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November 22, 2012: Thanks

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I'll be away from my MN family for the fifth straight year. Worse still, my wife and kids are out there too. It's not the best Thanksgiving I've ever had, so I'll be living vicariously through you guys.

40 thoughts on “November 22, 2012: Thanks”

  1. I have received an incredible number of blessings in my life. One of those blessings is the number of wonderful people I've met. That number includes all of the people here at the WGOM. I hope you all have an awesome and blessed Thanksgiving. May your lives have at least as many blessings as mine has had.

    1. Padre, I think I speak for everyone here in saying that you are one of the many blessings that we enjoy in our little on-line community. Thank you every day for all that you bring to our table.

  2. Missed it by that much. Country Jer is first runner up. I care so little about the winner's sport that I forgot about his turkeyness. Ski-U-Mah!

    1. Kahn has deserved to be there most years, but he should have gotten a pass this year. This may have been his best offseason.

      1. I was thinking the same thing, as evidenced by one of Reusse's examples being from 4 or whatever years ago. Being willing to basically give Adleman the keys should qualify him for GM of the year.

    2. I was pretty disappointed he included Royce White. The dude has a mental disorder. I'm sure Royce would love to put some dirt on it and go out and play. Also Simone Augustus? Sure she had a lousy finals but she's been a wonderful player and a great story.

      Too bad he didn't include the sports writers who bitched and moaned about mike Trout because Miggy hits home runs

        1. No beer for me until later. I'm taking the trinket to a friend's today so my wife can get some rest. I'll probably have lots of root beer, though.

        2. Speaking of beer, though, the severe drought in Wisconsin led to a crappy year for cherries so that New Glarus was unable to brew this. Fortunately, the apple and cranberry harvests were not affected, so they improvised, and it was good. (Although drinking the whole bottle myself filled me right up.)

  4. I decided to steal Beau's Cornish game hen idea. Just gettin' 'em ready to go in now.

    One of our Thanksgiving traditions has been to say 1 thing we're thankful for, 1 thing we're not thankful for, and 1 thing we wish we were thankful for. I've got my first 2, but haven't figured out #3 yet... I want to vary it, and #1 and 2 are both job related.

  5. So, the wife forgot to buy cream cheese for our potato dish. The only store open today around here is WalMart. As is her custom, she bought more than she was purportedly going there for and she forgot to grab the bag with the cream cheese. I went back there for her to get it (and some cottage cheese). I had to go get the items and bring a receipt to the service counter. The young girl who checked my wife out was apologetic and I felt sorry for her because the old bat at the service counter informed me that she was going to chew her out. I told her no, it's not a big deal and it is Thanksgiving. She was unmoved by my advocacy and was headed to give that young lady a piece of her mind as I left.

    That sucks.

  8. I feel for you, Spoons. It has been many years since we spent Thanksgiving with close family. Our parents come out at Christmas, spring break or summer break, since my wife's a teacher and the kids are in school. This is the first time I've had an actual four-day weekend for Thanksgiving I think since I was in college. Last year, I was working at home as an independent contractor, but the nature of my work required me to work a half day on Thanksgiving. The year before, I'm sure I worked on Black Friday. For more than a decade before that, I worked at newspapers and never had more than one day for a holiday, and usually I worked on Thanksgiving so I could have Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve or Day off (we usually had a choice of two of the five major holidays during this time of the year. We had to rotate since the news stops for no one). I'm going to enjoy these four days, especially since we got an early present from my in-laws of a new surround sound stereo system with HDMI connections. We watched Star Wars last night. Very cool.

    1. I failed to mention my parents are in Minnesota (Maple Grove) and my wife's are north of Seattle in Everett, WA.

      1. Ooh. Much love for Everett (and Maple Grove, for that matter. I worked as a camp counselor one summer, and I don't know what it was, but the kids from Maple Grove were by far the most fun, most polite, most joyful of the kids all summer).

        Thanks for dropping this note. Thanksgiving has been hard for me for a while now, but today is so much worse since I dropped off my wife and daughters at the airport three hours ago. Everything in this complex is silent. It's crushing. I almost want to hang out at the line to my store just to feel like I'm part of something.

  9. Another thing I am thankful for: my DVR. Which enabled me to put the lions game on pause, then later fast-forward past Kid Rock.

    1. college basketball on ESPN2 and Star Trek TNG marathon on BBC America has my attentions during commercial breaks and lulls in the action

  11. Wait, what? Because Detroit's coach illegally throws the challenge flag, they dont have to review it at all? That doesnt make a lot of sense.

    1. apparently, the rules state that if you toss your flag on a automatic challenge, you get penalized and it negates the review.

  12. Turkey Tubby and his gang are playing the Dookies this afternoon, but its on some channel called 'AXS'

    gotta be honest, never heard of that station. but Wiki tells me its owned by Mark Cuban

  13. Im serious. The Jets should have their national tv games rights taken away from them (like the Jaguars have and the Lions were for many many years).

  14. Well, I'm dead tired after a long day of seeing nobody and I'm about to leave for a twelve-hour shift. Every year, and this year is no different, I wonder how the hell I recovered from it the year before.

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