Football Epilogue

My kids on top of Lutsen Mountains overlooking lake Superior. When you hear "Minnesota" you often think of all the aspects of a cold snowy winter, except for skiing. However, the Twin cities area as well as northern Minnesota are home to a few gems. Skiing here is a little different. Runs are shorter, with ~400 vertical feet being the maximum elevation you'll find in the Cities, but there's a lot more opportunity to hone your technique. Lindsey Vonn even got her start on the Minnesota slopes at Buck Hill before becoming a downhill superstar. Areas such as Afton Alps (a member of the Epic pass family) and Welch Village are vast in the sheer number of runs and varied terrain. The close proximity to the Twin Cities also means there's a lot to do when your ski day is done. If you live in town or are visiting for an extended time, you can easily drop the kids off at Hyland Hills for a few hours while you go off to dinner or shopping at the Mall of Americ...

Iconic Las Vegas,Image by skeeze from Pixabay For me, visiting Las Vegas once every four or five years for a long weekend is enough to pacify my curiosity for gambling, staying up all night, consuming too much food and alcohol, and reminding myself that I'm no longer in my 20's. This year, I found myself in the oasis-ish place twice. Once in February to golf with one of my good friends and once just last week for a conference; and to golf with that same friend. The Rio, from casino.org The conference was during the week and was held at the Rio All Suites Hotel . It was nice, however I'm starting to realize that all casinos are pretty much the same. They have the same gaming options, same types of slot machines and everything is roughly the same price; which gets jacked up during the weekend. It is a little cheaper to play during the week off of the strip, but those differences evaporate fairly quickly when it's busy. Still, the Rio did have some decent...

I remember doing a project like this in fifth or sixth grade. Space time, to me, is represented in a  rather '80s contemporary way in these images. As if staring into black, or worm, holes. Some meetings recently have had me doodling along this theme. I tried to do a slightly more complicated version. The result was a merging of same radius centers forming what look like saddle points as the texture defines the centers. Whatever it is/was, it was a good time to be present and focused on just the drawing for a couple of hours.