Today is Monday, October 22, 2012 - a rainy morning. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes of lifting weights and 39 minutes of walking = 2.1 miles for an October total of 46.1 miles. My weight was 166.4 pounds - ouch! - too much tailgating.
QUOTE from Reminisce Magazine: "If you want a rainbow, you have to put up with the rain."
Sunday, October 21 was not so wonderful. Penn State kicked our butt 38-14. It is not as much fun to read the Sunday sports page when we get whupped like we did. Brad and I went to the game and stayed to the bitter end - we're true Hawkeye fans - over 75% of the crowd had already left when the game ended. We play Northwestern next week in Evanston. We need to get our offense scoring some touchdowns. But throughout Ferentz's 13 years he has a way of coming back after a tough loss. I hope it continues.
Today is Monday, October 22, 2012. I took to the Cedar Rapids airport at 10 this morning. He is flying back to Denmark via Minneapolis, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. It takes about 22 hours.
Tonight is the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney. Viwers are going to have to chose between the debate, the baseball game between San Francisco and St. Louis and the NFL football game between the Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears. So the number of viewers for the debate is most likely going to be a lot less. Go Obama.
That's all for today.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Pete's BLOG - Day 26,369. Wonderful Hawkeye Saturdays.
Today is Saturday, October 20, 2012. my stats today: 10 minutes of yoga and 52 minutes of walking = 2.8 miles for an October total of 44.0 miles. My weight was 164.8 pounds.
QUOTE from Ray Bradbury: "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
MY THOUGHTS today: Today is a Saturday in October. As I look back on my life I realize that Saturdays in the fall have been my favorite days of the year. As a kid I remember listening (from about 1952 to 1962) to the Minnesota Gophers play football on WCCO radio from Minneapolis-St. Paul. As an adult I came to be a Hawkeye fan and have listened to and watched Hawkeye football games every Saturday since 1962. Brad and Carron have great memories of Hawkeye Saturdays while growing up on Garnavillo Street in Anamosa. Another thing about fall Saturdays is the weather is usually just right - not to hot or to cold - perfect for the game of football.
Brad and I are leaving for the 7 PM Hawk-Penn State game this afternoon. We love to tailgate. It is Bloody Mary time when we tailgate - they are so good. We buy our tickets from scalpers.
Ruth Ann is predicting a Hawkeye victory - but Brad and I are not so sure.
GO HAWKS!
QUOTE from Ray Bradbury: "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
MY THOUGHTS today: Today is a Saturday in October. As I look back on my life I realize that Saturdays in the fall have been my favorite days of the year. As a kid I remember listening (from about 1952 to 1962) to the Minnesota Gophers play football on WCCO radio from Minneapolis-St. Paul. As an adult I came to be a Hawkeye fan and have listened to and watched Hawkeye football games every Saturday since 1962. Brad and Carron have great memories of Hawkeye Saturdays while growing up on Garnavillo Street in Anamosa. Another thing about fall Saturdays is the weather is usually just right - not to hot or to cold - perfect for the game of football.
Brad and I are leaving for the 7 PM Hawk-Penn State game this afternoon. We love to tailgate. It is Bloody Mary time when we tailgate - they are so good. We buy our tickets from scalpers.
Ruth Ann is predicting a Hawkeye victory - but Brad and I are not so sure.
GO HAWKS!
Friday, October 19, 2012
Pete's BLOG-Day 26,368.
Today is Friday, October 19, 2012. My stats for today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes of lifting weights and 41 minutes of walking - 2.2 miles for an October total of 41.2 miles. My weight was 164.4 pounds.
QUOTE from Steve Jobs: "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone's else's life."
My THOUGHTS today: This morning I awakened early and was thinking about the election. This thought entered my mind: Romney would win the popular vote but Obama wouild win the electoral vote. My next thought was that if this happened how would the Republicans handle it. They berlieved it was okay in 2000 when Al Gore got over HALF A MILLION MORE VOTES than "W". and then the Supreme Court basically appointed him president.
I have a feeling their response would be different this time.
HUMOR for today: The person to watch in future Presidential elections will be the Nudist Party candidate. Their slogan is: We Never Keep Anything Covered up.
QUOTE from Steve Jobs: "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone's else's life."
My THOUGHTS today: This morning I awakened early and was thinking about the election. This thought entered my mind: Romney would win the popular vote but Obama wouild win the electoral vote. My next thought was that if this happened how would the Republicans handle it. They berlieved it was okay in 2000 when Al Gore got over HALF A MILLION MORE VOTES than "W". and then the Supreme Court basically appointed him president.
I have a feeling their response would be different this time.
HUMOR for today: The person to watch in future Presidential elections will be the Nudist Party candidate. Their slogan is: We Never Keep Anything Covered up.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Pete's BLOG - Day 26,367. Presidential humor.
Today is Thursday, October 18, 2012 - a very cool and rainy day. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes of exercise on the ball and 39 minutes of walking = 2.1 miles for an October total of 39 miles. My weight was 164.4 pounds.
QUOTE from Reminisce magazine. "Attitudes are worth catching. Is yours worth catching?"
It's all HUMOR today. I found these goodies in the November issue of Reader's Digest. These were all uttered by former presidents.
Lyndon Johnson: "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Can't Swim."
Barack Obama: "There are few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate."
Jimmy Carter: "My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now that when people wave at me, they use all their fingers."
Bill Clinton: "I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system."
George W. Bush: "These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule - first thing every morning - it said Intelligence Briefing.
Teddy Roosevelt: "When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'"
QUOTE from Reminisce magazine. "Attitudes are worth catching. Is yours worth catching?"
It's all HUMOR today. I found these goodies in the November issue of Reader's Digest. These were all uttered by former presidents.
Lyndon Johnson: "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Can't Swim."
Barack Obama: "There are few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate."
Jimmy Carter: "My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now that when people wave at me, they use all their fingers."
Bill Clinton: "I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system."
George W. Bush: "These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule - first thing every morning - it said Intelligence Briefing.
Teddy Roosevelt: "When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'"
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Pete's BLOG - Day 26,362. Obama-Romney Debate.
Today is Wednesday, October 17, 2012. My stats: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes of weight lifting and 46 minutes of walking = 2.5 miles for an October total of 36.9 miles. My weight was 163.4 pounds.
QUOTE from Samuel Johnson: "Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take a little trouble to acquire it."
My THOUGHTS today: The second debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney was last night. I was glad to see Obama come out swinging. He more than held his own and at times had Romney on the defensive. On the other hand, Romney didn't anything to hurt his stance with his Republican supporters. In other words it was not a knock-out blow by Obama but I would say he won the debate on points. I think it will help to re-energize his base.
At the present moment President Obama is 16 miles from our house. He is going to speak at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon. (I have to go right now and listen to Obama give his speech). Okay, the speech is over. The President was wound up and on a roll. He mentioned everything his administration has done in the last four years. He has done a lot for women and reproductive choices,, college expenses for students and their parents, veterans, overturning Don"t Ask Don't Tell, equal pay for equal work (Lily Ledbetter Act), over 30 continuous months of job growth, alternative energy investments, tax cuts for the middle class, rescuing General Motors and Chrysler and saving over a million jobs, suppporting Planned Parenthood, restoring the housing market, doubling the Dow Jones, Nasqaq and S & P 500, and more. He said we need to keep moving forward and not go back to the failed Bush policies that got us in this mess in the first place.
HUMOR for today. Democrats buy most of the books that have been banned somewhere. Republicans form censorship committees and read them as a group.
QUOTE from Samuel Johnson: "Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take a little trouble to acquire it."
My THOUGHTS today: The second debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney was last night. I was glad to see Obama come out swinging. He more than held his own and at times had Romney on the defensive. On the other hand, Romney didn't anything to hurt his stance with his Republican supporters. In other words it was not a knock-out blow by Obama but I would say he won the debate on points. I think it will help to re-energize his base.
At the present moment President Obama is 16 miles from our house. He is going to speak at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon. (I have to go right now and listen to Obama give his speech). Okay, the speech is over. The President was wound up and on a roll. He mentioned everything his administration has done in the last four years. He has done a lot for women and reproductive choices,, college expenses for students and their parents, veterans, overturning Don"t Ask Don't Tell, equal pay for equal work (Lily Ledbetter Act), over 30 continuous months of job growth, alternative energy investments, tax cuts for the middle class, rescuing General Motors and Chrysler and saving over a million jobs, suppporting Planned Parenthood, restoring the housing market, doubling the Dow Jones, Nasqaq and S & P 500, and more. He said we need to keep moving forward and not go back to the failed Bush policies that got us in this mess in the first place.
HUMOR for today. Democrats buy most of the books that have been banned somewhere. Republicans form censorship committees and read them as a group.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Pete's BLOG - Day 26,365. Second debate tonight.
Today is Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - a cool windy fall day. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes on the exercise ball and 38 minutes of walking=2.0 miles for an October total of 34.4 miles. My weight was 164 pounds.
QUOTE from Billy Boy Franklin: "If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it."
My THOUGHTS today: The second debate tonight between Obama and Romney should be interesting. Obama is between a rock and a hard place. He cannot be as "nice" as he was in the first debate and he cannot come across as a disrespectful smart-ass either. Romney is a good debater and he knows how to deflect about anything. This man has told more lies than any other candidate in the history of American elections. He has flip-flopped on every issue, then denies he has done so, but seems to be getting by with it. Obama has to call him on these. He basically will say anything that will get him votes even if it is the complete opposite of what he said yesterday.
It is hard to debate a person like Romney because he can support any position that is necessary at the time since he has been on every side of every issue. I'm wishing Obama the best of luck tonight and am hoping and praying that the American people will feel much different about his performance than they did on the first debate.
Yesterday, I read an article by Joe Klein in TIME. Joe said that "Obama hates the notion of launching precooked zingers in debates. In fact, he hates debates, period, with their false air of portent (a warning of coming evil; sign; omen) and stage-managed aggression. But if he wants to be re-elected he has to put up with them."
QUOTE from Billy Boy Franklin: "If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it."
My THOUGHTS today: The second debate tonight between Obama and Romney should be interesting. Obama is between a rock and a hard place. He cannot be as "nice" as he was in the first debate and he cannot come across as a disrespectful smart-ass either. Romney is a good debater and he knows how to deflect about anything. This man has told more lies than any other candidate in the history of American elections. He has flip-flopped on every issue, then denies he has done so, but seems to be getting by with it. Obama has to call him on these. He basically will say anything that will get him votes even if it is the complete opposite of what he said yesterday.
It is hard to debate a person like Romney because he can support any position that is necessary at the time since he has been on every side of every issue. I'm wishing Obama the best of luck tonight and am hoping and praying that the American people will feel much different about his performance than they did on the first debate.
Yesterday, I read an article by Joe Klein in TIME. Joe said that "Obama hates the notion of launching precooked zingers in debates. In fact, he hates debates, period, with their false air of portent (a warning of coming evil; sign; omen) and stage-managed aggression. But if he wants to be re-elected he has to put up with them."
Monday, October 15, 2012
Pete's BLOG - Days 26,362, 363, 364. Hawks win.
Saturday was October 13, 2012 - day 26,362.
Sunday was October 14, 2012 - day 26, 363.
Today is Monday, October 15, 2012 - day 26, 364.
QUOTE from William Shakespeare: "Nothing can seem foul to those that win."
My THOUGHTS today. The QUOTE sums up my feelings about the Hawkeye victory over Michigan State in double overtime on Saturday. I thought we were goners when Michigan State intercepted a pass on our first possession and went into score a touchdown. As it turned out that was their only touchdown. Our defense was up to the job and prevented them from scoring another TD. We managed to tie it up the last couple minutes at 13-13. In overtime they kicked a field goal - then we kicked a field goal to tie it 16-16. In the second overtime we got the ball first and kicked a field goal for a 19-16 lead. Then State got the ball and on a tipped ball we intercepted and that was the ball game. Happiness prevailed for the Hawkeye football players, Coach Ferentz and the other coaches and thousands of Hawkeye fans - including Brad Bungum, Ruth Ann Bungum and Pete Bungum who were watching the game at Fawn Creek Country Club. There was nothing FOUL about this win.
On Sunday granddaughter Ellyn and her friend Nate, daughter Carron and friend Dave, and son Brad were at our house for cake and ice cream to celebrate Ellyn's 20th birthday. Ellyn will graduate from Iowa State in May with a degree in geology and environmental studies. She just found out last week that can graduate in May instead of next December. So she is a little comcerned if she has enough time to get into grad school next fall. She has to take her GRE exam and do some other paper work before she can even apply. We're all hoping that everything will work out.
Today (Monday), I took Brad to the Cedar Rapids airport so he can fly to San Francisco for his corporate meetings. He'll be back on Friday - when we go to Iowa-PennState game on Saturday.
Sunday was October 14, 2012 - day 26, 363.
Today is Monday, October 15, 2012 - day 26, 364.
QUOTE from William Shakespeare: "Nothing can seem foul to those that win."
My THOUGHTS today. The QUOTE sums up my feelings about the Hawkeye victory over Michigan State in double overtime on Saturday. I thought we were goners when Michigan State intercepted a pass on our first possession and went into score a touchdown. As it turned out that was their only touchdown. Our defense was up to the job and prevented them from scoring another TD. We managed to tie it up the last couple minutes at 13-13. In overtime they kicked a field goal - then we kicked a field goal to tie it 16-16. In the second overtime we got the ball first and kicked a field goal for a 19-16 lead. Then State got the ball and on a tipped ball we intercepted and that was the ball game. Happiness prevailed for the Hawkeye football players, Coach Ferentz and the other coaches and thousands of Hawkeye fans - including Brad Bungum, Ruth Ann Bungum and Pete Bungum who were watching the game at Fawn Creek Country Club. There was nothing FOUL about this win.
On Sunday granddaughter Ellyn and her friend Nate, daughter Carron and friend Dave, and son Brad were at our house for cake and ice cream to celebrate Ellyn's 20th birthday. Ellyn will graduate from Iowa State in May with a degree in geology and environmental studies. She just found out last week that can graduate in May instead of next December. So she is a little comcerned if she has enough time to get into grad school next fall. She has to take her GRE exam and do some other paper work before she can even apply. We're all hoping that everything will work out.
Today (Monday), I took Brad to the Cedar Rapids airport so he can fly to San Francisco for his corporate meetings. He'll be back on Friday - when we go to Iowa-PennState game on Saturday.
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