Our worst fears have been realized...

Not long ago I was excited about crossing the 1700 barrier in Scrabulous rating. How modest I was.

In hindsight, I wish I hadn't googled 'pudendum'.

Wisconsin News

MSN may have the 3rd highest average ticket price but I bet it has at least the 3rd most convienient bike rack also. Madison isn't exactly an airline hub of sorts, so it's not surprising that its flights aren't cheap. But how is Cincinnati #1? Doesn't a Delta hub do anything for you? Also, Atlantic City's average is only $100. But you can only fly to Florida (and possibly beautiful central Delaware), which isn't really that useful.

Milwaukee is revealed as the most coupon clipping-est city in the country (40% of adults say they do it). Followed closely by Rochester, NY (38%). The article correlates this to unusually high readership of Sunday newspapers in these cities. Which makes sense, but why is Sunday paper readership in these cities so high to start with? That's what I want to know.

"Working"

Instead of going back to Madison yesterday with Tommy and spending time at my job today, I stayed in Milwaukee, played a marathon round of Apples to Apples outside, bought 5 types of cheeses from Metro Market, and took Kermit to Cans. Today I went to Katie's "job" instead of mine and pretended like I was responsible enough to watch a 6 year old and an 8 year old all day long. Within 10 minutes of meeting these little ankle-biters I had been labeled Mr. Green Leprechaun. Five minutes later I had the following conversation:


David: Mr. Green Leprechaun, can Tori come to the pool?
Me: You're going to have to ask Katie that. Katie's in charge.
David: No, God's in charge.
Me: (surprised) You're right. But I don't think he'll respond in time for this.
David: No, God's dead.
Tori: No he's not. He's in heaven.

Sears Bears (it doesn't rhyme)

At the start, our Sears Photo Technician seemed a little uncomfortable with 7 grown men coming in for a family portrait. She got over it. As will you. There are already plans to hang some 8x10s in the Piano Bar, maybe in the bathroom, but maybe over the bar. Where will you hang yours? If we come visit and it's not on display we will be upset. An interesting note: despite the fact that the plan was ugly sweaters, you may recognize several of the sweaters being worn from such events as Sweater Thursday '07-'08. Because, obviously, these are just part of my regular sweater rotation. And I'm OK with that.


The complete photo shoot:

Bears at Sears

We went to Sears...

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