By Popular Demand

I have been asked to provide photographic evidence that the Lambeau Field photo is in fact up on my bedroom wall so here it is next to the painting that Jan did of my old pal Ben. (For the uninitiated it is a photo of 4 hooligans standing amidst a crowd of 70,000 people behind a big BURNLEY flag). 

And finally, thinking back to that historic day at Lambeau Field,  in these times of war and strife it's good to look back on a  moment of international peace and reconciliation that touched the hearts of many:

"Ratch, SHUT UP and let me give you this scarf"

The famous Ratch & Deb's.

Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan!

10:35:45 PM    comment []

Recent news in brief

Weekend before last Janet and I went to the famous-for-being-expensive Treasury restaurant in Ripon, which is housed in an old bank. By careful manipulation of the tip, a meal for two came to $99.99 so I didn't spend $100 on it, honest. We spent the weekend in the lodge at the Mecan River Outfitters and very nice it was too. Sorry no photos, didn't take the camera. We did about 10 miles on cross country skis on Saturday, and 0 miles cross country skiing on Sunday owing to severe blistering of the feet! Skiing through the forest trails was great even if I did fall over about 5 times for every once that Janet did. On Sunday we flew round Lake Winnebago in the Citabria (there was a 2-lane ice road right across the lake with lots of vehicular traffic) and I dropped Janet off at the airport in Appleton to collect her car. Another busy week at work just flew by...

This weekend just gone I hung around the house on Saturday, listened to the match on internet radio and hurt my vocal cords when Super Glen knocked in a winner just as it seemed to be heading for 0-0. A vital win. Bought tickets to see The Darkness in Milwaukee on March 26th. I flew the Citabria for an hour in the afternoon and made myself mildly sick doing too many steep turns. In the evening it was EAA Chapter 252's annual banquet in the Museum. They did very well and had 150 people in attendance. I was on the program of speakers and just spoke off the cuff for a while, reflecting somewhat on it being exactly 3 years since I came to America. I can do this OK if I've had just the right amount of beer - i.e. enough to be oiled but not so much as to be incoherent! They are a nice bunch of people. There was a silent auction and I bid on a couple of small things... but Janet secretly bid on - and won - the top item, a 1 hour aerobatic flight with Sean D. Tucker which she promptly presented to me as a birthday present! So a bigger cheque ended up being written than was expected, but it will be an interesting experience - he's a larger than life character, as you will see if you care to watch the video clip we've got up on the Museum website here. I have to go to California to take the flight, but have got two other reasons to go there soon. Thanks Janet! Sunday was spent cooped up in the office catching up work :(

10:31:22 PM    comment []