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A neighborhood chili cook-off, a rip roarin' nordeast birthday pub crawl, a lazy cold Sunday and so very much more… let's do the numbers.

Former North Star Brian Lawton sightings: 1, Jerry's
Chocolate glazed donuts Brian Lawton was buying: 6
Apple fritters I was buying: 1
Crock pots full of chili made before 11am: 1
Crock pots full of chili made by others: 14
Chili eaters at the cook off: about 50
Times the cops came to the cook off: 1
Times I used the "maybe he can put some pepper spray on my chili" joke: about 30
Girls available to give chair massages during cook-off: 2 (Hi Abby!)
Trays of baked goods available to eat: about 15
Cookies eaten by me: about 35
Chilis eaten by me: about 14, though I may have lost count
Trophies won by me: about 0
Curses: many
Naps taken: 1, but by Juniorette, not me… foiled again
Tator tots eaten @ Bulldog: about 175
Times I wished my basement was big enough for shufflepuck: about 175
Fee to bring birthday cake into bulldog: $20
Cakes eaten on sidewalk: 1
Max number of dudes in one booth at Grumpy's: 6, though I may have lost count
Deuces: 2
AC/DC albums on jukebox at said deuces: 6 (!!)
Minutes spent further than arm's length from deuces jukebox: .25
Times I was called sir (evening total): 3
Lanes available at Elsie's at 12:30am: 0
Hours waited before calling it: .5
Kids who woke me at normal time: 2
Crock pots of chili left on back stoop overnight: 1
Chili colored raccoon prints on back stoop next morning: about a million
Raccoons who ate my leftover chili: I'm gonna guess 40
Goals scored at soccer: 0
Blinding pain and/or exhaustion episodes at soccer: 4
Haircuts: 0
Meatballs made: 16
Times I thought it was snowing: 3
Times it was actually snowing: 3
Total minutes actually snowing: 1

I also squeezed a trip to Menard's and the computer store. One each. And wouldn't everything here have been better as a tweet? Totally it would have, I know.