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owbc, if you get there and Vinny Rottino is still on the coaching staff, tell him you know me. Vinny'll take care of you. 😀
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Nope, Freddy is Mr. April this year!
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Hey, I'll start. For the umpteenth consecutive year, I have a Brewers wall calendar - the kind for which the players to spotlight are chosen months in advance of the actual year, which means there's always someone on the new year's calendar who is already off the roster. The 2023 calendar starts off with Kolten Wong for January, Hunter Renfroe for February and Josh Hader for March. ?
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The year may be new, but the potential for life to bug us is timeless - so have at it!
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On December 13 (today as I write this), Dick Van Dyke is now 97 years old.
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It's December 12 as I write this, and Bob Barker is now 99 years old.
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We've had a Prius since 2007 and have a Prius Prime on order. The length of our ballpark trips (78 miles each way from home to the Molitor Lot!) was why we weren't sure about range - plus we're a one-vehicle household. I rarely look forward to the MLB offseason, but if the car arrives by then, we should go quite a while between gas station visits.
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Ernie Riles, Teddy Higuera, and one trip to the Janesville Mall.
hawing commented on DuWayne Steurer's blog entry in "Juuuuust a bit outside"
Haha, we used to refer to Bruce Ruffin as "Rough'em Up" Ruffin. ? -
I'll admit, after literally two days of my first post-college job, I realized upon leaving that there was nothing I *had* to do at home. I adjusted pretty fast to not having to wonder what course readings or homework I was behind on. Of course, that night I spent time unpacking since I had just moved to Green Bay.
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In the first year of my post-college library career, I was fresh out of grad school, so the eldest of my student employees were just two years younger than I. I walked into the office once and two of them were talking and said, "She's back, let's ask her. Once you're out of college, does the stress go away?" Readers, I laughed. Then I told them that some stress does go away, but it's promptly replaced by other stresses.
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OR ELSE...it's on-brand for Betty to have had the last laugh, passing just as People magazine's cover story touting her 100th birthday came out. Allen Ludden, her husband, was a Wisconsin native and is buried in Mineral Point, a small town southwest of Madison. Can you imagine if Betty gets laid to rest with Allen? I don't know that the chances are great, but they are not yet zero.
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Dean Stockwell (most recently remembered as Al on Quantum Leap). https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053851755/blue-velvet-and-quantum-leap-actor-dean-stockwell-has-died-at-age-85
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Frank Bonner - perhaps best known as sales dude Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinnati - has died: https://nypost.com/2021/06/17/frank-bonner-star-of-wkrp-in-cincinnati-dead-at-79/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=P6Twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow He's the second core cast member lost from that show after the Big Guy, Mr. Carlson (Gordon Jump).
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Also Murray Slaughter from the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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The hawing household also favors the salad bar at Rocky's - though of course we haven't been in at least a year, and I can't imagine they're doing salad bars nowadays. The Madison location closest to Camp Randall has/had a honey mustard dressing that was excellent.
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Here's hoping he's found peace, but I have a heck of a time classifying Screech as a TV treasure in my mind.
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Absolutely! Pizza Hut in Monroe in the 1980s was The Bomb and The Place To Be after every high school event. Once I moved to Madison, I found non-chain pizzas and have for the most part never looked back.
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Gotta bring this back for Mary Ann of Gilligan's Island. Come ON, 2020. https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/dawn-wells-dead-gilligans-island-mary-ann-1234876755/
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I just want to point out that back in January, I labeled this "not bugging you" thread to cover the 2020s, not just 2020. (Also, congratulations on completing your master's)
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What's not bugging me today is baseball on my birthday. It's not something I can assume on February 25.
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I'm...going to be that "guy" and add that we have had cauliflower-crust pizza, and have bought frozen cauliflower crusts and topped them ourselves. It erases the SO's carb concern and honestly tastes fine to me. The consistency is different, but it's a reasonable alternative for us.
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The Rocky's out at Mineral Point and Tree Lane doesn't deliver? I suppose maybe not because they have the theater and game area? The Roman Candle just closed its Monroe St location last month. They're still in Middleton and on Willy though.
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It is still there! We've never stopped because we pass it basically on the way to ballgames, but it is still there. I think the sign says Since 1957.
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Reticent? I thought about mentioning Pizza hut as a joke... I'm thinking "remiss." So, I grew up in Monroe in the 1980s, when Pizza Hut was the bomb. Now it's only a gut bomb. *rimshot* Nowadays, the SO is diabetic and is reluctant to go overboard on pizza, and I'm not likely to order a full pie for myself. But - the original Ian's location on Frances in Madison is a 5 minute walk away from our libraries and we both enjoy a slice or two there. For SO to opt for frozen pizza at home, he pretty much needs a nutrition label to make sure it doesn't whack out his carb count, so we most often get Di Giorno. Not in bulk or anything. Earlier in our time in Madison, we lived near the first Pizza Extreme location, and used to regularly get their taco pizza. That was a good pie. There's no way SO would eat that much carbness in one meal anymore, and again, I'm not ordering a full pie for myself. But there are times I'd opt for that taco pizza again if it were practical. Another location is not far from our current house, so I experience no shortage of temptations. Rocky's...is a pie I got tired of after the fall semester 1985, when I ordered a sausage slice every Monday and Wednesday before I went to work at my college library gig. We more often go for the salad bar, which for that kind of establishment is more solid than you'd think. I do like Rocky's breadsticks, though.
