Wasted about 20 minutes today, because I was running about 15 minutes later than normal taking the kids to school. Had to wait for over 100 vehicles dropping their middle schoolers off at school. My question is WHY? Can't these kids walk or ride the school bus? I know the Indianola School System has buses in town?...Come on people, some are legit(to quit)...besides all the wasted fossil fuels, while we are all setting their breathing in the toxic fumes from the vehicle in front of us....our kids are getting lazier by the minute....Now you're like, why are you dropping your kids off? Because we don't live in the school district.....

ISU plays at Kansas tonight, this should show if they actually have improved or if the last couple games were flukes....

Congratulations to the Smoot's they're having a GIRL! Still a few months away.
Pool league starts tonight....Smoked filled Suzy's . Be interesting to see how I fair, as I haven't played since last spring and then the surgically repaired elbow, still isn't 100%. I have been trying to play as much as I can, but I don't look that great...losing to everyone, even a GIRL.

Beth Watch ...nothing yet...any day!

Deep Thought of the Day: It's fascinating to think that all around us there's an invisible world we can't even see. I'm speaking, of course, of the World of the Invisible Scary Skeletons.

Starting out to be another super day at work....mainly because I made it here.

Last night saw Mad Money , decent chic flic.....

Start pool league tomorrow night...we have 9 for the team: Derick, Travis, Kyle, Randy, Mike, Brad, Daron, Fernando, and I....of course we only need 5...so we have several subs...

Next week broom ball on Wednesday...We have a bye for pool next week.

Getting Old
Many of us are guilty of looking at others our own age and thinking, 'Surely, I can't be that old'. If you've ever done this, then you'll appreciate the following.

My name is Alice Smith and I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his DDS diploma, which bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40-odd years ago. Could he be the same guy that I had a secret crush on way back then?

Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate.

After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan Park High School.

'Yes, I did. I'm a mustang,' he gleamed with pride.
'When did you graduate?' I asked.
'In 1965,' he replied. 'Why do you ask?'
'You were in my class!' I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely ... and then that ugly, old, bald, wrinkled, fat-ass, gray-haired decrepit son-of-a-bitch asked, 'What did you teach?'

Deep Thought of the Day: If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Saturday night I had a little too much wine at Plummer’s before Ron White ….I missed part of the show as I dozed off….from what I saw he was funny…..Damn it was COLD!!! We preceded down to Peoples to watch Public Property… did I mention it was freezing! Of course it was packed and most of us slipped inside… Carla’s boy toy got stopped at the door to pay the $10 cover and the three of us decided we didn’t really need to see them again. Mike, Diana, and Allison enjoyed the show….that’s about it for Saturday night….. Of course if I wasn't up at 6(because of my boys) I may have faired better.

Austin won his basketball game easily on Saturday. He was telling me how bored he was…just rolling my eyes….

Beth is supposed to be having her kid…like now……

Cyclones basketball team is looking good…or at least decent….they beat Oklahoma State quite easily on Saturday.

Looks like it’s the Patriots and Giants in the Superbowl……

Friday is Jamaica ….not for me…..I can’t do anything requiring an additional day away from my boys until I’m done with her in court….

Cindi disappeared in Chicago over the weekend…..


Deep Thought of the Day: Here's a good joke to do during an earthquake: Straddle a big crack in the earth, and if it opens wider, go, "Whoa! Whoa!" and flail your arms around, as if you're going to fall in.

Ended up going to the TMG Holiday Party last night, glad I went. It was actually fun and the building it was at….didn’t know it existed. It’s called West End Architectural Salvage in a 40,000-square-foot warehouse at 22 Ninth St. in Des Moines. It’s actually a coffee house during the day and a huge warehouse full of antiques. Just like the title says….Salvage….they have most anything you can imagine for your house, as long as you want something old. I could actually add on to my house and keep the decor consistent throughout the addition. I wasn’t able to locate a website for them.
Before hand I had a few pre-party cocktails at Raccoon River, Plummer helping me work on my pool game.

Austin has a lock-in tonight for boy scouts…so it will just be Blaise and I.

It doesn’t look like the wind is suppose to be as bad as they claimed yesterday, but it will still be a COLD weekend.



Deep Thought of the Day: In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

You know 4-wheel drive actually works pretty good in this crappy weather, in fact it helps with braking too! Of course you can’t slide around corners, but hey you can shift it out for that!

My Grandma fell last night and broke her hip...Now before you get the idea...well usually people that age can't come back from that. She is way too strong a person not to come back. Having surgery on it today to fix/screw it back together. I'm sure she'll be running around in a month, knowing her.

Tonight TMG is having some Holiday party…….to go or NOT to go.

Iowa State looked good last night…played like a team. If they could continue to play like that the season will not be a complete lost and its more fun to watch them play like that! Clark’s been looking more like his old self the last couple games.

Trophy squirrel killed in Iowa


Currently listening to : Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace – The Foo Fighters

Saturday: Austin basketball, Park West art auction, Ron White Civic Center…

Sunday: Something about pro football?? Who really cares….

Tip of the Day: If it’s not there, it’s not there. Don’t try to make it be there, cause it’s still not there.

Started writing The Dead Gambler on Tuesday....we'll see what becomes of me finishing it....a book to start, I'd rather see it as a movie. Unfortunately my writing skills( what little I had) disappeared about 8 years ago....Of course when the movie gets made it should star Donnie Summersett .....

Deep Thought of the Day: Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?"