Monday Funday

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Had friends over Friday night. Saturday was a quiet day, watched a lot of Olympics. Ran around outside with the kiddos for a bit yesterday, after I got a secondhand file cabinet. Went through a bunch of the old shit we had in our cabinets, pared down quite a bit of stuff. Had 12 year old tax docs in there, some manuals for stuff we no longer have, junk like that.
 
Just saw that the Russia vs Canada women's hockey game was played with everybody wearing n95 masks.
 
Morning all.
 
Morning team. Made it back to Mn yesterday, mostly fine. Just a little grouchy after 17 hours in the car between 2 days

Saturday went mostly ok. Route through Oklahoma wasn't on an interstate so occasionally drove through towns and dealt with stoplights etc, was a little annoying. Stayed at an AirBNB in Kansas City, was rated 4.6. Place wasn't 4.6, pretty dumpy. I probably wouldn't have minded so much if I paid about 1/2 what I did. Was marginally better than a airport hotel.

Sunday drive up was frustrating. Hit central IA and started to have fight wind for next few hours until I hit southern MN. Saturday we averaged 27/28 MPG. Sunday we averaged 23/24 MPG.

Found out not every gas station has premium gas. Pulled over in Iowa stopped at Casey's, Mrs Pnk goes to bathroom and I notice, no premium gas. Went to different gas station across street basically, they had premium and I decided I needed to pee, no bathroom. So we went to a different Casey's so I could pee. 3 gas stations, one tank of gas, 2 bathroom stops Second Casey's, which is 1/2 block down from first Casey's we went to had premium, and kicker is, I took U turn to get first casey's, had I Just gone left instead of U turn and went to Casey's further from freeway, I would've go premium gas and bathroom all in one stop.

Then lunch was a pain, stopped at a Wendy's, closed. Decided to go Subway which wasn't near freeway and turned out inside a walmart, so we skipped going and back on road. Got off again little later different wendy's, drive thru closed. went inside and ordered. I would've waited until we got home, but we had no food at home..

All the detours, stops, probably added half hour to trip ontop of half hour it would've normally taken to make a gas/bathroom stop and lunch (we would've done one stop, but we were low on gas at 10am and had to stop)

Got home, unloaded car. Murray after being cooped up in the car was restless, no surprise. He broke out front door and started running down driveway. His recall sucks, but thankfully he hates cold more. Got to end of driveway and realized his paws were cold, he held his front paw in air and started howling like he was in pain. I had to carry him inside while he yelped like he had been beaten

tl,dr; long drive, was windy and annoying, but home safe and murray hates the cold
 
What a start to a busy Monday. Usually takes me 30 mins to get back from taking the kids to school. Took 90 minutes today.

Why? Overnight road construction worker killed on the main road back at 2:30 this morning. Horrible, not downplaying that.

I get they have to shut down the road without a decent detour option…but to still have it closed 6 hours later during rush hour just sucks.
 
Had a fun weekend. The Snake had a football camp on Saturday. Booked a water park trip for May. Was pretty bored without football though. Had some good Hello Fresh meals.
 
Well, hello fellas!

I took the boat out and hooked a sawfish under the causeway. Then, I coached girls softball at 4. A little sunburned today on ma cheeks.
 
Good morning folks. Nice weekend.. Saw the parents... Walked a lot with them, went to a reservoir in town and froze my rear off but it was great to be outside.. Watched the US Women's Hockey team kick the sh&t out of Switzerland..

Now it's back to working..
 
Made a big pot of chili last night, and took my first crack at making cornbread. Don't think I am going to bother with those mixes anymore, the recipe was easy and came out really good.
 
Going to be a busy week of work after last week's snow. Hung out with some buddies on Saturday. Had wrestling yesterday. Our team won the tournament and Buck got 2nd in his bracket individually. Think I hooked cousin N1 into the wrestling club next year.
 
Made a big pot of chili last night, and took my first crack at making cornbread. Don't think I am going to bother with those mixes anymore, the recipe was easy and came out really good.
We had chili last night to. Wanna exchange D pics?
 
SIL was late for work because he had to clean up a momentous effort by his son on the changing table.

Boy has a powerful colon....takes after his Gramps.
 
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