Slow news day

My high school English teacher was right.  The growth of spellcheck will make everyone lazy.  WordPress still hasn’t fixed their spellcheck (and, for that matter, the word count feature) so I hate to write on a computer where I can’t make sure I didn’t mix up my i before e rule. 

Anyway, not much in my South Dakota news sources caught my eye.  One of the things that did involved a twine robber.  Who needs the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota, when South Dakota might have the biggest twine snatcher from Minnesota?

Also, my old hometown of Veblen is having an election.  If you want a window into press coverage of an election in a town of about 300, it’s worth reading the questionnaires the candidates filled out.

My blog focus is getting a bit single minded.  I wanted this to be a blog I’d update more often, but it’s becoming almost like my MySpace blog.  I’m only updating it once a week.  I’m still waiting for my Farmington visitor’s guide to follow up on my Farmington blog, and I’ve been so into my cliffhanger theater project.  Also, I’ve been making decent progress on another project, and while I don’t have a shortage of words to input, I seem to be mismanaging my time. 

I will work to correct this. 

Otherwise, things in my neck of the woods are wood-like.  Kate is feeling a bit better, but the one-two punch of the flu and morning sickness is really making being Kate miserable (on top of being married to me no less).  This weekend we did sneak out to Caboodle Cafe in Lynd.  They’re closing after next week for the summer, so if you don’t make it out before then, pencil them in for the fall.  I’m not sure what it is about the place, but I really enjoy going.  It probably has to do with the great food and friendly atmosphere, but those sound so cliched, even if accurate.

I’ve been hankerin’ to watch The Empire Strikes Back for some weird reason.  I have no idea why.  I think that tonight I might make it a late night and fire up the DVD player.  First off, I need to get a week’s worth of X-Play off the DVR.  That will be quick, as I only watch the reviews and the news segments.  I can usually get a half hour episode watched in about six minutes.

I came close to actually putting a picture of myself as my default image.  How close?  You’ll never know.

I think I captured the water tower’s good side in the one I ended up using.