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An Aase State of Mind
That’s the headline from this story in today’s Austin Daily Herald about basketball in my hometown, and about our family’s history (and hopefully future) of participating in Minnesota’s state high school basketball tournament. Here’s an excerpt: Austin center Joe Aase knows all about his dad Lee’s history on the basketball court. He knows he went [...]
Posted in Personal Tagged basketball, Joe Aase, Lee Aase, Minnesota, Rebekah Aase, State Tournament 2 Comments
Packers’ Highlights and an 80s Flashback
The red-and-white Packers from Austin had a better weekend than the green-and-gold ones from Wisconsin. The Austin boys traveled to Rochester for a game with Century High Friday night, and both team entered the game tied for first place in the Big Nine conference with just one loss. Here is the late Friday Sports Extra [...]
More Video Fun: The Alley Oop
In follow-up Social Media 220: How to Customize Your YouTube Player, in which I showed how to tailor your users’ experience of the embedded YouTube player using this tool, here’s a fun personal video. Last night the Austin Packers basketball team, on which my son Joe and nephew Tom are starters, had the largest margin [...]
Holiday Greetings
Ever since I started this blog, I’ve used it as my Christmas Letter 2.0, instead of bothering with the cost and hassle of snail mail. Besides, with my celiac disease diagnosis, I can’t lick envelopes anymore, lest I get some gluten in the paste. It’s great to take time in this season to reflect on [...]



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