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Cake day: August 14th, 2024

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  • We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don’t go anywhere, like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they call Shelbyville in those days, so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. So, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Give me five bees for a quarter you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah! The important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could was those big yellow ones.














  • I’ve had it three times that I know of. Once after a canoe trip, everyone in our car got it but the other car didn’t, so I think it was wherever we had stopped for lunch. Second time it came home from daycare. Both times it was fast but violent, with intense nausea, emesis, and diarrhea. The third time we got it from a company party where over 100 people got sick. I didn’t think it was norovirus because it wasn’t like those first 2 bouts, my wife had some nausea and diarrhea while I pretty much just had overwhelming fatigue. Only know it was norovirus because I submitted a sample to a state lab due to the number sickened