FIRST - GREAT job Columbus City Council and or police department - having NO PARKING on Avalon on Trick or Treat was brilliant. Avalon is a catastrophic accident waiting to happen. I swear a kid will be hit by a car before sidewalks are put in in that section. I've almost been hit and I have almost hit pedestrians - ESPECIALLY when the sun is directly in your eyes. Mark my words, there will be death on that street.
BRAVO!
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Yesterday (Tuesday) DJ and I went up to Kewaunee, about a 2.5 hour drive. Rather boring but as we enter the city the trees just EXPLODED with color. Where is this in southern Wisconsin?? This put me in a better mood as after 2.5 hours of CONSTANT Walker billboards with a ratio of perhaps 30 Walker and cronie signs to 1 Evers sign it's rather an infuriating drive.
Seriously - how can so many Wisconsin residents be so gullible and believe all the lies we are hearing from the Walker people, they just make up shit now and people believe them.
ANYWAY - we were looking for a good burger joint and drove to Algoma as there was a REALLY good place called Skaliwags.
Sadly the "burger" part was closed for the season but around the corner was a little bar that shared the kitchen also called Skaliwags.
We walk in and it looks like a typical dive style bar with 4 or 5 tiny tables and some worker people sitting at the bar. We take 2 tables (they are tiny tables) and order some drinks and ask for a menu. Well, the menu is on the chalk board.
hmmmmm - not EXACTLY what we were expecting
That's it? No burgers? hmmmmmm Well . . . . . we decided to be adventurous and it was late and we did have a 2.5 hour drive home so it was not like we were up for driving around to look . . . . I ordered the Cajun filet, Ralls (brother) had the Bleu cheese filet and DJ and Stacy Grilled Romaine.
WOW - AMAZING. Seriously. I cannot remember having a steak where a knife was never needed.
So - still have no idea how good the burgers are. Maybe next summer when the other side of the bar opens again. As we left the place was packed (meaning there were 10 people there).
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Monday DJ and I went to see First Man at the Palace Cinema. It was a 1:00 show with maybe 10 people in the theater. We got a baby size popcorn (for $1 more we could have had a HUGE bucket) and the very first thing I did was tip it totally upside down on floor next to me. DAMN IT . . and then the movie starts.
The first scene is Neil Armstrong test flying the X1 and it is TENSE . REALLY TENSE!. Shaking camera and OMG it was tense. However - as the movie continues that shaking camera is a thing. It's constantly shaking like a hand held non-stabilized camera. It's a little irritating actually.
When I am talking to someone close up he is not CONSTANTLY moving around jittery. Not still for one second. After 40 minutes DJ starts to get sick from motion sickness and leaves just before a puke fest would have happened as Gemini starts twirling in a circle once every second. It would have been bad.
Another person left after that. I endured (no issues here) but it's not a stand up and cheer kind of movie. A lot of deaths and a real somber movie. Very good but certainly not a happy happy flick.
I would give it 4 out of 5 starts except for the audience getting sick part so only 3.5 out of 5 (or 7 out of 10).
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Packers dumped Ha Ha as he was gone at the end of the season anyway (Free Agent) and Monty for reason we all know about. McCarthy will be gone at the end of the season unless they go DEEP into the playoffs . . . . .which could happen as nobody in our division wants to win. Get hot at the right time and all that.
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Milwaukee Bucks are the last team standing with zero losses and are 7-0 playing VERY good teams. RPI-wise (balderdash is turning red) the best in the NBA.
RPI - I think RPI is horrific for NCAA football, makes zero sense. But in the NBA where all teams are a lot closer to being evenly matched (not like in football where you can be a 30 point favorite) and play a lot of games. NHL might be good also. NCAA Basketball might be good once they are in league play.
The Bucks are 7-0. The teams they have played have a .557 winning pct before they played the Bucks. THOSE teams opponents have a .557 winning pct and the Bucks have had the 5th hardest schedule so far. So good teams beating other good teams are losing to the Bucks.
With that said - the 4th quarter in-game strategy where you bet ON the team that has lost the first 3 quarters to cover the spread is now 17-6 this year for a sweet 73%.
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OMG - I have a meeting - gotta run - sorry - we're looking into a deck augmentation and had a meeting. MAN things are expensive these days. With a lack of skilled craftsman it's crazy. My brother LITERALLY could not find one company to pour his driveway. Called like 3 places and not one showed up for an estimate. He has a new furnace but nobody will install it.
America is at full employment and it SUCKS because of the lack of workers. A friend wanted to build a brewery - NOPE - there are no construction companies that could do it, found one but they were charging almost the entire project as overtime. No workers.
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Anyway - that is it for now.
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