Road Trip & Blog Update
I think I reported in a recent blog that I would be taking a road trip, so I couldn't guarantee how well I could keep up my blog. I can only assume that the deafening silence which characterized my announcement was attributable to sorrow over my missing blogs.- I left Norfolk on TUE 12/5, spent the night in Des Moines, then continued on to Mark & Christy's on WED. [For those of you who don't know, Mark is my baby brother & Christy is his long suffering spouse.]
- My trip was uneventful. I had several opportunities to detour to historic sites, but I just didn't feel up to it.
- It's FRI 12/8, even as we "speak." Mark, who is a pastor, & Christy are attending a farewell shindig for a pastor who will be leaving after the 1st of the year to accept another call.
- I've been left behind to fend for myself. *
- I will try to summon the mental & physical energy to expand on my road trip adventures after I get back to Norfolk. **
- My departure will be sometime not too early tomorrow, SAT 12/9, so I will be back in Norfolk by mid- to late-afternoon.
* I don't want to give you the wrong impression about my beloved family members. I gave them my blessing & waited until I left before I started quietly sobbing at the thought that I'd have no one to share my endlessly plethora of entertaining story with." *** And, yes, I ended a sentence with a preposition. Wanna make something out of it?
** You welcome to draw your own conclusions about my lack of mental & physical energy. Maybe I'll elaborate in my next Mental Health MON blog. Maybe I won't.
*** Actually, that's a lie. I can share my stories w/their plucky little dog, Scrappy. Unlike his human compatriots, Scrappy is too polite to start yawning & rolling his eyes during my story-telling.
Scott Frost Update
The other day I included a succinct summary of the media firestorm re: "our" * native son returning to coach the Cornhuskers. For the sake of my readers, I've continued to plow [plough?] thru a continued avalanche of SF & other related Big Red news.
* Although I haven't lived my whole life in Nebraska, I can claim native-born distinction, because I was born in Odell, NE, in January 1953. **
** My 3 children were also born in Nebraska at St. E's hospital in Lincoln, circa 1982, 1985, 1989. ***
*** My dear wife was born in Lexington, MO. Here distinction is being born in a town that was the site of a Civil War Battle. ****
**** Yes, you may have noticed by my birth month & year that I might be turning 65 next month. Speculate no further. I turn 65 on 1/7/18. And that's all I have to say about that at this time.
Where was I? Oh, yeah . . . Here's my latest summary of Scott Frost & Husker FB news.
- Scott Frost is still the new head coach of the Cornhuskers.
- Nebraska fans, both native-born & "camp followers," are still deliriously happy.
- I can neither confirm nor deny that Coach Frost was observed walking on the water of Branched Oak Lake, located just west of Lincoln.
Criminal Minds
Omaha World Herald, (12/5): "Judge lets bikini baristas keep serving as legal case proceeds. A federal judge has ruled in favor of bikini baristas in Everett, WA, who sued the city over new dress code ordinances that ban bare skin. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman on MON extended an injunction that prevents the city from enforcing the two laws. The injunction means the coffee stands can continue to operate while the lawsuit filed by 7 baristas & the owner of a chain of coffee stands called Hillbilly Hotties makes its way through court . . . " COMMENT: Don't get in the way of avid, Pacific Northwest coffee lovers & their favorite coffee stands. *
* I confess to being somewhat stumped about the new of this chain of coffee stands, given that the location is the progressive Northwest U.S.
USA Today State-By-State, (12/5): "Campus police [in Ames, IA] arrested an Iowa State philosophy & religious studies lecturer who they say smelled of alcohol in his classroom." ["I swear, officer, it was the formaldehyde fumes drifting over from the anatomy lab.]
Ditto: "Police say a former substitute teacher [in Somersworth, NH] encouraged middle school students to smoke pot & gave one student a vaping device." ["I swear, officer, I forgot that I was in New Hampshire, not Colorado!"]
* I confess to being somewhat stumped about the new of this chain of coffee stands, given that the location is the progressive Northwest U.S.
USA Today State-By-State, (12/5): "Campus police [in Ames, IA] arrested an Iowa State philosophy & religious studies lecturer who they say smelled of alcohol in his classroom." ["I swear, officer, it was the formaldehyde fumes drifting over from the anatomy lab.]
Ditto: "Police say a former substitute teacher [in Somersworth, NH] encouraged middle school students to smoke pot & gave one student a vaping device." ["I swear, officer, I forgot that I was in New Hampshire, not Colorado!"]
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