Happy New Doggo Day!

I must admit, I am surprised a little that this happened.  The last dog I had living with me was back in Missoula some 10+ odd years ago.  It wasn’t as if I was somehow opposed to the idea of getting a dog, it just didn’t wasn’t high on the agenda.  Even when I was a home owner and had all the yard and space, poochinos didn’t have a place.  That all put aside, I would like to introduce the newest member of our household.

Everyone give a big how-do-you-do to Merckx…

Oh for cute!

Older cutie, half blue heeler and half shepard, all awesome.  One of the nicest dogs I have ever met.

Here also is what I like to call a teaser photo.

That was me hauling a trailer full of compost and coffee from a catering gig in NE Minneapolis.  The xtracycle itself wasn’t beefy enough, so I had to add on the trailer.  There may be quite a few photos like this one coming from a certain brother and myself in the next few months, that is all I am going to say.

And now, I go back to studying and writing papers.

Hey Look!

Another fun link!

Enjoy watching me pinbone the trout, good stuff!

http://www.utne.com/2008-10-12/Environment/Sustainable-Seafood-An-Utnecom-Exclusive-Recipe.aspx?blogid=26

5 credits left..

Turns out amazingly that despite this whole General Manager job, I am still just 5 short credits away from finally graduating!  That means I need to in short order start planning for life after getting my undergrad degree.  There isn’t much in terms of job possiblities for someone with an anthropology degree that happened to take 12 years to complete.  With the end close at hand, it would behoove me to start planning.

As it stands right now, I am more than not likely to study for the GMAT and apply to get my MBA somewhere.  I was able to eek it out of my many years of undergrad without accumulating ‘too’ much of student loan debt; grad school on the other hand is an entirely different ball of wax.  If I were to attend grad school, I wouldn’t do so unless there was some security of increased income.  Going to school for the love of knowledge is one thing, but racking up 10′s of thousands of dollars worth of debt is a scary proposition.

Aside from all that, between school and work I have kept quite busy.

We did get reviewed again at the cafe, always a plus.

Good ‘ol brother of mine doesn’t update his blog all that much, so many of you might now know about his good deeds over the past weekend.  He along with some other MPLS bike people (my girlfriend inlcuded) have been hard at work over the past couple of weeks trying to make sense of all the bicycle related deaths here in the Minneapolis area.

First off he made this website.

Then, they arranged for a memorial ride, which had close to 300 attendees!  Amazing.

More here.

And here.

Again here.

Once more here.

I am not sure if all of those videos and links work, but Jer was interviewed giving a speech in front of 4 or so cameras and hundreds of people!  Amazing yes?

But, it is raining here and I need to ready my newest poor weather bicycle.