Difficult to attend the parade, flights from Russia are spendy.

Minnesota is ready for you too

I recently finished The Three Body Problem and loved it, so I’m reading anything I can find from Cixin Lui on libby now - which this week means Supernova Era. Super interesting so far, feels like the novelization of a thought experiment and I’m here for it.

Went there on my honeymoon in 2018. Absolutely gorgeous. I think the most surprising part is how new it is, relatively speaking. It’s only like 130 years old. Ludvig’s entire story is well worth a Wikipedia rabbit hole too.

“Resident of the Unit” has a good ring to it here.

Hopefully some day

Surely there’s a gif of Don Zimmer rushing Pedro Martinez that can have a couple faces swapped here, that’s got potential

Don’t remind me I haven’t touched inferno, cheese cape is my ride or die

Named my daughter Evelyn last year. I’m doing my part.

Slayer is by far the best way to procrastinate Skilling, if I’d put the time that I’ve spent into post-99 slayer into Skilling I’m pretty sure I’d have maxed by now 😂

Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy changed my life. It’s not for everyone, but holy shit when it works it works.

+1 for OSRS

Sold 👀

Old School Runescape, but good guess 😂

Pickpocketing the same person 100,000 times.

Can’t leave out that Trump not only was friends with McMahon, but went so far as to put his wife in his cabinet.

Yeah it’s true. The game originated in Sweden, and we have a lot of Swedish immigrants in Minnesota. It was originally called anka anka gråttanka, which translates to duck duck grey duck. Or that’s the story we tell here at least.

On the tail end of Leagues right now. I didn’t have much time early on in leagues so I’m just scraping out rune rank and won’t be able to make it to dragon, which is disappointing. Then it’s back to maxing the normal account and working through early game iron stuff, after a short post-leagues break I’m thinking.

There are some gems for food in the St. Cloud area. I moved away from the area about three years ago into the Twin Cities, so can’t speak to more recent additions, but White Horse downtown was always good food if you could put up with unnecessarily slow service. Olde Brick House downtown also good. Old Capital Tavern in Sauk Rapids is solid. Krewe in St. Joseph is probably my favorite restaurant in the area though, and make sure you stop at Jupiter Moon Ice Cream afterwards.

Overall Minnesota is a great place to live. Don’t hesitate to get into the twin cities and suburbs as much as you can - you will have way more high end food options, way more activities for the kids, and way more opportunities for your own socialization. Don’t fall into the St. Cloud mentality of the Twin Cities being 45-60 minutes away meaning you can’t take advantage if it.

Spend some time farther up north when you have time for weekend trips. Rent a cabin up in Bemidji, take the kids to Duluth, get into whatever kind of outdoor winter sports you can put up with. Take the kids tubing at Powder Ridge this winter.

Welcome!

Well, in between the prior two threads I took my total level from 2080 to 2090, which felt slow. So I buckled down and skilled for the last month, and got to 2125. Got 91 thieving for desert elites, 99 crafting, and a couple cox kc with friends to knock out kourend elites. Only diary tasks left are Runecraft to 91 (or 89, or 86 depending on how sick of it I get - currently only 81), and BA level 5's. Pretty solid progress for a month though! Trying to focus on 99 slayer mostly right now to take a break from skilling, sitting about 300k from 97 currently.