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Friday, August 19, 2011

A good Day a Bad Game all "Lumped" in one

Posted on 6:29 AM by Unknown
Like to thank all for the emails and so forth for that last post! I try not to say to many controversial things but . . . . .  I spend 30+ years in Madison surrounded by all sorts of people.  I have walked in some on the darkest south side neighborhoods and have felt no fear (perhaps that was foolish).  I've hitchhiked through the south side of St. Louis at dusk and had no problems.  I've been robbed at gun point by blacks and beat up by whites, I'm an equal opportunity victim.  But HEY - shit happens and everything is all individual.   The troubles at State Fair Park this year where families were getting robbed and beat up by gangs of teenage girls does not put me on guard worrying whenever I see a teenage girl.

Just sayin.  I was not really THAT worried but it's good to have a heightened awareness at times. 
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Then - in an exciting bit of  news - The BP gas station in Columbus has some of the highest rated lump charcoal you can find.  In fact the reviewers were all excited thinking this is Maple Leaf Lump repackaged as Grove Lump Charcoal.


" burntime, this charcoal set a new Whiz world record, burning longer than any charcoal we have ever tested. Longer than Brassiero, longer than Kamado extruded coconut. " 


" The smoke is exceptionally mild and very pleasant. There is no harshness or strong woodsy aroma in the smoke at all. Frankly, this is one of the best-smelling charcoals we have ever experienced. When starting the fire in a cooker the fire spreads fairly quickly, with no sparking or popping while burning. Also, when started with a MAPP torch, there was very little sparking and popping. There was the occasional mild pop, but nothing like we are accustomed to. The charcoal burned at a maximum temperature of 690 degrees, not rip-roaring, but plenty hot for most grilling uses."


" this charcoal is relatively inexpensive, easy to light, smells fantastic and burns FOREVER. We give it our Recommended rating. "  
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Yesterday was the big golf outing/Brewer game and a fun day was had by all (until Adubya, on the phone said "B*tch what the F*ck you want" to his girl friend and she hung up on him but I'm sure the texting that went back and forth afterword before adubya fell asleep smoothed things over. . . . . I guess you had to be there).

Golf was pretty good but adubya had his worst round of the year which was still 5 better then my score.  But the real story happened BEFORE we even got our clubs out of the truck.

You see, GETTING the clubs out of the truck was proving to be a very large problem.  It was a tight fit, 4 bags of clubs and 4 carts with a topper thingy on top to keep everything in.  We got to the parking area, and lifted up the handle of the tail gate and the handle breaks.  

hmmmm - we can not open the tail gate and the topper thing is connected to the tailgate - FIRMLY!

There was pulling, pushing, tugging, keys being shoved in random openings, strangers being asked to screw drivers.  Network (who is in charge of test patterns on a major network) is reaching inside pulling on random pieces of metal and nothing was happening. Balderdash had gone to get a knife and I believed we were all about to die so I put down the camera, stuck my hand in the corner, pushed a little knob and what was took three young males 10 minutes took The Elder about 4 seconds. 



After that debacle we golfed with adubya teeing off from the tips  (like 3000 yards longer then the rest of the foursome).  

If you recall the blog last year called "Going Commando at Miller Park"  when the temps were just silly, this year the weather was perfect and there was no commando. (BTW - we believe last year that adubya was forced to sell his car after having our sweat soaked clothes baked for 3 hours in his black car in the Miller parking lot). 

So we get to the parking lot and balderdash shows us the secret way into Miller park which saved us 15 minutes at least. Once parked we knew we would not lose the truck because we were behind a car with SV TH LRD on their plates which we THINK was Save the Lard but that makes absolutely no sense since you don't save lard.  Moron cooks.  

I did not take my camera into the park, been there, done that and it was much more relaxing.  The game was for the most part boring but we had a great time.  The guy in the seat ahead of me was more concerned with the stock market and I tell ya - I LOVE the Club section and next time I'm going to by one of the cupcakes on the carts - they look so good.     

Not much news happened and on the way home. We stopped in Pewaukee at a dive bar on the lake and had an Octoberfest and adubya insulted his girlfriend and we cheered as two guys that looked fresh out of Deliverance caught fish from a boat. 

We left and about a mile away I realized I had left my phone on the picnic table and we drove back and I hopped out of the truck and it seemed I was just sitting on it.  OOPs - my bad. 

balderdahses highlight of the day was when we were packing up and he had my camera and spotted a hot chick and took some photos of her. 

AWESOME - I think this will be next years Sports Illustrated Cover. 

OH - adubya took a photo of us with our rally caps on in the ninth and posted it on facebook. I don't know if EVERYONE can see this.   That is aduba in the lower left corner looking like Sluggo.  Then me and Network (the one guy that SHOULD wear a cap and balderdash . . . . . I just don't know what to say about HIS cap.)

Rally Caps 

That's the story - have a great weekend.

Rod
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