Utterly Useless Knowledge

As many of you may already know (as if there were many of you to begin with), I recently put a stake in the ground, proclaiming that I have registered for this year's Des Moines Dam-to-Dam 20k road race. When I posted this information on "The Devil's Social Networking Site", there were many that assumed (falsely) that I had been doing some semblance of running for some time. Well, no. I suppose I need to explain my rationale a bit. I think we all reach a breaking point with ourselves, whether it be from bad habits, how we feel, how we look, something. It varies with everyone. No doubt, there is a certain threshold out there that when we cross it, intuitively our brains say that it's time for action. Granted, that action may last all but a week. But the trigger was pulled. Maybe it just resets that threshold at some higher tolerance level, to be hit somewhere down the line. Sometimes this trigger can be another look in the mirror, or maybe something worse, like an...

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You really want to know? You're probably not as prepared for the answer as you think you are. Let's listen in on a typical guy conversation. Sure, the setting isn't quite a slice of everyday life, but the story definitely is. Here's Baseball Hall-of-Famer, and one of my childhood heroes, George Brett, just making small talk with a couple of buddies. This....is what guys talk about. Note: If you're not fond of colorful (i.e. FOUL) language, you may want to skip this. At the very least, put your headphones on.

I was the only known witness as this tragic scene played out over lunch hour yesterday. Was it really worth it for a new stapler? Not an easy question to answer the day after. Not easy at all. Roll the ugliness..... Scene.

Anyone else have a problem trying to spit out a quality answer to the question "So what's been going on lately?" in the months of January and February every year? Well.....yeah. That's been me. Just not a lot going on in Ol' Dixon's head lately. If I post all of the things that I've been up to recently, most all of what you'd see would be pictures of food that either I have made, or have been served in a restaurant. I have this strange need to take pictures of plates of food. If I post all of them, I run the risk of this here award-winning blog (as far as you know) being typecast. We (the Royal "We") here at UUKBlog pride ourselves on taking the shotgun approach to topic selection. But it's been a good February, and there's some new posts in the blog pipeline. So consider this the first true posting slump, of which there will likely be many more. I'm okay with that. You? Back at it.... Stay tuned. By the way....that's the ...