More Indy and other stuff in my head.

Sooooooo - I guess the huge storms that were lighting up my phone last night with warnings . . .never happened?

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Placed a few "fun" wagers today.

Green Bay OVER 10.5 wins.  They should not lose a home game this year so all they have to do is win 3 away games.

Philly Eagles UNDER 7.5 wins - Hideous schedule home AND especially road. They only won 4 games last year and I believe they have their top three receivers out for the year.

New Orleans  OVER 9 wins. 

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FACEBOOK - DO NOT "LIKE" things.

You know when yo use "“If I get a million likes my dad will get me a car.”  or when you see things like name a movie with "A" in the title.  DO NOT DO IT!!!  

It's called LIKE Farming and every time you LIKE something some one is making money and MAYBE putting Malware on your computer, or attempting.

When the page gets enough fans (a hundred thousand or more)the owner might start placing ads on the page. Those ads show up in your news feed. They could be links to an app, a game, or a service they want you to buy. It could be a “recommendation” for a product on Amazon where the page owner gets a commission for every purchase made through the link. Or more nefariously, the page owner could be paid to spread malware by linking out to sites that install viruses on your computer for the purposes of identity theft. Bottom line: access to your news feed is lucrative. 

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OH - So I walk into my office and there is this familiar smell and this big "?" appears above my head.  What is this wonderful odor . . .and why is it in my room.  I stand perplexed looking at the window.   Wait, I know that smell and my gaze moves to the left toward my carbonating beer.  What what do I see?

My Party Pig who has been a very good pig so far has a needle size stream coming out of it's snout traveling 3 feet towards the closet door, hitting the door and dripping down.

FUCK!!

I pick the pig up and move it to the bathtub and tighten things down.  Once it calms down I moved it to the cooler in the basement.  The odd thing is that yesterday was the exact day it was ready to drink.  3 weeks carbonating.  Luckily I think only about 12 ounces flew and were lost on the carpeting.  All is well now.

The beer was/is an Amber (zzzzzz) for a contest.
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I mentioned yesterday that I always learn something new at the reunions.  This time I learned that there were TWO planes in the rescue.  A PB1 which could not land and the rescuing plane that was ordered to NOT LAND was a Catalina PBY.

The odd thing is that my dad flew a Catalina PBY in WWII which is weird as it's yet another thing DJ and I have in our "Kennedy/Lincoln" relationship.

We both grew up next to slaughter houses (Jones's / Oscar Meyer). Both have entrepreneur brothers 7 years older, both sets of parents had the same age difference which also happens to be OUR age difference. DJs dad was rescued by a PBY, the exact plane my dad flew. Both brothers were in a drum and bugle corp.  and I could go on . . . .    

ANYWAY - I'm reading Edgar Harrells new book "Out of the Depths".  I HOPE you all watched that video from yesterday - it's NOT boring and I can now.  There is a photo of DJ's dad in the book.

At first I had trouble reading it as it seem God was mentioned in every paragraph.  Now I'm not anti God or anything but I was feeling like it was being shoved down my throat.  Bit after talking to Edgar and finding out he was the company chaplain, well . . . . .I understand.  Also he is such a wonderful human being.

Funny Story - we were at the Columbia Club for a VERY fancy lunch and we had two chaplain's at our table.  One was talking about when he was "working" on base and in the field he would speak and console servicemen and after every talk he would give the servicemen a piece of candy.  Always, one piece of candy.

The reason?  He said that the servicemen always felt so wonderful 10 minutes after meeting with the chaplain.  It was a sugar rush!   LOL

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I think disc golf has helped my ball golf game.  Ever since I took up the sport my ball golf game has turned around.  Last week I hit 7 out of 9 fairways.  I've never walked down the middle of the fairway so often in my life.  KNOCK ON WOOD.  Maybe it's the twisting I do for disc golf?    
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Here is a photo if the Hyatt in Indianapolis.  For some reason when I was sitting in their super comfortable chairs looking at this scene I reminded me of the Jetson's or so "building of the future" from 1950.

Hyatt - Indianapolis

This was taken of Matt Meinema who owns PEARings Frozen Yogurt.  Sort of like Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt in Sun Prairie. 

Matt Meinema who owns PEARings Frozen Yogurt

Just before I took the above photo we were at the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Monument which is in the middle of Indianapolis.  There was a lot going on even late at night.  What an awesome city Indy is.  ANYWAY as we were leaving a couple stopped us and asked if we got any good shots and the guy told us how to get the best shot. 

So here we are. 11:00 at night walking down dark alleys and climbing up 10 floors of a deserted parking ramp, DJ leading the way.

The Soldiers and Sailors Monument was designed by a German architect, Bruno Schmitz and completed in 1901.

The Indiana World War Memorial Plaza  is a 5 city block plaza for the solders of WWI.

It's a pretty awesome place.  

That's it fore now

Rod