You live in Wisconsin and can't get toilet paper?!

I thought you guys kept it on the parking meters, next to the free samples of brats, beer, and cheese.

Half my family lives there so I'm knowledgable about these things.

My wife TheFatCouple says that you're an amzing artist!  I'm going to search your site for samples...

Nice to meetcha.

Thanks for stopping by!  Yeah, I think I just simply got to the store too late.  It's not like they are really out of TP, it's just people bought it up so fast they didn't have time to restock.  But, yeah, it was annoying...

Tell your wifey I said, hello!

You didn't get my joke RE: toliet paper.  Hello?  Green Bay?  Johnson Wax, or whatever they're called?!?  C'mon!  That was quality regional humor.  Don't I get points for trying?  Let's transition from POOP to POP.  Did you ever drink that Jolly (Roger?) stuff.  Oh, I mean soda.

Speaking of POOP again.  My wife has a POOP kit; see her site for upcoming pix.

Sorry, I didn't get it.  I tend to be really slow on jokes.  Seriously.  If you guys ever encounter me in an acutal conversation I can get pretty damn oblivious to jokes or regular jokes end up becoming "sleath jokes" on me.  Hours later I'll be heard laughing somewhere finally getting the joke long, long, long after the punch line was delivered!

 

Stevens Point is actually more north central than Green Bay is in Wisconsin, so maybe that's why I'm not getting the Green Bay joke?  Oh, well.

 

Are you talking about the Jolly Soda cheap ass stuff?  yeah, I have.  Only 25 cents a can.  When you're broke and want a fizzy sugary drink, I grab it!

 

I'll have to definitely check out your wife's POOP kit!!!

Stevens Point is more north-central?  Okay, I have to get out an atlas.  I thought it was down by Racine.  Is it super-rural?  You mentioned a U.  Is it one of the kajillion U of W extensions?

Racine is waaaaaaaaaaaaay down south under Milwaukee on the way to Illnois!

Stevens Point is almost in the dead center of the state, about a two hour drive from Green Bay and about 3 to 4 hour drive north from Milwaukee.  In fact, the town of Plover is literally in the "heart" of Wisconsin and that's just due south from Point.

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is a college that specializes in Natural Resources -- being close to the woods, there's a real spirit of recycling and greens.  And, yeah, it's yet another one of those kajillion UW extensions, 'cept this school is way bigger than UW-Milwaukee campus and without it, this city would be yet another rural piece of town surrounded by taverns.

Maybe my cousin's cabin is there or something.  Hell, I don't know!

It's cool that the spirit of the wild is there.  I'll look at the map again: maybe I saw a sign for it this summer when we drove out to South Dakota.  I don't know!

You might've.  I once lived in South Dakota -- in Mobridge! 

You can't miss Stevens Point -- once you hear the name of the city, it conjures up all kinds of penis jokes...

YEAH, Steven's Pointy Lil' Partner!

We have a Climax, MI.

You lived in Mobridge?!  Some Sioux chief is buried there, no?  Is it Sitting Bull?  I almost drove out of our way just to see his grave.  (Am I right?)

I took two of my boys to see the Badlands and the Black Hills.  It was amazing!  I even managed to keep them away from most of the touristy crap.  The one place we did stop was Wall Drug, and i was totally impressed that they didn't buy any of the crappy souveniers there, even tho they were loaded with cash.

Nearby Mobridge is said to be the graves of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, but their bodies are missing from those graves.  Let's just say that white people have their memorial for them and the native peoples have their own...

I've never been to the Badlands/Black Hills area.  I love the country out in the Dakotas, tho'

 

I'm not surprised.

I'd read from some older Sioux accounts that SD was one of the most racist states in the nation.  I saw almost no interaction between whites and Native Americans.  Tourist towns such as Custer (Hello!  There's an fing town named after a butcher!) had no Natives working in any stores, that I saw.  Worse than that, the National Parks weren't employing Sioux in their interpretive centers.  What a failed opportunity.  (Now I need to write a letter!!)

 

Both places were very spiritual experiences.  The thunderbirds were definitely alive and well during our entire trip!  I saw a rainbow at 5 in the morning!  More later, my kid's calling me...

Okay...I just mapquested Wisconsin and realized my cuz lives in Burlington, not Stevens Pt.  Where the hell did I go THAT wrong???

And, yes, I mean that CHEAP-ASS Jolly Soda!  My grandma used to have it for us when we'd come visit.  I used to love the jokes in the bottom of the can.  Do they still do that?

You're not the only one.  My Milwaukee friends once decided to take a trip up here and drove back after they came to the realization that I am really a long drive away!  They got as far as Madison thinking I lived in a suburb of that city, but, lo, the realization that I was still two hours away hit them, and they just didn't want to spend another fourty bucks on gas...  Oh, well.  I'll seem them again soon, once the snow clears.

 

Yes, the cheap ass Jolly soda still kicks ass.  Since it's a very rural city, lots of folks drink it around here.  It's either that or the Faygo (affectionately known as "FAG-oo" soda) which you can buy at any local gas station.  I don't know if they still have those jokes on the bottom of the can.  I'll have to buy some more to check it out and see...

I know Faygo!  It's made here in Detroit!  It's our cheaper-ass version of Jolly: too cheap to pay the guy to steal the jokes from the Dixie cups!!!

Were your friends drinking?  That's not THAT far of a drive!  That story is hailarious!

when I read the whole cooing part, the mental "image" of the sound made everything in me hurt for some reason. *shrug*  it's been an odd afternoon.  Nothing to really go into, yet, just a miya who feels very very confused about a lot of things that just this morning were fairly simple.

I hear ya.  Long before dumbass-who-must-not-be-named did those cooing noises, I did 'em.  I swear he got it from me.  I make as many animal cooing noises as possible -- or at least enough to annoy the hell out of my brother and get my nephews to follow suit.  I swear sometimes I don't feel human at all.  I feel more cat or bird or I should be one considering how many silly girly animal noises I make. 

 

Maybe that's why so many animals tend to show up at my door or in lakes, etc.!  I can't walk anywhere without some bird or fox or opossum crossing my path.  Of course I do live pretty close to the woods...

I can't believe you saw a grey fox!

Yep, I did!  I felt special seeing one.  It might've been black for all I know, but it's not like I don't live miles and miles away from the woods.  Still, it was weird to see one in the city.

We have disgusting rain today...I wish we had snow! Glad to hear your quest for TP was successful, anyway.

 

Poor little fox!

We have EVEN MORE SNOW.  You'd love it.  My legs are SORE from walking in the heavy snow.  I wish I had snowshoes right now...

I know.  Poor little guy.  It's also the birds and other animals in town suffering from too much of the heavy stuff.  I think they're also scared out of hiding from all the thundering snow plows.  I wish I had a place to put out food, but I don't know what they'd eat, much less how to keep it fresh.  The birds are easy, but the bigger mammals would be harder to fend for.

the smiley face makes me smile.   Then again I still like to breathe on glass just so I can write on it.    I love when my "message" shows up months later when the glass refogs from a weather change.

Yeah, the smiley face made my day after I discovered the mall had closed early, too.  I had to walk back home the long way without being able to warm up for a little while by walking through the mall (I live behind the mall).  During the walk my face was blasted with snow and ice.  Then when I walked by Graffiti's (it's a bar) and saw this smiley face on the window, I had to take a photo of it.  Had me giggling all the way home.  Thank you to whoever drew that little face!