Tuesday, April 30, 2024

I saw Kung Fu Panda 4!


Kung Fu Panda 4 is well worth the $6.53 that I spent to watch it.  The message of learning that change is a good thing allowed Po to grow into an even greater person than he was at the start of the movie.  This important message is accepting change is what I needed to hear now.


What I found at the Superior Street - Lakeview 333 Apartments construction site, part 5


Even today, the Plymouth dealership sign is still standing!


What is posted on King Manor’s fifth floor bulletin board for April 30, 2024?


I see new posters are posted on this King Manor bulletin board.


Monday, April 22, 2024

King Manor “Resident” Club Meeting


This poster on the last post is hard to read.  Thus, I reposted this poster here.


By the way, I didn’t realize that my King Manor has just one resident!  Or, do you think that every King Manor resident is a Star Trek Borg?  That sign should read, “King Manor Residents Club Meeting”.


What is posted on King Manor, fourth floor bulletin board for April 22, 2024?


I hope all my readers are having a Happy Earth Day 2024!


Track maintenance of way (MOW) equipment at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum


I wonder why that MOW equipment is here.


Sunday, April 21, 2024

What I found at the Superior Street - Lakeview 333 Apartments construction site, part 4


The Plymouth dealership sign is still standing!


I made Pizza Toast


I made my pizza toast using buttered Super One Foods ® Wheat - Rustic Ciabatta Buns, with VIP Pizza and Dipping Sauce, Kraft® Signature Restaurant Style Melt – Mozzarella Blend, and then Sugardale ® Pepperoni for toppings.


I found 2 more d20s


I now own 28d20 dice.  This may not be all of them, as I have another purple dice bag that I can’t find.


Tuesday, April 16, 2024

I made more pizza toast!


I made my pizza toast using buttered Super One Foods ® Hearth Baked French Bread, with VIP Pizza and Dipping Sauce, Kraft® Signature Restaurant Style Melt – Mozzarella Blend, and then Armour ® Pepperoni for toppings.


Sunday, April 14, 2024

What is posted on King Manor’s fifth floor bulletin board for April 14, 2024?


Are you able to find the two ponies on the April calendar?


Pizza bagels, take 2


Everybody who has eaten my pizza bagels has loved my tasty treats!


Today, I made pizza bagels


I made my pizza bagels using 1st National Bagel Company ® Egg bagels, with VIP Pizza and Dipping Sauce, Kraft® Signature Restaurant Style Melt – Mozzarella Blend, and then Armour ® Pepperoni for toppings.


What is posted on King Manor - fourth floor bulletin board for April 14, 2024?


Similar to March, some old posters have disappeared, while new posters have taken their place.


Did you find the bunny and pony on the North Pointe Resource Center/Rainbow Center calendar poster?


What I found at the Superior Street - Lakeview 333 Apartments construction site, part 3


As the Voyageur Lakewalk Inn was built in 1960, local author Paul Lundgren’s best guess is that the sign was painted for a Plymouth dealership in use during the 1950’s.  The first line on that sign is “The BIGGEST DEAL IN TOWN”.  According to Duluth Freelance writer Michael Creger the second line is “Come in and look us over”.


Thursday, April 11, 2024

Today, I made Pizza Toast


I made my pizza toast using Super One Foods San Francisco Bay – Sour Dough Bread, with VIP Pizza and Dipping Sauce, Crystal Farms ® Mozzarella, and Armour ® Pepperoni for toppings.


Yesterday, I saw construction crews assembling the tower crane for building the future Lakeview Apartments.


This is the Lakeview Apartments tower crane base.



This is the entire crane.  The crane is located in the area for a future Lakeview Apartments elevator shaft.


Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Today, I made Pizza Toast


I made my pizza toast using Super One Foods San Francisco Bay – Sour Dough Bread, with Classico ® Traditional Pizza Sauce, Crystal Farms ® Mozzarella, and Armour ® Pepperoni for toppings.


Tuesday, April 9, 2024

A University of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD) Beta Lambda Psi pancake & waffle fundraiser


My two dollars got me good food at an honest price.


National Unicorn Day on April 9th


National Unicorn Day on April 9th each year celebrates the mythical horse-like creature with a single, pointed horn growing from the center of its forehead.


Monday, April 8, 2024

Succubane is another webcomic masterpiece!


According to the author, “Monster girls are trying to kill me! I’ve been thrown into a fantasy world, bonded to a magical weapon, and now a holy warrior wolf girl is demanding I hunt demons, or die! The sexy succubi want the weapon, and my soul!”


I found a hopeful message at the Downtown Duluth Public Library


And God loves you as well!


Vision boards, also known as dream boards, at the North Pointe Resource Center / Rainbow Center


For a number of beneficial reasons, for myself and my fellow residents; I hope our North Pointe Resource Center has more events for both residents and visitors alike!


Saturday, April 6, 2024

Master of Aomoda is a masterpiece

Master of Aomoda
Master of Aomoda

According to the author, “After finding an old, illegal fantasy book within a hidden, walled-off nursery in a university's library, a middle-schooler named Kevin, his newly-freed talpa-like horse friend named Ecco, and the former's delinquent gang must plot the overthrow of Colossus Belga and his global regime. Inspired by the many works of Osamu Tezuka.”  Master of Aomoda needs to become an animated series!  ( ͡° ͜Ê– ͡°)


Friday, April 5, 2024

What I found at the Superior Street construction site, part 2


The wall, this mystery hand painted sign is on, is being reinforced with tie-back anchors.  Decades from now, an archaeologist will find this mystery sign, and then wonder why it was painted on this wall.


Thursday, April 4, 2024

A University of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD) Beta Lambda Psi pancake & waffle fundraiser


I encourage Duluth and Superior citizens as well as visitors to purchase their pancakes & waffles on April 8th, 9th, and 10th, 2024.


Monday, April 1, 2024

April Fools' Day Pizza Toast


On this All Fools' Day, I made my pleasing pizza using Super One Foods Hearth Baked Italian Bread, with Classico ® Traditional Pizza Sauce, Crystal Farms ® 6 Cheese Italian, and Hormel ® Pepperoni Minis for toppings.


Revised: Magic Mark

Spell Name: Magic Mark


School: Enchantment

 

Casting Time: 1 Minute (Ritual)

 

Range: 60 feet

 

Duration: Until dispelled

 

Component: V, S

 

You gesture at a number of objects you can see within range that fit within a 15-foot radius sphere. This spell puts an invisible mark upon the objects that reveals itself when in the area of a detect magic spell.  You choose the design of the mark, and can mark up to 30 Tiny objects, 20 Small objects, 10 Medium objects, or 2 Large objects.

 

At Higher Levels: Whenever you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd-level or higher you can mark up to 15 additional Tiny objects, 10 additional Small objects, 5 additional Medium objects, or 1 additional Large object for every slot level above 1st.



An example of this spell happened in my D&D campaign.  The Mayor of a large seaport city was suspected of treasonous collaboration with a Lawful Evil Queen Goldstein Maul that ruled an oppressed land named “Iron Isle”, so named for the profitable iron mines on the island.  By deceit and treachery, she gained ownership of these iron mines; selling refined iron to evil aligned nations to create useful tools, armor, and weapons.  Queen Goldstein Maul would not sell iron to any good aligned nations.

Harper agents found out that the Lord Mayor was getting richer far faster than his income would normally allow him to be.  Harper agents already knew from the evidence they collected that the Mayor is a smooth-talking liar whose name is “Goodheart Truesdale”.

Thus, the Harpers sent my PCs disguised as tax collectors who sneaked into the Iron Isle.  With tax collector uniforms and believable appearing, yet faked documents; they found a caravan of wagons used by national Queen Maul’s tax collectors.  They were given permission by the caravan guards and low ranking tax collectors to inspect the tax money that they had collected.  In the wagons, my PCs marked many of the gold coins collected with the coin marking spell.

After a few months, in the PCs home nation, they asked to see the Mayor’s private home vault; with an excuse to find counterfeit coins.  When they cast detect magic on the coins, a few lit up with the now visible symbol.

The Mayor, without a logical excuse as to why he had the marked coins from the Iron Isle, confessed that he was working with thieves, along with the evil queen, to sell his city’s citizens into slavery to work the mines of the Iron Isle.  After the Mayor was sent to prison, the nearby good aligned nations invaded the Iron Isle.  The night before the invasion, my PCs burned six large catapults that guarded the island’s only harbor, Maritime City.  The invasion successfully liberated the island from Queen Goldstein Maul.

These successful adventures gave my player characters a great deal of fun, experience points and money, while gaining much positive fame (useful for charisma [persuasion] checks) from good people and their leaders; while gaining infamy with evil people and their rulers.