Hi, my name is Matt Rude, I’m a 31 year old guy, living in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. I have worked in Information Technology for over 15 years. During that time I have worked for business sectors as diverse as Public Schools to Auto Part to Health Care.What a perfect night out tonight, we should have a fire out back.
I just think this is so cool, below is a picture of a Martian Dust Devel, moving across the Amazonis Planitia region of northern Mars. Quoting NASA:
An afternoon whirlwind on Mars lofts a twisting column of dust more than half a mile (800 meters) high in an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
I’m spending the week at my parents house, taking care of my parents dog, Odin.
So today on my way home, I was driving north on Interstate 35w and got off at the 46th Street exit (as I normally do). Today there was a car stopped on the side of the road, just after the exit. As I came up to the exit, the car moved on to the exit, I slowed down to let him in since he was moving slower then I was at the time. Then, the car in front of me slammed on his breaks and came to a complete stop (still on the exit ramp) and threw his car into reverse. I was able to stop in time (but just barely, as I was going about 65mph at the time), but by the time I had stopped, he was reversing into my car at about ~25 mph (I don’t know, how fast can your car go in reverse). I had just enough time to hit the horn before he hit me. The car backed into me, and took a hard left turn to get back on to Interstate 35w.
Sitting there bewildered of what just happened, I called 911. After I told the dispatcher that I was on the 46th St exit, she told me they had it on video and she was going to transfer me to the person who was working on the case.
So the Minneapolis police had just pulled this drive over when he ran. They were watching him on the camera and waiting for him to make his next move, with cops on the ready. When he stared driving up the exit ramp, he saw the cop at the top waiting for him, so he thought it would be smart to back down the ramp instead.To bad they already have your licensee and know where you live.
The officer said he will arrest the driver late tonight, and they are adding evading the police and hit and run to his charges.
The family had Christmas brunch at my parents house then spent the rest of Christmas day at Linda’s house.
As always, the family had Thanksgiving at the cabin again this year. We also had a new member of the family, Sam Gerten, join us for his first Thanksgiving….
Tonight while we were at the bar, after the show, a guy came up to us and told us that he was proposing to his girlfriend and would like to have a room full of people to watch him, we said sure. So we went into the other room to watch the proposal.
When we went into the other room, he was setting up the stage for something. He then grabbed his girl, went up to the stage and started reading from the bible. After reading First Corinthians, he proposed to her, then started talking about being reborn as a black man. It was interesting to say the least.
Our building had a nice party for Chase, the neighbor kid downstairs, he turned 8. I think he had a fun time, he had a nice DQ ice cream…
This year Kelsey and I went to the fair with our neighbor Jeramiah. We spent about 9 hours at the fair, it was a good, but long day. Here…
