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By now you’ve heard of Illinois continued stellar record in politics with the arrest of their latest Governor Rod Blagojevich. While watching and reading the news I was almost mesmerized by that awful hair of his, I just knew I’ve seen it before.

Rudy from the 1993 movie set in 1975 and Gov. Rod Blogojevich in 2007 with eerily similar hair.

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On a very personal note.

I lost one of my closest high school friends late last week. We’ve lost touch for one reason or another. I last spoke to him in October. I’ll remember every word.

I did some calligraphy in high school that still hangs in my parents house and it rings so true today. So sorry, I don’t know the author, but here is the poem.

Before It’s Too Late

If you’ve a tender message
Or a loving word to say
Don’t wait till you forget,
But whisper it today.
The tender word unspoken,
The letter never sent,
The long forgotten messages,
The wealth of love unspent.
For these hearts are breaking,
For these loved ones wait,
So show them that you care
Before it is too late.

Sean Korte will be missed. My heart is very heavy.

Update 7/23/08:

The full obituary has now been published:

Sean M. Korte, 39, passed away Thursday, July 17, 2008 at his home in Shawnee, KS. Memorial services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, August 2, 2008 at the Atonement Lutheran Church, 9948 Metcalf, Overland Park, KS. Graveside services will be 2 p.m. Friday, August 1, 2008 at Fremont Lutheran Church Cemetery in Red Oak, IA. Sean was born February 18, 1969 in Red Oak, IA. He graduated from Aquinas High School in La Crosse, WI in 1987 where he avidly played football and wrestled. After high school Sean attended Saint John’s University in Collegeville, MN and later joined the United States Navy and served proudly for five years as a Gunner’s Mate Second Class. After his service in the Navy he pursued his love of cooking and had attended culinary arts school. Sean was an avid outdoorsman and tried to spend as much time as possible camping and hiking. He is survived by his parents, Dr. Stephen and Judy Korte, Shawnee, KS; his grandmother, Mary C. Korte of Arkansas City, KS, a sister Stephenie Korte, Louisville, CO; two brothers, Jonathan Korte, Lawrence, KS; Jason and wife Angela Korte, Lafayette, CO; two nieces Antonia and goddaughter Lauren Korte. Numerous aunts, uncles and many, many cousins will miss him greatly.

I received a disturbing bit of email the other day. Searching for it I found very little information so I thought I’d post it as I’m sure I’m not the only person that got it.

From: BLOOD BLOOD (mayhissolerestinpice3@gala.net)
Subject: SOMEONE YOU CALL YOUR FRIEND, WANTS YOU DEAD.

SOMEONE YOU CALL YOUR FRIEND, WANTS YOU DEAD.

I felt very sorry and bad for you, that your life is going to end like this if you don’t comply, i was paid to eliminate you and I have to do it within 10 days.

Someone you call your friend wants you dead by all means, and the person have spent a lot of money on this, the person came to us and told us that he wants you dead and he provided us your names, photograph and other necessary information we needed about you. If you are in doubt with this I will send you your name and where you are residing in my next mail.

Meanwhile, I have sent my boys to track you down and they have carried out the necessary investigation needed for the operation, but I ordered them to stop for a while and not to strike immediately because I just felt something good and sympathetic about you. I decided to contact you first and know why somebody will want you dead by all means. Right now my men are monitoring you, their eyes are on you, and even the place you think is safer for you to hide might not be.

Now do you want to LIVE OR DIE? It is up to you. Get back to me now if you are ready to enter deal with me, I mean life trade, who knows, and I might just spear your life, $8,000 is all you need to spend. You will first of all pay $3,000 then I will send the tape of the person that want you dead to you and when the tape gets to you, you will pay the remaining $5,000. If you are not ready for my help, then I will have no choice but to carry on the assignment after all I have already being paid before now.

Warning: do not think of contacting the police or even tell anyone because I will extend it to any member of your family since you are aware that somebody want you dead, and the person knows some members of your family as well.

For your own good I will advise you not to go out once is 7pm until I make out time to see you and give you the tape of my discussion with the person who want you dead then you can use it to take any legal action. Good luck as I await your reply to this e-mail contact: mayhissolrestinpeace@gmail.com

Bye.

With such a threat like that I had to respond. So I did to the gmail given in the letter and to the address who sent the letter, mayhissolerestinpice3@gala.net.

I want to put this behind me as soon as possible I will meet you at walmart with the money.

About 19 hours later I got this response:

From: ASSASSIN ASSASSIN (mayhissolrestinpeace1@gmail.com)
Subject: Attention John Honeck, [with the comma]

Attention John Honeck,

you only have three days to send this money because time is not on my side I am now in the state together with my boys so you don’t need to delay this payment for any reason I don’t just want to west your life with reason but if you can not comply then bye. I will locate you where ever you are it will only take me 24 hours to get you.

You can send this money direct to my local boys in Benin via western union money transfer.

Receivers name. IGWAZE SAMUEL.
Country. Benin. [map]
City. Cotonou.
Address Cotonou Benin republic.
Question. What is my name?
Answer. Boys.

You should send the money via western union money transfer amount 3000 any delay that you apply on this will be on your own risk. And I will guarantee you that as soon as you send this money the person that sends me to this job will be on danger because I don’t want to west you but any delay on sending this money will affect your life and your family because that is my job. As soon as you send the money I will send you the tape of my conversation with this person that sends me for this job.

Bye bye.

William yahman.

From the generally nice closing of “bye bye” I guess my would be killer is warming up to me, hopefully we can strike a deal. I’m not sure if anyone is actually reading my emails so I replied this time with:

I have washed the elephant with cheese, please see how it glows.

I am awaing William Yahman’s response to that. I’ll have to let you know if they do in fact come for me.  Google was unable to calculate driving directions for me to make a personal visit.  Bummer.

More updates to come…

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Posting has been pretty light for me lately. I’ve been seriously disillusioned with the industry I’ve been talking about here, but I’ve found some reasons to hit the trail again and figure to be back to our regularly scheduled terrible writing and mere conjecture soon.

In the mean time, I thought I’d share some pictures. Here’s me and 80,000+ friends cheering the Wisconsin Badgers on to victory against the much hated Michigan team.

Here’s a close up of some of the lesser known players. It’s Connor tackling Colin.

Before the game we had to get primed up for the 40 degree weather. For my German readers, here’s a picture of the Jager bus at a tailgate party.

I’ll be going to Oktoberfest this weekend, it will be nothing like the real one that I attended in Munich a few years ago, but it’s our humble version of the real thing.The kids love the parade and dad loves the bier.

I think my first stop will be to meet with the web designer, they still have a hit counter on there! I’m surprised it didn’t tell me that the site was best viewed with Internet Explorer 4.0.

Gemutlichkeit!

For my international readers, I’m trying to not be the ugly American and exposing my kids to new things, including soccer.  I don’t understand the fascination with it at all, it bores me to tears as there doesn’t appear to be any strategy whatsoever, but that may be because we are dealing with six year old kids here.

All this talk about white, gray, or black hats.  Let’s not forget the bucket hats.

This is what happens when a son asks his mechanical engineer father to build him something to hold butterflies.  He ends up with a contraption that has three doors and a remote operated isolation chamber.  It’s so heavy the poor kid can’t move it, on the other hand you could park a truck on it and it would support the weight.

Here are some pictures of the boys taken this weekend.

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I need a new challenge.

My oldest son, Connor, asked me if I could put him “on the dot com” which is his way of referring to the internet. I was more than happy to oblige him and even included the youngest, Colin.

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