FF: The State of Me

Our Friday Fragments this week are courtesy of the STATE OF MICHIGAN, whose motto isn't the most poetic or catchy: "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you!!"

So what's happening in Michigan these days?

• A serial rapist from Detroit was arrested. That was wonderful news to all, but puzzling news to his relative who was interviewed by a local reporter. What reason would there be for this man to rape multiple times, she wondered, when he already had a girlfriend?
  
• We have a new governor. He's a businessman not a career politician, and I suspect that he is brilliant and may well fix a few things in the next four years. However, he doesn't like to wear neckties and that greatly concerns some people - including a former governor.
  
• I did a lesson with the Cub Scouts last night on many Michigan trivia matters. It turns out that several of those elementary school boys think our state bird is a PIGEON.
  
• Just so you know, it's a robin.


• Do you remember the Michigan man who rejected the $150,000 settlement after he used a screwdriver to open a jar of Dole fruit and was hit in the eye by the lid and supposedly rendered unconscious? He received a second settlement offer and accepted this one.
  
• I've put my head very close to each can of fruit I've opened in the last few weeks, but no luck thus far...
  
• I just heard the term, downsizing a friendship, this week. Isn't that a marvelous phrase?
  
• Have you ever downsized a friendship because your children no longer associated with your friend's children?
  
• Now to bring this back to Michigan. I did a 9.57 minute mile on the elliptical this week. Before Christmas I was doing 20 minute miles, so laugh if you will at my 9.57, be terribly frightened of the noises I made while being so QUICK, and know that my clothing isn't any looser as a result. BUT WHO CARES???
  
• Okay, I'll admit that Michigan got a little lost there, SO while I go find more pleasant peninsula related items, maybe you could go visit Mrs. 4444's . You won't be disappointed with her fragmented mind!
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