Yesterday, Emily decided to pull a April Fools joke – that we are engaged on Facebook, to scare her mom, friends (and me , hehe)
Well one second after I confirmed it, the ad in the Facebook sidebar changed..usually it was about coding or video games, and now?
Nice…
In high school, playing basketball for Chisholm High, we had to wear baseball stirrups (leggings). See the above picture. As you can see, these are listed on amazon as “Baseball Stirrups”
See you might be fooled when looking at the first picture that these are socks, but alas, they are stirrups. What a PITA. Uncomfortable, pulled up to the knee, just bad all around. You can see the picture above the player has spandex below his shorts. Why? Because Chisholm Basketball shorts are still 80’s style. Look at the player behind him, they are below the knee!
Anyway’s, this is a post about Chisholm Basketball, since they made it to state this year, first time since 95, when I was on the team, wearing baseball stirrups on the court. Good Luck Bluestreaks.. 🙂
Last weekend, I was up in Chisholm, Minnesota for my Grandfather’s 80th birthday. After the party, we headed downtown Chisholm to check out my step sisters boyfriend play in his band, at Sabin’s bar.
Now, Minnesota passed a smoking ban (Freedom to Breathe Act) in bars and restaurants in October 2007. This means NO SMOKING. Well, they have found some loopholes in the law, that says to some effect “actors and actresses are allowed to smoke while performing, like in a play”. Well, bars are starting to take this loophole and use it, as Sabin’s did that night, and there were many people smoking in the bar.
I happen to see the “Playbill” on the bar, and snapped a photo (which I retyped below as it might be hard to read)
*****PLAYBILL*****
The Tobacco Monologues
Live at Sabin’s Bar!
TODAY
A Theatrical Performance and Satire Regarding the Minnesota Legislature and the Freedom to Breathe Act
Note: There will be some smoking during the performance.
Friends, tonight YOU get to participate in the first of many amateur theater nights at Sabin’s bar. You will get a chance to perform in our play. The bar is the stage. If you want to be a part of the play tonight see one of the bartenders. They are in charge of the casting call. If you make the cut you will be given a sticker to wear which identifies you as one of the performers. As a performer you will be allowed to smoke. That’s right smoke indoors! You are already on state, and in the play. Have fun!!!
Special thanks to our friends Mark Benjamin & Sheila Kromer
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What a joke. First off, I was pissed because there was smoking. I hate smoking, I hate smoking in the bar. I hate coming home smelling like smoke, my clothes, hair and whatever. I hate having to breathe it, and feel like I am about to gag. It is good there is a smoking ban, there is no reason smokers should be able to smoke indoors and pollute the air everyone has to breathe. They can go outside. Plain and simple.
The next day in the Duluth News Tribune, I read a bar in Babbitt MN got cited for doing a Theater Night. Good! But they got fined $300. WTF? They could just collect 2 dollars from every smoker and pay the fine every night. They need to get fined $10,000, or be shut down for a night, to feel the pain.
I am not sure, but I hope Sabin’s gets busted too. Loophole or not. It looks like they are going to start busting more bars for this. Leave your opinions in the comments.
After installing Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 – This pops up, just like when you install Vista fresh.
What gets me, is that the OK button is grayed out by default. I have to first click on the “Join the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program” radio button and then back on “I Don’t want to join the program at this time” . Why is this? I want to just hit OK with the default choice. Just irks me I guess 🙂
well, today, I have more Facebook friends than MySpace friends. That is a first. 149 to 147. What does that say? I have been on MySpace longer, so it seems that more people are using Facebook, or using both, now. I like Facebook better, for sure. They both could use some work though.
Seems that lately, I have been using Pownce and Twitter more than Facebook/MySpace.
Everything is cyclical
Another mobile related post. Has anyone taken a look at the HTC Shift? Wow. This thing looks awesome. It is a UMPC, but can boot up Vista Business OR Windows Mobile 6. So you can use it as a cell phone, or a laptop. This thing looks like it would be .. better than the iPhone? One downside is it is a tad big to fit into your pocket. But this could replace your phone/laptop. Looks pretty much money to me.
Trying to get a Madison Blogger Meetup going. There is a Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17843681384
Hopefully next week (Thursday Feb 21st, at Mickey’s Tavern)
Everything is subject to change at this point 🙂
On an unrelated note, Obama is in Madison tonight, at the Kohl Center. I got called 3 times to go and twice to go by people here. I am not going, I will watch it streaming online and watch MSNBC for the Chesapeake Tuesday results 🙂
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