I left for Chicago Thursday after work. I took the two benches out of the van, and in their place put in an air mattress, sleeping bag, and a bunch of computer stuff. I had thought I was being really clever when I bought a bunch of cheap sandwich type things at Superstore for the […]
Friday, July 1st, 2005 (Canada Day): Not a whole lot happened our last day of vacation, so I can editorialize a bit more. After leaving the hotel, we went back up to the shopping district of Duluth, north west of town. We hit the big Target which in name, if not location or anything else, […]
Thursday, June 30th, 2005 From Mankato, we decided to head over to Wisconsin to visit another Little House site, so we took highway 14 to highway 60 east all the way to the Wisconsin border. We’ve never spent so much of a trip driving on non-Interstates, and we really enjoyed checking out all the small […]
After visiting the museum, we explored a couple other stores in Walnut Grove. This was made difficult by the already-discussed ripped up main road. While Carla and the girls visited one store, the boys and I stayed in the truck in air-conditioned comfort, parked in the back lane, and listened to some local radio, where […]
June 29th, 2005: We continued down highway 169 to St. Peter, then turned off onto highway 99, then highway 14 to New Ulm (what happened to Old Ulm?) and continued west through Sleepy Eye to Walnut Grove, of “Little House on the Prarie” fame. I really like driving these quiet highways in the US countryside. […]
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005: We continued down I35 South. As we approached Minneapolis I got way too tired to keep driving, so we pulled over in a city called Blaine (which reminded us of Waiting For Guffman) and drove through their strange “shopping city” where all the buildings had to conform to some vaguely Mexican […]
The game is almost done – done enough that we took off for a trip last week, anyway. We were supposed to take off Sunday morning (June 26th), but I ended up working on some of the last bits of the game until around 6 a.m. Monday morning, so we didn’t get hitting the road […]
I was waiting for someone to leave comments like that, Richard and Erinose. Eventually, I would have left a similar comment myself! I’ve been spending most of my free time working on the PAL (European TV standard) version of the C64 30-games-in-one joystick. The rest of the time I’ve been thinking about what I should […]
Got back tonight, and my friend Adrian is happy to host the pics I took at the World of Commodore in Toronto this weekend. You can see all the pictures here. Any picture with a * beneath it has a comment – I made a bunch, other people will probably add theirs too. More reporting […]