The weather here on singer island in west palm beach FL is great, 80 degrees every day, clear skies. Here are some pictures so far.
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Wisconsin Editor
The weather here on singer island in west palm beach FL is great, 80 degrees every day, clear skies. Here are some pictures so far.
[...]So tonight I found a submission in my editor account inbox from March 6th (sorry a bit late), I say I check the account daily, but you know thats not accurate :)Â
FYI for all, anybody can register a login with this blog and post a story, and commenting doesn’t require an [...]
After what seemed like a really long and tiring workweek I thought maybe I’d have a great weekend out in the sun. Mother nature along with not enough global warming appears to have decided on a slap in the face instead. We’ll be in the low 40’s and below with a [...]
This afternoon I started cleaning out the garage and taking things out. The Gnomes are placed, sold some stuff on craigslist, hose is connected. It started getting a bit chilly so I put in Aliens vs Predator - Requiem. Had it from netflix. I watched the first movie couple years [...]
Watching the morning blend this morning I saw something humorous. The Marcus is having a Children’s Theater performance of The Neverending Story. I guess there is a spider involved made up of 5 kids in one costume. The head is what made me laugh, see if you see what I [...]
This is day 2 of life without fridge and I’ll tell you it is not fun. We had everything on the porch for a few days now but it got up to 45 degrees today, what we weren’t able to saturate with Ice is definitely suspect. We are definitely spoiling [...]
Any of you _unlucky_ people who are on Sprint happen to notice on Saturday the 28th late afternoon/night that your phone was one hour ahead? I was around 3 people who had this who were all on sprint, my AT&T phone was the only one showing the correct time. It caused [...]
Decided to meet up with some friends and go downtown Milwaukee last night. Found out a lot of changes have happened. Have a nice day cafe is no more, replaced by what looks like another boring snobbish joint. After searching around the internet I found more names of places I [...]
I’m back home after going on a turboprop to Munich and then back to Chicago on an A340-300. Each seat had a video on demand screen in front of it which was kind of cool. I watched Eagle Eye and City of Ember, both good movies.
Here are some pictures
Sitting in the Poznan airport waiting for my flight to Munich then to Chicago. I’m definitely rejuvinated for going out, I never used to want to be out at the bars past 1am. While in Poland we only left when the bar closed. This should also mean you will see [...]
I’m back to the homeland again for a bit longer. Next time I will make sure to pack batteries that I know are good :) Here is what I was able to get so far.
Mark Metcalf from Animal House was the anouncer, I went there to watch not jump
I didn’t get any actual splash pictures just videos, it was hard to get a good spot to take pictures. Once a hundred or so people were on the ice, it [...]
Here are some pictures of Leanne’s birthday pajama party in her garage in Sussex, Club Kaboom (by the Library) and today’s nice weather.
Jon and I went downtown to the waterstreet bars this afternoon while Denise was at her daughters baby shower. Took the camera with since it was such a beautiful day and warm.
Went with a buddy of mine to Fletcher Arms today to fire off some rounds with my 9mm. The place was packed just like last Saturday when I went to shoot and decided the line was a bit long. We waited about 45 minutes I think but it was interesting [...]
Tonight I had a sudden urge to fix my couch, that we’ve had for a couple years now I think. About 2 and a half hours later it was done and finally better than it was “new”. Be wary of buying from the clearance section at Steinhafels, this was a [...]
I sure am glad I bought those two big bags of salt from home depot weeks ago when I picked up the roof rake. It didn’t take a whole lot to melt the ice today but without even a little salt its just a lawsuit waiting to happen on the [...]
They have the signs up and everything. I am anxious for Menards to open because there will finally be competition. Home Depot across the street will have to be more in line with prices you see at other places where there are two big hardware stores in the same town.
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Last year we had some black mold growing on the wall in one closet near where we had a good size ice dam in the winter. I’m a little more proactive this year and saw a small ice chunk growing on the roof in the middle of one of the sides. I [...]
These are from the Flat I am staying at. We had some good alcohol on Monday night with some people over from the department.
[...] So today just as we were leaving the house to drive to the location in Waukesha where WE was giving out the 2008 80th anniversary “cookie book” our block lost power. Talk about timing hey! Called it in and left to get the book and do some other running around, [...]
This morning was a complete example of why most people despise the City of Pewaukee Police. Here I was on my way to work when I notice officer Barbrady driving the standard issue Pewaukee (”I’m so full of myself”) branded police car with plates C206. He’s driving with traffic on highway F [...]
I spent a good part of an hour and a half shoveling my home out from what winter brought today (and the dang plow!)
Had to take a break quite a few times and sit on the frozen concrete or snow pile to cool off and re-energize. I’m glad we had [...]
This seems like we are getting a re-run of last winter. It isn’t even Christmas yet and I have piles of snow fairly high already from my yooper scooper.
I am sort of enjoying the exercise and really only hope we dont get ice buildup. I hate worrying about ice [...]
I finished the Christmas gift for my parents in the UP. It works better than the indoor model I made, because of the reflector. I also replaced the political yard sign wire with the same galvanized wire from the indoor model. It is much easier to shape and as long [...]
18 Gauge wire is easy to form to shape, for anything outside it should be fine as long as both the extensions at the top and bottom are braced by PVC (zip tied to it.)Â To be able to do this, you would have the top just like the bottom [...]
I’m trying a second crack at this antenna design (Gray-Hoverman) using less PVC in a more inconspicuous indoor home use. It is based around two shafts that the wire is nut/bolted to and a base to keep it from tipping sideways. The original one I built I think is more [...]
We are looking to get quite a few inches before work tomorrow. Already shoveled the sidewalk, it was getting thick on the North side of the house from just a few hours of it.
[...]We got ours for $40 this year right off Bluemound by Eble Ice Arena, 3rd year in a row we got the perfect tree there. Previous years I thought they were more around $50 for this height.
I’ve got a great white elephant gift idea for all of you, $10 hard [...]
For one week next month I will be travelling on business to Poland. I’ll definitely be taking many pictures with my digital camera and writing of my time there. Some of you know that the majority of my ancestors are Polish.
[...]I received the TR-40CRA unit in the mail yesterday. It goes by that name and the non-coupon version is called the DTVPal. From what I have been able to find out they are the same piece of technology with a different label painted on them. The one branded TR-40CRA is [...]
I just put in an order for the TR-40CRA from DIsh Network with my 2nd coupon. I intentionally only got one coupon earlier on this year so I could another coupon later to get this one made by Dish since it was going to be better than any of the [...]
We were at the Mall yesterday to see the christmas tree light up. As usual we forgot the real camera, we still took some pictures with my nokia. With the magic of bluetooth here they are! There were 3 choppers in the sky hovering about, so I’m sure a bunch [...]
I’ve been reading about this Gray-Hoverman antenna and looking at all the different implementations in diagrams and pictures and finally devled into it. I’m using 1/2″ PVC pipe (my first exercise ever working with PVC.)
I need to pick up some anchoring nuts/bolts/washers for the wire and I need to grab [...]
I have some very sad news from Yesterday that I first heard today. Michael Crichton died yesterday. Apparently he was quietly battling cancer for some time. He has one book finished that was delayed for release when he went for medical care for his cancer. My guess is it will [...]
I was fortunate enough to get the second half of the working day off today. I spent it hand washing both of our cars with a bucket and rag. Finally got all the baked on dinosaur bugs off the front of the Spectra. Some of them really needed elbow grease. [...]
Some people do volunteer work without even identifying themselves, leaving no trace of who they were so that they can not benefit for any recognition afterward. This happened to me this last weekend. We came home from a weekend trip to the UP to find our front yard fairly leafless, and [...]
(not my writing)
A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (an exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the [...]
I know I’ve seen a lot of Ron Paul signs back towards the primaries. If anyone out there is interested in the Libertarian party of WI, please check them out, or send me a message editor@blogwaukesha.com and I can get you the information. I’m going to be doing door to [...]
Back before the primaries I was seeing ads all over for the two Democratic runners for the 97th district state assembly. Ever since that ended it seems all newspaper articles and yard signs have disappeared as fast as the change in weather patterns we have experienced. I haven’t seen any [...]
[one of the remaining survivors]
Criminals struck the house again, removing a new pumpkin we bought over the weekend. We have some left, along with extra we bought just in case. I went out and bought a couple items to deter future crime, petroleum jelly and pins. Can [...]
Haven’t had any real thoughts to journal on lately. Been meaning to come to some solid ideas but with with less daylight now and the colder weather for some reason I haven’t been on the computer much and haven’t really read the paper.  I am kind of miffed at the government for the whole [...]
I think tonight was the first time I’ve experienced any kind of local thievery since moving to Waukesha. I’ve had really good luck where I live to not have had a break-in with my house or cars. Tonight my Wife noticed the fall stuff we put out was missing a [...]
Has anyone else noticed we have a new over the air network named ION Television? It comes from somewhere in the Milwaukee area, and has a pretty high signal quality in Waukesha. I swear when I first got HD over the air it wasn’t there, now about 4-6 months ago [...]
I got back to work today from being in a fantasy world where I had no responsibilities for 6 days. I wonder more about the trade-off of having a high responsibility job with higher pay vs. low stress job with lower pay. I guess that’s just life, I only hope [...]
We didn’t take a great number of pictures, we did notice an abundance of trailer homes and thought it was a little funny and took quite a few pictures of those. I saw sugar cane for the first time, although didn’t get a chance to try a stalk. Alligator meat [...]
After leaving around 1:30pm yesterday, a 2 hour nap in southern IL at a rest stop, we arrived around 9am today. We only have 1 speeding ticket (IL) from the trip, but soar butts. I’d do it again but I think 1,000 miles is my limit one-way. Today is recovery [...]
The trip down was about 1000 miles, took one rest at the southern end of IL. It is like a completely different culture down here, you’ll see a trailer next to a mansion, there’s lots of segregation still, not that Milwaukee is any better. In this town there actually is [...]
Starting Tuesday I’ll be taking a road trip to Luisiana to see a good friend. I’ll post any pictures along the way.
Anyone else’s lawn look like it needs to be dethatched all over again? Ours turned green again with all this rain and moisture but it was dry enough long [...]
Sunday’s late afternoon show by The Toys marks a change with the band. I heard Rusty will be at center stage and they will be bringing in some new talent to fill the gap. Next show is in 2 weeks, sadly I will be out of town to see how [...]
If you have any thoughts on Sensenbrenner vs. Burkee. The only other one I saw to pick between had someone with a hyphen in their last name, without that I would have had no idea and wouldn’t have picked one.
[...]I had some brainwashed socialist call the home phone today asking for me. He wanted me to join some moronic group that wants to push legislation to tax the oil companies more so we get lower gas prices. Somehow they think by taxing more of their profits they will get [...]
The power was out to me and about 15 of my neighborrs thanks to that now crispy critter, though only about 45 minutes. WE showed up shortly after calling and fixed it using a bucket truck. Electricity - definitely one of those things that we take for granted.
[...]Now that it isn’t 80degrees out we can finally open the windows. Our cats seem to enjoy the fresh air. Our central air is also enjoying the break.
We had a great time, the beer was not too expensive and the crowd completely filled the whole park. It was so full it wasn’t easy to find a place to stand a handful of people. Mayor Larry introduced the band but we were in the outer 1/3 of the [...]
They’ve been together a long time, now their lead singer is leaving Wisconsin’s #1 live cover band. Unofficial sources cite internal tensions, which is due to happen to any popular band eventually. My #1 question, who will replace GNO?
[...]Christina’s didn’t win the Waukesha spelling bee 
The croud seemed impressive last night from 6-6:30 when the first band played. Had to leave for prior engagement at that time so I didn’t see how the croud was for Blues Traveller. The port-a-johns on the West side [...]
Their Slow Ride song is the only song I’ve played on Guitar Hero on my Wii. I never made it all the way through after trying about 15 times and decided the game was not for me (nor is any kind of musical instrument)
I’m quite late in adding any of these pictures. Some are from Matty Gras and some are from Muskego Fest (ok only the first two are from Matty Gras)
Yes those are bumper cars.
I remembered months back when craigslist was first noted in the paper for having posts for rentals for the harley fest. If you search now you get many listings posted each day. It sounds like a great way to make a couple hundred bucks, or more. Don’t forget to claim [...]
Went for a nice 5 mile walk tonight from the house down all the way around Frame Park and then back up back home past City Hall. It was just after 7:00pm and the southern parking lot was packed. I’d be watching the meeting on tv–but I have dish. I’ve [...]
Matty Gras this year was great, we went to the Saturday night show with the Toys playing and had I think a better time than any other year. They had a couple different things this year, consolidated the beer to one larger bar, added two big projectors for sports - you [...]
Does this man understand he is to represent the people in his district? If he’s received many calls and every one of them is against the park, why is he deciding not to represent them?
“I’ve gotten about 15 calls from all over the city”, “Everyone who has called has been [...]
If you have an opinion about putting taxpayer funds into and commercializing frame park for amateur baseball, please visit [www.waukeshataxpayersleague.com] and CALL your alderman, leave a message, or if you get in contact with them, post what they had to say. I personally think we need to cut spending before putting money into [...]
Anybody else getting the Freeman through USPS now rather than delivery guy/gal? Just started in the last week. Wonder if some special newspaper postage rate went through attracting them or maybe hard to get help with current gas prices or young talent willing to deliver during summer break. I haven’t [...]
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I am writing you to ask what your plans are during your next term for lowering the footprint of the federal government. Being the sole federal representative of me in Congress that actually represents non-socialist ideas, you have the sole power to change things for the better. As you know the [...]
“Several weeks ago, BadgerBlogger was sent a photograph of a worker emptying the waste by-product from a maintenance machine into one of the storm sewers located … in writing identifies the person in the photo as a DNR employee…”
I encourage you to follow the link and read the whole [...]
There sure wasn’t an absence of things to do both days of this weekend. Saturday you had the Waukesha Art Crawl, and even if you dont fancy art, it is still nice to briskly walk through it all for some free entertainment. Today I went to the State Fair, with [...]
The majority of what you hear about our mayor in the paper is complaints. Things like: he’s a lib, he dresses like a fat slob, he’s lazy, he wastes money on travel, he brings politics to his position. Well guess what, you elected him. This is what you get when [...]
Stopped by 8 minutes after they opened, and they had given away all the coupons (100 sets) for free wings for a year (6 wings a week for a year)Â The line to get food went out the door and all the seats inside were taken, decided for some great [...]
This piece of funai crap sells at Sams club for around $100. This ZC350MS8 Digital Video Disc Recorder is basically a VCR but it records on DVD’s.  Right on the box and in the manual it says it works with verbatim dvd + and - media. I bought a 100 pack of [...]
So I bought my 2005 Kia Rio a year ago when I got sick of my Oldsmobile Intrigue having part after part fail. From the beginning I thought the Kia’s tires were shot and needed to be replaced. The steering wheel vibrated between 50-60 miles an hour, not above and not below. [...]
Isn’t it great to stretch the weekend? A lot of people like to take Fridays off but I like Mondays and Wednesdays. Wednesdays are great to split the week in two.
Went down today to get all new tires on the auto at my fav tire place, prarie tire off some road [...]
Use the waukesha post office. Not only do they have horrible parking, their clerks (clerk #6 in this case) are really nice too. I reused a priority mail box to ship media mail, knowing they will charge me if it is seen as one I taped paper all around it [...]
I’m still out there, I just haven’t had something to write about with my schedule lately (vacation, extreme heat, wii)
[...]Anyone who knows me knows I do not pay list price for anything. I probably spent 5 hours getting the best deal on our Vegas trip last year. My Wife and I have been planning a trip to Chicago for our anniversary. I went online Saturday and tried to [...]
Multiple people have complained about the roads, and asked me to write about them. I do not think a single week goes by without someone groaning about it in the opinion page of the paper. I have pondered this problem for a long time, and the problem keeps getting worst [...]
They sure were right in the news to be watchful of the mosquito population starting two weeks after the flooding. Once the sun starts going down it felt like I was getting attacked by a hoard of them anywhere in the yard unless I have more than two citronella candles going. If [...]
Domesticate a bunch of the bears, and train them to pull barrels of oil like sled dogs. All the extra friction might cause global warming, so we need to have Al Gore continually spread his skin butter on the paths to keep global impact to a minimum. When we have collected all [...]
Senator Chriss Dodd a former democratic presidental contender inserted language into the Senate mortgage bailout bill that would require credit card merchants to submit transactions to the Feds.
See article. [www.freedomworks.org]
I have two basic problems with this.Â
First, shame on Senator Dodd who used the amendment process to insert an amendment [...]
This is something I was waiting to hear about, his website hadn’t been updated since he was elected last time - still isn’t as of the time of this posting. I guess his campaign yard sign (still had it from last time) that I just put out Monday night just [...]
After you read this you’ll think: ‘DUH!’ Then you might think differently when you vote next in your local, state, and national elections. Let it sink in, its only natural to want to feel like a winner for voting who ends up winning, but in the end you are always [...]
Al Gore blames the following on conservatives:
I hope he listens to his own fiction and stops breathing to lower his carbon footprint.
$%^&$(* f@T@$$ $h!tb#@)n$d ^ur&!!!  god! ah, I feel better.
[...]Yeah it’s not new, but still so good.
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There is sitting water building up again, one report on the scanner of a car with a driver in it sitting in 10 inches of water. Meanwhile some degenerates decided to cause a family domestic dispute somewhere in the city for police to respond to when [...]
With gasoline prices now hovering between $4.00 to $4.30 a gallon, politicians in Washington are busy trying to do something about it.  Yesterday, an attempt to enact a windfall profits tax failed to get the 60 votes needed to override a Republican led Senate filibuster.Â
The idea behind windfall profit tax concept is [...]
Over the last couple years that I’ve owned my house I realized I lucked out by buying a house on the top of a decent hill (the Hospital Hill.)Â My basement is fairly water tight, I only get faint streams of water that go straight for the drain.Â
The worst I’ve [...]
Having indirectly knowing someone directly related to those murdered, I’ve paid special attention to this case and this brings back memories.Â
Back when I was in elementary school in Powers, MI I remember my next door neighbor kid getting on the school bus and telling me “Mr. DuBois killed my aunt.” I [...]
Sometimes either when I’m drunk, or extremely sick (like today) some of the really basic things come to me in thought that I completely overlook otherwise. Two of those today are: Don’t ever leave your bike parked at the Library, and the majority of all shoppers at the Kohl’s on Moreland [...]
I know it is outside my scope of Blog Waukesha, but I’ll touch on a thought I have about the way the presidential election is going. First off, I am against McCain, I’m a conservative. He has had little direct impact on getting any conservative legislation moved forward (name one!) [...]
I feel kind of bad with one part of my lawn when I saw it the other night. The actual grass is cut but because I use a REAL push mower (no engine) I do not get all the dandelion stalks, they bend over and bend themselves right back up after [...]
I find it humorous and irritating at the same time that so many people (the majority) do not understand that the garbage collection is offset by a day when there is a major holiday… like this last Monday. It never fails, almost everyone had their garbage out for this mornings [...]
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