Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Warm Weather

Not to be one of those who constantly remind you about how great the weather is where they live but.  With high is int 20's every day and lows around 15 this weather is great.  Of course most people here think it is the end of the world its sooo cold.

On a side note I also found out just how hilly it is here.  I decided to go pick up Isaac and Nora from Daycare using the Bike trailer.  Of note the bike trailer is not really made for 2 kids in winter gear even though it says it fits 2 kids.  Anyway Pulling an extra 50 lbs plus the bike trailer up sone of these hills was interesting.  I was standing and pedaling as absolutely hard as I could and barely made it up a few hills.  It was great excercise but tough work....

Thursday, January 13, 2011

TV

My ancient 29" Tube TV did not make the move.  Part of me was a little sad to see it go only because the energy was spent to actually move it that it would be nice if it would work.  I have since purchased a new TV which Koogs thins is of course way too big.   In any case I realized I know very little about current technology and paying a cable bill sucks even if I get part of it paid by work. 

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Now..

when talking about Come Feel the Illinoise I think its ok to pronouce the S...

Some sweet threads for Nora.


Thursday, January 6, 2011

The Silent S

We made it to State College(I guess I need to change the header on this blog some how).  It was pretty un-eventful trip.  Kids traveled great, of course they were with grandma and grandpa the entire time.  We were missing the snow as none was on the ground until tonight.  We figure we had the snowiest December on record in Minneapolis and maybe we can have the snowiest January on record here.

We have had a few issues with our house.  Go figure.  Everyone we have had come do work has been really nice and done really great work at a lot cheaper then Minneapolis.  Tonight however we had to have our sewer pipe cleaned out.  As one can imagine sewer pipe cleaners are not typically rocket scientists.  Now I will preface this entire thing with the fact that they people doing work here were nice and did good work.  They arrived a little earlier then they were supposed to and we were just arriving back from running some errands.  So we get by the first little bit of chit chat and he asks me that he noticed my cell phone was a 612 number and where that was from.  I said oh Minneapolis.  About 5 minutes later as we are talking he asks.  Where is Minneapolis.  I said oh in Minnesota.  About 5 minutes later he asks where is Minnesota.  Is it out near Illinois(no silent S).  I say well a little north and west of there.  Then he goes on to ask me if it is cold there.   While this conversation is unfolding in my head I started to think holy crap after all this time giving Minnesotans hard times about there inferiority complex and the like that maybe there is a reason for it.  Oh and the fact that I wanted to grab him by the scruff of his neck and scream the S is silent in Illinois.