Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Tuesday January 29, 2013  Minnesota Daily:  City Council member Gary Schiff will run for mayor of Minneapolis, largely on his record of support for small business.  The story notes that some members of the business community give him low marks because of his opposition to a tax-supported Vikings (American football) stadium.  Two reasons for me to vote for him.

I don't want governments subsidizing professional sports.  Not with taxes, not with any kind of bonds, not etc.  I generally support fewer regulations and restrictions on small businesses; but unlike Ayn Rand and other big-spending advocates, I don't support government subsidization of big business.

***Magus Books.  Bought T. M. Luhrmann, Persuasions of the Witch's Craft:  Ritual Magic in Contemporary England.  I'd decided I needed my own copy.

Also two stones to use for meditation focus.

Magus sells books and other stuff for Pagans.  I'm an agnostic and a materialist.  (I'm not an atheist mostly because I think being certain there is no God or gods would require godlike powers.)  But some things work, even if the theories behind their use are false.

On to Southeast Library.  Picked up book on hold:  The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability.

***Met with my ACA sponsor at Muddsuckers Coffee.  [ACA:  Adult Children of Alcoholic and Otherwise Dysfunctional Families.]

Monday, January 28, 2013

Monday December 31, 2012  New Year's Eve

Moving to a new neighborhood means relearning travel habits.  In my case, becoming familiar with new regular bus routes.  Plus knowing when the most convenient light rail stop is less convenient because there's a Vikings game (American football.)

Getting to the Mnstf New Years Eve party at Richard Tatge and Sharon Kahn's was easy but tedious.  Easy:  the #3 and #18 buses both run frequently.  Tedious:  the #18 runs on Nicollet Avenue, which goes through Downtown Minneapolis.  On New Year's Eve, Downtown is congested. 

Partial compensation:  I'm near the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus, and students ride the #3.  Some female students wear skirts or near-skirts shorter than 1960s miniskirts, and have the figures for it.  (Unlike the 1960s, they also wear tights or some equivalent.  Sometimes people do get smarter over the decades.)

It was a good party.  (Quieter than what many people would consider necessary to a party.)