Are you tired of being tired?

Have you seen the 5-hour Energy drink that's for sale for about $3 bucks at most gas stations and convenience stores? About a month ago I was feeling sluggish before Trivia Night and thought, oh what the yeck I'll give it a try. I'm hear to tell ya, the product works great, but when is the last time you needed 5 hours of energy? Five hours of vim n' vigor is a long time, almost too much. Also, don't even think of taking it after 7pm if you want to get to bed before the birds start chirping.

I don't know about you, but I think 2-hour Energy is a better idea. Case in point. A movie. Two hours. Duluth to Grand Marais. Two hours. Trivia Night @ Sven's. Two hours. The groggy time between lunch and quit'n time. Two hours. The list goes on and on.

I'd gladly pay $1.99 for 2 hours of energy. Yes, sometimes I think too much.

All plugged up

The next time you think man is at the top of the food chain when it comes to ingenuity and craftsmanship, go take a tour of a beaver dam. In a word, humbling.

Get'n personal

The vision below is at the epicenter of all my worst fears. 

Trivia Results

Last nights Sven and Ole's Trivia Night was a fairly raucous affair with many C.C.H.S. students taking a crack at prizes and bragging rights.

Taking 1st place (for the very first time I might add) was the Sick Chicks who pretty much dominated from beginning to end. Not sure how they did it. Maybe a ringer or three? :) Anyway, they tallied a fist pumping 79 pts. for the $75 bills. Coming in the money as well this week was team It's the Path, Not the Pizza with 77 pts.

Bringing up the 3 spot was (the too hot to handle lately) Team Bri with 75 pts. If only they could've got'n the honey question they'd be $50 bucks richer. Oh well. And, taking the last slot for Cup Points was the always dangerous The Fuzzy Kumquats aka Thespian Wannabees with 70 pts.

Stats: 14 teams played, but judging by the volume it felt (sounded) more like 24.

Stumper question of the night:  What was America's first organized sport? Hint: It was organized in 1664. Good luck finding it. 

Most interesting fact of the night:  A medium soft drink at McDonalds is 21 oz. How many oz. was a medium soft drink at McDonalds in 1955?  Happy search'n.

Worst collapse in recorded trivia history:  Team Thuggz n' Uggz were in 1st place with 50 pts. at question #10 and went on to whiff on the remaining ten questions to finish in 8th place with 50 pts. Can you say ouch?

Sven and Ole's Trivia Night Point Cup Points for 2010 as of March 26th  2010 

Teams                                                Points

Where's Bob?                                         804
Thespian Wannabees                            494
Team Bri                                                369
Bahama Mommas                                  365
It's the Path, Not the Pizza                     307
Dawgs                                                    276
Motley Crew                                           182
Alpine Stars                                            121
Cosmos                                                   104
The Italian Stallions                                 89
Team Hector                                             85
Gavynators                                                83
Sick Chicks                                                79
Eddie Cheeseburger                                  45

Trivia Results

March 18th 2010 Sven and Ole's Thursday Night Trivia results:

It was The Italian Stallions (first time contenders) with a wire to wire, by a nose, victory with 89 pts. for the $75 bucks and 1st place. Coming in 2nd were Where's Everybody? on a strong, but no cigar, 88 pts. for the $50 spot.

Rounding out the 3rd and 4th places were the always respectable Team Hector with 85 pts and $25 in beer money, and Mostly Finished Moose (still puzzled by the name) with 84 pts.

It was a tight bunching of scores as the top six teams had between 89 and 79 points total. Kinda cool.

Stats: 18 teams played. A record for the 2010 season so far.

The (2) stumper question(s) of the night:  Name the worlds oldest city.  and  Who was Wilbur Mills famous for knowing.... too well? Happy search'n.

Trivia freebie question of the week: What NFL Hall of Fame quarterback has the all-time record for the most career fumbles with 161? This baby is worth 7 pts. Happy search'n.

Huh of the night:  Team It's the Pizza, Not the Path beat out team It's the Path, Not the Pizza by a score of 76 to 51 points.  Go figure.

Hope to see you 7pm tonight @ Sven and Ole's. Get your team on.

Sven and Ole's Trivia Night Point Cup Points for 2010 as of March 25th  2010 

Teams                                                Points

Where's Bob?                                          804
Thespian Wannabees                            424
Bahama Mommas                                  365
Team Bri                                                294
Dawgs                                                    276
It's the Path, Not the Pizza                     230
Motley Crew                                           182
Alpine Stars                                            121
Cosmos                                                   104
The Italian Stallions                                 89
Team Hector                                           85
Gavynators                                              83
Eddie Cheeseburger                               45

Happy B-Day to my eldest sister Dii

The wildlife in the past month on the Gunflint Trail and Hwy. 61 as seen through a school bus window.

5 eagles, 1 weasle, 11 rabbit, 7 grouse and 358 deer. 

Overheard at the Java Moose

"I've loved a lot of 16 dollar bottles of wine, but, I've also never disliked an 8 dollar bottle of wine."

"This stuff is freak'n amazing." said in earnest while looking at his empty coffee cup 

"Where did all the good names go, like Heywood Hale Broun and Ring Lardner?"

"I hate seeing a menu that says the word crafted. Food should be made, not crafted. Lenses and curio cabinets are crafted. The thought of crafted food doesn't make me hungry, it just makes me think of dirty cuticles."

Full Disclosure

This takes a bit of courage for me to admit this, but I always thought Bob was saying, "Lay, lady, lay, lay upon my puppy wheat bread." 

Listen.  www.youtube.com/watch  Don't you hear it too?

Almost made it to my forties with that thought in my head.

I do feel better already.

Call me clueless. I've been looking at the Sawtooth Mountain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawtooth_Mountains_(Minnesota) range almost daily for most of my 48 years, and today, (Saturday, March 20th, 2010) for the first time, I noticed that you could see the Moose Mountain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutsen_Mountains ski hill as plain as day from the Grand Marais Coast Guard parking lot. Since when was this possible? See above.

Last Thursday at Sven and Ole's Trivia Night, I asked the question: On average how many times do we blink in a minute? Well, the answer is 19 times a minute.

So, just for fun, and possibly to prove how neurotic one can get, I put a stopwatch to 19 blinks and came up with a tally of roughly 5 seconds equals 19 blinks and multiplied the 5 seconds by 60 minutes and multiplied that number (300) by 16 waking hours (figuring 8 hrs of sleep ya know) and came up with 4800 seconds a day are missed with your eyes closed, or, put it another way, about 8.35% of every waking hour.

With this number in place, I looked up the average life expectancy of a U.S. citizen and found the number, 78 yrs, and took away the 33% for sleep, (ya know the 8 hrs. a day) arriving at 52 years, and then multiplied that by 8.35% and came up with a grand total of (this is roughly mind you) 4.34 years with your eyes closed.

I'm here to tell ya, if you wanna get the most out of life, wear goggles, and if you think that might look dumb, stay out of dusty environments if and when possible. You heard it here first.