Up from 12-1:30 Friday morning with fiona. Up for the day at 4am.
Drove up with my buddy ___, a 6'5" mechanical engineer, avid outdoorsman, and dead head. he took apart his subarau's engine, and put it back together, just for fun, a few weeks ago.
I asked him for directions to his place, he sent me a satellite photo, with his building circled.
Ah, geek humour.
had my first Cracker Barrel experience. When you have to enter a restaurant through it's gift shop, it's not really about the food.
Caught my limit on Walleye for the day, in just over two hours.
They tasted really good for dinner, with Point Beer and garlic bread.
Poker - texas hold 'em is stoopid. With the myriad poker game choices, how did this one end up on TV?
seven card stud's way better.
I was up for 21 hours straight on Friday. No idea how I ended up winning money, as I was half asleep for the last few hands.
Maybe that's the key to success.
Saturday the weather got real weird. wind so strong it negated the current on the river. we were drifting UP stream.
We caught very few fish.
Called it quits and checked out the classic car show downtown.
Winneconne starts at 1st street, ends at 3rd street, and is only one street wide. half the town was blocked off for this show.
The show's DJ leaned heavily on polka music and Elvis songs. Not the cool hip new wave Elvis, either.
As the show broke up, all the hot rods gathered together, and had a group engine rev. If I wasn't sterile before....
witnessed several very cool lightning shows on Saturday afternoon.
We're all old enough to have appreciated the rapid drop in temp, because it meant good sleeping weather.
every young woman who waited on us in this town was beautiful. Not sure how they do it. Fresh faced, big eyed, nicely put together.
Wish the same could be said for the sporting goods store's calendar models. each unit had a calendar in it, in hopes you'd want to buy one.
uh.... no.
Stayed out of the town bar. played lots of cards, was relatively moderate in my behaviour.
There was a walmart sponsored bass tournie on Saturday there, and it tanked, because of the bad weather. I don't even have punchlines or ancedotes for "walmart bass tourney".
No stringer of fish on Saturday means we ate pizza.
We wandered into one of two pizza joints in town, found it to be the one that did not serve beer, or even really have seating.
We found the other one after the fact, which encouraged beer drinking AND sitting. I've filed it away for next time.
We entered, and a guy in a wheel chair took our order.
We popped out to the beer store, came back, and he was standing at the prep counter, making our pizza's. he then walked them across to the oven.
it was a miracle.
praise jesus.
Drove home through a flooded WI Sunday morning, in a torrential downpour, with a guy who was determined to play DJ non-stop on his in-dash I-pod thingy, while driving.
In a torrential downpour.
On flooded highways.
"Uh, how about we listen to ther radio?"
Mars Cheese Castle - if entering or leaving WI, and yuo find you have a hankerin' for some cheese, or some jerky, or even some way overpriced candy - this is the place.
It's the size of a denny's, and it has bus parking...
a bag containing wet clothes, a small carrier bag I used as a tacklebox, a rain poncho and a pair of Kean water sandals, did not make it home with me, and noone can figure out how this happened....
very sad.
So - mixed weekend. was great to get away. Was a little unsettling when wendy called me Saturday evening from our basement, where she and Fiona holed up until the tornado warning expired....
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