"Warm" Weather

Today it got up to 37 degrees. Which sadly by Minnesota standards is rather warm. Many people used it as an excuse to spend the day outdoors, me included.

The picture with the bridge in the background is a view of the Mississippi from the south side of the city looking north.

The other is a picture of the frozen Minnehaha Falls.

The Dewey Decimal System: Not good enough for Minneapolis

In grade school I was taught that the Dewey Decimal System was a cornerstone of life in America. Without it, there would be no order to the vast sea of information available to me at my public library.

Today I realized why I have spent hours wandering through the non-fiction section at the Minneapolis Library, never finding what I was looking for: Everything is organized by the Library of Congress Classification. Instead of books on knitting falling in the predictable 740s they fall under some bizarre code called TT.

However, I am stuck in Minnesota now, because I just ordered personalized Minnesota license plates with the letters ECLAIRE. I will just have to learn this foreign language at the library.