After three days of searching, I finally found the cords and controls for my electric mattress pad. Another one of those “little things in life.” If you live in a climate that gets nice and brisk during the fall and winter, I highly recommend one for your bed. I love to turn it on before I’m ready to hit the sheets and have it be all nice and toasty when I climb in. My cat likes it a lot too.

Unfortunately my search required me to drag everything out of my closet. Now I have to put that all back. But I did find a few things I should eBay, so that’s a positive.

That would be the poor person who has to wear the sad brown rug that is the Nittney Lion costume for Penn State. You can actually see the person through the open mouth in the head. It is so ghetto.

And even more unfortunate for Penn State, we (the Iowa Hawkeyes) beat them today 26-14 in a really bizarre football game in the sunny and breezy confines of legendary Kinnick Stadium.

It’s been a great day. Lisa Schebler, a former HMB tsax player, was back from England and her and her friend, Gwen, stayed with me last night and then we all went and partook in the fun of a BigTen football Saturday.

mmmm. tailgate.

Good friends, good food, decent game, lovely weather, and a halftime show by the marching band that had drill that was actually inspired and interesting and pretty well excuted, all add up to a wonderful Saturday.

In a bit, I’ll go buy a bottle of wine and head to the Roethler Housewarming/Birthday Bash up in North Liberty.

Its a great day to be a Hawkeye.

I know I promised myself and my scatterings of readers that I would start posting on a daily basis and here it is, Tuesday, and I haven’t posted since Thursday.

Its so the story of my life.

I have some thoughts on an upcoming movie, but right now I have to go try and sort through a list of 54,000 items without the required “Find Duplicates” query in my Microsoft Access.