Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visited the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.  Hilarity ensued.

I was happy to see Tim Pawlenty.  He actually looks respectable without the mullet.  For my Minnesota posse, does he still appear on Ron Scherra's show or even Kent Hrbek's?

Today I took my dad to the eye doctor in Madison.  This doctor is supposedly one of the best in the state if not Midwest.  I asked my dad why we had to go all the way to Madison when there is an eye doctor two blocks from his house.  He said that the insurance through the tribe only allows him to see certain eye doctors and that is the eye doctor that the insurance has deemed that the tribe should see.  So I said, "Oh, I guess our tribe supports his tribe."  So if you believe the Mormons, the Native Americans came from the Jews and that would make our tribes cousins.  Anyway, I guess everything checked out with him and the transplant has set in properly and my dad won't have to go back for a year.  I think that is the first bit of good news he has had with that.  About 2 years ago he had the cornea transplant and then on subsequent follow-up visits the doctor discovered my dad had a cataract so then that was removed.  It was a long drawn out process and finally it is starting to pay off for him. 
He wanted to eat at a Chinese restaurant down the street from the eye doctor's office.  I asked why since he ate at a Chinese buffet on Saturday.  He said because the doctor recommended it.  There we go with one tribe helping the other.  Well I gave in because I didn't feel like getting into an argument.  OK food.  I swear that all those Chinese buffets order their food from the same distributor and just heat up the dishes. 
Hopped in the car and then we went to the Badger store for some baby clothes.  I got my friend's son a Badgers onesie that looks like a polo shirt.  Bear with me here, I don't know the names of baby items.  I also picked a 3 piece Brewers set that came with a onesie, bid, and booties.  I felt bad when I realized how late I am with this birthday present.  His birthday was July and by the time he gets the clothes it will be three months late.  I guess it could be an early Christmas gift.  Oh well, he is 1 year old.  It's not like he is going to hold this against me.  The whole lateness on his birthday got me thinking.  If I'm going to be a godfather I need to start remembering birthdays.  That is hard for me because I can't even remember mine.  Sometimes I couldn't even tell you how old I am but that is due to how I feel and also all the concussions I have suffered throughout my life.  I also have to get this baby terminology down.  I need to be a decent godfather.  Like the one that spoils his godson or daughter and gets them out of their contract with a big band so they can start their solo singing and acting careers.  I'm looking at you Blue Eyes.
That store was awesome.  Oh, it's called Bucky's Locker Room.  I am a Badgers fan.  I know some of you may not be into the whole sports scene.  I'm not a fanatic but I love my Badgers and Brewers but I continue my boycott of the NFL.  The store had so many Badgers items that I wanted.  Maybe if I'm a good boy, Santa will get me that Wisconsin traveling W trailer hitch cover.  I could always use a license plate bracket or some new ties.  I will go for anything that has Bucky Badger on it.  I think the people here in Wisconsin take pride in the Badgers more than as a sports team.  It's as if they represent our state and our way of life.  Watch how they play football, it's often described as blue collar football.  We run the ball, run the ball, and then run some more.  It wouldn't be accomplished without those huge farm boys on the offensive line.  You may have noticed that I had a lot of links in this paragraph.  Well one is for the store and three are the items.  The rest are links to some of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band's songs.  The band so unruly that they were put on probation for wrongdoings on the bus. My favorite song is Varsity. 
After the Badger store we went to Half Price Books.  I love that store.  I think I spent a half hour just going up and down the sections that I was interested in.  I picked up a book on Jewish kosher living(I wonder why) and also the book TTYL by Laura Myracle.  TTYL is a story of three friends entering their sophomore year of high school.  The book is entirely these three girls' conversations via IM.  It is an unconventional style for a book.  My problem is that although there is IMing slang there are no spelling errors.  TTYL is a very controversial book.  It is banned in many libraries including the one near my house.  The book deals with topics not found in normal teen literature.  In the first few pages two girls discuss pubic hair.  One girl's brother is dating a girl that doesn't shave and the girls say how they always have to shave.  Now you are asking why I am reading this.  First, it is a book that is being banned.  I want to know what is so contreversial about this book and I won't take someone else's word.  I want to find out first hand.  So many Christians jumped on the "Ban Harry Potter" bandwagon without reading the books.  They simply followed along with no firsthand knowledge...hmm sort of sounds like Congress giving Bush the right to go to war with Iraq.  Also, I read it because I had no sisters growing up.  It's strange but I once had a girlfriend tell me, "Oh you don't understand because you don't have any sisters."  So I read Judy Blum's "Are you there God? It's Me, Margaret."  That too is a book that is often banned by school districts and libraries.  Hard to imagine in a land of free speech we have banned books.  Oh and if any single guys are reading this, give some of those books a try.  I read one in the college library and it got me a date, but she was psychotic so I hadn't read much on schizophrenia. 
We then headed home.  My dad wanted to stop at Walmart.  I couldn't do any of my stress relief because the Walmart is under construction and there were workers everywhere.  I picked up my FM transmittor for my mp3 player and it works pretty good.  Around towns it gets some static but once I get out onto country roads it comes in clear.
I made some soup for supper and then sat down to read my books and then watch The Shield.  Tomorrow I have to schedule a doctor's appointment because my parents don't think that getting only 2 or 3 hours of sleep at a time is healthy.  I was thinking that if I can get by on so little sleep I may get me a job on the third shift.  DOn't know yet but if gas prices get any worse I'll need a second form of income to heat the house this winter.  I wonder if gambling counts as a form.
Well I need some motivation to get my ass in gear to be a good godfather. Or is that good-god father?






I think this one is geared for me or at least that is how I feel.

Wow!  I wrote a lot.  I didn't even include my random thoughts when there was no talking.  Like, Ron Paul is starting to look good and why is Mike Huckabee on every single news network being interviewed about the bailout failure.  I wonder what this country would be like if he was elected president with his no income tax/abolish the IRS policies.  I have to say we'd be part of a holy war in no time. 

Well, I think I am going to try to ride my bike tomorrow.  My knees and ankles have been horrible the past couple of days but we have had storms move through and when it rains, my joints ache.  I am getting decrepit. 
Have a good day.