Out with old, in with the new!

I’m still find these 2017 King Manor Buy a Basket posters, taking these down to be recycled, and then posting the new 2018 posters in the place.

I need to keep reminding myself that to earn a career as a visual artist that I must create visual art.

A sad Minnesota Vikings fan!

I’m sure that I’m not the first to imply that Twilight Sparkle is a Minnesota Vikings fan!

I got free, colored light for my photograph

I put my hand before the flash, thus the light became a pale pink by reflecting off my palm.  I did not realize that I could make my photograph pink until I took my photograph.  Can I create additional colors in my photography by reflecting my flash off of other colored surfaces?

Sunrise over Lake Superior

This is a picture of a January 9, 2018 morning taken on the fifth floor of King Manor, looking southwest.

Observe a King Manor, fourth floor vending machine with stuck chips!

I have never before seen these rotating spirals so misaligned, one spiral above the other.  I wonder how often this happens to food vending machines like these.

Some resident might receive two or three bags of chips for the price of one dollar.

This appears to me to be street dancing in Team Fortress 2

I like the way the ragdolls can fly in Team Fortress 2’s digital air.

Team Fortress 2 game

On a cold winter's night with dangerous will chills, I love to enjoy a Team Fortress 2 game.  OK, I didn’t actually win a real gold medal.  But, I did earn the top score in this Team Fortress 2 game.

I knocked these two bots into the next map.

I was surprised that I was able to knock these enemy bots through a closed, overhead door and into the next map.  This door opened when the game’s next round started.

I’ve played one of my best Team Fortress 2 games

Yet, I’m still fifty points behind the best computer-controlled bot, taking second place in the game.  I have never seen any bot earn anywhere near nine combat metals in a training game before today.

King Manor Resident’s Club Buy a Basket Food Club for 2018

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”

~ Hippocrates

My proposed CN railroad second track under an existing Interstate 35 bridge

The Canadian National Railway is now double tracking their railroad line from the Steelton yard located in southern Duluth Minnesota northwest to Nopeming Junction.  To finish building the second track, CN senior-level executives are considering building a second bridge over Becks Road, Interstate 35, and Old Highway 61.  However, there is a natural spring where the bridge pier would be in the Interstate 35 highway median.

My solution is to place the second track under the abandoned Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific (DWP) railroad underpass a few hundred feet to the east of the current CN single track bridge.  This underpass could be rebuilt to provide accommodation for both the new CN track and the DWP Trail.

Or, a new pedestrian bridge for the DWP Trail over Interstate 35 could be construction near the existing CN Bridge.  Or, the trail could be build west along Becks Road, under the Interstate 35 - East Highway 61 underpass, and then to Esko, to Scanlon, and ending in Cloquet.  Either option would give trail users a far more accessible and safer place to access the trail than ending the trail behind the Como Oil & Propane parking lot.