Daily Dose of BS Feb 25 knee scooter

If you were at the La Crosse Center yesterday you saw thousands of family members enjoying what lots of local businesses had.  Family Fest took over the entire La Crosse Center yesterday from schools, to skating and education to physical activity there was a ton to see.  You probably did as I did as well it is a great time to people watch, and enjoy the diversity of the families in our area.  You may have noticed the guy zipping around on the knee scooter, that big bald guy was me and I will tell you what using one of those to move around the center made it so much easier to be mobile.  I rented the knee scooter from Hilton Medical supply by the way no relation to the hotel people I asked because that is who I am.  The reason I bring this up today is because it got me thinking what newer inventions have made your life easier?  The scooter started off as a great toy for my kids and the adapted knee scooter has been a great way for me to exercise some freedom, since I broke my leg.  

Daily Dose of BS Feb 22 uwl confessions

UWL’s chancellor Joe Gow got better than his wish, we wanted the creators of a Facebook page to take down an image of a woman face down on a tile floor, with shoes strewn about her limp body. That image was on a popular Facebook page called UW-La Crosse Confessions, where people, supposedly students post anonymous descriptions of life including sex acts, alcohol consumption and drug use.  To be honest I never even heard about the UW-La Crosse Confessions twitter or facebook page until I read it from the La Crosse Tribune.  The page was followed by more than 3,000 users, it was taken down yesterday and 2 copy cats popped up and within a few hours one had over 1000 fans.  The sites say that they are not affiliated with the university, and asks visitors to “enter your anonymous confession here.”   One of the pages is https://www.facebook.com/pages/LAX-Confessions/415514135208127?fref=ts  the other is https://www.facebook.com/pages/Uw-Lacrosse-Confessions-20/295756247219391?fref=ts should these types of pages be allowed to be up on a forum where the public can see, should they be covered by the1st Amendment?   The original facebook and twitter page has disappeared.  The Facebook page may not have violated the fb Statement of Rights and Responsibilities...but what about social responsibility, Is this just another way to bully individuals and groups of people. 

Daily Dose of BS Feb 21 Barron Island

La Crosse County has received an offer for the vacant Barron Island property (the former Holiday Inn across from Petibone Park).  If you remember the controversy over that property about a decade ago when they were talking about putting in a casino and the city overwhelmingly voted it down.  I hope that something good goes in there, something that would add to the charm of La Crosse, like a Wisconsin Dells type hotel with a water park, it would be a great draw to the area, they could also add an outdoor bar/restaurant with a stage and really use the area and showcase the beauty that is here.  There could also be high end condos built there with access to the River.  I for one wonder why some of the land that sits empty does.  I also think with some cleanup and a developer we could have something nice in the old Mobile site.  With a changing of the guard at city hall in La Crosse what would you like to see the new guard work on getting developed in La Crosse?

Daily Dose of BS Feb 20 pain

We have all been to the doctor’s office and seen the pain scale faces up on the wall.  I just don’t get it.  Not that I don’t understand, but how do you rate your pain.  I have taken my kids to the doctor with sore throats before and for them it is a nine or a ten, for me it has always been a one or a two at the most.  I broke my leg a couple of weeks ago and when I was checking in to urgent care they were taking my vitals and the nurse pointed to the wall and the infamous smiley to sad face chart of pain.  For me the pain was a 4 or a 5 and that is because I walked on it.  When I cut my finger tip off it was a 1 or a 2.  I guess when I am thinking of a sad face with a few tears it would be getting shot in the junk with a nail gun right in to the bone of your leg then trying to take that nail out with a kids sized claw hammer, then and maybe only then would we have a ten.  I hope to God that I never have to experience that kind of pain, the closest I got was about a six, two days after I got my cast one of my kids accidently banged the bottom of my broken leg foot when I had it out of the cast icing it.  It kind of brings up the sad faced teary eyes just thinking of that. 

Daily Dose of BS Feb 19 vote

This is the day that we as voters in Wisconsin decide who moves on.  Think of today as the Survivor day, we get to vote 1 off the island for State Supreme Court and vote 9 from the La Crosse Mayoral pool.  And a handful of city council and village boards seats are up around the listening area also slimming their larger pools of candidates down to just 2.  Over the past 6 weeks I have had many conversations with all 11 of the mayoral candidates for the city of La Crosse and like cream a few have risen to the top of the milk barrel.  I know who I am going to be voting for today, who do you like as a candidate?  And are you going to vote?

Daily Dose of BS Feb 18 don't want to hear

We have all come across people saying things that we just don’t like to hear or don’t want to hear.  What are some of the things that you don’t want to hear?  Like the boss wants to see you and bring all your stuff, or  we’ve installed webcams in your studio and you are a really horrible dancer, and you can't carry a tune even in a backpack.   My least favorite is Umm sorry with no added explanation.  What are some things you don’t wanna hear?

Daily Dose of BS Feb 15 glasses

I got new glasses in December and the prescription didn’t change a whole lot, but the stigmatism did.  You know I am not the best test taker and I am always worried when I take those tests what if I am not paying that close attention; you know what is better one or two, one, two.   You pick but how do you really know?  Sometime they are so close.  I have had good luck with most of my glasses looking all the way back to the 2^nd grade when I first got them.  I have broken a few pair, got the glass hit out of one into my eye, and had small scratches in the lenses from time to time.  Which brings me to my question today, how do you clean your glasses?  I mostly use the cloth that came with my glasses that has an advertisement on it from the company they got the lenses from.  Yesterday I noticed that there is a little void of the anti-scratch coating on my glasses, and when they transition to sunglasses that there is also a little void there as well.  Hopefully the void doesn’t void the glasses warrantee.