Growing Old Disgracefully

ice fishing here in the north

Published on March 7 2006

Click on the link to play the video--I haven't quite figured out how to play a video right in a window in the post yet. Give me time, I'll get it. ice fishing in wisconsin

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Never Own Your Home Outright. Never Own Your Home Outright. Instead, Get a Big 30-year Mortgage, and Never Pay It Off — Regardless of Your Age and Income Well, according to this guy, I did EVERYTHING wrong. It's fun to do everything wrong sometimes, though....

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Still kickin'

Published on March 5 2006

Buried in schoolwork, but still around... How the heck did I do this when I carried a full load of classes? Oh yeah... I was only working 30-hour weeks back then, not 48 hour weeks. And no business. And no union job. No wonder it was easier then...sigh....

When I'm working on night shift, at least one of our two-ways is usually turned to scan the emergency channels. Friday and Saturday nights are one 10-55 after another, sometimes 20 or 30 of them in one evening. Isn't there *any*thing else to do up here?...

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Need some new recipes?

Published on February 28 2006

Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974 Rolling on the floor over the "fish balls", myself.........maybe the "Rosy Perfection Salad". Lord, that looks frightening. Nope, on tomorrow's menu goes "Liver Pate en masque". Yeah.

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ODE TO FALSE SPRING

Published on February 28 2006

ODE TO FALSE SPRING The birds were all atwitter in the bony, barren trees Oh, could it be that spring was here To rout grim winter's freeze? The dirty snow was melting Melting like our winter hearts I'd swear I heard once long ago That this is how spring...

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big grins here

Published on February 27 2006

If THIS doesn't bring a smile to your face, nothing on the planet will ever be able to do it...

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Great story

Published on February 25 2006

Saw this on the evening news last night--kinda makes whiny Olympians and pro athletes look pretty bad. Make sure you watch the video--those were some good shots! CBS News | Autistic Teen's Hoop Dreams Come True | February 24, 2006 17:04:52 (CBS) It was...

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I want this

Published on February 24 2006

Metrosexual Motorcyle @ AMERICAN DIGEST I'd break my neck in spiked pumps, but this one might be fun!!

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This is the best story

Published on February 22 2006

CNN.com - 'Retired for about four days now' - Feb 22, 2006 and the quote of the day is???? When asked if he still worked at the meatpacking plant, Eric Zornes, 40, a maintenance mechanic, said, "I've been retired for about four days now." Even if it wasn't...