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We had a blizzard over night and today. It is starting to calm down now. We have been lucky lately with blizzards. I don’t remember the last one we had. The blizzard made our front yard bush look pretty cool. The birds were still sitting on it, but they flew away when I walked up to the window to take this picture.

When I went out to shovel I found this. It’s Mountain Dew without a container. You don’t see that everyday.

I couldn’t tell if the Mountain Dew had ice in it or now.

Yesterday at work a coworker was sitting at a computer trying to figure out who to vote for. I don’t know why he was trying to decide between Mitt Romney and John McCain, he missed out on that election. Only one of them is going to get the nomination. He watched a Mitt Romney speech and decided he didn’t want to vote for McCain because McCain is for “queer marriages”. I don’t know why this one topic is such an issue still. Why would anybody choose who to vote for because of one issue? I work with a bunch of republicans so Obama and Clintion are out of the question. Mostly because one is black and the other is a women. It drives my nuts when they start talking politics at work. I just keep my mouth shut and laugh at how narrow minded they all are.

North Dakota is primarily a red state despite having both senators and our representative being democrates. It would be nice if our state went blue, but really, our 3 little electoral votes don’t really mean much anyway.

I wanted to vote for Obama in our primary, but the polls didn’t open until 2:00 and I had to be to work at 2:00. It didn’t really matter anyway since Obama won our state.

I sure hope Obama wins the nomination. I actually kind of like him. I never get to vote for someone I actually like. For that reason I am thinking Clinton will win. I am not a fan of Clinton and was actually thinking about voting McCain if she wins, but then had a change of heart.

I was thinking about how much I don’t like Hillary and how much more the republicans probably hate her. I would actually vote for her to get back at the republican for making us put up with Bush for the last four years. Yeah, that’s a dumb reason. So what! It doesn’t really matter who wins this election. Anybody will be better that who we got now.

Well, it’s here. It’s Super Bowl Sunday. This is one of my favorite days of the year. I looked back and I have only missed one Super Bowl since 1983. That goes all the way back to when I was in third grade. I had to work during the St. Louis Tennessee game, and it turned out to be one of the better Super Bowls. From that moment on I decided that if I was scheduled to work during the Super Bowl, I would take vacation.

I have been lucky enough that my favorite team, the Denver Broncos, have been to 5 of the 23 Super Bowls that I have seen. The first three they lost. I was crushed each time. It was incredible when they finally one it in 1998. I couldn’t imagine how the players felt, or even how Elway felt after losing three previous game. To this day I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t think about how great it was that my Broncos won the Super Bowl. It’s been ten years since their first Super Bowl win, and it feel like it was yesterday.

The Broncos were a 14 point underdog when they won their first Super Bowl against the Packers. The last I heard the Giants were 13 point underdogs for today’s game. I am not a big Giants fan. They broke my heart in 1987, but I will still be rooting for them today. I usually root for the AFC team, but the patriots have won it enough in recent years.

I wont be going to a Super Bowl party. I am not a big fan of Super Bowl parties, too many distractions. I just like to sit back and enjoy the game. I might order a pizza, that’s about it. And no, I don’t really pay attention to the commercials.

Something cool just happened. I grabbed a bottle of tea from our fridge in the garage. It’s been super cold here so I checked to make sure it wasn’t frozen. It wasn’t. It was all liquid. The second I opened it, part of it froze. I saw it freeze. It must have been super cold, but when under pressure the freezing temperature was lower. The second I relieve the pressure it was below it freezing point so it froze. It was cool. I love science.

I am a science geek. I love all things about science. When I was a kid I loved Mr. Wizard, and wished there were more shows like that for kids. When I was in high school I took all the science classes I could. Most people took sluff classes with their extra credits. I took physics. Still, it doesn’t take long for science topics to go over my tiny brain. Some thing get complex fast. Every week I watch Robert Krampf’s Experiment of the Week. It’s geared towards kids, but hell, I learn stuff from him every week. This week I learned why some flames burn yellow, and other burn blue.

It’s things like this that makes me envy kids these days. With the Internet, there is so much information out there that makes it easy to learn stuff. The sad thing is there is also a lot of bad stuff out there. The tough part I am sure, is teaching kids to want to learn. When I was a kid I wasn’t as interested in learning, but it was also a lot harder to look things up. Nowadays, if there is anything I am curious about, I look it up. My mind is full of useless information now.

Fuck is cold out. When will it end?

So yesterday was the nicest day of the year so far. It got up to 37º. I was a little worried because A storm was coming it and I didn’t want any freezing rain. Freezing rain is the worst. It fucks up the roads, impossible to get off the sidewalks and driveways, and if windy, snaps power lines. It did get super windy last night and still is. Luckily the temperature has dropped like a rock. It is -7º out now. It looks like we wont be getting the rain, and if it doesn’t warm up a little, I don’t think we will be getting much snow. It never snows much when it is below zero.

It was nice to feel the warmth that is 37º. I hope it comes back soon.

This morning when I was reading my feeds before work I read that Legos turned 50 today. I, like most people my age, loved Legos. I had a ton of them and I kept them in a wooded tool box that I make in Cub Scouts. Sometimes I wish I could still play with them, but sadly they left when my Mom had a rummage sale. To this day I still wonder where my tool box with Legos is at. I hope they are still in use somewhere. I hope some kid is getting the enjoyment out of my Legos that I got out of them.

Then I get home from work and noticed that Google was having a nice tribute to Legos.

Nice job.

This feels strange. It’s a weekend that I have off with no plans. I think I get about two of them a year. I am even all caught up on my feed reading and my podcast listening. What am I to do? I guess I can actually play some XBox. Maybe even watch my Netflix movie. Like I said. It feel real strange to be caught up without much to do. I kinda like it.