
I used to be against Winter Wonderland at Falls Park but I have to admit, the pics on my bike this year have been good, so I guess I am okay with the city spending the same amount of money on this as what it would cost to refurbish the Brockhouse Collection ($850K). Speaking of that, saw an email this week from an influential party wanting to help save the collection and the city council and mayor have ignored them for over a year. I know, shocker.
Anyway, down to business. Instead of me wasting my time and a 12 pack of IPA’s this year with the year in review I am asking on my readers to paste in the comments their favorite post, OR, just tell me what was the best DaCola gem of the year.
Moving on, Merry Christmas or whatever weirdo holiday you celebrate. Believe it or not I will be sitting in a church pew on Christmas morning pretending to be a Christian (I do that a couple times a year). I do like Christmas and all the Kuchen I can eat!!!! (and it better have fried eggs floating on top!)
So this year was Detroit’s year of Laziness. If I didn’t have to do it, I did not do it. In fact I have been studying minimalism this past year but I can’t even do that right. I call myself a lazy minimalist. I refrain, half of the time 🙂
Here are some basic rules;
• If I can walk or bike, I do that
• If I can cook at home (for less), I do that
• I turn my heat down to 68 degrees
• I turn my AC to 75
• I only use lights in my house in the room I am in
• I only take 2 showers a week during the winter
• I only buy clothes and other stuff at thrift stores (books, music, appliances, art supplies)
• I enjoy the company of good friends and conversation over casinos
• Beer instead of wine (cheap liquor is ok)
• Personal hair clipper (I still get my hair cut from a barber, but I only go about every 4 months because I trim it everyday)
• A pet (I don’t have one now, but have been thinking about it again. They can actually save you money because you find yourself hanging with your bud instead of farting around at the bars and friends that talk back)
• Pay it forward. (this is the most important principal of minimalism and the hardest one you will ever do, but totally worth it.)
I wanna give a big shout out to my partner in crime, uh, I mean, not crime, my web developer. Some know him, most do not, but he has been with me since the beginning including getting me into blogging in the late 90’s. Let’s just say my previous moniker ‘Fat Midget’ was not loved. Let’s keep killing it Bro! What else do we have to do on a Wednesday at 11:18 AM? Oh, that’s right . . . PPPPPPIIIIIIIIEEE!!!!!!!!
I preferred it when the Wonderland at “The Falls” was done in only white lights. It had a classier look to it then. Now, however, it looks like the home of that white trash neighbor you have who obviously decorated the outside of his home with the help of that new Menards credit card that he just got. #11%Rebate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODAwN5XFf0o
“Man, I hope Santa delivers this Christmas!”…. “I’ve asked for a drone”….. 🙂
I have heard of 27 days until Christmas, but how about 27 days until fascism? #OTannenbaum
“Say, I hope all of the fxcking drones in the sky don’t impact NORAD’s ability to friendly track Santa tonight and into tomorrow morning …. 🙁 …..” #DontShootSanta!
Whether it be too many colored lights at the Falls, multitudinal growth of vendors and corporate tents at the once JazzFest, towering buildings overlooking a once natural cascade setting, an unnecessary parking ramp dressed as a mural, or e-bike Mad Max races on the bike trail, our town often knows how to overdo it. Thus, it’s only a matter of time before they will ruin the Levitt as well….. You watch 🙂
Recently, this blog cited how the Mayor wants to turn the Falls area into Disneyland. Well, it’s already happened. The Wonderland area looks like Knott’s Berry Farm at night. 😉
Cmon, you’re not that minimalist. You treat yourself to escargot once in awhile. You are an activist in that you’re critical of city hall. The corruption will always be there. At this point there’s humor I can appreciate each time they propose another events center or try to explain how a city this size spends a billion dollar budget. For 2025, there should be aggressive recruitment of RV and state income tax evader new residents from CA and MN. I’m convinced it’s how to revert the state to Democrat. You should get another dog but make sure he’s not food for North Africa immigrants and steer a long way around the Noem gravel pit.
Christmas Morning in South Dacolaland – an exurb of KELOland
(Un)Heavenly hosts of blog readers now seated with care
Scantily clad, only in their underwear. In barcaloungers – everywhere
With hopes that their chronicling of the 2024 blog does not leave their own IPA cupboard bare.
Merry Christmas to you,
Happy Holidays Scott and thanks for another year of interesting and informing coverage of all things local in the great metropolis of Sioux Falls!
ER, give me a call sometime, wondering if you fell off the face of the earth.
GFG, very funny, but you are showing your age man, barcalounger? I will give you a call later on my ROTARY so we can hang out and watch ‘In Living Colour’
Of course. I should have taken queue of the mention thag you are studying minimalism.
IKEA, the new Official (minimalist) Furniture of South Dacola.
I once had a friend who studied minimalism to the point that he destroyed himself when accidentally splitting an atom.
But what if you bragged about your car, your watch, and your plane, would that be a sign of minimalism or maximalism?
AND, then, there are the mini and maxi skirts. Some appreciate one more than the other, while others need to practice one more than the other. Or, would that be sexist? Which is often the actions of one who minimally gets it, but desires it maximally….. AND, as far as Maxi Pads, well, I’m not even going to go there with this minimal analogy, if you know what I mean.
I’ve heard of Maximillian, but not Minimillian. AND, then, there’s Mini-Me, but what about a Maxi-Me? Or, would that be too intimidating and a larger-than-life reality that most could not handle because they are of lesser or minimal means? #MaxiCooper #Maxxeapolis
“I know a guy who practices Mattimalism, which is not to be confused with cannibalism or capitalism….. Although, they all have similar-isms”….. 🙂