Simple Pleasures...

Minnesota hockey teams opening cans of whup-ass against teams from Manitoba and Manitoba lite today.

Red River was full of Ls today.

Game day for my son and his teammates. The 5A state title on the line. He is at morning walk through meetings right now.

He is pretty excited but he feels more prepared to deal with the enormity of today than last week. Hopefully West kicks the crap out of Mahtomedi early so he can get some playing time late in the game.

Go Scarlets!

My 1st "video" game... A few years before my 1st Atari 2600, which I still have..

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frozen4champs wrote:

My 1st "video" game... A few years before my 1st Atari 2600, which I still have..

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A high school friend’s son is big into 80s nostalgia and talks a lot of trash about being good at video games from that era. I’m going to have to see him sometime and teach him a painful lesson that my generation owns the Atari 2600

I was more early arcade (fam refused to buy us home consoles). So, Ms Pac Man, or my specialties: Galaga and Tempest.

Invested lots of quarters in those Ms. Pac Man machines. Also favored that golf one where you played holes on famous courses. Loser bought the next round.

College years, tUMD had a small arcade, about 5-6 of us played Street Fighter II. Winner stayed, challenger paid. Lots of fun, and had good friendships because of it.

Watched this with my kids over Thanksgiving. Even I was surprised at how much there was before the NES and GameBoy.

I still have my NES with a handful of games, I should pull it out and show the kids, but I don’t want it wrecked. We had an Atari 7800 too and no idea where that went. Family friends had ColecoVision which was probably the most fun one I had played of all of them.

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It was NHL93 and MarioKart in the dorm for us. The wars were pretty epic.

We also evolved into Doom! On the PC. It I basically sucked at that

Post-college, had 3 other friends, and would play 4-player Genesis NHL (was it 1995 that intro'd the 4 player?). Tossed our driver's licenses in a hat, drew teams. real-life checking allowed during play.

Thinking of all the systems over the years, Jaguar, Dreamscape, 3D0, Neo Geo, the list goes on...

Not shocked by this.

I've heard you can play Pong on flip phones.

Finding the most listened to artist on my Spotify 2021 year was the Stones. Doesn't get much better.

My Wrapped from Spotify:

16,725 minutes listening. Would have been higher except for the 2 months I was in the US when I hardly listened at all.

Top genres:

Indie

Classic Rock

Alternative Rock

New Wave

Blues

1,445 different artists and the Top 5:

The Beatles (781 total minutes)

Foo Fighters

The Cure

Pink Floyd

Grateful Dead

The new Geico “Angry Birds” ad. The first time I saw it I immediately thought of the brew haha over the Viking stadium glass

I have a warped sense of humor.

Saw the shirt on a certain twitter feed. Had to buy it. HAD to. It was for the children.

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ODB FTW

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Skating at Rockefeller Plaza. At Christmas time. Definite bucket list.

Even if the skates were bricks and could not have cut pudding.

Added bonus: The couple getting married at center ice (Yep!) were from Minnesota!

We skated there that weekend the Gophers were out to play at Madison square garden. Those skates are TERRIBLE! I consider myself a good skater on hockey skates, but these were some weird rigid figure skate style boots that were dull as hell. I looked like I’d never skated before in my life! I regretted not packing my own.

But yes, a very cool experience and highly recommend!

I’ll just be the devils advocate here…you have a bunch of people, many on skates for the first time. Razor sharp blades and a novice are a recipe for blood on the ice! Even a parent lacing up their kid would slice up their hands. I can just picture the trauma

Dull skates mean less liability. Sad but true.

Blaine Youth Hockey night at Gophers Men’s Hockey is Feb 25th. $45 tickets and chance to see the locker room.

Against the Badgers. Nice.

No snow on the ground on Dec 3rd

This might be a close corollary

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/8850338002

Brother, sister, wife and spouses are scheduled to visit Hawaii in two months. Will the snow melt by then, or should we bring our ski equipment?

I had some this morning. Not by lunchtime, though.

Unless you're staying on the mountain summits, I think you'll be fine.

I have zero concern about what the outcome is in Indianapolis today because today is D-day for the Clowns in Ames. Iowa vs Iowa State wrestling tonight! GO HAWKS!

I got a letter today from MnDot reminding me that my license is expiring. My birthday was 5 days ago, so my license was already expired. I wanted to get the real ID. I got the necessary paperwork and went to the license bureau in Lakeville. There was no wait. I was figuring that I might get my license renewed with some hassle, but little chance of getting the real ID. In less than 15 minutes, I walked out with my temporary license. They said I would receive my real-id license in 2 weeks. No hassles, no issues.

My in and out for Real ID was similar. Less than 10min. BUT... It took about 8 weeks to get the actual ID. I wish it was only 2 weeks.

Not sure what the processing time for RealID is, but I applied for an Enhanced DL the end of September, and it was about 6 weeks to actually get it. I'd guess RealID is a little faster, but don't know.

I'll let you know when it actually arrives!!

For the first time ever, my kids are shoveling the driveway.

Praise Jesus!

My 18yo daughter helped me one time last winter, claims she hurt her shoulder and is still milking it. Even went to the chiropractor a couple times. My wife says I can’t make her help me any more. Well played.

I bet your daughter isn't a hockey player!

And I bet your wife never helps shovel...

(both just a hunch)

Broke out the snowblower after work today!!! The two youngest kids were outside while blowing the driveway and shoveling the walk. They wanted to help, so I need to go buy some kid friendly snow shovels… lol!!!

Daughter does not play hockey. Wife helps out occasionally so she can say she helps out all the time.

Watching the Wild game and somebody trying to spin brodies in the church parking lot that borders my backyard. My grandma could’ve spun better brodies… lol!!!

Haha our daughter is now married and lives with her husband, so I am left to take care of anything outdoors at our place, as my wife handles most anything inside. That arrangement has worked out pretty well for us so far, but like most married couples we do have our "sources of contention" lol.

Is "brodie" a MT term? I've heard several other terms but not that one.

I know this is in the wrong thread, it similar theme. We also do inside/outside work. I do almost all of the cooking though.

Anyway, I wish laundry and cleaning had the same priorities that shoveling, yard work and eating dinner has…

What do you call them? And what other terms have you heard?

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Since Greyeagle and I are about the same age, I also have never heard of the term Brodies. I call them donuts and another term that would have to be bleeped here

Donuts, cookies, sh!tties...

Hanging onto the back bumper was hookie-bobbing....no idea why.

I agree with Greyeagle.

Donuts, cookies, chitties, chithooks, Louies.

This is also the state that calls ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’.. ‘Duck, Duck, Grey Duck’… lol!!!

Riding bungee for hanging on to the bumper. Other than that, covered it.

I've heard brodie before, but it referred to any kind of silly or stupid stunt, not specifically whipping shitties.

That's a good way to get banned again...

Especially since Duck Duck Gray Duck is the literal translation of the game.