Category: General

Last year during the cold season, we ran out of Nyquil caplets so I went to Costco and purchased our normal boatload supply for the season.  The new caplets worked, not at all.  What happened?  I read the box and instead of pseudoephedrine, which is now a controlled substance in Minnesota because it’s a main…

My friend Duane McDowell, who frequently sends things for my blog was just in Venezuela on vacation and took the following picture of a Collared Inca (Coeligena torquata) hummingbird in the garden of Posada La Brevera in Chorotal, Merida that he was particuarly happy with.  Hope you enjoy it too.

Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:04:13 -0500From: “Jonathan Lord” <jdl@ieee.org>To: letters@time.comSubject: Ten questions for James BakerDear Editor:Talk about arrogant; since when does one particular party, “own all three branches of government”?  It seems to me that the American people “own” the government.  An ideology can influence the policies of the government, but I don’t recognize…

The baseball gods have definitely been smiling on the Minnesota Twins this year.  From twelve eleven and one-half games back early in the season they won a Central Division championship today.  All of this in a nail biting finish where we were rooting for Joe Mauer to clinch the batting title for the American League…

USA Weekend’s, 27 August 2006, “Eat Smart” column talks about studies showing that drinking coffee is good for your heart, liver, is a diabetes foe, and a Parkinson’s disease fighter.  Could it be that the types of foods we eat have nothing to do with any of those diseases; but show that people who’s genetics…

Kind of puts the fun back into flying doesn’t it.via email from Duane McDowell, Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:56:41 -0700

The annual Saint Paul Bike Classic was today.  I started with the first group of riders at 7:25 and finished about 10:15 on the 30 mile loop.I don’t know the exact milage because it was seattling and my odomoter shorted out.  I’m guessing it was about 35 miles round trip from my house.