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The new Trey album is out. Sounds pretty mint. Trey at Deer Creek or Paul Simon in Europe...Tough choice.

Here's a picture of the new baby. As hard as it is to believe, Kelly looks even bigger standing next to a newborn.

What a baby day!

In order of occurrence:

• My cousin April and her husband Kelly have their baby
• Libby et al attend a baby shower for Heather
• Amy and Andy tell the Minneapolis crowd that they're expecting

I.ve decided that one of man.s key roles in the universe is to explain movies to women.

I got an application for the Hopkin's Raspberry Festival parade. We're going to get a float and everything. That's the good news. The bad news is that as the reality of actually having to prepare to be in the parade is starting to set-in, people are starting to back away. I wouldn't say they're backing out yet, but there is unquestionably some tempered enthusiasm in the air.

News from Lake Wobedina: Patel's moving back. Double douche.

I took the afternoon off today. First I golfed. Then I went to the new Krispy Kreme for dinner. Booya.

The other day, I realized that I've had the song Spanish Flea stuck in my head for over 10 years. That's a long time.

"This is a wonderful thing for Maple Grove" - Maple Grove Mayor Mark Steffenson, April 20, 2002.

Good doughnuts? Absolutely.
Wonderful for the city? Uhhhh.

It's probably creating about 15 jobs -- not the good ones that mayors normally like -- and no doubt will bring people into the megaburb's ridiculously overbuilt shopping/eating/living/dying destination zone. But wonderful for the city? Wutchutalkinbout mayor?

Aw, heck. I still plan on being there first day.

Last Monday, it was 92 degrees. I was walking around the house in my underpants. Today, only 6 days later, it's supposed to snow up to 9 inches in some parts of the state.

Better go put on some clothes.

One of the guys at work wanted to have a foosball tournament. He said we should have 2-person teams and have every team play every other team. 15 eager participants signed-up. He figured it would take about a month to hold the entire tournament.

Yesterday, he says he's having trouble building the schedule. He can't figure out how to make sure that all the games are played and so forth. To help out, I wrote-up a little program (using the new M5 of eclipse) that builds the schedule. Turns out, for 15 people, there are like 4000+ games for a full 2-person team round robin tournament. That's like 10 years of foosball. I'm am so in for that.

Somebody at work brought in cookies and I didn't get there fast enough to have one. On today of all days -- the Day of Massive Wealth Redistribution -- I think somebody should have at least offered me a bite of their cookie. It.s only fitting that nary a crumb trickled down to little old me.

We saw Canterbury Tales at the Guthrie last Friday. It was hands-down the funniest thing I.ve ever seen on that stage. In a nutshell: crude, rude, and partially nude. Quite the departure from .Who.s afraid of Virginia Woolf?. from last season, to say the least.

During intermission, they let everybody come up on stage and mill around. It's neat. At last, I can check "Pinch Wife's Fanny on Mainstage of Guthrie" off of my to-do list.

It was quite the timely juxtaposition in the letters section of the Strib this weekend, too. On Saturday, some art/croissant crowd member wrote in to bitch that the current play - if not the Guthrie as a whole - was too .entertainy. for their liking. (I.m not sure what 'entertainment' is, but I know it when I see it.) Then today, some smartass fisherman wrote in to say that the Guthrie was just for the arts/croissant crowd and not for him.

Clearly, he hasn't heard how entertaining it.s become.

Last week, the NY Times Magazine ran a cover story about beef in America. The author followeda cow basically from birth to slaughter and commented on the process along the way.There were some vague conclusions drawn about the bizarre nature of beefproduction, but for the most part it was reasonably balanced and fact driven.

Next week, Frontline isdoing their own report on beef production. Knowing Frontline, it'll be very good, too.

My boycott of McDonald's is still going strong, nearly a year after I started it. Tunein next week and see part of the reason why.

I saw my first Mini Cooper yesterday. They're pretty sweet looking but, not surprisingly, a little overpriced.

It.s finally sunny out, so I.ve had a lot of the windows out of my jeep the last day or two. It.s great to drive to get to see some of nature before I head to the cave I currently work in. It.s not really that bad of a cave, though. We have a lava lamp, which helps ease the pain. Plus, it kinda looks like solar activity if you stare at it long enough.

The best part about spring: Golf season can.t be too far off.

Gopher victory! $1000/pair for tickets is still too much to pay to get in for the finals, though. At least for my cheap ass.

The other night, Grossie and I started work on the TV stand we're building. A couple of hours work and we made 4 cuts. We also practiced routing. It's more fun than it sounds. Plus, as we learn more, it'll be easier to build other TV stands in the future. I anticipate huge demand.

Somebody in Paris finally wised-up and passed a law that made it illegal to let your dog crap on the street and not pick it up. That's good for many reasons, not the least of which is that 600+ people a year broke bones by slipping in poop and falling down. Man, that's gotta ruin your whole day.

ESPN/ABC will be broadcasting every game of the 2002 World Cup. I remember having to watch world cup games on Univision when I was a kid. It was fun, but I think this might be better. Except for the 'goooooooooooooooooal' guy, he probably won't make the jump to US television, so that'll suck.

The Krispy Kreme should be open in Maple Grove before the first game on May 31st. I think I'll get-up, go get some donuts, and then settle in for some Friday morning soccer. Booya.