Since I've been unable to find a job in the Twin Cities, my grandfather was kind enough to offer me a position on his ranch in the Black Hills, near Rapid City.

Since he's getting on in years, it's my job to do all the things his body can't handle anymore. Like shoveling cow-pie out of the herd's watering hole (Actually saw one wander in it and then plopped a huge one right there. Did not get a picture but the smell was enough) or replacing tires on the motorcycles he uses to check the pastures. Fixing fences, stuff like that.

I did spend the first night at my uncle's dorm at the Rapid City School of Mines. Place was a mess worse than the ranch, I tell you.

In any case it's only been a few days on the job, but I've been kept busy enough.

Well, as with guys dorms this place is a pigsty; nevertheless for my uncle, it's home. A place like this for me, in the fall? not bad.

So, today is the day I will be going west to see family.

Still waiting on some other people that are coming, so it will be a few hours. Still, the drive from Saint Paul to the Black Hills is 8 or 9 hours. Luckily I'll be staying for a couple months, working for my grandfather.

I was a little late for the session after that; by the time I joined the cavalier was dying from poison (The cleric managed to get a slow posion on her but even so...) and we had found a whole crap-load of treasure, including I believe the magic chain. We put it away in our portable hole. (Where we got that I don't know, but basically it's like one of those holes disney cartoons use to get through a wall. portable, and can store alot of stuff.)

July, 2009

Where were we...?

http://www.saintbernards-school.org/l...rmike.aspx

Saint Bernard's High School was created around 1967. The school itself had been operating as a grade school since before the turn of the 20th century. Originally founded to provide quality education to the many Catholic German immigrants in the area, it and other similar schools (Saint Luke's, now Saint Thomas Moore; my old grade school) have long been a part of Saint Paul's education system.

Journals of the Greyhawk Adventures...

Saint Bernards Catholic High School; as of next monday will be 119 years old...

But, this is the year that this faithful institution will finally, sadly, pitifully, creep into it's bed, and die a sad death.

Sadness abounds.

I have just discovered this from my friends on facebook. Chalk one up for something useful on Face book, if you want.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/527363

Warning, contains graphic violence, copious swearing, and some homosexual jokes.

See, this is the kind of command of the English language that I strive to have. not just for insults, mind you. It would be useful in all kinds of topics. Like satire.

"He had delusions of adequacy."
Walter Kerr