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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What the fuck. You make that easy touchdown and you're up by 12. Take the fucking points.

dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yet on the safety front, it's an entirely different beast to navigate an 80,000# tractor/trailer than a car. Our driver pool is 2/3 daytime, delivery and pickup drivers, and 1/3 linehaul. I don't see AV's replacing the P&D drivers, there's just too much human interaction required.

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it's boring, it's nighttime and that's why we pay so well, still don't have enough drivers, and it's not just us. the whole industry is short drivers. But that's the first place I think you'll see autonomous commercial vehicles, these nighttime, interstate only runs. clearly no mfgs are there

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i'm a manager at an LTL trucking company and I'm waiting to see how AV enters into the commercial vehicle market. First, we can't hire enough driver to run night over the road drivers. we pay around $100k a year but it means you run MSP to Des Moines or Madison or Fargo and come back, every night.

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

that makes sense I guess? I'm gonna have to do a bit more research in the Maplewood City council election this year, I've known Marylee Abrams since her kid and my kid were in Cub Scouts together about 25 years ago...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I never really thought Kathy J was a Republican, that's kind of a weird grouping on the right pic...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

slightly past first tier and probably on the wrong side of town, but there's a car wash on 96 and Hodgson Rd in Shoreview that does full service, was about $40 a couple of months ago. don't recall the name at the moment, it's in front of the Kowalski's.

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we just got back, drove the Sawbill Trail in Tofte up to the Honemoon Trail, took that to Hwy 4 to get back to 61 in Lutsen. colors were amazing, I posted pics here Monday night...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some more leaf pics from the Honeymoon Trail, which is on the back/west side of the Sawtooth Mountains west of Tofte/Lutsen

The Honeymoon Trail showing a bright fall color collage

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We took Sawbill to Honeymoon Trail and then down to Lutsen. Skip work tomorrow and drive up, and hope the rain holds off.

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now that we're back in our hotel in Duluth and have charged up my phone a bit, whomever of y'all that said to head to the west side of the Tofte/Lutsen mountains for fall colors was absolutely correct. Leaf colors were amazing.

We have red and orange leaf colors popping in the foreground, and in the hills in the background, a wave of fall colors.

The back of a road sign is a bit distracting from the red and orange hillside behind the road

A dirt road with a vibrant canopy of fall
colors

More vibrant leaf colors over a dirt road in northern Minnesota

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Up in Duluth for our Anniversary weekend, caught a big boat leaving the Duluth harbor...

Pic of a large laker leaving the Duluth harbor, the lift bridge is up

That same big boat going into lake Superior, there's a full moon with a little bit of reflection on the lake

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also found Woodbury on SD's list, but wikipedia didn't list any history on England's, and check out the highlighted bit here, it's a suburb just like ours... (15)

snip of the Wikipedia entry on Woodbury England, highlighting a bit that it's 7 miles southeast of the city of Exeter, eerily similar to MN's Woodury's position to Saint Paul...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also (and I'm assuming this is correct from the appearance on the list, no personal knowledge) Andover is listed under New York's list, but not ours, so I'm up to 13...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Somehow Chester lists for MA but not MN, so there's 12...

snip of a google map showing the small town of Chester MN, east of Rochester MN on US-14

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

a lot less moshing on the dance floor this time around, nice of us to care about not breaking each other's hips...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was at last Saturday's Minneapolis show and there was just a sea of gray hair and bald heads in front of me... speaking of 33rd reunion, here's my 1993 ticket stub from the same venue...

beat up ticket stub from the Sugar show on April 29th, 1993 at First Avenue, Minneapolis

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

not displeased this aged poorly, lol

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

PLENTY of time left for the Vikes to fuck this up....

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

you have me playing now too... (and no, I can't beat you) I found a Rarity-67 word worth 88 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 776 points · 10 rare words. 2 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/DSDGZX

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Getting excited for the big show tonight, pretty sure I won't be the only grey haired guy there that also saw them forever ago...

A ticket stub from 33 years ago, Sugar at First Avenue, April 29, 1993.

A screen shot of my phone with my digit tickets for Tonight's Sugar concert at First Avenue

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Vadnais Heights FD doing their annual 9-11 thing over 694 in Shoreview...

Two fire trucks on the Victoria St bridge over 694, one of which is a ladder truck with the ladder extended, hanging a big US Flag. Yep, it's 9/11.

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh I know, this was more of a "holy crap twenty eight dollars for two whole chickens" while ignoring the, uh, $1600 in grilling equipment in that pic, lol

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is just like when I started home brewing 25 years ago and spent a couple of grand on equipment to "save money" on beer...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Two already cooked rotisserie chickens from Sam's Club, $9.96. Two whole raw chickens from the same Sam's Club, that I am rotissing myself? $28.04. follow me for more financial advice.

Here's two chickens that I seasoned and put on a rotisserie skewer to cook for dinner. On my recteq xfire and a motorized rotisserie.

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Gonna spatchcock a Ferndale turkey on my (recteq) pellet grill next weekend, tell me your whole turkey cooking tips and tricks.

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

EVERY TIME i talk myself into thinning out my electronics/cables/parts collection I get reminded I shouldn't have. I tossed two digital/analog TV converters a couple of years ago... (I probably still have a 75 ohm antenna around somewhere though...)

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My bank once asked me to rate my experience at their ATM. Uh, no I will not.

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And if it was a true Catholic service (of any sort) it was almost exactly an hour long....

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'll be pleasantly surprised to be wrong about this..

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Has our shithead prez said something offensive about Dolly yet? I mean, it's inevitable...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

when I rusted hole in the bottom of my beloved offset charcoal grill/smoker this spring, I replaced it with a Recteq combo pellet grill, does both smoking and grilling and does both extremely well. Spendy, but honestly my grilling is better than the charcoal was. highly recommend it. (xfire 825)

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Dammit for an edit button. Just the first song, not whatever possibly dumb playlist yt generated...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I've loved this ever since a college hallmate burst out of his dorm all pissed off that "they can't cover The Boss!" (After blasting "relax" nonstop for weeks before the album came out) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Not sure if it's OWG coded, but I bought myself a fancy-assed pellet grill for my 60th and now I am spending weekends smoking all the meats...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Good morning to everyone except the orb weaver spider that spun a web overnight chest high across my sliding glass door frame, walking into that when letting Sadie out while not quite awake was a great way to invigorate my morning. I know spiders are beneficial and all that, but NOT COOL dude.

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think I have something like that for a 15 year old Nikon dslr to hook up to a monitor...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I found one of the four I currently have tucked in the pouch behind the seat of my wife's van. I had put it there for a road trip. Also found another one in the back of the same van, put there for a different road trip...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

They had a scheduled armor car pickup three times a day, and there was between one and two million dollars of cash for each of those pickups. At 25 I didn't think that was enough to live on the lam for the rest of my life, but thinking was done, lol...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Back in the early 90's I worked at a bank that ran a branch there inside the fair for two weeks. They handled an unbelievable amount of cash back then, the arcades would buy quarters in thousand dollar bags, vendors would carry their cash to deposit in KS95 bags so they looked like everyone else...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

this sounds like a business opportunity, rent fake roofing company signs to people. ten bucks for two months, keep the fly-by-nighters at bay...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I also do them infrequently enough that it takes me longer to figure out where the hell Excel moved it to on the menus than to actually build a pivot table...

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

not going to work is still a vacation.

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dan'o lantern @dan-prokosch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My mom has Alzheimers and is in a private care center, and it's still a mountain of work to manage, and luckily she has money. I can't imagine trying to manage this via county social work. You have my admiration...

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