Archive - Jan 2012

I wasn’t real excited when Iowa found out it would go to the Insight Bowl and play Oklahoma.
The Sooners were ranked No. 1 in the preseason polls and even though they lost their top receiver and running back, I knew they would be a tough match for the Hawkeyes.
Vegas thought the same thing and favored Oklahoma by 14.
The Hawks were underdogs last year by 12 when they played Missouri but Marcus Coker was eligible to play.
When I found out he was suspended for the game…
I’m also not a big fan of football games starting at 9 p.m.!

Sharon Ann Meskimen, 62, of Swisher, died Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, at home. Services were held Dec. 27 at St. Patrick’s Church, Fairfax, by Father Dustin Vu. Burial was at Blaine Cemetery, Swisher.
Survivors include her husband, Dave; her children, Brett (Shonda), Scott (Amy) and Craig (Ashley); her mother, Adelaide Burger of Fairfax; six grandchildren, Cayden, Connor, Charley, Owen, Olivia and Claire; three sisters, Marcia (Ken) Caldbeck of Alabama, Nancy Finney of Cedar Rapids and Pam Burger of Texas and a brother, Dennis Burger of Cedar Rapids.

Ralph C. Karlan, 85, of Cedar Rapids, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy in Hiawatha after a short illness. Funeral Mass was held Jan. 3 at St. Pius X Catholic Church, where there were also military rites. The Rev. Phil Thompson officiated. Inurnment was at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery.
Ralph was born Oct. 10, 1926, in Cedar Rapids, the son of Ralph and Juanita (Beatty) Karlan. He married Mary Ellen Reindl on Oct. 16, 1948, in Manly. Ralph worked in quality control at Rockwell and retired from there in 1991 after 38 years of service.

Aside from the obvious and noble such as world peace and food for the hungry, what would you wish for if a genii were to grant you a wish? Assume, for the moment, that there is only one limit on this wish. Cost is no concern, your genii obtains things by magic and money doesn’t enter into it. Neither does the impossible. You can have time travel if you want it, or everlasting beauty. You don’t have to consider the rest of the world either; you can own Switzerland and banish anybody you don’t want there, or you can have Disneyland all for yourself and your friends for the entire summer.