Pick o' the Day: Welcome to Snake City!

Interesting fact:
According to reliable sources (real Indians), the word Sioux means "snake".  Thus Sioux City, the place of my birth, means "Snake City." Ironically, I have a phobia of snakes.
Go to http://www.snowowl.com/ for more info.

Some things I learned the hard way:
Don't listen to First Time Ever I Saw Your Face  (Leona Lewis version) when you're driving home to get a little rest from the hospital where your wife is being treated for symptoms of a stroke.  You can easily get into a wreck, trust me.

Don't buy generic Hamburger Helper.  Pay the big bucks and get the real thing.

When you are asked to propose a name for your "Biggest Loser Contest" weight-loss team at work, don't suggest "The Hungry, Hungry Hippos".

Something I learned the easy way:
There aren't many things in life sweeter than getting a kiss on your cheek from your granddaughter.

Wisdom from others:
The more education you get, the older you get, and the wiser you get, the more you realize you don't know squat.  (submitted by Teresa)

Anything with testicles is dangerous.  (submitted by Tina)

The problem with experience is that you don't get it until just after you need it.  (submitted by Anonymous)

Wisdom is accepting that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.  (submitted by Anonymous)

You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup!  (submitted by Homer Simpson)

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

One Year Ago  Helena, after feasting on sweet potatoes and rice cereal, pooped her pants. Her father, Eleazar, who had to change her diaper, gagged.

Twenty-seven Years Ago  Eleazar had an unusually heavy and saggy poopy diaper.  Because it was a cloth diaper, his father, Blaine, had to rinse it out in the toilet before placing it in the soak bucket.  He gagged.

Forty-eight Years Ago  While hurrying home from visiting his father at a construction site in Lawton, Iowa, four-year-old Blaine could hold it no longer and pooped his pants.  He had to waddle the last block home and tell his mother, Lorna, what he did.  As they were cleaning him up, both his mother and his older sister, Vonda, gagged.



A quick shout-out to my colleague John and sister Ladea for commenting on the last blog post.  Thanks, guys!