"Dumb Things I Have Done" #4,739,201
Dumb Thing: I just washed a load of white clothes with a bag of Bigelow’s Mango Green Tea. Explanation: Every day, I take a couple of tea bags with me to the capitol. For ease of transportation (and to protect my tea bags from being crushed in my pant pockets), I always carry the bags [...]
This should make me the most popular kid in school…
I recently procured a Windows Media file of Napoleon Dynamite doing the Letterman Top 10 for a night about one and half months ago. If you are interested in the file, send me an e-mail to firstNamelastName@gmail.com (my first name is Jacob and my last name is Gerber–there’s no period or anything between the two [...]
More fame
Today, Governor Heinemann gave his state of the state address. I sat up by the new Lieutenant Governor (Rick Sheehy, my now-former mayor) as he presided over the legislature. Splashing tomorrow’s Omaha World-Herald is this picture. In the picture, I am the page (we wear white shirts and ties with black vests) directly behind Governor [...]
Potpourri
Although I haven’t written much on this blog, my mind has been churning out lots of possible posts. I have toyed around a little with a few, but none of them seemed to amount to much on their own (except a book review, but I don’t have time for that right now). So, here’s a [...]
Top 5 Reasons I Love Being a Legislative Page
5) Working in the most beautiful building in Nebraska every single day. Today, I visited the State Law Library–so cool. (By the way, if anyone is interested in a tour of the capitol, I could show you a bunch of great places. Just let me know.) 4) Learning valuable life skills. So far, I’ve learned [...]
The Sexiest Man Alive!
No, ladies, it’s not me (contrary to popular opinion, I’m sure). In fact, this sexy man reached the peak of his hotness in 1983, when he took these pictures for Teen Beat Magazine: Now you see that reading Slashdot has its benefits. I think my favorite part about all of this is where he seems [...]
Happiness is…
Happiness is… Burning all of last semester’s notes–beginning with art history–this past weekend to help start/maintain the fire in our cabin at the prayer retreat (thus, happiness is a warm…fire). Having a clean room to start the semester along with a new welcome mat for my shoes (I get tense about tracking into my room [...]
Catchphrase Humor
This weekend, Andrew and I went to a prayer retreat with our church. After all the planned activities had died down last night, we, along with several other people, played a game of Catchphrase. Most of it was quite tedious because many people weren’t really paying attention, but there were some clues and answers worth [...]
All Hail the Nebraska Legislature!
Some interesting facts about the Nebraska Legislature and the Nebraska State Capitol: Yesterday, Senator Chambers (District 11) presided over the legislature for the first time in his lengthy career (he was first elected in 1971). There is an interesting article on the subject here. What is more interesting about this article is that I am [...]
MasterCoach
Creating the Lincoln College Cardinals, then coaching, recruiting, and disciplining those Cardinals for two seasons: 21 hours. Doing a poor job disciplining, having your team for that reason put on probation for two years (which would have included the loss of 10 scholarships per year), but immediately ditching the Cardinals to accept a three-year contract [...]
