I’m back….

It was a good weekend. I hope you had the same.

I decided to take off the weekend from blogging for a couple reasons. First, I was tired of doing it. I needed a break and it was good. Now that I’m back on it, I like it. I’m refreshed. And hopefully less stupid as I think some of my recent posts have just been ramblings. Although, that’s pretty realistic for me, and you’d know this if you ever heard one of my famous (or infamous?) voice mail messages. I think the short ones run about 2:33, so you get the picture.

And second, I figured no one really cared what I did over the weekend when everyone was going to be doing their thing anyway. I think I was right because I didn’t get a single call or email with anyone missing it. And for that fact, I don’t get calls or emails any more anyway while I’m “working at home.” So it’s par for the course.

So what did I do with my time?

Well, we drove up to North Carolina to visit the sugar-in-laws. I haven’t been up to their place in several years. Last summer when sugar mama and I spent a week at the Outer Banks was the first time I had even seen the sugar-in-laws in like four years. So it’s probably been five years since I’ve been to their house.

Like most places, not much has changed there. They’re cool people and for the most part “get it”. And they’re pretty funny. And I’m not just saying that because I know sugar mama will read this blog. If that was the case, I’d really schmooze it up. But no.

So during the eight hours drive each way, I had plenty of time to think on some things. Here’s what I came up with from the trip and just other things on my mind….

• South Carolina is a pretty unique place. If you’ve never been to South of the Border, you should check it out. I’m not really sure why they don’t put Pedro on the state license plates.
• Speaking of license plates, we saw most of them. Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Check. Check. Check. New York, Maine, Connecticut, New Jersey. Yup, sure, done, ditto. California, Montana and Alaska? Yes sir, we did. Guam? I didn’t because I was working on an article the last couple hours, but sugar mama told me while she was driving she saw one and I’ll take her word for it. Oh, and every one of them sucked. I think it’s universal that license plates suck. None of them are cool, so why try? Just assign a color for each state for the background and one for lettering and call it good.
• Technology is pretty amazing. I was sitting in North Carolina and on my laptop, I was listening to the Nebraska football radio broadcast, watching the Kansas-North Dakota game on a “free web channel” and looking at stats for the TCU-Oregon State game while the North Carolina-LSU game was on the TV in front of me.
• Electricity must be the best invention of all-time. Without it, none of what I just said I did on Saturday night would be possible. I wonder what it was like the first time Michael Faraday got the first electric motor to run? Electricity, from what I just read on Buzzle.com, goes back to 600 BC, but Faraday was the first to harness it with a magnet inside a coil to make an electric motor. This is why, according to the all-knowing, all-everything Wikipedia, Albert Einstein kept a photograph of Faraday on his study wall alongside pictures of Issac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell. I can only assume this is the distant relative of Daniel Faraday, which we all know was really not shot by his mother in the time-jumping scenes in season five of LOST.
• I’m going to have a busy September in Wisconsin next year. First, I’ll have to go home at the end of September because Nebraska’s first league football game as a member of the Big Ten will be at Wisconsin on Oct. 1. So Sept. 30, State Street in Madison will be on fire. Gonna have to be at that one and luckily there is family and friends close enough that that trip should be easy to plan. That actually won’t be the first time that month that I’m in the state. I just signed up about 20 minutes ago for the Warrior Dash. I’m set to Dash on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, in the 1 p.m. wave in Twin Lakes, Wis. Any suggestions for what to wear? I’m thinking Abe Lincoln outfit, naturally since I’m tall and skinny like him. But I’ll take suggestions.
• That was a hell of a game last night between Boise State and Virginia Tech. I wasn’t overly impressed with the BSU quarterback until the last two minutes and then the kid was lights-out. Wow. And of course, I could have been at an even better ending of a game since we were only an hour from Greenville where East Carolina won on the last freaking play of the game. Oh, well. My second-quarter nap wouldn’t have been as restful if we were in the stands.

Well, those are some random things I’ve thought about over the past few days and while boring, they are what they are. And that’s fine with me.

Something else that’s fine with me? Awesomely bad fight scenes in stupid movies, like this one.