This morning Travalon and I picked up Tiffy from downtown and headed back to our part of town to avoid the Homecoming crowds. We had an early lunch at Zippy Lube and then drove to Lodi, where we took a walk on the Lodi Marsh segment of the Ice Age Trail before Travalon dropped us ladies off at the Treinen Corn Maze. This year the pattern is a badger, and at first we were struggling to find the secret punches and hoped we wouldn't fail completely like last year. However, there were more people in the maze this year, so we heard the telltale clank of the hole punchers falling against the metal post they are attached to, and people hollering, "Over here! I found it!" so that helped a lot. Finally we had seven of the eight punches we needed (and ten possible), so we went back to Section One of the map, since we hadn't found one there, and we searched and searched until finding one. Success!! For our trouble, we got stickers, certificates, and maze pens. Then Travalon picked us up, and we drove to the spot from which you can see Sunset Island before taking the Merrimac Ferry over to the north side of the lake. We went to Culver's for pumpkin shakes or mixers, then we went to Devil's Lake and got some Trail Magic buying discounted stickers and a patch before going to sit down by the lake. Back in town we tried to go to Lola's, but there was an hour wait so we went to Nar Turkish Restaurant for dinner. No Turkish ice cream - I had way too much in my pumpkin concrete mixer.
Homecoming was a disaster. The Badgers lost to the Iowa Hawkeyes 37-0. I really don't care anymore, because I never got over how they fired Coach Paul Chryst for losing two games in a row... and now they won't can this loser, who can't even score against a Big Ten opponent, never mind beat them. Chryst always had decent seasons and got the team into bowls. I'm so done with college football anyway, because I can't handle how the "Big Ten" now has eighteen teams, and how players can just enter the transfer portal anytime they feel like leaving, and now Name, Image, and Likeness has made it all about who will pay college players the most money. It's just not fun anymore. It's just as sleazy as professional football, which I only watch because the Packers are a socialist team, owned by The People. Everyone else sucks.
I forgot to mention that yesterday there was a headline along the lines of: "Norway fears retribution after [Dear Leader] fails to win the Nobel Prize." Can you see the irony inherent in that headline? How can you expect to win a PEACE prize if people fear you will seek revenge on them for not winning it?? Someone said, "Maybe his administration will give him a little Participation Trophy," which really made me laugh. It's not funny being controlled by a vengeful toddler, yet it kind of is somehow. All you can do is laugh to keep from despairing.
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