Fairly Conservative

Well, the world caught on. All of those Facebook one-word updates – as colorful or not as they may be – started because of…well, no one exactly knows why.
Oh, because I know you all are dying to find out, the answer is beige. A girlfriend bested me by declaring “nude.”
The best answer I’ve heard all [...]

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All day long.
I love Wisconsin, I love Wisconsin, I love Wisconsin…

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Listen, I wasn’t crazy about 2009. I wasn’t wild about 2008. Maybe 2010 will be my year? In any event, for the three of you still reading, I thought we’d go back through the year and get you to suggest your favorite story.
No doubt the biggest traffic draw was the lawsuit. Whee! Just think, there [...]

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I just found mine!
Two guys are out digging through the trash in their pajamas surrounded by snow. One looks up to the other and asks, “So what are you looking for?” The other says that little brush for a Barbie doll – or something like that.
I think it’s Wal-Mart?
And that’s the problem with me. Sometimes [...]

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Yesterday was lovely. It was slowly paced which suited me just fine. There were a couple of genuine surprises under the tree. Those are fun because they are hard to come by at this stage of the kids’ age.
Favorite practical gift received: Mini mouse with usb stub for the laptop (Thanks Mom and Dad.)
Favorite [...]

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Well, this transition to travel-site owner is clicking right along. Today I unfriended all my political attachments (think “Senate Doctors”) on Facebook and added Sprecher Brewery.
Well? I want to do some brewery tours on the new site. Son #2 has offered to help.
He’s so generous.

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Kyle Prast suggests a trip to the Bethlehem Marketplace.
I also ran across this cute project from The Pioneer Woman.

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Still doing Web site stuff. Listening to the iPod. The spouse hooked up a dock on our main stereo system last weekend. It’s like having my very own radio station.
Just listened to:

which always puts me in a fine, fine mood.
It was, however, followed by Bruce Springsteen singing Mary Queen of Arkansas. Burst that bubble darn [...]

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To prove how behind I am, I typed November in the title above and had to correct it. It can’t be December already. It just can’t!
The usual suspects are predicting we’ll see some measurable snow tonight. I guess I better check the snowblower. You know if I have it all ready to go nothing will [...]

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Unless you’ve been under the magic covers today, you’ll know by now that Tiger Woods, the living legend of golf, has admitted to “transgressions.” Evidently one of them said she had texts and pictures when she talked to the press.
So far this extracurricular activity hasn’t impacted Woods lucrative endorsement income. It’s estimated he made [...]

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