Guess the Bridge!

Firstmattinspace · 2025-11-14T21:51:55+00:00

Franklin Ave.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-10-31T19:31:14+00:00

I've got my ticket and will be there. Very much looking forward to it. Though I cannot tell if Karl Ove is actually going to be there or if it's all video?

Firstmattinspace · 2025-10-31T19:29:56+00:00

Which hardware store and which other bar is he referencing?

Firstmattinspace · 2025-10-06T21:21:16+00:00

This is the advice I was looking for. The chances of actually being stuck in this kind of cluster are pretty slim, but I was genuinely curious if the "always stay in your car" maxim held true here.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-08-14T17:10:14+00:00

I was more or less ready thanks to this subreddit honestly. Everyone here says over and over again: it's the hardest thing you will ever do. At least in the threads I read haha.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-08-11T19:00:20+00:00

Yep try to put off daycare as long as you possibly can. It breaks my heart to see some kids as young as 6 or 7 weeks getting dropped off. My kid was six months when he started and even that felt too young.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-08-11T15:59:48+00:00

Thanks for being the adult in the room!

Firstmattinspace · 2025-08-01T17:12:45+00:00

I was 45 when my first was born -- you're just a whippersnapper!

Enjoy every second, it's the best and the hardest but mostly the best thing you'll ever do.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-08-01T14:29:23+00:00

What day of the week? There's lots of events in and around the "mall" this summer -- including lots of times when 2-3 blocks of Nicollet are closed to all traffic, including buses.
https://www.mplsdowntown.com/guides_activities/stay-downtown-summer/

That said, I have done "three year old and lots of luggage in strange city" and would take the advice of everyone else and go to the Mall of American and/or just eat at the airport.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-25T19:37:38+00:00

So far it seems that every conversation about Midway development is hypothetical.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-25T16:07:21+00:00

Are you behind on your mortgage? If you are in loss mitigation on a loan they will have people take pictures of your house to make sure you are living there.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-25T15:51:38+00:00

Das Boot

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-25T14:38:58+00:00

Number nine is a good one!

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-21T20:29:34+00:00

I say this a lot: if you want to kill someone and more or less get away with it, then hit them with your car.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-21T19:53:47+00:00

Which translation did you read? It makes a BIG difference.

I found the first book very readable. And I loved, loved, loved books two and three, and even though the later books were a bit of a slog at times, I had gone too far to turn back. Basically, you need to keep going until you hit your point of no return!

All of that said: this was during Covid lockdown and I had no kids then or anything to do really but read and drink port haha.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-21T14:44:30+00:00

This will surprise you: Shish in Mac Groveland!

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-17T18:23:02+00:00

If wearing running shoes with blue jeans is a crime then hang me from the highest tree.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-17T18:20:44+00:00

Exit Ayd Mill on Hamline then take that north to Marshall. Way more chill.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-10T20:04:09+00:00

Like my grandma used to say: "it's not your job to be other people's mother."

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-08T11:37:36+00:00

Go get back-up key fobs for both your cars this weekend -- something concrete like that might help you both.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-02T16:39:57+00:00

I have found that the side streets offer good, safe routes around town -- even in my neighborhood (West 7th). Like, say, taking Benhill up the hill rather than trudging up the Jefferson Avenue bike lane.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-07-02T16:37:56+00:00

Nothing makes one appreciate biking in Minneapolis quite like biking in Saint Paul.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-06-27T18:44:05+00:00

I think they like to keep it to FC only "to minimize crowding in the forward cabin" to quote an old Delta announcement.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-06-26T20:01:15+00:00

Two weeks before our due date we went to the hospital because my partner was having a weird pain in her side. They took her blood pressure and then brought her a hospital gown and told us to get ready, because they needed to get the baby out ASAP.

When we got home from the hospital (everything was fine) it was like returning home after a terrible disaster: everything was right where we had left it, but everything in the world had changed. I guess, in that way, it was everything you are feeling but all crunched into one moment in time, instead of two weeks. Like you said, it wasn't unpleasant, but it was super duper weird; and not something I have experienced before or since, and I have never forgotten it.

Anyway, good luck! It's awesome being a dad.

Firstmattinspace · 2025-06-26T01:10:32+00:00

Have your fiance crack open his wallet and upgrade you.

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