School’s out! For summer. And forever. Well, only in that my son won’t be returning to the St. Paul school district. I received a nice message from his case manager yesterday, about how much he had enjoyed my son’s enthusiasm and wit over the past school year. That was nice. But my son and I did not enjoy the ridiculously early start time, the 10:15am lunch or the distance from our previous home. Now we live about a mile from the high school he’ll be attending (HIGH?! school). And they have a much later start with reasonable lunch times. But. Here’s the thing I did not know. School now starts in Minneapolis well before Labor Day. I wish I’d realized sooner. This wound up being a $252 mistake when I had to call to change my son’s flight home from a trip with his grandparents. His original flight had him coming home two days after the first day of school. Oops.
Five items of note for this fine Tuesday:
- Another in my series of flight related eff-ups: MC/VL announce first show in three years. And I will be missing it. Because I’ll be ON A PLANE. If this show had been announced a few days sooner I would have booked my return flight for the day before. Bummmmmer.
- Before And After Pictures Of Detroit Are A Shocking Example Of What Big Government Can Do: “heartbreaking before and after images captured by Google Street View. Reddit user Scarbane compiled images taken every few years of the same location – and the changes are startling“
- Sad news. Rik Mayall, star of The Young Ones, dies aged 56. He was such a funny man. And so much fun to watch, whatever he was in.
- This is pretty ridiculous, but for a good cause I guess: You could die in Game of Thrones for £20,000: George RR Martin is offering Game of Thrones fans the chance to appear in the next novel
- “Renzo Piano Just Dropped a Giant Armadillo in the Middle of Paris” Some more photos here.
This coming weekend I have my first wedding shoot of the year. On the same day as a million and one other things. Like the opening of the Green Line light rail from St. Paul to Minneapolis. And the Stone Arch Bridge Festival. And the Northern Spark overnight art fest. But I will focus on the wedding and if I happen to have any energy left over afterward, so be it. Weddings can be stressful, even if it’s the most amazingly laid back couple ever. There are so many other factors that come into play. Like acts of nature. This is blowing my mind: “An Oregon Couple Rushed Through Their Wedding Because Of A Wildfire And The Photos Are Breathtaking” While the end results are amazing I really hope we don’t have anything like that to contend with on Saturday.
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