Author: John Bredesen

I put the date in the title because these will change. Things I know Things I believe

Zoos are cool. With the latest grandgoober arriving and starting to become aware of her surroundings, we have reupped our zoo membership. They have a grandparents members that gets all the grandgoobers in when we take them. We can bring a parent if we want. We took the three local grandgoobers the other day. It…

I’ve been working on applying the edits from my development editor (Hi Janay!). So far, so good. Her suggestions have been good ones, even if some have been hard to make. To be clear, hard in this case means that some changes require making edits in several other places to improve pacing and knowledge flow…

Tuesdays are not like the other days of the week. It is the most scheduled day of my week. Coffee group in the morning. Games (scrabble & yahtzee!) in the afternoon with my mom and some of her friends. Today had something new. Some of the coffee group went to the Minnesota Wild hockey practice…

We had a memorial service for my youngest sister. It was a nice service. The pastor did a nice job even though she is new and only knew my sister the last few months. There was music. People spoke. The urn sat on the alter with a large picture of her and beautiful flowers. She…

Stopped by an area where a wild horse herd hangs out. A non-profit takes care of the odd medical situation. Watched them for a while.

Was at Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park for a couple days. Damn, Colorado, you sure do bring the beauty.

I’ve been calling my phone and other devices I talk to “Sparky” for at least 5 years. Walmart can go suck rocks.

… are at Target, late in the afternoon, on Halloween. Employees are dressed up. Everyone going to a party is stopping to get something to bring. People are low on candy. 80% of everyone in the store is wearing a costume. And good ones too. Full makeup. Lots of details.

TIL today: some portion of the British Isles has a tradition of crisp sandwiches. Bread, butter, potato chips. Oh my. There are no chips in the house right now. We have bread and butter. My wife is out of town. Not sure what’s going to happen…

Overhead on the sidelines at kids soccer game. Missed the beginning so didn’t hear the actual wager. Grandpa: if I win, I’ll take you and your friends out to Culver’s. If you win, you make Grandma and me breakfast. Kid: ok. Either way, both Grandpa and the kid win. Well played, Grandpa, well played.