OK, so after yesterday’s fiasco, I’ll give this post another try <save> Friday nite The Wife and I went to meet some friends for dinner <save> at the new 2021 restaurant <save>…just kidding, I’ll stop noting when I’m saving this post….

Anyhow, we went to meet what has become my ‘bermuda triangle’ of ex-co-workers, 2 other couples involving people I have crossed in my many paths of employment. In Couple #1 I used to work with the husband way back when I first started working in the Twin Cities upon moving here 6 years ago. Couple #2: I worked with the wife of that pair. But ironically, the two people not mentioned so far (the wife of Couple 1 and the husband of Couple 2) had also worked together; got it? I can draw a picture if needed…so our ‘circle’ finally came together in our first group meeting last Friday nite….

Anyway, 2021 was a nice restaurant, somewhat pricy (about $60 a couple, albeit with little alcohol that nite for some reason). It’s a family-style restaurant, and as it is owned by Wolfgang Puck, dishes like the duck were just awesome. Unfortunately the menu has mainly an Asian slant to it for most dishes, which got a little old towards the end of the meal, but was still very good. The staff was very cordial, offering to help pick the appropriate number of dishes, etc. Appetizers were yummy, drinks were nice and strong (hell yeah!), and I recommend not making a reservation….well, that’s kind of a joke; we didn’t have one ‘for some reason’, but put our name in, and I think within 45 minutes we were sitting down. Now we did show up at 7:00, so I think it gets busier later in the nite. Because as we were finishing up dinner and just chatting, the hostess came by and asked if we would mind stepping out on the terrace, for some free dessert, as they had a reservation for the larger table we were at. Well, that was a no-brainer, we stepped out onto their terrace, which faces Hennepin Ave and has a few tables for sitdown dining and drinking. So it was an awesome view, etc., if only it weren’t so damn hot here! We were still in the midst of a heat wave, and Friday was 96 or so, 90 degrees when we were outside that nite, high humidity, and absolutely no breeze. The terrace is walled in a 2 sides, so it was rather sticky!

But we had our (many free) desserts and chatted for awhile before the younger folk had to get home to bed…kinda ironic, eh? The Wife and I headed downtown as we were supposed to meet a friend after the Mike Doughty concert at the Aquatennial; unfortunately, when we got there, we realized how damn hot it was, and how true it is that downtown is warmer than the burbs; even worse than the terrace at 2021, the pavement was just radiating! So after trying to cool off inside, The Wife was having a little trouble and we decided to call it a nite…

Anyway, Saturday was spent outside yet again, on yet the hottest day so far, 97 and high humidity, but luckily the wind was gusting rather heavily so contrary to what the weatherman say, a breeze is a breeze and we were kept cool enough to not melt away. We were at a park pavilion in Golden Valley, so luckily shade saved us as well…ironically there was a wedding party going on at the other pavilion; sorry, but if you are going to hold your wedding in mid-July, it should be law that you must have a reception with air-conditioning available. Those suits and dresses must have sucked really bad!

Saturday nite and Sunday were spent doing not much, a little work for myself, as The Wife had a big project to finish up before Monday of her own. Although I did catch the best of Christoper Walken on SNL, which of course the 2nd skit was of him as Bruce Dickinson, uttering the famous quote:

Guess what? I got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more cowbell!

And a legendary band was made!

Deja-vu, the third time this ‘skit’ has come up in the past week…ha, ha! I just found a copy of the transcript online…

end of boring rant…move on, nothing else to see here (yet)