Priorities

We tried hiring a freelancer to do some work in Northern Minnesota yesterday. Journalists in Duluth, Ely and St. Cloud were very friendly (of course), but all -- and I mean all -- politely turned us down. Why? Fishing opener, of course. You just don't mess with the chance to be out on the lake catching walleye for the first time this year. Heck, the governor even has his own Web page about it (a little on the small size there, gov).

At first this was a joke around the office, but by the end I was starting to get homesick. Out on the lake, a few beers, trying to land one? I'm not working, either. Check out the video on the right side of this Star Tribune page -- oh yeah, they got the minnows and leeches.

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