Four Baggers and Foreclosures

Hey... This isn’t the story I spent the end of August working on! That story about two Twins games, the ongoing baseball card sorting project, and a few new cards arriving from eBay, may or may not ever be finished. Basically because I’m really not in the mood to write it anymore. I'm in the mood to write a story about the recently closed Red Lobster in Maple Grove, MN! But I'll get to that in a bit... Dedicated readers may remember that my Macintosh Powerbook G4 took a dump on me a few weeks ago. Which isn’t unexpected, because early next year this machine will be legally old enough to drink. Given its age, I am frequently backing up my work, so I wouldn't lose anything if the hard drive needed to be wiped. Main problem being exactly how do I bring it back to life? I talked to my boss at my Macintosh using place of employment, described what was going on with the machine, what I’ve already attempted to bring it back and what my best options are. He said that my best solut...

Mile High Market is just part of this story. Which is a continuation of the story I posted a couple of weeks ago, about Watson’s Memorials . An abandoned headstone engraver in east Denver, that closed abruptly and screwed its customers over. Today I'm going to cover another leg of that day's travels. East on Colfax Avenue, from the heart of downtown Denver, to the merge with I-70, in Aurora. It’s now been over six years since I moved out of Colorado. So this is another of my exercises in alleviating that never ending homesickness. Remembering what I saw when I was last there, then looking at what has changed since then.  Not all of these photos are from July 25, 2017. I may have not gotten a clear shot that day, or had a better one from other drives. But these are some of the landmarks I recognized each time I was on that road, and the stories I feel like telling about them.  In my last story, I mentioned driving north on Lincoln Street, to make a right turn on Colfax, at the ...