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January 16, 2012 - Jak se maj! Happy Monday everyone! Well, I doubt its a very happy Monday here in Packerland, but you do what you can...
Can't believe it, but I forgot to mention another birthday this week. My blonde sister turns another page this week so if you see her, be sure to buy her a drink and wish her a great day! Happy Birthday Connie!!!
Also, Happy MLK Day to all... No bunny hunting today, but I do have visions of rabbits in my head...
Back to your regularly scheduled programming...
curtamous
January 15, 2012 - Jak se maj! Packers lose... What a HUGE bummer... Pretty hard to believe, but when I saw that Hail Mary touchdown to end the half, I knew it wasn't to be... Twice Hail Mary passes doomed the Badgers (well, the OSU game wasn't really a Hail Mary, but you know what I mean) and it was an omen too hard to ignore... Plus the Packers played really poorly... Too bad after a GREAT season... Well, here's to Next Year!!!
With the loss, not much of an update...
But I do want to make a shout out to the BBC Comptroller who celebrates his birthday tomorrow... Adam, Happy Birthday and have yourself a great day!
Adam's birthday also marks the anniversary of Ma and Pa Nelson... Or is it the other way around? Anyway, they would have been married... Let's see... Well, a LOT of years...
Got a funny story from the Librarian this week... Figured I better post it before I forget...
As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man.
He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Kentucky back country.
As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost and, being a typical man, I didn't stop for directions.
I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggers and crew
left and they were eating lunch.
I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn't know what else to do, so I started to play.
The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends.I played like I've never played before for this homeless man.
And as I played 'Amazing Grace,' the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished I packed up my bagpipes and
started for my car. Though my head hung low, my heart was full.
As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, "I never seen nothin' like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for
twenty years."
Not even hard to believe... Especially from an Irishman...
In case you're REALLY down about the Packers, I better post th drink menu for the week...
16 US Prohibition begins (1920). AKA What the Hell Were We Thinking Day.
Rum Runner.
17 Benjamin Franklin’s Birthday (1706). “Beer is proof that God loves us.”
Anchor Liberty Ale.
18 Festival of Women as Cultivators (Persian). Bet the ladies were excited about this one.
Farmer’s Cocktail
1/2 oz dry vermouth
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
1 oz gin
2 dashes bitters
Stir ingredients with ice, strain.
19 Neon advertising sign patented (1889). Never again would drunks wonder, “Is that a bar?”
The first alcohol you see advertised in neon.
20 International Hat Day. Your chance to finally wear that fedora in public.
Mad Hatter
1 oz vodka
1 oz peach schnapps
1 oz lemonade
1 oz Coca-Cola
Shake with ice, strain.
21 National Hugging Day. Don’t forget to hug your toilet at the end of the night.
Get acquainted with the liquor you hate the most.
22 Lord Byron’s Birthday (1788). “Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
Brandy.
With the way I feel after today's loss, there's not a one that doesn't look good... But I hope the streak ends before Saturday... I REALLY hope not to get mixed up with any Extra Sharp Ginger Brandy...
But I may go try one of those "Farmer Cocktails" after I'm done posting this update... A day early, but who's counting...?
Hope it snows this week so I can play with the snowblower some more... Maybe that will take the "sting" away... Otherwise its just work, work, work...
You know what? I'm out of here... But before I go, a few words of wisdom for the junior members...
“You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you might find
You get what you need..."
~ Rolling Stones
"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love." ~ Martin Luther King Jr
The
MLK quote, especially since its MLK Day tomorrow, is certainly more
appropriate...
As Red would say, "Keep your stick on the ice"!
curtamous
