We won Mega Millions . . or al least a part!

1.21 inches of rain on Tuesday and the storm total ended at 1.41 inches! 
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One thing I have noticed since I ended my "sitting on my butt all day" job came to an end.  I'm much more active during the day.  I had read that one thing that happens when a person "retires" is he becomes more active and eats less.  I have the think they are right!

Yesterday I had to drive into Madison to pick up a frame from an individual for a photo I was working on along with like 5 other stops.  I also took a look at the US Bank as a woman in that building said I should take photos and submit them for consideration.  Well the bank people were not real crazy that a guy was walking around their bank with a camera. I didn't take any photos, just looking.  But it goes in the "not sitting thing" I was talking about, more exercise I normally would not get.

ANYWAY - I did a bunch of errands including going to Sharrow Drugs for a prescription and looking for a non-hoody sweatshirt and noticed that Cardinal Custom Embroidery had set up shop on the corner in Columbus.

I think they were closed as I was out pretty early.
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OK then . . . . .did you know that in 1839 "OK" was first published?   OK stands for "oll correct" a popular slang misspelling of "all correct".   I guess back in the 1830's one of the "fun" things young educated people did was to purposely misspell works then abbreviate them, sort of like "kewl" for "cool".  Back then popular slang was included "KY" for "No use" ("know yuse"), "KG" for "No go" ("Know go"), and "OW" for all right ("oll wright").

But when OK was printed in the Boston Morning Post as a joke . . . it took on a life of it's own. 
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I was turned on to this you tube video - Jenny should see what Caydence does!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_jDofS7LOc



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Hey - for Columbus residents - I hope you are not buying clear garbage bags from the city for like $1 a piece. You can get a whole box at True Value that lasted us for 10 months (I wrote the date on the box). I think they cost like dime apiece.

Did I mention that we finally got our LED street lights on our block? Columbus will be the first city/town in Wisconsin to be 100% all LED street lights! They are GREAT! They light up a more focused part of the ground and don't radiate all of that orange light to unneeded area (like roads). You don't need to light the roads at night - the cars do that and it is MUCH healthier for the trees.

I suppose Walker is against LED lights as they don't use enough oil or coal energy! I'm actually not totally against EVERYTHING Walker has done and a few things he has signed I've actually suggested. Plus a number of things people are getting all anal over are actually Democratic ideas.

BUT - Hitler was pretty smart on some things also and just because he invented the modern highway does not mean I agreed with a few other things he did.
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Remember - Art fair Saturday at the Alliant Energy Center. Humans are free, cars cost $6.
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I suppose I'll have to come into work tomorrow to make sure all is well (and deliver a piece of art to a guy on the square).

Nuff for today!  too cold in this room for more typing - man summer went fast didn't it?

OH - Mega Millions - DJ was feeling especially poor last night and as I went grocery shopping I purchased two Mega Million tickets.  Yea yea - 200 million would only be 150 million after taxes but - I could REALLY use a million right now (Ho-chunk and double it.  So I check the numbers this morning. YEA BABY!!! $7 BIG ONES!!!!!   A 1 out of 307 chance!!!!!!   SWEET!!!!  

Rod