Looking FORE!-ward

Last night the Mounds View city council voted 4-1 to let Medtronic go ahead with building a new campus for their cardiac rhythm management operations on a site currently occupied by a little 62-acre golf course (called The Bridges), where 35W and 10 come together.

Since this site is only 10 minutes or so from my house, it will definitely be tempting to take look at possible employment opportunities there. The paper said building could start this fall, and be complete some time in 2007. I have another year of school left anyway, so the timing might be right then.

Medtronic builds cardiac medical devices like pacemakers and implantable heart defibrillator, and more relevant to me, the software that runs them, and supports all that, etc... We'll see.

Last night some strong storms blew through, heading to the NE. Typical summer storm, a day of heat and humidity, combined with a cold front crashing in, and presto, nasty storms. I heard one report on the news that a two-foot diameter tree on the St. Olaf campus blew over. Blaine dodged the worst of it. The western suburbs got a ton of rain in a short time. The sirens went off for a little bit. John was a little distressed, and was glad when Mom got home around 7:00 pm. Hanna liked pointing out she wasn't scared.