If you have a Costco nearby, check it after the holidays for Sierra Nevada Celebration. Last year my Costco didn’t carry it, but two years ago, they marked it down to $10.99 for a 24 pack after the holidays.

I’m not sure how well this link will work, but outside of Westby, WI there is a normal intersection with yield signs on all four sides. My theory is that the world will end when 4 cars arrive there simultaneously.

I remember the horrified look on my future wife’s face when I told her about the Christmas dinner she was going to. One side of my family is heavily Norwegian so they used to serve lutefisk, lefse, and oyster stew. Fortunately for her, the lutefisk was no longer part of dinner. It had inexplicably been replaced by…

I hate the “give me a call” with no details voicemail. At least let me know what you need so I can pull the file or find it on my computer. What I really hate are the people who call me to tell me they are sending me an email. That happens way more times than it should.

When I was shopping for minivans, it drove me crazy that to get the DVD player option, I had to buy one of the top trim levels in the Honda and Toyota vans. That put the sticker price at $40k+. I ended up with a Town & Country because that option was offered on less expensive trims.

On my way home from work I go down a fairly steep 1/4-1/3 mile hill with a right hand curve about halfway down it. It’s a 4 lane road divided by curbs and a grass median. As I’m pulling up to the stoplight at the bottom of the hill, I notice something odd in my mirror. It’s a complete tire and rim rolling down the…

My wife and I got back from Paris last week and we were able to get right up to the railing at the Mona Lisa after waiting for 2-3 people to take selfies. It really irritated her how many people just seemed to be there to take their pictures with this painting or other sites and weren’t actually looking at the artwork…

I’m also a Packers fan and there is something wrong with the entire team. Rodgers is off and when he does make a nice throw, the receivers drop it. The receivers can’t get open. The O-line can’t block. The defense has no pass rush which leads to the secondary getting torched. Special teams are not good as usual.

All 9 of his supporters were deeply saddened after hearing the news.

I had season tickets to my local minor league team and the best intermission entertainment was the little kids playing. Most of them would just end up in a pile after they all chased the puck. There would always be one kid who could skate far better than everyone else and better than I probably ever will be able to.

I was on the Radiance a few years ago which is much smaller. It was mostly smooth except for coming into and out of Cozumel. Leaving Cozumel, the ship was rocking pretty good. They had these self-leveling pool tables that were really bizarre to watch during the rough seas. The combination of the boat moving and the…

Sometimes they have to be careful of the ambulance.

I live close enought my office that I can go home for lunch. The UPS guy usually shows up around 5 pm, but today he showed up while I was eating. I got to open up the game but had to go back to work. I have concert tickets tonight so I probably won’t get to play anyway.

I got mine from Best Buy and the weight says 8 lbs on UPS’s site. I’m ticked that mine arrived at UPS’s Chicago area hub on Saturday morning which is about two hours from me. Usually that means something will be delivered the next business day. Not with this one, it’s still in Chicago. I bought the guide from Amazon…

It’s not an ad campaign but I’m amused when it says “Closed Course, Professional Driver, Do Not Attempt” when the car is normally driving down a straight road at 30 mph. I know a bunch of lawyers require that on any car commercial. On the other hand, there will be ads where it’s supposedly “ordinary people” driving…

I think it is more of a natural reaction by Rossi. It looks like the knee moved when Marquez’s helmet touched Rossi. Rossi was wrong to run Marquez wide, but I think he was trying to send a message that battling each corner wasn’t helping them catch Lorenzo.

I was disappointed the game ended on a field goal. I was hoping Brees would get a chance to break the passing TD record.

I DVR’d the game last night and I had to stop watching. I told my wife we should watch The Walking Dead because I needed to watch something happier. After that was over, I pretty much fast forwarded through a large part of the second half and didn’t miss anything. Denver has a hell of a defense and the Packers…

I was at a hotel in Istanbul a couple of years ago and the plumbing & sewer system is really old in the historic center of the city. It can’t handle toilet paper very well, so there was a wastebasket next to the toilet where used toiler paper was supposed to go. That was common to everywhere in that area.

I was in Montreal several years ago and there was a restaurant and Notre Dame that both took US dollars. The exchange rate was even at the time. The tourist areas in Mexico almost always take dollars too. They tend to give a lousy exchange rate on the dollar. Instead of the actual 12 to 1 peso to dollar rate, they…