Monday, March 8, 2010

Since No One Comes To Visit Me...I Will Come To You


A pictorial tour of my office.

Entering the door of the office one encounters a picture of beauty there in front of you on the floor.  No one dares to tarnish its inherent beauty.












Next, you are awash in the heavens of Carolina Blue by the desk shroud that Amanda made for me.  the multi-iconic pattern simply hums with the life such beauty inspires.












Next, your envying eyes are hypnotically drawn to "The Shrine!"  Housing a plethora of magnificent artifacts depicting the depth and breadth of
Tarheel-dom here in Idaho, "The Shrine!" honors the best and brightest of Tarheel Nation.











Housed to the right of "The Shrine!" is a throwback to a bygone era.  We are able to revisit the days when the greatest player ever to play the game roamed the court.  The picture is obviously self explanatory.
















These next series of pictures depict some of my most cherished possessions.  Here displayed, you see some of the artifacts provided to me by my wonderful children and/or grandchildren!  A few of these are:

  • The Worry-Rock and homemade box, Daughter Book, & Golf Club pencils from Amanda
  • PT Cruisers and shattered backboard chunk from Ernie
  • Mouse and Penguin stones from Karli
  • Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock and 1/2 brick from Dallas from Travis
  • Satellite circling the earth from Emily

And of course...my pictures!  I could not show them all, there are many, many more.

Well thanks for visiting!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Big Dan Erekson - Big Ten Heavyweight Champion

My nephew, Big Dan Erekson won the heavyweight title at the Big Ten Wrestling Tournament today!  These photos were taken from my TV as I watched the recording of the match.

Here is a photo of Grandpa, Billy, Angie the Beautiful and Grandma in the stands.  I looks like they are really excited for his win.  He is one of 10 Iowa wrestlers who qualify for the Nationals!

The answer is...Nooooooooooo! They are not coming back.

To anyone dumb enough to think that a good game against Duke would be coming needed to have to sit through the entire game watching it without any snacks, by themselves...like I did.  It is sad enough that the game commentators said the Tarheels were "on the bubble" for an NIT bid.  That is really sad!  I did not know the NIT had a bubble!  Here's to at least one win in the ACC tournament, because an NCAA bid will not come without four straight wins in the tourney.  Like the kid said in Angels in the Outfield, "Hey!  It could happen!!

And why is Tyler Zeller always in a picture on the Tarheel web site?