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02/09/2026 to 02/15/2026
Badge Numbers 🚔, Dive Team Training, Valentine’s Day ❤️

I had the day off on Thursday so I drove over to the DRPD to drop off some additional paperwork. Chief Justin “Judd” Evans (261) congratulated me on passing all the hiring requirements and informed me my badge number will be 268 (“Two Sixty-Eight”). I've had a few MN badge numbers throughout my career. My LE Academy Cadet badge number was 004, Park Ranger 574 at Itasca State Park, 160 for both Echo PD & Granite Falls PD, 914 for Yellow Medicine SO, 110 for Canby PD, and 474 for the dive team. Mathematical significance of all seven, they are all composite and even:)

On Saturday, we had Dive Team pool training. I Partnered with Tom2 and we alternated practicing locating target and then deploying body bag. We also used and practiced with hardline comms. There was only four divers, Nathan and Jon were also there. SAR practiced using the ROV.

For Valentine’s Day dinner we ate at The Pines. All three of us ordered off of the Prix Fixe Menu and between the three of us, we tried everything except for the NY Strip. 😋

TO BEGIN
Mini Popovers with Umami Butter

FIRST
Wedge Salad
Ama Blu cheese dressing, house-made bacon lardon, red onion, confit cherry tomatoes

SECOND - CHOICE OF
Tiffany - Shrimp Bisque: mirepoix, cabbage, cream, chili oil
Isaiah - Pork Belly: smoked & braised, wilted greens, mustard seed, braising liquid reduction, pickled chili
Andrew - Gourmet Chicken Nuggets: with sauces! (optional caviar add on)

THIRD - CHOICE OF
6 oz NY Strip: caramelized mushroom and onion, whipped potato, beef jus
Tiffany and Isaiah - Chilean Seabass: shellfish sauce, clams, roasted squash, lemon
Andrew - Tortellini: mushrooms, spinach, brodo, parmesan

FOURTH - CHOICE OF (to share)
New York Cheesecake & strawberries
Chocolate 4 Ways

✍️ Quote For the Week 📖

Rhetoric vs. Substance

When you’re weak on the facts,

Bang on the law;

When you’re weak on the law,

Bang on the facts;

When you’re weak on both,

Bang on the table.

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