I am pleased to say that today I am featured on Distant Replays home page at www.distantreplays.com. as "Larry Heagle of the Washington Redskins.
I feel like a traitor! Trouble is, I didn't have my wearable Packer helmet finished when Andy Hyman asked me to send some examples of the helmets I had been working on.
I am still recovering from last night's testicle festival activities in Downsville. I ain't gonna lie -- I wasn't cut out (excuse the pun) to be downing bull nuts. TJ's has a great menu the rest of the year. My very favorite -- and I've talked about this before -- is his aged sirloin steak. My God! John ages them himself and he really knows what he's doing. I have never found a steak that can hold a candle to his -- not even the sirloin at the Tea Steak House, Tea, South dakota, just out of Sioux Falls, which runs a close second.
Last night, before I left for Downsville, Kim and I met Jim and Donna Backus for an early supper at The Galloway Street Grille, a relatively new eatery near the Eau Claire Post Office.
I arrived before any of the rest of the party so I sat at the bar and reached over to check the menu. What is it with Eau Claire? Restaurant menus are nearly interchangeable. A page of salads, a page of burgers, a steak or two, shrimp and walleye -- all the usual suspects. Kim ordered the Caesar Salad and I ordered the Galloway Grille Burger -- a half pound burger that was cooked to dry.
Kim's Caesar dressing had no relation to what I consider a Caesar dressing should be -- no anchovy or romano cheese whatsoever.
Kim liked it because at least the lettuce wasn't served ice cold.
Generally? Yawn-ola! Lat's face it -- Eau Claire is a meat and potatoes town, with the exception of St Patrick's Day -- which is another meat and potatoes day -- with barely passable corned beef and boiled potatoes -- and EEEUUUUU! Green Beer! couldn't we at least get Guiness Stout? Or a bottle of Harp Lager?
Actually I am being a little too harsh. you CAN find Harp and Guiness.
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And garnered from my overnight e mail:
A Message by George Carlin:
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...
Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.
Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
If you don't send this to at least 8 people....Who cares?
George Carlin
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