Mike Kicking Ass

I am highly surprised and disappointed in my readers. The results are in from the last poll and I am shocked to find that you would rather see pictures of Mike "Kicking Ass" than pictures of me and my life. I am guessing this is most likely because Mike voted for himself every day. But until I hear an outcry for more pictures of my life, I will just post pictures of Mike "Kicking Ass" because that is what you, my readers want. But before I get to Mike "Kicking Ass" let me give you a quick run down of my weekend.

Thursday night I went to Madison and I grabbed something to eat with Joe and stayed at his place. Joe, again, thanks for letting me crash there. Friday was my conference. If wasn't too bad, but I can think of a number of other things I would rather do. Friday night, I took my cousin Kim out to dinner at a Irish Pub by the Capital. Kim also gave me everyone else's pictures from the Eagle River trip with the Shermans. I would like to show you those pictures, but again as you voted, you just want pictures of Mike "Kicking Ass". Later Friday night I met Jay and Joe at the bar that Shelly works at. We had a couple drinks and watched the Brewers win. Then I drove to Wales and stayed at Jon and Julie's place. Saturday was a long but fun day. I was up pretty early and got a run in. Then I began my onslaught of kid's games. I went to Ethan's soccer game at 9:00 a.m., Abbigail's soccer game at 11:30 a.m., and Jared's flag football game at 1:00 p.m. That is a lot of games. Ethan won and scored 4 goals. Abbigail won and scored a goal. Jared won (at least I am pretty sure he did) and scored a touchdown. I would like to post pictures from that game, but again the readers have voted just to see pictures of Mike "Kicking Ass". After all of the games, I went to my parent's house for their summer party. As always my parent's put out a great spread. The highlight of the party for me was while I was launching rockets with the kids. I was preparing the rocket for a launch Tree came up with the idea to put a piece of my dad's summer sausage inside the rocket. Shortly before launch I was able to get all of the kids chanting "Sausage Rocket!!! Sausage Rocket!!" This is probably the only scenario in which I can I get kids to yell that without getting in trouble. I also got in a game of Ghost in the Graveyard with the kids at the end of the night. Thank you to my parents for putting on the party. Everyone I talked to had a great time. I left the party early with my friends Chris and Rebecca to drive up to Appleton. Sunday morning Chris, Rebecca and I went to the Packer game. As we were walking into the game I see this tall dork in a Brett Farve Atlanta Falcons jersey with his hand up in the air looking for two tickets. Who else could it be but Browny. What a treat to see Browny. Unfortunately I only got to talk to him for maybe a minute as Browny was on a mission to find some tickets. The game itself was great. I am sure their have been better games, the 48-47 Monday night game, Chris Jacke's 53 yard field goal game, or when the Packers beat the 49ers the first time in San Francisco all come to mind. But this was by far the best game I have ever been to. A come from behind win in the closing minutes. Just great. Our seats were great, 45th row on the 40 yard line. Again I have great pictures, but you people don't want to see them. It was only the second time I have seen the Packers win in person. Shortly after sitting down in my seat, I just looked over the stadium and marveled at how great it is to be at a Packer game. I love how the entire crowd is near silent just before and after the snap of the ball with anticipation. I just had a great time at the game. A quick side note, Browny wasn't able to get into the game. He got no closer that 2 tickets for $350. A little steep. After the game while I was out the parking lot giving everyone I could see a high five, I bumped into Basketball Dave. I haven't seen Basketball Dave in three or four years and it was great to see him. I was excited to see him and jumping up and down. His wife was their and insisted that I didn't jump up and down by Dave, because the last time I did that, I broke Dave's ankle. Tree, I have his number and I will email it to you, they are still playing basketball on Tuesdays. We ended up going to a couple different bars and ended up at one with Karyoke. Of course I had to get my name in. I grabbed the cordless mic and as I was singing, I jumped from the stage, onto the pool table, to a bar table and finally made my way up on top of the bar. I got yelled at for being on the bar, but finished my song. Chris, Rebecca and I ended the night back in Appleton where we hit one more bar before calling it a night. A big thanks to Chris' mom, Jody, for inviting me along to the game. Another great weekend for me. It would be great to share the pictures with you, but as mentioned earlier, you, my readers, do not want to see them. But their is good news. This next weekend I am going to Mike's game, so I should have plenty of pictures of Mike kicking ass. Until then, here he is at an earlier game against Lakeland.