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Didn't know until after lunch. Went through four periods of school and then all of lunch before I saw a TV screen. We had the TVs on for those final three periods of the day. I remember a lot about that day with alarming clarity, but don't honestly remember the conversations about it. I remember the images, those first times seeing the towers burn then fall hours after it had actually happened.

17. Senior in high school. At 35, it's weird that now more of my life has been on the back end of 9/11 than before it.

Rain spoiled my plan to take the train down to United Noodle for lunch then to Minnehaha Park, but the ramen suggestion was solid so I ate lunch in the Mill District downtown at a place called the Zen Box that was outstanding. Thanks for the other recommendations. Now that my sister and her family are there, I expect this is the first of several trips. My brother is already gunning to go back once hockey season starts.

Went to Fulton before the Twins game on Friday night. Really good stuff.

Got home a few hours ago. Incredible weekend. Target Field is really nice. Did a great job with everything. Highly recommend the food at the Soul Bowl behind Section 120. Get the braised beef with the mushrooms and onions. You won’t be disappointed. Unless you want the Twins to do something useful in September... then you’ll be disappointed. US Bank Stadium is the biggest building I’ve ever been in... I think. It felt bigger than Lucas Oil. It too is really nice. Also, the Viking defense played really well and it was awesome seeing that game in person. Today was a long day. Left my sister’s house at 8:30 and headed with my brother to the airport. He went to the gate for his early flight while I made for the light rail and spent most of my day in the Mill District. Walked through Mill Ruin Park and across the Stone Arch Bridge to St Paul, then back to see the Guthrie Theater and had lunch before taking the train back to the airport. Fantastic time all around.

You should BE SO LUCKY.

Thats because crappy pet owners keep dumping their cats. If cats are fixed, this doesn’t happen. Fix your cats and keep them inside.

Nothing irresponsible about being kind to an animal. But it’s definitely irresponsible to keep them like some kind of halfway pet where you feed them at your house but don’t let them in or have the local animal control come and make sure they’re fixed.

I'm flying Frontier. Got direct flights there and back from CVG for $50 each way. With carry-on bag fees and all the nonsense Frontier tries to hide under the rug, the round trip still ended up being just over $200.

Looking for a continued good showing out of the offensive line and hopefully a little more time in the pocket for Puma, who got a little nervous in there on Monday. Apart from that, just get a win and avoid any injuries and that's all I want.

Now that it's actually the day (because he wasn't getting two)... Happy Birthday, ya little snot-nose!

For a while they were offering a VIP tour in which Prince's private chef would cook you a meal from the menu developed specifically for him. I don't think they do that anymore, I'm sorry to say.

It'll be my first Twins home game (and first time in the Twin Cities) since the last season in the Metrodome in 2009. My sister is in Eden Prairie (on the Eastern edge closer to Edina, I've been told). Not sure what we'll do with the free day on Saturday (weather forecast looks decent, cloudy but not rainy), but your food options look like a solid plan for lunch on my own before heading to the airport on Monday.

So I fly out tomorrow afternoon for the Twin Cities for the first time in several years. Sister and her family moved there at the beginning of the summer and so I'm going to visit. We have tickets to the Indians/Twins game Friday night and then the Falcons/Vikings season opener on Sunday afternoon. I'm confident I'll spend most of our time not at the stadium at my sister's house in the suburbs with my niece and nephew, but I'm curious as someone who's been elsewhere in Minnesota but not in the Twin Cities for a while if someone more recently familiar has any thoughts as to what I should see and do. Weather looks decent for Saturday but the forecast appears less friendly during the hours prior to my afternoon flight home on Monday. What does anyone think I should hit up?

7) Minnesota 5) Oakland 3) LA Rams 2) Detroit 1) Tampa Bay Tiebreak) LA Rams

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It was an HBO special, so if you have a subscription or an HBOGo password, I'm pretty sure it'll be on there.

Zero. Caveat: I've never actually had snails, but I'd give it a try if they were put in front of me. *EDIT* Second Caveat: Since it gives chicken and beef separately, I'm forced to wonder if "liver" means the liver of something else... in which case... make that a one.

It's my favorite of his too, which puts it high on the list of my favorite stand-up specials of all time.

Watched both the special and the epilogue yesterday. Not his best, but Chapelle not at his best is still better than 95% of the folks out there.

Lot of recruits in attendance last night. Given that it was a Monday night, very few came from outside a couple hours' drive, but that allowed them to give some pretty specific attention to local guys and guys from surrounding areas... which are pretty much the exact group that was especially neglected by the last staff.

It's fine. I don't really want it in my coffee, but there are loads of outstanding pumpkin-flavored desserts.

Lots of positives in that loss for Louisville. Really liked DC Bryan Brown's scheme for last night. Kept his safeties covering deep and forced ND to earn it by running. Given Louisville's weaknesses and lack of depth at corner, it was a great plan and he put the secondary in a position to succeed and I think they did. He just didn't have the players to stop the run when forcing ND into it. That's the way it goes. We all knew there would be a significant disadvantage there. On the other side, this was like night and day for the Louisville offensive line. I knew that Dwayne Ledford would be the kind of coach that position group hasn't had in a long time and WOW. Against a very talented ND front, they did a solid job opening holes for running backs. I can't think of how long it's been since a Louisville offensive line could say they were doing that. Some of that was attributable to the things Louisville was doing to try and confuse the defense, but Louisville got it's first 100-yard game out of a running back in FOUR YEARS last night (Javian Hawkins). Louisville hasn't had a 1,000-yard running back since Bilal Powell in 2010. Based on what I saw of how Satterfield wants the offense to work, I expect Hawkins or Hassan Hall could hit that mark. On the other hand, the line struggled in pass protection and Pass looked rushed and unfocused in that respect for most of the game. A low snap by the Louisville center was responsible for two fumbles, including the one that set up ND for their go-ahead score right before halftime. Hit and miss for a rebuilding offensive line. If Louisville can follow this up confidently in two games they're supposed to win (EKU and WKU), I'll like the direction things are headed going into ACC play in late September.

Starting the switch this year. I think women's basketball is going to be the first to not have paper tickets distributed. I'd imagine by next school year, the bulk of the department will go that way.