Will the Badgers lose power again in Las Vegas?

August 31 2002.  Wisconsin vs. UNLV!  The big game.  On this day Wisconsin and their rabid party fans were ready for the big game.  All day long hoards of Red had been drinking and rushing the Sports Books betting on Red.   Reports were that you could not go 10 feet without seeing Bucky or as one guy put it "wearing a friggin’ foam block of cheese atop their head."  Badgers were flooding the Sports Books betting large...

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Pass the Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride

So cold iguanas fell out of trees!So the Farmers Alamac says "residents of the upper Midwest and Great Lakes are expected to get the piles of snow that'll be lacking elsewhere."Of course reading the Old Farmers Alamac for weather is like listening to Fox News for News.  It's all pretty random and made up!  I kept track on their predictions (Farmers Alamac) for a couple years and it was basically like tossing a coin!  However I called...

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Is Any Body Out There

Geez - Madison is a little dead today - seems everyone is taking off. Yesterday morning I attended the CDA Business Round Table in Columbus but failed to see an actual round table. I think Sobiak was just pulling my leg on that one and I'll have to be more careful next time so I will not be hosed into thinking I'm going to view a unique piece of furniture.  Dan Amato from the Wisconsin largest Antique Mall was there too looking for the round...

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Worst Interview I Have Ever Had.

Looking at the below chart you will see the average temps for this year.  Looks like since July we have leveled off and have not yet started to drop in temps.  We have been hitting the above average more then the below average since May.  Also above average in precipitation since June.  This is what August has looked like.------------------------------Yesterday at lunch DJ and I were walking near the Capitol as I needed to take...

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This and that

ISS flyover Columbus Thursday night at 8:57 - should be VERY VERY bright.  -4.0 magnitude meaning you would see it at high noon.  Going straight over head from the WSW.   I heard they will be dropping candy. -----------------Full Sturgeon Moon tonight! also called the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. And is the Green Corn Moon or the Grain Moon.------------------------I...

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Don't Show Me Your Coronal Hole

It's starting to look like High School Football Season and I think DJ and I have to go to a Columbus game and blog about it.  Anybody want to come along?   I've never been to a Cbus football game.  It's hard to find a schedule anywhere, even their school website does not post a schedule (don't get me started . . . .) .  They play Wisconsin Dells this Friday at 7:00.  Does it cost anything? I have not been to a High School...

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The Hindenburg Omen - Mothers, Hide Your Children

NOTE - never ever take some goofballs views on the Stock Market as anything more then opinion. We all know that the Stock Market seems to be random at times and while it pretends to run up and down according to the economy the real factor is human emotions. We also know that as a football handicapper I have had a number of very successful systems that have less to do with football and more to so with the human emotion. But I watch these emotions...

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MOTHERSHIP HOVERS OVER COLUMBUS

As you all know each of the last three Wednesdays after golf league I drive home and see flashing lights in the sky! Some of you think I'm crazy and while this could be partially correct, on this case I had witnesses. I had Vice Presidents of Banks, professional cattle hoof trimmers, housewives and all sorts of other professional people agreeing with me. Of course many of you said "Rod, take a photo of these so called lights". Well, taking a photo...

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Favre, Cubs, Packers, Eddies, James Street Dining

OK - Favre is coming back - who could have ever predicted THAT! This is not a bashing Favre post so you guys can continue reading.HOWEVER - before I get serious - for all of you dare Packer fans - this is FREAKING hilarious! OH - better put on your headphones.If you get this in an email go here - it's "Vikings fans reaction to Favre interception vs Saints" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoJ_K4Mlt4wSo I was looking at the schedule for the Vikings...

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Going Commando at Miller Park

Thursday was the big golf/baseball day. I get up at 5:15 and am on the road to park near the interstate by 6:00. At 6:30 adubya picks me up with balderdash and Network and the first thing on our minds is the Brewers and how Bush gave up back to back to back to back home runs the previous night! OK - the Brewers are setting a major league record on getting hit by pitches and Bush gives up four straight home runs and he never brushed anyone back?...

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Long Weekend - Short Blog

Where does one begin . . hmmmmm perhaps at the end. Having 5 days off really wears on you but yesterday was sort of a lazy enjoy the wonderful weather day. Nothing much happened, watched golf, napped and both DJ and I sort of just laz-ed around getting our energy back that was sapped from us the day before.You see Saturday we had a Art and Craft Fair in Stoughton and it was pretty draining. I did about as I had expected, sort of underwhelming. It was a small fair but I wanted SOMETHING in August. I sort of felt it was a practice fair actually....

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I Hate the Cardnials Too.

So Branden Phillips comes out and says what many people think about the St. Louis Cardinals. He says:"I hate the Cardinals. All they do is bitch and moan about everything, all of them, they're little bitches, all of 'em. I really hate the Cardinals. Compared to the Cardinals, I love the Chicago Cubs. Let me make this clear: I hate the Cardinals"Well - they do bitch all the time - remember they were all anal about the Brewers pulling their shirts...

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I SMILE WHEN I SWEAT!

As a coworker noted - the air this morning seemed . . used!   Not fresh, sort of like we were breathing used air - LIKE FROM BY DOGS MOUTH!!!   There was an article in the paper talking about mosquitoes and that this is NOT the worst but because they have been around so long this year it just seems bad. yea - OK So I get this email from adubya this morning.I went to Door Creek to chip last night and managed about 3 minutes before I was...

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8/9/10 11:12:13

I'm torn. My mom is probably going to move to Springfield ILL. My brother found a fantastic little house just blocks from his place that is perfect for her. She has lived in her present house in Fort Atkinson since the late 60's. She's 82 now and is not being able to take care of things as well and the caring and upkeep of the house is starting to get a little out of control.  She's excited. Starting a new chapter of her life at 82 is a...

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yea - well.

Rhonda had the explanation that the UFO was a kite. Seem logical but there is some weirdness still. For one thing the wind was between 1.1 mile per hour and calm from the WNW which MIGHT be enough to keep a kite in the air but then that kite would need so pretty large lights. All I know is if I ever see it again I'm going for a drive.The red line is the direction I first viewed it - straight down the road.  The circle is where the alleged...

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UFO spotted East of Columbus

Last night I was driving home from golf and turned the corner onto Avalon and saw . . . . something. At first it looked like the top lights of a tower but there is no tower. Not a plane so it must have been an approaching helicopter with red/gree/white landing lights. I parked the car and looked at it again as it was still very bright and had red/green and bright flashing lights and oddly . . . it was not moving at all. No sound.  The lights...

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