Category Archives: Austin
New details about Robin Williams's health are out. He may not have had much time to live.
It's already been 8 years since Robin Williams committed suicide. A lot of people couldn't believe it because he had so much going for him and chalked it up to depression. But, some details have just ...
Jun 21, 2022 thierry ehrmann / CC
My wife thinks I'm foxy. It's completely not what you think.
Jenny woke up at 5 the other morning which meant I woke up at 5 the other morning. I asked why she got up so early and she said something along the lines of she wasn't sure. It was either a fox making...
Jun 21, 2022 Denali National Park and Preserve
Walking on hot coals goes very wrong for company team building day.
A Swiss company held a worker retreat where employees were asked to walk over hot coals. It's the big team building thing these days. Twenty-five people ended up injured. Which then leads me to ask, n...
Jun 20, 2022 AleGranholm / CC
Beer a day better than an apple for health.
Beer instead of apples. That's the suggestion of a new study. They say a beer a day can help cut down on developing chronic diseases. It can even be nonalcoholic beer. Beer contains polyphenols and mi...
Jun 20, 2022 shrk / CC
Radler 2022 at Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City Was Awesome!
I wanted to give a GIGANTIC "Thank You" to Arbor Day Farm, The Radler Bike Festival, everyone who worked at the festival, the sponsors, and Connie, for letting me MC the event again this year and lett...
Jun 20, 2022
Fri Feel Good Feature- Neighborhood comes together to keep woman in her home.
Friday Feel Good Feature- Tonight's inspiring story is about 70 year old Linda Taylor of Minneapolis. 19 years ago she moved there to do volunteer work for the homeless and needy. But as great as that...
Jun 17, 2022 Hannah Busing / Unsplash
Answer to reducing plastics found in...... cemetery.
We've been looking in the wrong place to solve the plastic problem. We should have been tossing it all in cemeteries. German scientists who were looking through compost piles at a cemetery found a new...
Jun 17, 2022 Herry Lawford / CC
World's biggest Bierock coming to KS Oktoberfest. Recipe vid in blog too.
There are only a couple foods that Jenny and I disagree on. One of those is Runzas, aka cabbage burgers, aka Bierocks in German. I bring it up because I found out that the people putting on the Oktobe...
Jun 17, 2022
VHS tape sells for $75k.
Today's story about overpriced auction items is about a VHS tape. VHS, as in no one has used one in 20 years. Which doesn't matter because the tape I'm talking about is a never opened, sealed copy of ...
Jun 16, 2022 LinaMon / CC
Station accidentally sets gas price at 69 cents a gallon.
A gas station manager in California was supposed to set the diesel price to $6.99 a gallon. He accidentally set it to 69 cents a gallon. And then hilarity ensued! Not really. The guy got fired. He man...
Jun 16, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC