I, Muehlenhaus. U, Riedermaus.

So last weekend Birgit and I spent two-and-a-half days straight ripping our entire CD collection onto our external hard drive, sorting out CDs we never want to listen to again, posting these CDs to Half.com (our user name is ianoas on there if you want to support our cause and buy one), weeding out more books that we will never read again or never read to begin with, posting those on half.com, digging through old toys and other cheap, brittle plastic things in our basement and posting those online to eBay and... well, the picture summarizes our success. In the first weekend, and note we were posting these things throughout the weekend, we sold 20 things for over $100. Of course, Birgit lost $40 she took out from the ATM on Saturday night, and it cost $30 to ship everything... but still, weeding out scored us a $30 profit. Okay, only $12 after taxes. I still think the state deserves its share; so no worries. We've all seen what happens when you drive on bridges and don't pay your taxes. What?

Went up to UMD yesterday for GIS day. Scott Freundschuh invited a bunch of alums up. It was great meeting up with my old cohort and seeing where they wound up. Most of us are in Minnesota working with maps. One works with bears or something in a park. The students up there are still as cool as ever. They were very laid back, chill, and talking shit with the profs like nothing. It was great to roam the halls of my old stomping grounds and see Duluthians do geography again.

Hung out with Adam last weekend. Good times. Bullwinkles is the best bar at Seven Corners, though their popcorn is so salty that the next day my entire throat was raw and I sounded like Tom Waits.

Birgit and I are hooked on Lost. Almost through season two. I've never been suck(er)ed in by a show like this. It's intense!

That's all. Nothing really great to write about. Started my first pilot study of content analysis for my dissertation. Kicked it off with an anti-Nazi map. I'll post that too, just for ceremonial purposes. Prost!