Halloween 08 in the books. I dressed up as a non-slutty Tinkerbell. Although at the end of the night I reeked of cigarette smoke from the punkrock house party that I evolved into Stinkerbell. First, Katie and I rode our bikes to the Nomad and met up with her friend Ben. We had a couple beers and some girl bought us a couple of shots. Then me, Katie, and Ben went to this house party in St. Paul. I should never venture into St. Paul in the first place. I always get lost there and I brought that bad luck with us when we tried to find the house. We eventually found it and Katie sung a few songs with her band, then Johnny Hardcore took over along with this girl drummer decked out with only a few strips of strategically placed electrical tape on her upper body. She rocked. Best costumes of the night were a Beetlejuice and his Bride from the movie. Worst assumption received was being mistaken for Victoria's secret model as I was riding through Dinkytown, I had wings, but I wasn't going for that effect. Seriously. It was a good Halloween though.
I went home to Duluth first thing in the morning after Halloween. I had to make it to Twin Ports Cyclery to catch up on gossip and get a few essentials. Then my nephew Noah was celebrating his 10th birthday. I got him a Peet shoedryer for his goalie skates.
On Sunday I spent the whole day with my brother Ted. We went up the shore, stopping at the Split Rock Lighthouse, and checked out some of his past hunting grounds around Finland. Out in the middle of nowhere we saw this dude riding his bike with a bundle of 8ft long swamp grass loaded on his bikerack. He was about 30yrs old, wore an army coat and had really terrible white person dreadlocks. Further up the road there was a few abandoned cars off the side of the road and maybe a shack?? We figured that was his destination. I swear people who ride bikes are so weird...=) On our way back to Duluth we stopped at Betty's Pies for a chicken pastie and raspberry rhubarb crunch pie. Yummy.
I voted Tuesday. I was there 10min before 7am and there was already a line outside the door. Later that eve, Katie, Ben, Matt, and I went to the
Nomad for a free Schells for voting yesterday.
I started a new project at work. Basically I'm pouring water through filters all afternoon, baking filters, weighing filters, and some water collecting during tests. I will be nailing down the SSC (Suspended Sediment Collection) process down like a pro. I'm still loving my at the lab even though we done with all the outside science sample collecting.
We got some random things at Twin Ports Cyclery:
Old school Benotto bar tape

Really small pink toeclips