Here is your German Phrase of the Day:

Deine Katze ist gebrennt.

Deine Katze ist gebrennt.

That’s “Your cat is on fire”. Your German Phrase of the Day.

OK, tonights evening snack was leftover beef Stroganoff and a bologna and pickle sandwich.

Either I’m pregnant or someone put THC in my Diet Coke.

OK, so a trucker is tooling down the road near Minot Air Force Base, carrying unspecified parts to an ICBM. A “large bug” lands on his back, and in his panic to get the thing off of him, rolls the truck over.

Sounds silly, but I grew up near there. Have you ever seen the bugs in North Dakota? We had to post sky guards around the kindergartens, for pity’s sake. Give the guy a break. One mosquito up there can make a man lightheaded.

H/T to Danger Room for the linked article.

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Here’s how I expected my weekend to go:

Friday – Go to Fort Knox at lunch to sign out an area for the weekend. Spend the evening getting me and Girlie Bear ready for our weekend bow hunt at Fort Knox

Saturday – Get up early, head down to Radcliff, and spend the day bow hunting with Girlie Bear. Maybe knock off early and take the family to the Louisville Zoo for their Halloween party.

Sunday – Hunt in the morning and early afternoon. Spend the early evening dialed in to support some network testing. Watch football that was recorded earlier that day.

Here’s how it went:

Thursday – Junior Bear has a very severe teenager meltdown. Up until the wee hours of the morning dealing with that

Friday – Have to take the day off work to deal with the aftermath of Thursday evening. Do not go to Fort Knox, do not collect $200. When I drop Baby Bear off at day care, the !@#$!@!@#$! van won’t start, again.

Saturday – Can’t go hunting because it would be irresponsible to be out of contact for 12 hours when the family is having a dramatic episode. Spend the day doing house work and playing with Girlie Bear and Baby Bear. Take Girlie Bear out for a treat to try to make up a little for not going hunting. Go to dinner at a friend’s house instead of the zoo.

Sunday – Go grocery shopping because Old Mother Hubbard had moved into our kitchen. Take myself up to the day care center and fix the van. It wasn’t Chrysler’s fault. When I “fixed” it last weekend, I had put the bolts that hold the starter on the block improperly, and the starter was coming off of the block when I tried to start it. That only took about 2 hours to diagnose and other hour to fix. Luckily, I didn’t ruin either the flywheel or the starter. Watched a little football, then dialed in to support that network testing. After the baby went to bed, played Yahtzee and drank Mexican Coca-Cola with Girlie Bear and Irish Woman. We lit the first fire of the year, and it’s a good relaxing way to end the weekend.

So, even though my plans for the weekend were totally dashed before the weekend even got started, it’s been OK. Got a lot done, still spent time with Girlie Bear, and I even got to watch some football.

We’ll go to the zoo next weekend. Hopefully the weather will be nice.

OK, here we go. Here’s hoping I can repeat my success of last weekend.

Cinci at Baltimore – Baltimore
Washington at Carolina – Carolina
Cleveland at Buffalo – Cleveland
Pittsburg at Detroit – Steelers
Dallas at Kansas City – Kansas City
Minnesota at Saint Louis – Minnesota. Go Vikings!
Oakland at New York Giants – Oakland RAIDERS!!!!!!
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia – Tampa Bay
Atlanta at San Fransisco – Atlanta
Houston at Arizona – Houston
New England at Denver – Denver
Jacksonville at Seattle – Jacksonville
Indianapolis at Tennessee – Indi
New York Jets at Miami – Jets

A few weeks ago, I reported that the firearms manufacturer Izmash might be going bankrupt.

For shooters, this would have been remarkable and troubling.

Turns out, it was a false alarm. A court in Russia has found that the company is indeed not going out of business.

Good to hear. I’ve been eyeing one of their products for a while.

OK, my ancestors conquered Britain, forced the king of France to give away almost half of their country, and settled lands as far west as Canada. My grandfather left a hard life in Norway to come to an even harder life in North Dakota.

Scandinavians are known to be practical, hard-nosed individuals. I certainly work to be that person.

Then why did a group of Norwegians award the Nobel Peace Prize to Barak Obama?

OK, he’s a historical figure. He’s the president, for one. He’s also the first “minority” president.

But other than that, what has he done?

He’s failed to get just about any major legislative initiatives through Congress. He’s wasted his time trying to get Chicago a nod for host of the 2016 Olympics.

He hasn’t done anything remarkable in the foreign policy realm. Heck, at least Clinton had the Dayton Accords to point at.

Now, if he does something remarkable over the rest of his term, I’ll be the first one to applaud when he gets it. I’m not saying that he shouldn’t ever get this honor, but he hasn’t earned it.

If they’re using this major award to encourage him to do good, then maybe they need to look at the charter for the award. It’s not for what you might do, it’s for what you have done.

Last night I drove through Starbucks and ordered a decaf nonfat no-whip pumpkin spice latte.

Question:

Did I pay $4.00 for a cup of hot flavored milk?

When you are in a meeting or on a conference call and your immediate response to a question is “Are you deaf or just stupid”, you need to leave the meeting. Your job is not worth it.