Dr Wingnut

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  • Cannon Valley Trail

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    The ride on the 3rd of July, with Jill and Kate Ryan, was so nice that I asked Dave Norling if he wanted to go last Saturday and ride the whole thing from Cannon Falls to Redwing and back (40 miles).  Of course Dave can’t say no to a bike ride.  It was a glorious…

  • For my birthday

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    Jill and I went on the Segway history tour of the Minneapolis riverfront.  What a cool ride.

  • Patriotism: Menace to Liberty

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    Men and Women:What is patriotism?  Is it love of one’s birthplace, the place of childhood’s recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations?  Is it the place where, in childlike naivete, we would watch the passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly?  The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars,…

  • Just in time sales

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    Tomorrow is my 50th birthday, and I got my invitation to join AARP in the mail today.  Let the senior citizen discounts begin…

  • Working for you

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    Working here is like having a kidney stone that won’t pass.Bob Niemala

  • Hand & Foot card game

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    Learned this card game from our friends when we went to ride the Tour of Lakes.Ideally, this is a partnership game. Following are the rules for Hand and Foot.  Our family loves to play this.  It is better to play with either 4 or 6 people so that you have 2 or 3 teams.  However…

  • Applecare

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    After a mishap last Sunday, Jill got excited playing cribbage with our friend Dick Jordan and knocked over her glass of wine into my Macbook Pro, the Genius bar came to the rescue.  I was honest with the guy about what happened, and he said he understood how that might happen, and comped the repair. …