First, let me apologize for this post. I’m writing it in probably not the best mental state right now.

Let me also say that it’s pretty weird watching your best friend and girlfriend of the last many years walk past a TSA agent and some seat-belt stanchions (trying to figure out the right term for those things was a good 5 minutes of typing random things into Google) and knowing that for the next year she will be ten thousand miles away. How are you supposed to deal with something that has been looming since the relationship started but is now finally a reality?

After what felt like the longest 20 minute drive home ever, I knew that the only answer was to go on a raging bender. Which, for me at least, means a large pizza, a few beers, and plenty of bad movies.

Of course after 5 movies, 3 beers, nearly 4000 calories  and an ill-advised shopping spree on quasi-depressing indie music off Amazon later, I’m left wondering, what do I do next? Follow-up question: should I sign up for Amazon Prime so I can get my quasi-depressing indie music delivered faster?

Well, step one (after pizza/beer/movie bender) is to zap this dead blog back to life. What that means yet, I’m not sure.  Just rest assured it will be inane and full of crap that I probably would have just talked about with my GF were she around.

So, to anyone who reads this, all I can say is: Welcome back to the WRN adventure.

That’s the way I feel: maybe I ought not to have eight that. Of course, however I did. Hams, cookies, pizzas, cookies, pies, soup, hamburgers, and more cookies. It was a pretty relaxing and relaxed two weeks that let me re-energize and get back to work.

What else to say?

Well besides the usual and extremely prolonged absence, not a whole lot. Anyways, call this an invitation to share your tale of festivus gluttony and a hopeful prelude to an actual resumption of activity.

Ok, this past weekend I’ve been hanging out in Madison, WI. I’m relocating out to the midwest because I missed brutal winters and driving by corn fields. Actually, no, I’m moving out here because I’m sick of having to come up with lame excuses when AG is DC.

Chuckles and fulsome have some experience with the State of WI but I’ve never been out here for extended periods. Basically, it seems that there are two things to do out here: drink and eat.

Judging by the insane number of microbrews drinking is pretty well covered. And judging by the food I’ve been eating all weekend, I’ll be dead about 3 months after moving out here.

Case in point, the item served at the Great Dane called the Great Dane Brat & Bacon Pretzel Burger. Consisting of unkown caloric value it’s described on the burger menu as:

A one-third pound USDA choice ground beef patty and a one-quarter pound bratwurst patty grilled with carmelized onions and topped with applewood smoked bacon, aged cheddar cheese, lettuce and tomato. Served on a pretzel roll with a side of Peck’s Pilsner mustard.

I think we can all imagine the awesomeness that would be eating this delicious treat (that is served with fries and was proceeded by an appetizer of fried cheese curds). I think the question now is, what can I find that will top it.

Maybe the #51 Mac & Cheese with Bologna Ring from the Old Fashioned? Described as: Mac & Cheese with Wisconsin Sharp Cheddar, crisp breadcrumb topping and a side of Fendts ring bologna

Actually, maybe you guys would be more interested in their Sunday special: #59 Scandinavian Style Chicken Dinner – half chicken on the bone rubbed with cinnamon, juniper and cardamom, grilled over a live fire and served with sausage and currant dressing, smashed red bliss potatoes, buttered parsnips and carrots.

I think I can already hear my arteries pre-emptively clogging …