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October 21, 2012: For Our Padre

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In honor of National Pastoral Care Week, we at the WGOM (and I mean all of us, since nearly everyone was in on this as long as we had their email address) would like to recognize the man who gives us endless amounts of content, recognizes each of us as well as our family members throughout the year, and has a calming effect on some of the surlier members of the site (ahem). Jeff, enjoy a week dedicated to your presence at the WGOM.

Respectfully,
Everyone Else.


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49 thoughts on “October 21, 2012: For Our Padre”

  3. Glad to have you at the WGOM, Jeff. You are a huge part of what makes this site so great!

    I was waiting semi-patiently to see what everyone had come up with. Y'all didn't disappoint me!

  4. Has anybody gotten halfway through preparing a surprise for someone and realized that things just aren't going to turn out as planned?

    I am not meant to bake cakes.

    1. Yep. Both dating related. The first wasn't so much of a surprise, but I needed to make a dessert for a holiday party hosted by a girl I was dating. I decided to make peanut brittle because ... I don't know why, really. I plead temporary insanity. I was making it the day of the party and my first effort crystallized. It still tasted good, but being a perfectionist I had to make another go of it after surveying the brittle literature again. I added some cream of tartar and it worked out--that was actually really satisfying, but I had basically wasted a day on this project and then the girl broke things off with me that night.

      The second was a surprise birthday cake for a different girl I was dating. Because she liked angel food cake, and due to another bout of insanity, I spent the day making an angel food cake from scratch. It went well, the cake was awesome. But as luck would have it, she dumped me the next day.

      1. I got you beat by a mile. I was dating this girl for a year. For our anniversary, I wrote her a Choose Your Own Adventure book that was 123 pages long. She loved it, then proceeded to break up with me two weeks later.

        Actually, you guys here helped be through that break-up, so yeah.

      2. I'm assuming you let your wife know right away when you started datin that you would never, under any circumstances, make dessert for her.

          1. You have some rough dating stories, ubes. I've never committed to baked goods, but I've failed to mention to Dr. Chop's friends that the party I was planning was a surprise. Yeah, she wasn't really surprised. I also spilled the beans once, but that's another story.

            1. Those are pretty much my only rough dating stories. Things went well with my wife and I really didn't date much in general.

    2. Grown ass man can't even bake a cake. That's just sad. 🙁

      You're the straw that stirs the drink, Padre. Many thanks.

      (And nice banners, everyone.)

      1. It actually turned out alright! Pineapple upside down cake. It wasn't much to look at but that kind rarely looks great.

  5. Indeed, jeff, thank you for all the value you add to this basement. I may not comment much on your updates, but I love the info and insight into what is coming for the big club.

  6. Does anyone else get the feeling that this is the last weekend we'll be seeing into the philosophy of Welzein?

    1. I don't follow him that closely, but the rant about ric flair seems a little far out even for Karl.

    2. I'm not so sure. I think we'll see more. This was a big deal, of course, but I think he's going to ride the World Series, at least.

          1. I think it will be good for him. More time to work on the important stuff like Pain Don't Hurt and the Pizza Ship.

    2. highly agreed.

      spoonto put it well in the CoC header, and i echo everything he said. also, being fairly cynical by nature, i really appreciate the perspective the padre brings to issues and the nation's personal problems. i don't mean simple optimism, but pastor A brings a viewpoint that refreshes my own way of thinking often. yer a mensch, reverend. thank you for everything you bring to this site.

    1. that was horrible play calling at the end of the half. either take a knee or go for it all.

        1. The worst part is that many of his high risk throws would only result in a few yards if caught. Throw it away!

  11. (Homer pitches some suggestions for the "Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show.)

    Homer: One, Poochie needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Poochie's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Poochie"? Three--

    ===

    replace 'Poochie' with 'Tim Tebow' and you have the current state of NFL talk on ESPN.

  12. Andrew came over to my house and watch the Bills game today. Sorry again about that, Mags.

  13. Just got my latest batch of hoppiness into primary fermentation. It's the 115th Dream Hopbursted Imperial IPA (kit from Northern Brewers in St. Paul).

    Kit contains (I kid you not) 4 oz Cluster hops and 12 oz Hopburst hops (1 lb!) .

  14. The wife and I went for an autumn hike up to Hueblein Tower on Avon Mountain. A nice climb up to the edge of the cliff, then another mile or so walk to the tower.

    When we got up to the cliff edge, there was a crowd standing around as three guys were readying to go hang-gliding. The first dude got into the apparatus, got hooked in, with help worked his way over to the edge of the cliff, then waited for a while for the wind to get to his liking (it was quite gusty). This buildup of suspense of course was great for the crowd, many of whom were small children, both in fear and awe (a couple of them were crying).

    Finally the dude gives his instructions to his cohorts, who hold the wings just so - and the guy stands up, and leans forward off the edge of the cliff, dropping into thin air (probably 300 foot drop to the Farmington River valley below).

    The crowd rushed to the edge of the cliff to see if they could see him, but no-one saw anything.

    A moment later someone points up above us - dude had gone to the left, climbed some air pockets, and passed back over the crowd (for applause). Well played, sir!

  15. Late to the party. Padre - thanks for your insight and wisdom in both large and small doses.

    2. Caught a bit of the Kare11 coverage. Seemed to be rather "Good for them for getting that far, I'm sure they're disappointed." rather than "This team was built to win, how did it fall apart?" Might have just been the weekend crew, but it seemed a dismissive of the Lynx and WNBA as a whole.

      Without cable, I've hardly followed, but the second is my rather poorly-informed general sense of this season. I think they were built to win, and I think that falling short of a title is a failure for them. If the coach doesn't go Girardi on them, it is my even-less-informed general sense that they should win a title next year and probably the one after that, too.

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