It’s Monday. Thanksgiving is still a good ten days away, yet somehow everyone’s attention has already laser-locked onto Christmas. For the handful of holdouts who hadn’t put up their decorations yet, the unusually warm weather on Friday and Saturday became all the motivation they needed to get out there and deck every last hall. People were up on ladders, stringing like 40,000 lights while I’m still over here trying to finish my leftover Halloween candy. Overnight, half the neighborhood started glowing like it’s auditioning for a holiday-themed power-grid failure. Is it really too much to ask that we at least wait until the Thanksgiving turkey has been carved? At this rate, by 2030 folks will be hanging wreaths in mid-July.

But since I was one of the rare few *not* out wrestling with extension cords, I managed to catch another Bears last-minute win! They squared off against the Vikings and snatched the victory with a perfectly placed field goal. The Bears advance to seven wins and only three losses.

Back to work, guys…

-keep

It’s Friday! Our temperatures in Illinois are on the rise for the weekend. We could see mid to upper sixties for the next couple days before it returns to more seasonable weather Sunday afternoon. It’s only a short temporary break from the cold, but I’ll take it. And just watch, people in my neighborhood will use the nice weather to put up even more Christmas decorations—and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet!

Anyway, the weekend has arrived so it’s time to roll out the double babes and double jokes. Oh, and then there’s some amateur goodness as well! Enjoy!

-keep

Keep, from a recent trip. No names please. -Anonymous

It’s Thursday. I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw this—a shiny Tesla cruising down the road, towing a roaring diesel generator on a trailer behind it. It was the perfect circle of irony, a $70,000 electric car being fed by the very thing it was supposed to replace!

-keep