Still Magnolias

The trees in front of our apartment are still magnolias. They didn't change over the winter or decide to die after it was nice and they were rewarded with 10 inches of snow. Maybe Scott will post some pictures when they get really pretty.

The taste of victory is egg nogg and cinnamon ice cream from Ivanna Cone. That was what the winner of the NCAA Championship Tournament Bracket Challenge in the Shipping Department of AdventSource received. That winner happened to be me. Going into the final game, I was tied with one of the student workers, so I thought we should bet on something. So the winner got a gift certificate to Ivanna Cone. I retrieved the booty this evening after work. It was raining and because Colorado blows and Iowa sucks it was windy too, really windy, there was even some small hail a few times.

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"I Sent a Blind Child to Camp!"

As a service to Christian Record Services, AdventSource includes coin holders and brochures for their National Camps for Blind Children program in the Pathfinder orders. The back of the coin holder provides useful information that I thought I would share with y'all.

"Reasons blind kids go to camp:
See friends
Do fun things
Gain confidence
Be with fun people

Things blind kids do at camp:
Morning devotions
Breakfast/lunch/supper
Water balloon fights
Horseback riding
Beeper baseball
Campfire bowl
Water-skiing
Talent night
Swimming
Archery
Crafts

Gerald, Francine, and Lancaster

Friday was a slow, quick day at work. Slow on orders, quick on processing them and leaving. So I couldn't park in front of my apartment like usual, putting me on "H" Street parallel parking. As soon as I got out, I saw my favorite organist Gerald W. Holbrook (scroll about halfway down to see a picture of the immediate past dean) riding his bike. Then as I was walking to my apartment in front of Francine, I saw a squirrel that was literally cornered on the edifice of the building between two very curious cats, one orange in one window and another black and white in another window. It was a very picturesque triangle of tension, with the squirrel clucking like a chicken.

Tonight I went to Winterfest Ales and Auction. I saw a few Union students there, and it is always nice to see your own kind to justify your cultural transgressions. Here are my judgements on the beers I tried:

Gottberg Brew Pub in Columbus, NE

Tin Lizzie Hefeweizen and Unice Ivan's Dunkeweizen--Nay
Steinworthy Oktoberfest--Yea

Empyrean Lincoln, NE

Oak aged Imperial Stout--alright kinda bockish
Fallen Angel Sweet Stout--Yea

Upstream Omaha, NE

Unfiltered Wheat--Yea
Ebenezer Ale--Nay

Leinenkugel

Big Butt Doppelbock--okay, not spectacular
Apple Spice--Yea

Samuel Adams

White Ale--Yea, pleasantly surprised a bit fruity
Double Bock--not great, but there's worse

Spilker Cortland, NE Hopluia--Yea, I tried this one a long time ago and it has gotten better, very fruity lager

Widmer Brothers Hefeweizen--Nay, I liked it at the Okto-beer fest though.

Bacardi Silver Watermelon--Yea

Lindeman Framboise--Yea, I accept it for what it is now

Xingu Brazilian Black Beer--alright

St. Peters Golden Ale--Nay

I'm done.

South Sigh-eed

There is a region in the world that refers to itself in a very odd way. They want religious convention managers to bring their conventions to their region. They have sent promotional material, namely stress foam lego blocks. They are Northern Kentucky. Of note is the new Creation history museum. Check out how eerily similar to the missing link Ken Ham looks (toward bottom of screen holding construction helmet).

My boss Hans is AdventSource's point man for the NAD From This Day Forward marriage conferences, because this also qualifies as a religious convention, he is a member of the RCMA, religious convention managers association. So he got some promo materials from different people that want the business of conventions. One of those is my new set of stress foam legos with Northern Kentucky promotional slogans.

Last night I watched After Life. It is directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, who also directed Maborosi, the poster is in the lobby of the Ross on occasion if you have any questions about its value. His most recent film is Nobody Knows about some children that raise themselves in Tokyo. Anyway, now that you are familiar with some of his work, I'll tell you about After Life. The film is about a place where people go for a week after they die. They have three days to choose their favorite memory from their life which is then recreated for them in the facility's studio, and then they spend eternity in that memory. It is a fun question. What is your answer?

End note: Stephen Colbert ended last night's show saying "he had a dreamsicle" while eating it fast. He talked about how the dreamsicle is a metaphor of the black people (vanilla) and the white people (orange) shaking hands in a . . . . He was then interrupted by an intensely painful brain freeze and concluded saying nothing is worth that much pain.

Koo All Es Too Nam Bre?

Fyne Ogonor, Dilermando Lemos, Ulna Keet--Ooltewah,TN, J. Tjokroredjo, Wancy Magny, Ewan Wonoprabowo, Fumi Jean Sinohui, Aeon McLean, Yoletd Aristhomene, Jan Maruanaja, Basil Been, Norcilia Norcius

I'm growing increasingly frustrated with our new website "upgrade." It needs upbraiding. Our previous version that worked allowed me, when I exported orders to save the data file and import it into our other system so that I could run orders. Now the new "improved" version doesn't allow me to do this. Now when I export, I have to send an email to our webmaster from California and he has to take the file off the server, which is in Atlanta, and email it to me. Only then can I import the file and run orders. There has been an average lag time of about forty minutes for this process as opposed to zero minutes previously.

Another "improvement" is that we can now no longer mark product back in stock which means we can't place orders for it. The only way we can mark it out of stock is by updating an order, so no preemptive marking out of stock. This is frustrating.

But the Dude abides.