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If you happen to work in downtown Minneapolis or at the University in the vicinity of Nicollet Mall or Washington Avenue, please step outside on Friday around lunchtime to see some of the 2,500 walkers on the Breast Cancer 3-Day this year. They get up before the sun, shower in semi trailers, stand in line at medical tents to have ...

it’s time!!

My sixth Breast Cancer 3-Day is this weekend. I realized I haven’t talked anywhere near as much about it this year, for two reasons: it’s become what I do every year (so I just assume everyone else is aware of it at all times), and because this time around has been more stressful than the last…. which is funny considering ...

recipe time! how to make delicious tomato paste.

Say you’re like me and have 11,000 tomatoes emerging from your garden every week, and you’re to the point of using them to pelt random strangers as they walk down the street, because you’ve already exhausted all other uses. Rather than risk assault charges, you could instead make the easiest tomato paste ever. It takes a long time, but there’s ...

chevelle

Last night post-gym, Matt and I ventured over to St Paul to give it another chance. It can’t be all bad, right? We dined at the Lowertown version of the Bulldog, which had good food and good beer, but was insanely loud. I had a conversation with a very drunk girl in the bathroom (it was 6:30pm, mind you) about ...