My fourth time at Bentleyville 2025

This is my hot chocolate and cookie.

This is my roasted marshmallows.

This is the Aerial Lift Bridge, looking east from Bentleyville.

Why water & a lightning bolt don’t mix well in a D&D game

In a D&D game that I didn’t play in, but heard about in my University of Minnesota, Duluth gaming club; another party, played by students, was wading through a wide, yet shallow river.  They left their horses, supply wagon, and their hireling teamster behind them on dry land.  The party’s leader (fighter) saw a group of bandits charging at them from the opposite riverbank.  He told their party members to use their ranged attacks.  The clueless wizard, instead of using fireball or magic missile, cast a lightning bolt.

The lightning bolt killed all the low level and low hit point bandits.  But, the lightning bolt also spread across the river, killing half of the party members, and dropping the survivors for most of their health points.  The players who had their characters die because of “friendly fire” dislike the player who played the clueless wizard.

I found a green snow sled on the south side of Superior Street

This sled was beside the now abandoned Superior Street, Duluth Transit Authority bus station.  I wonder why this sled is here.  I wonder why this sled is filled with so many dissimilar objects.  I wonder who is going to clean up this junk.

Fourth floor King Manor water fountain is also a trash can

Who can’t find a trash can, or have the energy to bring their trash back their apartment.

Closed or Open this Friday

I found this sign on the North Pointe Resource Center that says “Closed” on Friday.

Yet, on the bulletin board in the same room as this poster I found another poster that says “Open” on Friday.

This confusing mistake on the December 2025 calendar makes it hard to know if the North Pointe Resource Center is closed or open.

Headless in Duluth

I see another pigeon has become a meal for the hawks.

I saw Avatar: Fire and Ash

Avatar:  Fire and Ash hit me in the feels so hard that I shed a few tears!  This movie has the strongest emotional impact in the Avatar franchise, so far.