I'm doing Iron Man . . . maybe . . . or not

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I still can not decide if I'll do the Iron Man Sunday. Not that I have worked or anything but seriously, how hard can it be. If I do I'll do the swimming last as I don't want to get all tired first thing. So just in case I wake up Sunday morning and decide to do it I'll carb up this weekend in the form of barley and hops!

I'll decide Sunday morning.
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HEY - if ANY of you watch Big Brother. Did you high five anybody after last nights show?

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The first "day that I remember" was when Kennedy was assassinated. I was cleaning the blackboard (I had done something bad and was being punished) and Robbie Gates came in at lunch and announced he had been shot.

OK OK the first REAL day I remember was Day #1 when I came out of my moms womb. I was cranky and sort of tired from the move and it was cold and someone hit me first thing and I cried. Thus, began my life of angst against authority figures.

I remember watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and the landing on the moon and John Lennon being shot along with Nixon resigning as I'm building furniture in Jefferson. I remember when the bombs started dropping in Baghdad. My head was in a bucket and I was hurling as the news interrupted whatever I was watching, I had the flu.

I remember eight years ago right now.

I had just walked past the TV in our lunch room and I was the first to see some buildings on the news with smoke coming out. No one seemed to care. Then someone said a tower was hit by a plane. I turned on the radio to listen to rock on some Madison radio show and some shock jock was talking about the World Trade Center being hit by a small plane. Someone called and said it was a jet liner and the jock, after hanging up on the guy called him an asshole moron and went on and on about idiots calling in with garbage.

The rest is history.

No one got any work done that day as the news unfolded. Elweed called and ask if I knew what was going on, were we at war?

Soon there were guards at the doors not letting people enter without credentials and wearing lanyards became a status symbol. Whenever a plane would fly over everyone would stop in their tracks and follow it.

My brother had a work associate in Washington at the Capitol and they ran out. The FBI took his camera and never gave it back. At the White house the entire US Government was going to attend a huge outdoor party on the White House lawn in 12 hours. Every leading politician was going to be in attendance on the White House lawn.

I had never really thought about the World Trade Center before 8 years ago.

Time fly's doesn't it. Eight years!
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152 years ago today Mormon guerillas, stoked by a religious nutjob and resenting decades of public abuse and federal interference, murder 120 emigrants at Mountain Meadows, Utah

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I see the Green Bay Packers are 28 to 1 to win the Superbowl. I think this is a pretty good bet. I believe the Packers are better then what most of the nation thinks. Remember, we have a QB that tossed 28 TD's and played 6 games in his very first year with a partially separated shoulder. We also had a running back with hamstring injury and this year we have what most call the best receiving corp in football.

Add the defense which has what many believe one of the best defensive coordinator in football.

Rock on Packers. Ted Thompson is a genius!
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I have sort of a writers block going on with no camera. Remember - West James Gallery tonight 5:00 to 8:00 to check out the new digs! Free stuff. Maybe a stop at the Kurth after if it's not to busy.

Otherwise have a great weekend as it looks wonderful yet again.

I was supposed to get grain and hops from UPS yesterday. Tracking said everything was on time but they did not deliver the package, today it says everything in on time - weird how that happens.

I have an IPA to make and after that a Porter and then I have a new Brown recipe but MAYBE I'll go with my Hazels Nutty Brown instead.

nuff said.

HEADLINES

Tiger leaps 16-foot fence, kills zoo worker

WOW - the guy probably took a photo during mid swing at the tournament. I bet Tiger Woods will be fined.

Rod