Football and shopping.

At this point, the Iowa game isn't over but with a score of 35-0 I am calling it done. Especially since I don't get to see the game thanks to the Big Ten Network. Although I am happy with the win, I am looking toward next week for the Iowa vs. Iowa State game. I don't have tickets to the game but I will find a place to watch it.
Today was another interesting day for college football. Georgia lost (sorry Chris) and the one-time football powerhouse of Michigan with Coach Carr and the Big House... has become, as one ABC announcer called it, Coach Carwreck and the outhouse. Oregon played a great game but no one expected Michigan to be as pathetic as they are this year, especially Michigan. It became even more obvious how big the stadium is in Ann Arbor when all of the fans booed the Michigan team to the locker room at half time.

Although shopping has very little to do with football... I like football and almost hate shopping...there is a connection today. When my parents and sister and I were at Kohls this evening a little boy about 3 or 4 was running down the aisle. A man who I am assuming was his dad was chasing after him and when the boy finally stopped his dad said... 'Man, you are faster than any Michigan quarterback' I had to laugh.

Thank you Hannah

I don't know Hannah from Wisconsin but on Tuesday morning I received a text from her (I will keep her number confidential). It said:
Happy first day of school!
xoxo Hannah
I didn't think much of it. I know that Tuesday was the first day of school across all of Wisconsin and since I still have a Wisconsin cell phone number I figured Miss Hannah had mistakenly typed in her boyfriends cell number and texted me instead. I figured she would figure this out on her own.
I was wrong... at 3:30 in the afternoon, I received another text saying 'How did it go?'
By now I was a little irked. Her texts were costing me 10 cents a pop and although funny for a while I got this nightmare of some 16 year old girl, you know like the one who won the texting contest sending me 1000 messages in the next day or two.
So I contemplated calling her and letting her know that I am nearly 30 and no longer in school so I doubted I was the person she wanted to text... but I took the easy way out and texted her back. I simply said 'I don't know u.' Thinking this was done, I went home and made dinner, only to get another text at 8pm that simply said 'Awesome!'
I thought for a while about what awesome could possibly mean in this situation.

Awesome... Hannah just cost me $.40
Awesome... Hannah made a fool of herself self texting the wrong number all day.
Awesome... that guy she met last week at the bar gave her the wrong number (of course this would be a college student, not a high school one). Or possibly, she shouldn't have written his number on her hand, some of the number blurred this has happened to me before. One of my friends was going to help me move to an apartment in my college town. He was from a nearby town and his dad had a truck so he gave me his parents number. I called the next day and a man answered the phone. Sounded close enough to Eric's dad so I asked for Eric... there was a long pause and he said hold on a minute. Then a woman came on the phone (I assumed it was his mom), I again asked for Eric, she asked who I was.. I explained I was his friend from college and he was going to help me move today... she was silent for a minute and then said, 'Uh, Eric is 2.' That is possibly the longest wrong number conversation I have EVER had. Turns out, Eric wrote his parents' number on my hand. I think the number had an eight in it that I mistook for a zero. I eventually got in touch with the Eric I was looking for but I still freak out about calling people from time to time.

Last weekend

Dinner at The Big Steer... $36 (thanks Mom and Dad)

Tickets to the fair... $12.

Seeing the World Super Bull (he weighed over 3000 lbs).. free

seeing the Big Boar.. free

foot long corn dog.. $7

egg on a stick while waiting to see the butter cow (and butter Harry Potter).. free


cheese on a stick... $4

bucket calf show.. free

taking a break next to a woman who didn't have much to say.. free.




Showing Jason around his first Iowa State Fair (even thought it was 100 degrees and we didn't eat pork on a stick or deep fried candybars).......... priceless.

Wordless Wednesday

So this girl was petting a guy's monkey...

Read the rest for yourself:

Capital Times

Clearly the editor didn't proof-read this article too closely because it seems they missed an alternate meaning for a particular phrase.

Words for Wordless Wednesday

The picture Jason posted is from the top of the High Falls on the Baptism River in Tetteguche State Park in Minnesota on the North Shore or Lake Superior. Jason and I tool a vacation here in September of 2003 (maybe it was 2004). We had a great time hiking and taking in spectacular views. If I ever get around to putting the pictures into a flickr photo album, I will post them.

On another note, I have been so bad about posting lately but something really made me smile this week. Jay Mohr is now a writer for Fox Sports. He even mentions Rickey Henderson. I loved his column for SI.com last year. One of my columns was about sports that aren't sports.. like figure skating. After bashing the music that figure skaters perform to, he finishes an out-of-nowhere Neil Diamond tirade by saying that he would watch men's figure skating if the man were Neil Diamond in one of his sparkling shirts skating to coming to America.... priceless.

Wordless Wednesday