1st woman: Hi! Wanda.

2nd woman: Hi! Sylvia. How'd you die?

1st woman: I froze to death.

2nd woman: How horrible!

1st woman: It wasn't so bad. After I quit shaking from the cold, I began to get warm & sleepy, and finally died a peaceful death. What about you?

2nd woman: I died of a massive heart attack. I suspected that my husband was cheating, so I came home early to catch him in the act. But instead, I found him all by himself in the den watching TV.

1st woman: So, what happened?

2nd woman: I was so sure there was another woman somewhere that I started running all over the house looking. I ran up into the attic and searched, and down into the basement.. Then I went through every closet and checked under all the beds. I kept this up until I had looked everywhere, and finally I became so exhausted that I just keeled over with a heart attack and died.

1st woman: Too bad you didn't look in the freezer---we'd both still be alive.

Well not quite like the old days where there were hundreds of them all over....but they did get in the way this morning. We had one land in our hay field and I had to drag Blaise away to daycare....he wasn't too happy about it, but I had a call I had to take at 7:30 . Nailed it.

Now I had to fight through this to get Blaise to daycare this morning. Usually beautiful when the wind is out of the right direction. Can I still use my phone to take pictures while I'm driving?


Flash back to approximately 79', 80', or 81'ish. My birthday, I woke up in the morning hearing the burners of two balloons over the top of our house.

I'm not 100% percent sure this is the same Uncle Sam balloon that flew over that morning.

Lack of sleep due to the storm and mind racing, but this morning and yesterday afternoon went extremely well...

I just watched some video of me being totally obliterated on the ride back from RAGBRAI , I was actually giving the ability to destroy it. I'm going to keep it for a while, just to remember how stupid I acted and looked. Of course the entire team thought it was hilarious! I guess almost one liter of rum and me = baddddd.....

Iowa DOT and the motor vehicle registration system has some total issues! Luckily I was far-warned by Jen on the ride in Dubuque about the sting operation. This was after I spent an hour earlier in the week to find out how the bus completely disappeared out of the DOT system.....everything license number everything.....and I have to go back in with the title to get the damn thing recreated. They wouldn't even give me something to make it thought the week.....but we made it nonetheless.

The Kamikazes were by far a great group this year, one semi-bad apple(the only one texting people the entire trip back from Dubuque) only because he alienated everyone on the team. We are getting together already this Wednesday because we don't want the party to stop. Looks like we lost one driver...Rich decided he wants to ride next year...good for him!

Austin, Keegan, and Aaron won the DMACC 3on3 competion last week for their age group. AWESOME!!!

Blaise was excited to see me Sunday morning when I finally woke up, Austin awww.... We spent most of yesterday resting and cleaning the bus out, It smells much better today!

Practices are in full swing for Austin ....

Why does Stacy always have to be the sound of reason when I get hurt?? I think she just likes to be right and with me it's too easy.

Balloons this week!!

A guy goes into a bar and there is a robot bartender. The robot says, "What will you have?" The guy says "Martini." The robot brings back the best martini ever and says to the man, "What's your IQ?" The guy says, "168."

The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration and medical technology.


The guy leaves, but he is curious, so he goes back into the bar. The robot bartender says, "What will you have?" The guy says, "Martini".. Again, the robot makes a great martini, gives it to the man and says, “What’s your IQ?" The guy says, "100."

The robot then starts to talk about Nascar, Budweiser and John Deere tractors.


The guy leaves, but finds it very interesting, so he thinks he will try it one more time. He goes back into the bar. The robot says, "What will you have?" The guy says, "Martini", and the robot brings him another great martini. The robot then says, "What's your IQ?" The guy says, "Uh, about 50." The robot leans in real close and says, "So tell me...........you people still happy you voted for Obama?"

Fight organized crime! Re-elect no one!

They seem to get better every year. After some personal drama at the start and coming to a realization, it was smooth sailing from there on.

The Kamikaze site will have more information by day and pictures as soon as I get around to updating it. There is also a whole slew of password protected pics to go up.

It's always awesome to meet new people and catch up with others that you see once or twice every year. Don't be doing it early in the morning, though...apparently there are rules. Oh and stay away from the ones that prefer the childish drama(Something about jealousy or insecurity). You would hope people grow out of this.

Anyway got home this morning at 1:30am....long drive back...I can not fathom the amount of alcohol that our team drank. We had 32 people at the max and 24 at the low end...What a blast it was.....details??? Maybe tomorrow or check the Kami site....unloading/cleaning bus....