That rain the other night was awesome. Did anybody else see the manhole covers flying off? I have no idea what caused all the pressure, but water was shooting out of the manholes downtown. One was five stories high. Another tore the siding off a skyway. We got an all-call on the radio to pull over. Five years of driving and I've never heard that. The rain was so intense that one of the stoplights in Northeast decided to flash red and display solid green at the same time.

I saw a Smart car downtown. I'd been getting a bit grumpy at the weatherman for predicting rain for two days before it actually did start raining. I was really itching to ride my bike this week, but it's not quite weatherproofed yet. Plus [as I realized midway through my shift on Tuesday, when I did bike to work], I didn't put any reflectors on it, much less buy a light yet.

On friday, my wife worked one of her three-hour shifts, and we had a showing, so I dropped her off in Edina, and ran some errands. This is what angers me most about Minneapolis. I went to the co-op, the liquor store, and the bookstore for a magazine, and there is not a single area of Minneapolis where one has those options within walking distance. And even if I was willing to take the four buses and two hours it would require if I was to go downtown for one of the big boxes, and then down Lyndale, [my beer selection would be severely limited (Hum's blows)] it's not even a real possibility for me to bring Eliot, with Metro's anti-customer stroller policy that is the complete opposite of safety (fold up the stroller, leave your bags on the sidewalk, hold your baby in one arm, your diaperbag with your other arm, and your stroller with your leg, and watch your shopping bags roll up and down the aisle) [please complain here].