So, I’m in Minnesota this week for work. Just got here today and I’ve noticed a few things.

1. Minnesota has “Land of 10000 Lakes” on their license plates. Neill told me once that Wisconsin actually has more lakes than that, and he’s right. According to the Minnesota DNR website, Minnesota actually has 11,842 lakes. A lot of lakes. But, I checked out Wisconsin’s site and check this out: Wisconsin has 15,081 lakes!! I wasn’t a math major, but that’s advantage Wisconsin by over 3200 lakes! How come we aren’t known as the land of 15,000 lakes then? No, instead we are called “America’s Dairyland” even though California outproduces us. This doesn’t make any sense…

2. No one speeds. I’m not a huge speed-demon on the roads, but the speed limit here is 60 mph. I was going 63 and BLOWING past people. So, obviously they aren’t even going 60. Either they know something I don’t, or Minnesota people are in no hurry to get anywhere.

3. I have been chosen as “Guest of the Day.” Yeah, that’s right. My hotel is giving me a complimentary dinner or breakfast in their restaurant OR room service AND a complimentary in-room movie. Sweet!

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a movie to watch…

It’s been just over a year since we were all blessed with the good ol “Boom Goes the Dynamite” video. So, in honor, let’s take another look at the video which allowed us to say things like “Hack-em Warrick” and “He passes it to the man….” and “Four on the four on.” Ahhh yes. Thanks Brian Collins.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO.

Great. Just in time for me to do my travelling for work (and for pleasure), gas prices are soaring high again. On the way into work this morning, I think the gas station said $3.09/gallon. In true terms of “It Could Always Be Worse,” check out how high gas is in California:

The price of full service high octane gas reaches $4.049 dollars per gallon Thursday, April 20, 2006, at a gas station in Beverly Hills, Calif. Oil prices held steady near record highs Thursday after weekly data showed a drop in U.S. gasoline stocks, raising worries that refiners don’t have an adequate inventory cushion ahead of the peak summer driving season. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

I wish I had a picture of this to post on here, but maybe I’ll add one this afternoon.

I am on a medication for my migraines called Imitrex. It comes in 3 different forms: a pill, a nasal spray and a shot. I am on two of those–the pill and the nasal spray. Basically, if one doesn’t work, I try the other.

The nasal sprays are nice and as compact as a nasal spray can get. Not too hard to fit into my purse. But the pills? you’d think they would come in a nice little pill container or something. But nooooooooooo….

They come in this gigantic box. it’s about 6.5″ x 4″. That’s big. To kind of see how big that is, take a regular sheet of paper and fold it in 3s, like you are going to mail a letter. Now, take one of those sections and just cut 2 inches off the length. That’s the size of the box that these pills come in. PLUS, it’s not just one side, it’s trifolded, just like the letter that you just made. So, I basically have this book that I have to put in my purse just in case I get headaches.

Why don’t I take them out of the packages and just put them in another pill box? Because the manufacturer says that the pills will lose their effectiveness if you take them out of the package before you use them. Usually, I’d say “who cares?” but these pills aren’t cheap. I’m not sure how much other people are paying, but I get 8 pills a month, and that’s $30. Add that on top of the 6 nasal sprays I get every month for another $30, and that’s a decent chunk of change to just go messing around with.

So yeah. This is my ranting and raving towards Glaxo-Kline, who manufactures my pills. I get it. You want to advertise your company/pill. But I am more apt to tell people about it because it works, not because of the bigass box of pills that I have to haul out every time I get a headache. In that respect, when someone asks me what that is, they get a negative response from me because it’s annoying to carry that around.

Anyone else have annoying things they have to carry around with them?

I finally went down to the main computer (ever since I got my laptop with wireless internet, I don’t go down to the big computer much anymore) to upload (and censor) my pictures from opening day last week. Sure, it was cold. And windy. And semi-wet. But the Brewers won and everyone had a good time, so that’s all that matters, right?

Click here to view the rest of my pictures.

And Neill has his posted too–check out his post here.

Any night that ends in making a pyramid must have been a good night…

Remember kids… always settle your dead father’s phone bills…

Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.

Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father’s phone line in January after he died and settled the 84 ringgit ($23) bill, the New Straits Times reported.

But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit ($218 trillion) bill for recent telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the newspaper reported.

It wasn’t clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya’s father’s phone line was used illegally after after his death.

“If the company wants to seek legal action as mentioned in the letter, I’m ready to face it,” the paper quoted Yahaya as saying. “In fact, I can’t wait to face it,” he said.

Yahaya, from northern Kedah state, received a notice from the company’s debt-collection agency in early April, the paper said. Yahaya said he nearly fainted when he saw the new bill.

Even if this was used illegally after his father’s death, who spends $218 trillion on phone calls? I would probably faint if my cell phone bill was over $500, much less $218 TRILLION!

It’s that time of the year again, my friends. It’s time for the ladies to gawk at their favorite Brewers and for the men to come out and say “yeah, that’s a good lookin’ man” and say it with pride. It’s the 3rd annual “Rank your 2006 Milwaukee Brewers” posting. I did this in 2004, and Brett Favre won (yeah, so it was only me and Neill that voted and he didn’t even vote for a Brewer). Last year, 2005, voter turnout was up and Turnbow won. Let’s see what happens this year…

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