Well first let me start on Thursday of last week.  I was leaving work kind of late and it was very cold and dark and there was nobody around.  I stopped at a stop sign and trotting down the middle of the crossing road was a coyote, cool as a cucumber!  I just waited at the stop sign as he calmly trotted by in front of me, probably 5 feet from my bumper.  He gave me a little grin like, “What’s up?” as he went by.  What is going on with Chicago and coyotes??  My dad suggested that perhaps some ancient Indian spirit guide is trying to get a hold of me or something.

So on Saturday we went up to my brother’s place at Madison and there are two things to note.  The first is that I ate a Bacon Brat Burger on Pretzel bread with some sort beer mustard.  That’s something you certainly can’t get just anywhere!  It was like a double patty burger but one of the patties was made out of a brat.  It was interesting enough sounding that I passed up the daily special, the Brat Favre.  It was pretty delicious, but I could have done without the pretzel bread.

The other interesting thing is that we went by a theater downtown and on the marquee it said that they were showing the Packer’s game there on Sunday.  How cool would that be?  I would definitely go for that if I lived there.

After that, we went to my Grandma’s 80th birthday party.  It was good to see a lot of my dad’s family that we don’t usually see.  We haven’t been to a family gathering for that side of the family in a long time.

YIKES!!!  The Packers are one win away from the Super Bowl and it doesn’t look good!  Game is currently tied with 4 seconds left, but the Giants are about to kick a FG!

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS!!!!  Missed FG, overtime it is!