Columbus man WINS World Ice Fishing Championships

YEA BABY - BRING IT!!

Doug Bussia from Columbus WI won a Gold Medal in the 2010 Olympics of Ice Fishing last Sunday up dare in Rhinelander. The seventh annual World Ice Fishing Championships involved 11 countries. He said his secret was that his team was familiar with the fish (crappies) "A lot of the teams are used to fishing along the bottom, so since crappies are notorious for rising in the water column they ended up missing them,". Since the other countries involved had never fished for crappies it was a home water advantage. (The American team came in last in Poland last year).
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Weather - bye bye amazing weather. Have you noticed that the talking weather heads are now backtracking a little? Not as much snow as they were predicting. Of course since this is Boys Basketball Tournament time people will talk about the storm for YEARS when in reality, this is normal spring weather.

Next week will be sort of wet and in the middle 40s - normal weather.

Speaking of the Winter of 2009/10 here are the official maps.

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Lots of talk in Waterloo about the High Speed rail. It will basically cut the city into two pieces with sound walls, fencing and closing of intersections going up! Waterloo ain't too happy about the High Speed Rail.

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Soon you will see my postcards in Walgreens again. In high level open door across the counter talks with high level management I will have a postcard rack on the counter (soon). The Columbus Travel Center is my next step. As for the Wisconsin State Capitol. It seems that they do not allow any digitally manipulated photos to be sold. I have news for them - the ones that are selling NOW are manipulated (and are sort of bland actually).

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The big thing in my head is a show that I believe I'm the only one that watches it. Caprica. Best hard Science Fiction show on the tube (hmmmmmm tube, sort of like calling a CD an "album".) Anyone remember Lake Street Station in Madison? Pretty soon people will say "Remember Blockbuster?"

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On this date in 1953 the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee. An interesting thing here is that Milwaukee County Stadium and it's parking lot was one of the catalyst for the Brooklyn Dodgers moving to LA.  The success of the Milwaukee Braves and their huge parking lot was something Walter O'Malley saw as a big money maker as he had basically zero parking lot.

If you ever get to see the special "Lords of Flatbush" it's a fascinating story of Dem Bums.

Also - something close to my heart is that in 1954 just a couple months after I was born Parker Pen in Janesville won a 5-cent-an-hour wage increase in contract negotiations. After the raise, male employees made a base pay of $1.95 an hour while their female counterparts were paid $1.62 an hour.

In case you are wondering. A nickle raise would be about $0.40 in today's money so they went from $15.06 to $15.46. About a 2.5% raise.

My dad worked for Parker for 20 some years which seemed like a long long time to work for one company (I'm on year 22 now for a major Government). Again - I'm like my dad.

BTW - that is my dad, my older brother Ralls and I've been told that is me but, I don't know, I think this kid was stolen my gypsy's and I replaced the original Rod.  I think my real name was Octavio. 

Have a great Thursday.

Rod