Fist pounding, yelling and insults - and that was just deciding how best to micro manage staff on deciding what copier they should select (that first part could be slightly over the top I suppose). Either the majority of council 1. have nothing better to do then take 10 minutes AGAIN to decide and debate on the correct copier or 2. believe staff does not have the ability to choose a copier on their own. I thought Council was for governing a city and not for debating the purchase office equipment. But maybe I'm wrong.
BUT, you should see closed session when, hate, anger, arrogance, disrespect, ludicrous acquisitions and total uncontrolled buffoonish chaos reign, AND IT'S NOT EVEN ON TOPIC (at least it should be on topic).
It would be funny if it was not so sad and embarrassing. I kept out of the frey last night - I was in it last meeting so I'm not innocent. When cornered I have this bad tendency to fight back (I got beat up in junior high once by a bully LOL).
OH wait - am I being too transparent again? I'll drop the subject.
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Then there is our buffoon Governor who is so smart economically that he has a net wort of -$71,000. Which includes a $15,000, 27% credit card bill. 27%?
Wait - have you noticed that the blog after council I'm always a little irritable? I really loath politics when politicians act like politicians and not like regular people that just have more facts at hand then most people.
STOP STOP - get on another subject, don't let others silly anger rule me.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Kraft Foods recalled 36,000 cases of individually packaged American Cheese because of a choaking hazard because the plastic might not come off.
This means that people are eating American Cheese with so rapaciously they never notice the plastic or the plastic and cheese flavor are totally indistinguishable. mmmmmmm American Cheese the Miller Lite of cheese product.
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University of Wisconsin was ranked as the #3 party school!!! Well done! U of Illinois was #1 and U of Iowa was #2 - GO BIG TEN!!
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Seems 33% of the medal winners in the last three Olympics were doping. Can't trust any sport. At least the NFL has that problem licked - no one ever gets caught for doping so it must not be happening. Same with professional golf. Weird how some players got REALLY big REALLY fast . . . . . Tiger?
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Monday, August 3, 2015
Clyman-tized
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A good friend of mine contracted me last week. We became friends in the Public Enemies era of Columbus and her village was in desperate need for a photographer and I was the very last choice for help.
I agreed and DJ and I spent time in Clyman, population 422. Did you know the post office in Clyman has been operating since 1849? Clyman is a young town with a medium age of 36 (Columbus is 38).
ANYWAY - for the first time in 50 years the 118 year old Firefighters Tournament was being held in Clyman and they wanted me to sort of document the event. There was a week long softball tournament of which I see Columbus did not have a team and there was a big celebration Sunday ending with a firefighter barrel water tournament thingy (for lack of a better word).
Of course when I agreed to take photos I completely forgot about Ale and Arts in Columbus. ARG!!
They had a fantastic Fish Fry Friday night and an amazing Chicken Dinner Sunday. I'm still trudging through the 299 photos I took. This was a pretty big deal for a pretty small town.
The photo on the right is of a foreign exchange kid from Tokyo. Talk about a culture shock being 12 years old coming from Tokyo (populating 13 million) and ending up in Reeseville Wisconsin (population 708).
I was told he has a good command of the English language but is very quiet. In Japan children are seen not heard. And in the States strangers talk to strangers which is unheard of in Japan. There was a thing on travel tips for Japanese tourists on what to expect of Americans. One was that we tend to talk to cashiers in grocery stores and will strike up conversations with a common stranger for no reason at all.
These guys won a goldfish. WHAT LUCK!
One of the tournaments was the firefighter water squirting barrel thing which on a 90 degree day felt pretty darn good at times.
Here is the Clyman Firefighters who I hear were ROBBED from victory.
That was pretty fun to watch.
I think there were about 10 fire departments in the tournament. Kids loved getting wet.
The Clyman parade was really excellent. Every fire department marched through town, very professional.
I'm kind of laughing at that photo bomb on the bottom.
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SO - seems people were wondering where I was at Arts and Ales. Frankly, A&A is a poor fit for me on a number of levels and I'll give it to you straight. For one thing I'm not sure how many people attending A&A want to spend $385 on a piece of at work which is my average price.
It's problematic getting my canopy up and down and I really really loath art fairs that have other things going on besides art. It's not conducive to sales and taking a canopy down (normally 1.5 hours) becomes more like 3 hours when people are still around and I have to drive a trailer in and out of partiers.
When I was in Spring Green for their art fair they actually had a starting time and a ending time and announced it. It was GREAT. Vendors loved it. There is nothing worse then trying to pack up and people are still looking and talking and milling about getting in the way. You have put in a 12 hour day with no breaks and are normally hot, cranky, tired and hungry even if you have had a GREAT day.
A&A is a fantastic event for crafts, not so much for large cumbersome art and large trailers. Have it in Firemans Park would be a different story but A&A is meant to get people downtown (that place with the buildings if you are unfamiliar with that term) of which Hydro Street and the Ninja's do a fantastic job. Those two groups have done more for the downtown then people realize.
From what I saw yesterday Arts and Ales is sort of out growing their spot and need to add another street.
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On this day in 1492 Columbus set sail with three ships to find a western sea route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia. Of course Columbus never ever set foot on what we call America! EVER! Never really got close actually.
Giovanni Caboto was actually closer. The US was fighting England and not Spain and no one wanted to give credit top Giovanni Caboto who started England's colonization of most of North America. So we gave credit to Columbus. Our little town COULD be called Caboto.
Columbus "discovered" the Bahamas and that was the closest he ever got.
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I don't have many things on my bucket list.
A REAL Roller Coaster is one.
A Nightwish concert is another and attending Burning Man in Black Rock Desert in Nevada is another
The event is described as an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance. This years theme is "Carnival of Mirrors". I think it's the closest thing to Mad Max in the States.
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Have a great Monday! Beautiful week coming out!! I have an Art Fair in Paoli Saturday and Fitchburg the next Saturday.
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A good friend of mine contracted me last week. We became friends in the Public Enemies era of Columbus and her village was in desperate need for a photographer and I was the very last choice for help.
I agreed and DJ and I spent time in Clyman, population 422. Did you know the post office in Clyman has been operating since 1849? Clyman is a young town with a medium age of 36 (Columbus is 38).
ANYWAY - for the first time in 50 years the 118 year old Firefighters Tournament was being held in Clyman and they wanted me to sort of document the event. There was a week long softball tournament of which I see Columbus did not have a team and there was a big celebration Sunday ending with a firefighter barrel water tournament thingy (for lack of a better word).
Of course when I agreed to take photos I completely forgot about Ale and Arts in Columbus. ARG!!
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| Clyman Fire Department |
I was told he has a good command of the English language but is very quiet. In Japan children are seen not heard. And in the States strangers talk to strangers which is unheard of in Japan. There was a thing on travel tips for Japanese tourists on what to expect of Americans. One was that we tend to talk to cashiers in grocery stores and will strike up conversations with a common stranger for no reason at all.
These guys won a goldfish. WHAT LUCK!
One of the tournaments was the firefighter water squirting barrel thing which on a 90 degree day felt pretty darn good at times.
Here is the Clyman Firefighters who I hear were ROBBED from victory.
That was pretty fun to watch.
I'm kind of laughing at that photo bomb on the bottom.
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SO - seems people were wondering where I was at Arts and Ales. Frankly, A&A is a poor fit for me on a number of levels and I'll give it to you straight. For one thing I'm not sure how many people attending A&A want to spend $385 on a piece of at work which is my average price.
It's problematic getting my canopy up and down and I really really loath art fairs that have other things going on besides art. It's not conducive to sales and taking a canopy down (normally 1.5 hours) becomes more like 3 hours when people are still around and I have to drive a trailer in and out of partiers.
When I was in Spring Green for their art fair they actually had a starting time and a ending time and announced it. It was GREAT. Vendors loved it. There is nothing worse then trying to pack up and people are still looking and talking and milling about getting in the way. You have put in a 12 hour day with no breaks and are normally hot, cranky, tired and hungry even if you have had a GREAT day.
A&A is a fantastic event for crafts, not so much for large cumbersome art and large trailers. Have it in Firemans Park would be a different story but A&A is meant to get people downtown (that place with the buildings if you are unfamiliar with that term) of which Hydro Street and the Ninja's do a fantastic job. Those two groups have done more for the downtown then people realize.
From what I saw yesterday Arts and Ales is sort of out growing their spot and need to add another street.
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On this day in 1492 Columbus set sail with three ships to find a western sea route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia. Of course Columbus never ever set foot on what we call America! EVER! Never really got close actually.
Giovanni Caboto was actually closer. The US was fighting England and not Spain and no one wanted to give credit top Giovanni Caboto who started England's colonization of most of North America. So we gave credit to Columbus. Our little town COULD be called Caboto.
Columbus "discovered" the Bahamas and that was the closest he ever got.
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I don't have many things on my bucket list.
A REAL Roller Coaster is one.
A Nightwish concert is another and attending Burning Man in Black Rock Desert in Nevada is another
The event is described as an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance. This years theme is "Carnival of Mirrors". I think it's the closest thing to Mad Max in the States.
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Have a great Monday! Beautiful week coming out!! I have an Art Fair in Paoli Saturday and Fitchburg the next Saturday.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
EAA Photos
Nice little rain storm this morning - 0.37 inches. Peak rate was 1.75 inches per hour.
Brady Brady Brady - the cover up is always so much worse then the crime.
And about that lion killing. If killing a beloved lion was bad enough for a person that has already been convicted of killing other animals illegally. NOW - the next lion to head the pack, Jericho, will probably kill Cecil's six cubs so he can insert his bloodline into the pack. It's how they roll.
Isn't killing for fun, even if it's big game sort of like being a serial killer?
Sickening.
OH - the next time you sing Happy Birthday . . . . you better pay up. It cost's $1,500 to pay for those copyright's. The owners of that 1935 copyright have been making $2 million a year.
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EAA
This is America's new F35B fighter that is suppose to replace the Harrier and my 2nd favorite fighter the F18 Hornet (my favorite is the A10 Worthog) . This was the first time it was publicly shown. It can hover!! It only costs 150 million, less then the Bradly Center!
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| F-35B Joint Strike Fighter |
This got a good chuckle out of the crowd. I was REALLY hoping the pilot was not going to demonstrate the afterburners as he was maneuvering around.
When we arrived there was an accident that closed down the runways for a few hours. On average there is one take off every 5 minutes (busiest airport in the world for one week) so you can expect a pretty large backlog of planes wanting to take off.
When the runways opened all three runways were being used for take offs, sometimes 2 planes at a time on each runway. There were about 50 planes in line on each until they cleared the center runway for this.
Yea - I bet the FedEx pilot had just a tiny bit more stress landing.
Don't EVER take this airline - no matter how cheap the seats are. What a mistake.
OH - this is the new Ford. It costs $250,000 but I would not pay over $200,000 for it because I could not find where the bumper hitch was.
Note to self - don't point nothin' at this dude! He and some well armed buddies were guarding the the F35 . . . . in case someone wanted to steal it I guess. I decided NOT to start a conversation with him about gun control.
That's all for today - I have to go to Waunakee and pick up a bunch of art that was in a Parade of homes house. They sold it and my art is no longer needed!
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I sent in my DNA sample to Ancestry.com to see who I really am. There seems to be some inconsistencies in my family that we are investigating.
Cheers!
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