He gave his life for human pleasure, and of course, I have enormous, enormous issues with that, but I won't climb on a soap box here. Let's just say I'm not a fan of horse racing (or greyhound racing, for that matter, but let's move on).
Weirdness, part I: I'm watching the 5 o'clock news, which is where I heard the news about Barbaro. Being a local broadcast, they're live from the Winter Carnival in St. Paul, where the newscaster was about to repair to the "hotdish tent." I honestly don't know how many "varieties" of hotdish exist--they're all similar, with cream soup and sour cream and some sort of frozen veggies and some sort of starch, either tater-tots or noodles, and ground meat.
And that's basically it.
Weirdness, part II: Some guy--owner of a sports bar in WI--"accidentally" hurtled himself 17 stories out of a Hyatt in downtown Minneapolis (he's fine, amazingly). Said it was an accident. Just not really comprehending how one "accidentally" overshoots one's own hotel room door and keeps going to the end of the hall with enough velocity to break through a glass window, but I have my theory....
Let me just say, they like their hotdish a LOT here. And their liquor.
Now, I'm not a teetotaler by any means, but honestly. What else is there to do during the long, gray winter?
Hazelden, anyone?
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Yeah, the Barbaro news was so sad. Linda, Katie and I were watching the race when it happened. The New Bolton Center, where much of the surgery and recovery took place, is in PA and I visited it with Emily way back when she lived there. I saw the swimming pool where the anesthetized horse is suspended in water so that when he wakes up and thrashes he won't injure himself. It's a state of the art facility concentrating much on horses due to the large number of high $$ horses in the area. Remember my blue sweatshirt with the animal butts on the back? New Bolton.
Now this is more than a comment.....ooops.
Anyway, loved your wierdness account. 'Specially the "accidental" hurling. Yeah, right.
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