Joe Pohlad is incapable of running the team; I’m saying we tell ourselves some awfully funny, edge-case stories about a meritocracy in this country.
The man is obviously smart. Look at the parents he chose!
To be fair, this been a family run business for awhile now.
I'm not a fan of nepotism but none of the professional sports teams in town are run like true businesses. They are generally rich people's hobbies that, due to the limits on competition, are guaranteed to make money. That seems like the perfect job to give to a relative.
On top of last night's game being so depressing because of the quality of play, the seemingly bad luck that always seems to follow this club around is part of the deal when rooting for the Wolves.
And to think I was this close to putting $100 on the Wolves hitting the over on wins for the season ( +/-48). Then I thought, forget Jake, it's the Timberwolves.
Adhering to core principals is solid thinking.