We went to bingo at a local casino the other night. It was different. The game was the same: call numbers, mark the spaces, Holler if you get a bingo. I’m used to bar bingo. They walk around after every game and sell you sheets of paper with three bingo cards on each. Sometimes two… [read more…]

The title of this post is a phrase I heard on a video call the other day. I’m sure it has been around for a while, but I hadn’t heard it or didn’t remember it. It refers to the ubiquity of video calls and the need to only look good from the waist up. Look… [read more…]

Some of the family hosted this year’s Breakfast On The Farm. They have a herd of Black Angus and grow the hay they need. The farm itself is fun to visit. There is always stuff going on and I like learning about how it all operates. Breakfast on the Farm is a Midwest thing, primarily… [read more…]

Itasca State Park is our “home” campground. My wife’s family has been coming here since before she was born. I joined the family 20ish years ago and have been up here twice a year since then. The lake is about a hundred yards from the campsites we usually are at and we walk past it… [read more…]

A bunch of us were out for dinner this evening. A common question came up: What are you ordering? That, and a million versions of the same, gets asked at many restaurants and many meals. Maybe I’m with the only people that do this, but I doubt that. I know I ask that when there… [read more…]