We Made It!

We made it and had some fun along the way. Bruce was fantastic and slept half the way - without the aid of the Benadryl I brought along just in case.

We saw about 200 signs about this place in the middle of South Dakota so of course we had to stop there. I'm sure Justin will post the picture of me singing with a stuffed monkey later on.

Bruce was fantastic!

Bruce was whining pretty good as we went through Bear Country USA. I made Justin put the windows up so he wouldn't jump out or get eaten by a mountain lion or bear.

Mount Rushmore of course.

And Sturgis - I'm not convinced I want to come back during the rally in the summer.

Outside the Wright Museum (not the one you would think) in Wright, Wyoming.

valuable incontinence

Incontinence.

 

The word alone really needs no further illustration but if I didn't write anything else, I couldn't blither on and on about the increasing value of old people.  For years and years, old people were seen only as a drain on society; using valuable resources which could be delegated to much more important tasks like showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows who don't have names or inventing a brassiere that (in case of an emergency, of course) can quickly be converted into a face mask.  However, this antiquated thinking has been revolutionized with the advent of the SFD Recycle System.

 

Now, as long as there is a need for energy, there will be a need for old people.  And no, the SFD does not recycle old people, rather it recycles old people's recyclings reclaimed from old people's diapers.  What a boon for all of humanity!

 

Also, the important tasks mentioned earlier are real so don't try to go patent jumping.  It won't work.

bad surprise

A Utah woman was sentenced to 30 days in jail after telling her husband she had a surprise for him, sitting him in a chair, blindfolding him, and then hitting him on the head with a hammer.

 

I'm betting he was pretty surprised.

epic tales

The Epic of Gilgamesh is commonly accepted as the first written work by a named author in the history of civilization.  This is interesting because I'm pretty sure if I were the first author ever and I were chiseling into stone tablets I would have chosen a much shorter name than 'Gilgamesh' as the hero figure in my narrative prose.  Something akin to 'Joe' or 'Pete' or maybe 'Bob'.  Also, there are probably a lot of grammatical errors.  The First Editor Ever job was probably a hard one.

 

On the other hand, 'Humbaba the Terrible' is a pretty sweet name for a villain and may very well be what I name my kids hamster.

post script

We're moving to Minnesota.