Brrr....

I'm in Roseville, Minnesota right now for training for my new employer. It's nice to get to sit down and learn BIND, DNS, Sendmail, the TCP/IP suite, stateful packet inspection, BSD, and all the rest of the alphabet soup that embodies firewalls these days. I'm not a big fan of lecturing, though, and I can't wait to get hands-on with the products. Sitting through a refresher course in IP addressing while important for job skills is, at the end of a 9 hour day, taxing.

Yeah, Roseville's cold, go figure. Everybody here has gone on and on about how it was in the 60s to 80s last week. Yeah, now it's in the 30s-40s. Welcome to Minnesota.

So, I need some ideas of things to do around Minneapolis - I've been to the Mall of America, so that's not really an option. Any good weekend goings-on this time of year?

Thank goodness for iChat AV, iSight, and free high-speed Internet at the hotel. Without, I'm afraid my relationship with Nicole would be even more strained. It's certainly better than running up a gigantic phone bill on my cell.

Now playing on my iPod: Suite-Judy Blue Eyes by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.