Old Matt Zaske Blog

So today was day #1 of just Dad and Kirstin at home — no Mom to be had. It was a good day; things went really smoothly and just really good overall. This is mostly because Kirstin slept a lot throughout the day, so I had several opportunities to work on non-Kirstin things. I won’t…

So there aren’t many posts left until the magic #100 is made here. Not too bad as far as things go; of course being much easier to post via this medium is why I still do it as frequently as I do. Well, it was Beth’s first day back at work since Kirstin was born,…

You know, it’s not very often that I’m really, truly surprised by weather and its power. Today was one of those days, however. You see, we had what seemed to be like hurricane-force winds pretty much from the time I wrote the last post (last night before midnight in which I wrote about the grill…

It never really ceases to amaze me how the weather in Minnesota can be. For that matter, the weather anywhere, but I happen to live in Minnesota so I choose to pick on it. We’ve had a really dreary day again today. It’s rained off-and-on throughout the day, but been overcast and very windy throughout…

So I never would have expected the day to turn out quite the way it did today. For starters, I arrived at work to discover that the power to our building (and a good portion of the West side of the block) was out. And had been for about an hour and a half (at…