Reawakening - North Dakota Style

Well let's try this again.
This is a sun dog (the ring around the sun, or moon I guess, and yes I borrowed it from the University of Utah) on a super cold day (which I'm so looking forward to).
After visiting some long-lost friends this past weekend, they mentioned how they enjoyed the blog I used to keep up during my grad school years.
So here we go again.


So I watched game one of the series last night.
Yes, I despise most any baseball team from Florida (I never cared for any of the teams from Miami that won the series, lousy Jose Mesa) and want the Phillies to win (which would also mean that the Brewers could have made the series, well maybe not, watching that round of the playoffs you could see that the Crew was barely hanging on).

I'm hoping to return to campus later this afternoon (University of North Dakota) to watch some talk on the great human/environment experiment. Last night I almost went to the big Grand Forks Central versus Red River (also located here in town) high school football game (pitting two teams with two wins between them, however, there was playoff implications on the line which says more for how many schools are actually in this state then the amount of good football here, maybe). It was misty and cold and I realize that as I become older I want to sit outside in the cold less and less (however, as my wife pointed out to me last night, I might also benefit from a male friend in this area, ha ha, I shudder to think that my loner days might finally be getting to me).
The wife turned down tickets to Reba and Kelly tonight (I told her initially that I would not see them, however I should have stated that I never would have paid to see them but would have sat through both shows for free, ha ha).
I plan on dragging her around to events both Friday (some sort of musical where clothes are optional for some of the actors) and Saturday nights (I'm dragging her to some goofy tiny town located about 45 minutes from here to see Warren-Alvarado-Oslo High School play Lake of the Woods High School in the Minnesota football playoffs).
So there you go. I'll be trying my best to update this thing everyday.
Or not.
Cool.

Links of note:
Obama
Palin Defense
T. Boone Pickens - Still Evil