This is a Doozie!

I have always been a jigsaw puzzle fan but this puzzle, I don't know about. At 5000 pieces it is BIG but it is also a very challenging puzzle. After 3 months we only have a couple hundred pieces together but still I am hoping we can finish it by Fall. If we miss the deadline we might have to have a puzzle burning party. If we finish it I think we should glue it together and give it as wedding gift. I mean seriously what could be more meaningful than a gift you spent 500 hours on?

I found a famous landowner!

So my quest to find a famous landowner is over. If my co-workers had a dollar for everytime they had to tell me that no, SD landowner Dale Murphy, did not play baseball for the Braves and no, ND landowner Kevin Brokaw, is not Tom Brokaw's brother, they would not work here anymore.

The good news came in today that the Timberwolve's owner Glen Taylor owns land in one of our Iowa windsites. According to Forbes, Glen Taylor is worth 1.8 billion dollars, is # 59 on the Forbes 400 List and is from Comfrey MN. This guys seems like a gem, I guess he owns over 7000 acres of land which he donates to small farms to keep the small farm thriving. Glen that is awesome! Now if he could just make the Timberwolves thrive he would be a hero.

Hey what's on your upper lip?

Looks like moustache on the left and strawberry margarita on the right.

Ben and I hosted a party at his place Saturday night. We had a good turnout, a good time, and a good fire but something was missing. Only old people came, seriously everyone was gone by 1 am, nobody had to stay over because they couldn't drive and the day after we still had a fridge plump full of beer. Hello people are you 25 or 60?

March Madness

or sadness, depending on what side of the coin you fall on. Ben and I snuck out of work on Wednesday morning to see the Willmar High School girls basketball team play in the state tourney. Unfortunately they lost to a private metro team, but hey at least they made the dance.
There is basketball all around right now, which is very cool. I am hoping to snag tickets to a couple of NCAA games but tickets are scarce and prices are high so we will probably just watch on TV like everyone else. We are doing brackets at work and one co-worker, who is not a b-ball fan, has all the picks correct after Thursday's game. I am amazed, I only got about half right with all the first round upsets.

More fun than a barrel of monkeys.

I found this on Jason Mulgrew's blog and it is seriously the biggest time killer ever, but funny. Real funny.

Come on curling is cool

We went and checked out some curling last night in St. Paul. I won't lie and say it was fast paced and exciting nor will I tell you that the participants were particularly athletic or attractive but it was fun. I think it is fun learning something new and trying to figure out the rules and strategy of curling was enjoyable. Plus all the people who work there are all real nice and welcoming to visitors.

I guess with all the Minnesota Olympic hype, curling is the THING to do so of course we are going to give it a go. The St. Paul Curling Club offers a 2 hour clinic for people who are curious and they loan you all the equipment you need. How sweet for only $10.

The scoring is a little confusing, but once you get it is really simple, like horseshoes. What is the score of this end?

So how come I have never heard of this?

So apparently today is International Women's Day. It was on my one a day comic calendar so I looked it up. It is legit so why have I never heard of it? Here are some more holidays, I am not so familiar with...

-March 14 - Purim, must be Jewish or something?
-April 20 - Admin Professionals Day -
-May 20 - Armed Forces Day
-October 3 - Yom Kippur - Jewish again, I think
-October 16 - National Boss Day
-October 24 - United Nations Day

Hmm this post is going nowhere, I gotta stop. I did read that if you have a blog that was once easy to post on but you suddenly find yourself with nothing to write about you must be happy.....or maybe bored.

Good Advice

Oh and don't cross your eyes either, you know what happens then. This picture is not from Kentucky, it is from Virginia, MN. Believe what you see in North Country.

Funny Money

Wow the new $10 bill is odd looking. I don't think it looks fake like Monopoly money but more like someone spilled Tang on it. Seriously who chose the orange colored back?