Happy Birthday Mom and Maria!

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We all had a wonderful brunch on Saturday, thanks for having us over Mom and Dad, and Happy Birthday to both of the birthday girls!

Happy Birthdaze!

Happy Birthday Maria and Nancy!!

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Spring beauty sighted

You all may be getting a lot of snow, but it's spring here! Happy first day of spring.

Ingrid's Update: Ok, I spoke too soon...this happened last night...

Snow Day!

Both Teresa and I worked from home today, thanks to the bountiful snowfall we got last night.

Georgia

I spent Sunday-Thursday at the National Immunization Conference in Atlanta, commuting by MARTA to stay with John and Lynda. John posted a nice picture of us on the Wilton Drive blog, so I won't duplicate that, but will add this picture of me by Margaret Mitchell's grave.

Kirby Puckett - 1960-2006

some video memories of Kirby

To An Athlete Dying Young
by AE Housman

THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

click here for the rest of the poem.

RIP KIRBY

Pastor Bruehl

Joel's former boss and our former pastor at Our Redeemer was in town this week and Joel, Norris, and I ate lunch with him on Tuesday. For those of you who remember him from Norris's baptism or other events, here's a current picture.

Midwinter Concert

Hello, Anderson Family,

You are invited to attend our Midwinter Concert. I will be singing in choir, and Matt will be playing bass in a pickup band. I'm singing "Magnificat" by Stanford, "Stay With Us" by Hovland, and "The Complete History of Western Music" by ? Matt is playing music from Toy Story 2.

Who: Matt and Janelle
What: Midwinter Concert - choirs, bands, and handbells!
When: Feb. 26 at 4:00 P.M. sharp
Where: Fairmount Ave. United Methodist Church, 1523 Fairmount Ave., St. Paul, 55105
Why: Why not?
How much: Free!

Hope to see you there!
Janelle and Matt

Knitting frenzy

On Tuesday, I got a new knitting magazine and offered to make Norris a pirate sweater featured in it. I was also trying to get him to come to dinner tonight (Saturday) with friends of ours who he didn't know. He kiddingly said he'd come to the party if I had his sweater knit by then. Of course, I wanted to meet this challenge and so I started knitting Tuesday night and finished the sweater this noon (I also went to work, ate, slept, went shopping, etc., but did knit steadily enough that my hands got cramped). I sent him several email warnings along the way so he was prepared to keep his Saturday night open. We had a good party and a fun time was had by all. These are the pictures from the emails.

They got my letter!!


Yesterday's NYTimes (2/14) had an article, If Robots Ever Get Too Smart, He'll Know How to Stop Them, about a book by Dr. David Wilson. A roboticist, Wilson

"offers detailed — and hilariously deadpan — advice on evading hostile swarms of robot insects (don't try to fight — "loss of an individual robot is inconsequential to the swarm")"

BUT... I had to write a letter to the NYTimes because the ORIGINAL version of the article read "In Isaac Asimov's collection of stories, "I, Robot," robots rise up against humanity." Gaack! *ANYONE* who knows about Asimov's books knows that his stories NEVER have robots turn on people. The author of the article must have thought the movie "I Robot" was based on Asimov's books (it wasn't - the title and little else came from his stories.)

Anyway... it was interesting to note that later in the day, the lead sentence was changed to: In the movie "I, Robot," robots rise up against humanity.

They got my letter!

One more candle.....

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Happy Birthday, John!!!

Happy Birthday, Abraham & JOHN!!

I'm kind of partial to Mr. Lincoln myself... growing up in the Land of Lincoln as I did.
It was indeed a surprise to have somebody (Stevie) unlocking the door at 12:30 a.m.
And now he's already back in that afore mentioned Land of Lincoln.

If this works okay, this is the first time I have posted a picture on the blog. It was a beautiful full moon tonight... It can be seen in Atlanta where John is celebrating his birthday in a few minutes, or in New York City, Bloomington, Northfield, Chicago, St. Paul & Minneapolis. Have a great birthday, John.

Happy 197th Birthday, Father Abraham

I've just finished reading Gore Vidal's Lincoln to improve my mind. Very interesting (but very long). In celebration of the day, here is a picture of the Lincoln Memorial from my December visit to D.C.

I am in minneapolis. last night at about 12:30 I snuck into the house and surprised my parents. I had told them earlier in the week that I was coming home but then that ride fell through. when I found a different ride on thursday I didnt bother to tell them that I was coming home afterall. it was a lot of fun. it's good to be home

Sears Building Documentary

Speaking of the sears building, here's something i happened onto today - a documeentary about the sears building. Haven't watched yet, but thought you all might be interested.

Building at a Crossroads

so I am here at northpark. it is a lot of fun. I like it here. for classes it is good because a small school is good for class sizes but for social acticvities it isnt the greatest. chicago is a lot of fun though cause we get to meet diffferent people and it is cool. I have a lot of homework though so I have to go. peACE. amen

Happy Birthday, Matt!

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back from florida!

Hey everyone - we're back from our trip to Florida! The above picture is from Ft. Myers Beach where we stayed for 5 days. There sure were beautiful sunsets there! You can see some of our pictures here. We'll write more later!

The Chicago Lofts

Saturday Nancy and I paid a visit to that great monolith to American mercantilism the venerable Sears building on Lake Street. Good old Sears put food on the table ,clothes on our backs and a roof over our head in our growing up years. Most of us obtained employment there at one time or another( my tenure only lasted two weeks one summer in high school. Joel did you ever work there?). After being vacant for several years and under construction for a couple this grand old edifice has been remodeled and reopened. Allina Health Care is a major tenant. Retail stores and restaurants will soon open on the first two floors where Sears Retail used to be. There will be a Hennepin County Service Center where we can by license tabs , driver's licenses, etc. Floors 3-8 are rental units. Floors 9 and above are condos. Nancy and I checked out two" Chicago Loft" model units on the 10th floor. One bedrooms start at around $230,000 and two bedrooms get into the upper $300,000's. Four "Penthouses " in the tower go for around $900,000. Very attractive apartments ( especially if you like concrete floors, original gigantic concrete support pillars and exposed brick walls) with great views of the twin cities. The sales person gave us a gigantic folder measuring 24" by 18" with information and a list of all the condo's and their prices. Several of them have already been sold so you better get busy if you have any interest.