Swinged Cat
"South Dakota is a swinged cat, better than she looks."
Month: January 2019
I Survived the Polar Vortex (But Didn’t Even Get a Lousy T-Shirt)
Well, that was fun. My first Polar Vortex was actually a bit underwhelming. Sure, it was cold. But Rapid City never even dropped below zero. We came close: it was 1° Wednesday morning. When I woke up and looked at the thermometer, I was…
A Spoonful of Sugar
It’s crazy windy today and, because my office is situated directly across from a brick building that is separated by a narrow walkway, that breeze is howling through the eaves. Sounds like a congregation of tortured souls screaming for mercy. Yikes. Too much Ted…
Untangled and Frozen
This popped up on my Facebook memories feed yesterday, and I had to share with an update. I have never worked for a company that celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, so when I learned that PSI follows all Federal holidays, to say I…
MegaKota? Mega NO, duh.
Have you heard about the online petition to merge North Dakota and South Dakota into a single state and call it MegaKota? Some guy in Fargo must have been really bored, because he started thinking about how badly he wants Puerto Rico to become…
Connecting the Dot’s
The moment we arrived in South Dakota last summer, we were inundated with pretzels. They popped up everywhere we went, ubiquitous bags with a bold red logo. We had never heard of Dot’s Homestyle Pretzels before, but it quickly became apparent they were a…
Thanks for Nothing!
Holy crap. I haven’t written a blog post since LAST YEAR! I apologize for being so remiss in my duties. I’m happy to report I survived my first week back in the trenches of Corporate America unscathed. Unlike back in August, I didn’t go…
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