Theresa and I celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary on Friday (talk like a pirate day). We are gonna do something Saturday together and I was thinking a daytrip to a close town. You know walk around checking out stores and hit a greasy spoon of some sort. Good food and enough to see to keep us busy for a few hours is what we are looking for.
So any ideas? I was thinking Louisville or Beatrice, or something like that.
Autumn is just around the corner. Ushering in the time of year when the Monks start thinking of bigger beers that push the upper ends of the styles, warm the body and relax the soul. With this in mind the Monks give you the Fall 2008 release of their Smoked Bock. To help them celebrate this yearly ritual they have teamed up with Bread & Cup in the Hay Market as well as Branched Oak Farms in Lincoln to help make this a special event.
It all started with Branched Oak farms turning a few gallons of the Smoked Bock beer into a batch of seriously delicious Gouda cheese!
Bread & Cup will be taking this fantastic cheese and turning it into a few offerings above and beyond their normal excellent menu.
Items made with the Smoked Bock Gouda cheese will include:
Cheese plate
Smoked Bock beer cheese soup
Pulled pork sandwich with Smoked Bock Gouda
Pizza with Smoked Bock GoudaThe festivities are slated to begin at 6:00 on Friday, September 12, 2008 at Bread & Cup located at the corner of 8th & S in Lincoln’s Historic Haymarket
440 N 8th St Suite 150 (402) 438-2255
Road signs can’t point out town’s free WiFi
LOUISVILLE, Neb. - A small town’s plans to become an on-ramp to the information superhighway have run into a roadblock with the Nebraska Department of Roads.
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A traveler with a laptop or an Internet-enabled cell phone can park along Main Street, sit in the car, latch onto a wireless Internet signal and start typing.
“I do see a lot of people parked in front of our store using their laptops,” said Dana Muntz, owner of Envy Salon, 132 Main St. “By having the wireless Internet we have on Main Street, it’s a great bonus for any town to have. It’s what people want.”
Bonus or not, the merchants learned that state roads officials were not fond of the town’s effort to install promotional road signs along state Highway 50 running past Louisville.
State Web site Receives Top Award for E-Government
Gov. Dave Heineman today announced Nebraska has received national recognition for the new State Web site, as well as individual recognition for the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles Web site. The Center for Digital Government has recognized Nebraska as one of the “Top 10” Web sites in the country, and the Department of Motor Vehicles was named one of the “Top 5” Digital Achievement Award sites in the Government to Citizen category for their License Reinstatement application.
Theresa works for the company that made these sites. you go girl!
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I have been working on www.myprogressivepet.com for a few weeks now.
A few friends came up with this idea to sell laser etched pet tags with proceeds going to NE Dems and the Capitol Humane Society.
This site was a bunch of fun to build. I learned a bunch about how wordpress can rule and how to intergrate paypal. Plus Fuggles is an Obama girl 
Gonna be pimping it here a bit, although I am not affiliated besides building a site for friends with a really decent agenda.
Ainsworth, population 1,800, maybe, embraces its intimate remoteness. For example, local officials say that back in the 1980s a professional bowler was interviewed on national television about his plans to attend a horseshoe tournament in Ainsworth; when asked where Ainsworth was, he replied: the middle of nowhere. The town now has an annual Middle of Nowhere festival.
One of the blessings of being in the middle of this nowhere is its wind. Years ago, after setting up wind monitors at nine spots around the state, energy officials discovered that Ainsworth and its surrounding areas had wonderful prevailing winds flowing down from Canada and up from Mexico: winds that carried the Goldilocks charm of being neither too hard nor too soft, but just right.
“There’s a free shot of it coming from the north,” explains John B. Richards, an engineer for Nebraska Public. “You look north and you don’t see much getting in the way.”
I absolutely love wind power. I also wish my name was as cool a T Boone Pickens
Gene sent me this link to a flickr pool and there are tons of really cool NE storm pics
Zuiun has some really awesome pics.
This one is my fave. Theresa walks through that skywalk every work day.
We headed up there at the crack of dawn Sunday morning and hit the trails. They were damp, but since there is not a single flat part of the trail it had no mud pools. Just really damp dirt from the morning dew. I have ridden out there twice before and kinda forgot how brutal it is. We hit 4 of the trails I think and I did not bring enough water, or a change of clothes. Kit and I got a bit lost towards the end and were tore up and not feeling too confident in our balance from being so wore out. We finally made it out and headed to the breakfast (see I spelled it correctly Major Tom) buffet for some bacon.
Was it worth it? Well nothing like being in the lowest gear trying to climb a huge mud slicked rut and then having to slide with your brakes into a ravine fill of trees and rocks for 2 hours and only getting in 5 miles. Yeah it was worth it. Not just for the all you can eat bacon, but for having done it. I think we will head out that way next Sunday too.
Sidney family wins $40,000 over urine-tainted food
SIDNEY — A Sidney police officer and his family have won $40,000 from a restaurant that had served them food tainted by an employee’s spit and urine.
In the lawsuit filed last year in Cheyenne County District Court, officer Keith Andrew and his wife said a Taco Bell employee urinated and spit in food served to them and their children in October 2005.
The lawsuit named North Platte-based Mid Plains Food and Lodging, owner of the KFC/Taco Bell.
A call to the company seeking comment on Monday was not immediately returned.
In the lawsuit, the couple said their two sons, 4 and 7 at the time, took sick after they ate the food. The 4-year-old came “violently ill,” the lawsuit said, with gastroenteritis and dehydration. He vomited for hours and was forced to spend time in a hospital.
Managers of the restaurant were aware of the contamination at the time the Andrew family was eating but didn’t inform the family, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also suggested the family was the victim of a scheme that targeted police officers.
“Employees maintained ’special servings’ of food reserved for … officers,” the lawsuit said. “The ’special servings’ had been urinated in or spit in by KFC/Taco Bell employees. In fact, defendant’s employees maintained a particular serving pan for use in creating ’special servings’ of food plus employee urine.”
An attorney for the family, Andy Snyder of Scottsbluff, said the verdict did not specify exactly how the jury believed the restaurant was negligent.
Management knew of rumors that food was being tainted and heard employees joke about it but took no disciplinary action, Snyder said Monday.
He also said the restaurant did a poor job of vetting its employees.
“I’d advise them to get a better class of employees,” Snyder said.
Modern Monks has a link to a PDF with pics of the damage. Good thing nobody was hurt.
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