It's been a trying 48 hours.  I'm tired and then all this crap on Xanga...at least someone Xanga Team is answering the concerns but a few weeks short.  Maybe they were upset that their sites got rated EX.  I was tempted to spend my weekend creating multiple accounts to rate my site.  Anyway the EX thing wasn't the worst and I complain when there are so many other things to look at.  For instance I go to put on my Dark Side of the Moon shirt to wear to my doctor's appointment yesterday and I find holes in it.  Then I realized it's from my cat Kiki.  She jumps as high as she can to get on top of my door in my bedroom.  She then uses a shirt to pull herself up the rest of the way.  Why are my shirts on the door?  I have a rack extending so I can air dry my clothes.  I don't like using my dryer to dry my clothes.  I fear shrinkage.  Next I decided to rearrange furniture in my house and it was probably a result of being stressed out over the next bit of news I received today.  Also my dad is in the hospital because he was having breathing problems.  He was at kidney dialysis today and as they were finishing his session he started having troubles breathing.  This isn't unusual because he has issues at the end because they sometimes take off too much fluid and it leaves him cramping and sometimes his chest muscles cramp.  Well this time he started turning blue because he wasn't getting enough oxygen.  The dialysis center isn't connected to the hospital.  It's about a block away so they had to call the paramedics to come get him to take him to the ER.  Then he gets there and he's given breathing treatments and he's improving but not enough so they shipped him off to Madison to a bigger hospital that has a dialysis center inside.  Well this is all interesting because they didn't contact me or my mom.  I got a call from a strange number on my cell but it didn't ring the standard ring and they hung up before I could answer.  My mom said there were no messages on her phone at work or home.  Anyway, she went down to Madison and I guess he has pneumonia and they are going to keep him for a few days.  He may have some other things as well but the doctors have to do some more tests.  I asked him over the phone tonight if he's quit smoking and he started cursing up a storm. 

I think this is the real reason Benny quit.

Apparently Pope Francis was a hidden character.

If his first mass is quirky for quirkness's sake then it's Woody.  I posted this on Facebook and a friend wrote "Does this mean the pope will take an underage Asian girl as a wife?"

You know if there was a RuPope her costumes would be sassy and fabulous.

Habemus Heisenberg!

I went out for a drive a few weekends ago and got up close and personal with some Amish who were hogging the road.

Pretty soon there'll be corn high as an elephant's eye in that field of snow.

Military installations pop out of the forests.  Bennelliman may know where that is.




I captured some photos of the sunset because there were sundogs on both sides.  The one side wasn't as visible as the other.  If a sundog is visible on the north side only that means there's going to be a warm up.  If the sundog is visible only on the south side then that means there'll be a cool down.  It's very accurate.

Yesterday I had my doctor's appointment and I crossed the river to take a drive down the river road in Minnesota and Iowa.  I can't remember if this photo is in Minnesota or Iowa but that's the bluffs of Wisconsin and in between that's the Mississippi.

Here's another shot of Wisconsin's bluffs and the frozen river.

I thought this bluff on the Minnesota side had an interesting shape.  I'm a horrible photographer.

This is one of the bluffs on the Minnesota side that overlooks a small town.

At this point I'm crossing a bridge to get back into Wisconsin.  On this bridge the Mississippi is frozen over.

Now I'm crossing over another bridge.  There's a pretty big island that is half WI and half MN in the river so that explains the two bridges.  Anyway here the river isn't all frozen.

And back home.

Oh Dwayne...help me.

Have a great night and thanks for all the help today.  It's appreciated.  I'll have to write to you all tomorrow.  I think I'm going to watch Dr. Who and then go to bed.