Get your house off the lake by midnight or else.

Paul Johnson - Pelican Rapids, Minnesota

Stormi Greener - Star Tribune - Minneapolis, Minnesota

Monday musings

The fact that the Pelican Rapids School Board can cut $400,000 from the budget and lay off almost a dozen teachers on a Wednesday afternoon and here it is Monday and no mention as been made of it in the area media tells me three things: 1) nobody outside 56572 is reading this blog; 2) nobody outside 56572 pays any attention to 56572; 3) nobody outside 56572 really cares what happens here. With a bonding vote just over the horizon, we should probably just enjoy the peace and quiet before real March Madness hits.

Trader Pete is just back from the Pampas of Argentina and posted his travel snapshots today. Now he understands what a chopperia is.

Godspeed Mr. Fossett
A jet plane piloted by US adventurer Steve Fossett, aiming to make the first solo non-stop flight around the world without refuelling, has taken off.
"I suppose I am a little bit of a nervous person - perhaps it is justified in this case."