Apr. 5th, 2021

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I have little to report other than the fact that we drove down to New Ulm to finish up my vaccine set on Saturday. New Ulm is no more than 2 hours away, but we left early and did some meandering. We stopped to do a quick stretch in a random lake called Cedar Lake and, of course, took time to see New Ulm's famous statue, "Hermann the German."


statue of a German with sword
Image: statue of a German brandishing a sword.


If you are curious what that German is so mad about, there is a lovely description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Heights_Monument.

New Ulm, despite being a lovely place to me because I was able to get my vaccine there is actually kind of problematic town in general, being fairly central to the US-Dakota War... and sort of on the wrong side against the Nazis, because: Germany. Their mayor was apparently removed by the MN Legislature under the sedition act. However, there is a lovely glockenspiel in town that chimes on the hour and has terrifying animatronic dancing horrors. Several years ago, Mason and I made an impromptu visit to this town just to check it out. (I took a few minutes to re-upload all the photos so that if you go to read it, the images are there.)

Yesterday, I just slept. I didn't think I was effected at first, but then after being awake for an hour or two I conked out hard and basically spent the day in bed. I had a bit of a headache that seemed to be sinus pressure, but otherwise I feel fine. 

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