I've been living in Madison for all of 24 hours and already I am wearing sweatpants ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the annual excursion to the State Fair. We went early to try and stay out of the heat for the most part, and it wasn't a bad idea, with mini-doughnuts and funnel cakes for breakfast. We hit up all the animal barns and got the Kohl flavored milk. There was, of course, the token small child confused and shouting to her parents about a ( Read more... )

I don't know if it has to do with all the Sturgis riders coming in, or if there's a full moon or what, but we've been having some doozies come into work ( Read more... )

Uff ( Read more... )

Finally, I think I'm over the hump ( Read more... )

It never fucking stops ( Read more... )

Well, getting sick is traumatic enough. Especially if you get sick five times in a row, to the point that four of those sicks constitute nothing but some bile your stomach managed to hack up. But try doing that when half of your throat is missing ( Read more... )

I know you're dying for a graphic depiction of my tonsillectomy. And lucky for you, I'm just the type of person to give all the gory details ( Read more... )

So we get a lot of foreigners in work going on cross-continent pilgrimages to all the Harley plants. Today we had a die-hard couple in from Luxembourg who were visiting friends in Indiana and came up to see the plant. They were really excited to be there (the woman had orange painted fingernails with black flames) and were really chatty. And then ( Read more... )

My grandpa is out of the ICU from his surgery that removed 10" of his large intestine. I went to the hospital with my dad Friday, and the weird thing is how much more likeable he is in this state. Well, first you should understand the position my grandfather occupies in our family. He's the sort of relative that means well most of the time, but is ( Read more... )