HEART ATTACK!!!!!!

get your attention?  I am preparing to cook about 3 # of Jimmy Dean sausage and 14 eggs.  For 6 people.  None are really voracious eaters either.  Went out for starbucks and groceries.  I was probably drinking about the same time as Chad in Chicago, only by my lonesome.  Saw Jonathan Beukelman, Jen knows him a little, looks like he had some Morgan Stanley info on his desk/table.  Hard to believe he has a job jet if he is working for them.  Going to Omaha for the game.  Waiting right now for Keith and DeAnne for BK.  Played disk golf with about 7 people.  We all had different frisbees and none were official disk golf disks, I had a dinky disk and a small aerobie.  We all did fairly terrible.  I think I may have won but no-one was actually trying to keep track.  Kenneth is cooking African food tomorrow so that should be fun for most of us.  Hopefully there will be enough brave people to partake.  Looks like peanut sauce is involved so it can't be too bad.  Actually I'm sure it will be good.  I did get some chiles and hot-sauce to torture DeAnne this am in her scrambled eggs.  Sure wish they would get here.

Hi folks:

Happy Thanksgiving.  I smell the turkey cooking so it looks like we will have something to eat.  It was a beautiful day yesterday.  I started sampling in the dark about 5:30.  No moon so stars were out.  I saw a shooting star very clearly which was rather neat.  I was done sampling by sun-up at 7:30.  It was cold but I had some McD. coffee waiting in the pickup so it wasn't so bad.  Had to drive 3 hrs to Lebanon KS to oversee a plot weighing then to Lincoln by about 8:30.  Ken, Carol and Betty were here.  Soon the rest of the visitors will arrive and the festivities can start.  Hope the rest of you guys have a good day.  Hopefully NU can destroy CU tomorrow (in a nice way of course) I don't make christmas lists but I did see an electric smoker in the Cabelas catalogue that looked like it would be fun.  It would be for about 5-6 family units to go together on.  Guess I don't have a relationship with quite that many family units.  I'm rambling so I'll quit.

bye for now

Nothing much new for Mr. Positive.  I managed to sell a couple accounts while setting in my easy chair saturday.  Some setting up for the sale was required however.  Had a nice meatloaf evening meal followed by a Boggle duo prior to listening to NU volleyball.  We beat up on Texas Tech.  It's always nice to beat a Texas team in anything. Darlene and I Boggled for about half hour, maybe 7 rounds or so.  We tied, 40 points each.  I used to be able to win more.  Not sure why my boggle prowess is declining.  Maybe Alzheimers.  Went to Church this AM.  Had an interesting but rather bold sermon from first Cor. ch. 7.  Good though.  Having cocoa now.  I smell a roasting chicken in the oven.  Should be good going as my old boss used to say.  Maybe take in a movie this PM.  Don't you wish your lives were as exciting as mine? 

 

Here's my day of fun.  Woke up at 3:30, yes, AM.  watched the end of  really stupid 70's movie.  By then Fox news was up and running.   Left Motel at 5:30, went to McDonalds.  Then to office for 2 hours.  Then started soil sampling from 7:30 til around 10:30, weighed a strip of corn for a customer,  weighed another strip for another customer.  took 2 soil samples for him,  visited another customer and rode a combine for half hour.  Took samples from 4:00-5:30.  By then it was 33 deg. and really windy.  Headed home.  I realized I had nothing to eat or drink since 5:30

AM  so stopped and got water, cheetos and peanut-butter M and M's at David City.  Made about 5 calls on the way home using about 90 minutes of phone time.  Saw a recent car deer accident north of Seward.  Car was smoking from what was no doubt a fan that had been rammed through a radiator.  I didn't stop because about 2 other people were in the process.  Got home, took shower, ate meatloaf, whined about this computer.  Ready to relax.   Sold 0 bags of corn.  Don't I live an interesting life!!

Mr Positive

It's Sunday and I think Darlene and I will go to The movie "appaloosa"     Ed Harris and Vigo Mortensen.  Keith and I pretty much finished up harvest yesterday and Friday.  It went good.  The deer and the flood pretty much ravaged about 15-20% of the acres.  The unmolested acres were good however.  I was on a rant for a while earlier today about Taylor swift but jeremy tried to set me straight and blame the stupid uniformed and tone-deaf fans rather than the young untalented girl singer.  She sings like an average high-school girl only can flip her hair around more, and has a very cocky attitude, which I guess would not be that uncommon.  I guess I'm a little bugged by millionaires with minimal talent but great agents.  That's about all i have on that subject.  Actually not but all I will address right now.  Looks like Obama will govern from the far left as I suspected although he talked like a centrist during the campaign.  Big shock!! 

neal

Hello kids or whoever may read this.  I haven't had a lot to write about.  Darlene and I did take a motorcycle ride Sunday, 275 miles.  first south, then east to Fall City, North across I-80 to a bbq place and back to Lincoln.  It was a little chilly once the sun was going down.  Good trip though.  The leaves were pretty much blown off so the scenery wasn't great.  We did pull through several tiny towns out of curiosity.  Most look the same, one paved street, some old dumpy abandoned stores, maybe a small bar-grill combo.  Maybe gas station although usually not.  some bored looking kids walking around looking for other bored kids.  couches on the porches.  By the way we can't have couches or upholstered furniture outside in lincoln .  Some city-council-woman felt it was an eyesore.  She is the eye-sore.  Talk about government involvement!! I may just move out of Lincoln due to that.  Even though I have no couches or even a porch.  It just really bugs me.  Man did I just ever pop.  I rode in a combine today where the yield monitor exceeded over 300 bu. per acre.  Our premium products of course.  Wouldn't you think we could just sell the heck out of that hybrid.  We'll see.  Raining and blowing now so harvest is at a standstill in areas.  I hope I can go out to help Keith harvest a couple of days.  Was fun to see the raspberry baby.  I mean raspberry sized baby.  Looks like it has my nose.  Survivor tonight. Wonder who will leave.  I don't know the characters well enough to care.  Time for an icecream bar.  

neal

game day

Going to the NU Baylor game today.  The day is dawning bright and clear after 3 solid days of rain.  34 deg. now but will warm to 60's.  Were walking to the stadium and will walk past a mobile bbq guy.  It will only be about 10:15 at that time.  What excuse will I have to drop 7$ on a pork sandwich??  I probably won't.  Maybe though.  Maybe kenneth will succumb,  I doubt it.  It is also opening day of pheasant season in NE.  That used to be one of the years  highlights in SD,  opening day.  Used to have some great hunts.  Talk to yall later.

dark and stormy night

It's been raining about 48 hours give or take a little.  Farmers are having a tizzy about getting nothing harvested.  Corn and beans are gaining moisture.  None of this is good.  However, there is some good news in the world.  Looks like I'll be a grandpa next spring as I'm sure you probably know.  I need to start checking out little guns and compound bows for the new addition to the family.  Guns are for girls too.  Just kidding...maybe.  Sold a good account today over the phone to a guy in SD.  Guess he wasn't as depressed as my farmers around here.  Let's see, what else, Darlene and I went to NU vs Texas A&M v-ball.  NU won fairly easily.  I caught the little volleyball that the coach threw into the crowd.  I even predicted that I would before the toss.  Hope the little old ladies that I knocked down to get to it are ok.  actually it came to me like it was on a mission, no fumbling, just a nice clean catch.  I offered to sell it to a lady behind me for 25$.  She refused.  That was a nice movie Greta, of your triple.  You guys, (t and g and a) had a good season.  Nice job of supporting them rest of family.  Nice photos and film Michael!! Looking forward to football game saturday.  Sounds like it will be sunny and around 60.  Excellent weather.

the day

I had an ok day, bet you were wondering.  Bookwork from 7-10:30 , went with associate to customer west of Elgin (may need to see a map), My associate wrote 109K worth of seed.  That's quite a bit if you are curious.  About 10 of those and he could quit for the year.....if we'd let him...which we won't.  We will continue to drive him onward so we can profit from his labors.  Darlene held down a table and small tv at a local sports bar so we could watch NU play and beat OU in v-ball.  It's back on the road in the morning to Creighton, Wausa and Hartington ,  may have to refer to a map again, or not if you really don't care which you probably don't.  Good job  softball team on destroying your opponent.  I didn't watch even one second of the debate last night.  I've heard it all by now.  Later.

Weekend fun

let's see...I've been away for a while, mostly soil sampling, selling and sitting in a meeting all day today.  Our sales force met in Blair NE.  Blair seed services actually, a sister company that processes our seed.  We had a few guys missing.  i guess the next meeting we'll have to make the threat of punishment more severe.  It was a good meeting.  Guys from Iowa, NE, MO.  We all ate mexican for lunch.  The restaurant not the person.  I am still stuffed from eating a stuffed poblano pepper with about 2# of cheese in and on it.  I think Darlene and I will go to sunken garden and walk around before supper.  Maybe take the Harley although I haven't asked he.  She is 18" away reading far side cartoons but not laughing...must be asleep or something.  

Big game tomorrow for NE.  MO will most likely slaughter us.  I'm glad I don't bleed red like I used to.  I guess I do bleed red come to think of it.  I must go now.

blog experiment

Thought I'd mess around with blogging, might be a short-term experiment.  Had some time before church so read the paper at starbucks, dusted off the Harley from yesterdays ride, some on gravel.  Nebraska lost to VA-tech last night.  I was only disgusted for an hour or so.  Lots different than 25 years ago when I'd been upset for a day or so.  I think were going to "man on a wire" today, a doc. film. rec. by Jeremy bose, a Nashville movie critic some of you may know.  Maybe talk to you later,  maybe not.  I don't know how to get some cute pics on my blog.  Likely if I can get some help on that aspect, my blog will be much more attractive to the readers, all 4 of them.