Turning 40

TURNING 40 AVERAGE WAKE / SLEEP TIMES 9 AM 3 AM midnight 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Cousin's house, living room, fold-out bed, cable television. I returned to my hostel, the Hyde Park Inn, at 530 AM after a gig with E Beaumont in SoHo. Hung out with M Germain after Performance Night at Darling Hall. Ate at Classic Slice (Bay View) with J Myers; stayed up and prepared for the Hung out with M Bennett in the old Polish Flat. Drove back to Milwaukee from the Wisconsin Film Festival and after-party with J Montgomery. Drove back to Milwaukee from the Slipper Club in Madison, Wisconsin after The Paragraphs last show Went to Pizza Shuttle after the Performance Night / Batten Revue show at Darling Hall. Brute Heart / Dreamland Faces / Batten Revue/ The Chain show at Medusa's in Minneapolis. Hung out at home with S Burgundy after a hockey game in which I played right wing in the 1st period and tended goal in the last. Did my first official stint biking as part of team Good Eggs in the Riverwest 24 bike ride. [645 AM 5/11] [530 AM 1/1] Umali Awards. [546 AM 12/19] ever. [602 AM 2/18] [430 AM B/3] [445 AM 2/2) [504 AM 7/29] [607 AM 4/3] [446 AM 5/16] [450 AM 3/5] [319 AM 6/12] DRINKING BEER privete residences bars and esewhere Most Frequented Bar: The Stork Club Onopa Brewing Company Polish Falcon Bowl Stonefly Brewery Stonefly Brewery / Mad Planet Liquid Johnny's Polish Falcon Bowl 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Most Consumed Beer: Leinenkugel's Original L Loke Front White L New Glarus Spolted Cow Pabst Blue Ribbon 123 beers consumed from June through August, including my last real bender before, during, and after the penultimate Horn Band show at the 7th Street Entry on August 8. C Smith took pictures. Single-year low: 165 beers. Lakefront White defeats Pabst Blue Ribbon 20to 14. Single-month low: 6 beers, including 2 Budweisers, 2 Blatz, 1 Spotted Cow, and 1 Franziskaner. Drank 8 glasses of wine. June 17. Drank Deschutes Brewery Mirror Pond Pale Ale for the first time. Single-month high: 59 beers, including 10 Yuengling Traditional Lager bottles from a case which we bought at a Corners Beer Distributor. We drank these at various relatives' houses. Single-year high: 413 beers. DAYS of EATING MEAT 20 days 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 March 21. Skokie, Illinois. Ate 2 burgers off the grill at C Shoda's 30th birthday party. March 9. Chicago, Illinois. Ate a Wendy's Jr. Hamburger. It was my first fast food burger in over a decade. June 21. Jersey City, New Jersey. Dad made homemade hamburgers with onions. I ate 1. May 21. Daly City, California. Ate at an In-N-Out Burger for the first time. The place was really crowded in the middle of the afternoon. I mean, really brisk business. And while I enjoyed my burger, I thought, "The world has a long way to go." July 27. Woodbridge, Virginia. Ate at a Five Guys for the first June 6. Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Created and implemented rule of only eating meat burgers that are named after the restaurant. I call these "namesake burgers." Proceeded to eat a Mr. Helsinki Burger at Mr. Helsinki's Restaurant and Wine Bar. fime. Closest margin of victory: Scrambled beats Fried with Rice by 1.5 eggs. HOW I LIKE MY EGGS, PAST WINNERS 60 eggs Scrambled: 5 wins, 434 eggs 40 Overeasy: 2 wins, 412 eggs Fried with Rice: 3 wins, 356 eggs 20 Omelette: 1 win, 339 eggs 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 TOTAL EGGS DIWITTYS (Days In Which I Talked To You - if I speak to you at all during a day, you receive a DIWITTY) Began teaching afternoon classes at Marquette University's Upward Bound summer program. April 4. Set a single-day record by speaking to 180 people during my performance piece Making a Spike at the 5th Annual Transmodern Festival in Baltimore, Maryland. During that performance, I spoke to people and created a graph relating to those interactions. AVERAGE NUMBER of DIWITTYS per DAY per MONTH Single-month high: 2087. 70 DIWITTYS 30 2002 Sarah Buecheri * (255) Steve Wetzel (179) Didier Leplae (17o) 2001 Steve Wetzel * (226 DIWITTYs) 2004 Sarah Buccheri (300) Seth Goodman (269) 2003 Sarah Buccheri (247) 2005 Sarah Buccheri (288) 2007 Sarah Buccheri (231) 2008 Frank Straka * (269) 2010 Sarah Burgundy (322) 2011 Sarah Burgundy (343) 2006 Sarah Buccheri (257) Seth Goodman (141) 2009 Sarah Burgundy (295) Frank Straka (289) Eilis O'Herlihy (207) Sarah Burgundy (221) Sarah Burgundy (253) Sarah Buccheri (189) TOP 3 Monica Bennett (224) Seth Goodman (277) Frank Straka (170) Sarah Buccheri (103) Christine Khalafian (151) Seth Goodman * (193) Monica Bennett (144) Steve Wetzel (120) Eilis O'Herlihy (132) Eilis O'Herlihy (138) Sarah Buecheri (135) Sarah Buccheri (109) Steve Wetzel (91) * member of the 1000 DIWITY club TOP 10 of 20OT Sarah Buccheri Carolina Pfister Doug Smith Micaela O'Herlihy Carl Bogner Xavier Leplae Didier Leplae Christine Khalafian Eilis O'Herlihy Steve Wetzel ТОР 10 of 2011 Rachel Graham Patrick Hopkins Ashleigh Heller Steve Wetzel Sarah Buccheri Sarah Burgundy John Myers Keith Medley Carl Bogner Michelle Oddo Poul Terrien Emir Cakaroz In 2001, one needed over 100 DIWITTYS to make it into the Top 10. In 2011, 48 DIWITTYS was all a took. Housemates, of course, have a distinct advantage, and R Graham, my wife's housemate made her mark DIWITTY DefRation with 57 his age of E Cakaroz is married to S Buccheri. They live in the house right next to mine. He is also on Skype all the time. S Buccheri and S Wetzel are the only people who have been on the Top 10 List every year. This is despite each of their gradual decline in yearly totals. Each year I see both of them less and less, and each year I think of coming up with a metric to determine quality of interaction, a sort of superstat that will put my family and friends in their 343 DIWITTYS in one year ain't no joke. If I kept track of Days In Which I Thought Of You, S Burgundy would easily hit the maximum each month and each don't keep track of that. That would be nuts. So you'll have to take my word for it. My employment at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's Film Department and, beginning in 2004, the Brass Bell Music Store has predictably given co-workers regular representation in the Top 10 list. Everybody on the 2001 List is somebody I have met through UW-M, which makes perfect sense. I often wonder how the 1996 or 1997 Lists would have looked like: I'm sure co-workers from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management would have dominated those Lists, along with my al e hout a and call them up say, every week, bue. Iregret that none of my immediate family sin the mid-90's, A Dorn, M Vannatta, and C Whipple. members (Sagrario, Rodolfo, Rodrigo, and Ranniel) are on these Lists. Sure, I " con acually Ihave never ben able to sustain thoin that for an entire * place. year. But I HOW I FELT QUITE EXCELLENT VERY GOOD NOT BAD 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Felt weird electric shocks on my head as I laid on what I thought would be my death bed. Biked from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Evanston, Illinois, mostly with B Brown, I Passon, and U Reynolds. After nearly 7 years, restarted relationship with S Burgundy. S Burgundy moved from Portland, Oregon to Madison, Wisconsin. Got married. Started relationship with M Bennett. TURNING 40 AVERAGE WAKE / SLEEP TIMES 9 AM 3 AM midnight 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Cousin's house, living room, fold-out bed, cable television. I returned to my hostel, the Hyde Park Inn, at 530 AM after a gig with E Beaumont in SoHo. Hung out with M Germain after Performance Night at Darling Hall. Ate at Classic Slice (Bay View) with J Myers; stayed up and prepared for the Hung out with M Bennett in the old Polish Flat. Drove back to Milwaukee from the Wisconsin Film Festival and after-party with J Montgomery. Drove back to Milwaukee from the Slipper Club in Madison, Wisconsin after The Paragraphs last show Went to Pizza Shuttle after the Performance Night / Batten Revue show at Darling Hall. Brute Heart / Dreamland Faces / Batten Revue/ The Chain show at Medusa's in Minneapolis. Hung out at home with S Burgundy after a hockey game in which I played right wing in the 1st period and tended goal in the last. Did my first official stint biking as part of team Good Eggs in the Riverwest 24 bike ride. [645 AM 5/11] [530 AM 1/1] Umali Awards. [546 AM 12/19] ever. [602 AM 2/18] [430 AM B/3] [445 AM 2/2) [504 AM 7/29] [607 AM 4/3] [446 AM 5/16] [450 AM 3/5] [319 AM 6/12] DRINKING BEER privete residences bars and esewhere Most Frequented Bar: The Stork Club Onopa Brewing Company Polish Falcon Bowl Stonefly Brewery Stonefly Brewery / Mad Planet Liquid Johnny's Polish Falcon Bowl 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Most Consumed Beer: Leinenkugel's Original L Loke Front White L New Glarus Spolted Cow Pabst Blue Ribbon 123 beers consumed from June through August, including my last real bender before, during, and after the penultimate Horn Band show at the 7th Street Entry on August 8. C Smith took pictures. Single-year low: 165 beers. Lakefront White defeats Pabst Blue Ribbon 20to 14. Single-month low: 6 beers, including 2 Budweisers, 2 Blatz, 1 Spotted Cow, and 1 Franziskaner. Drank 8 glasses of wine. June 17. Drank Deschutes Brewery Mirror Pond Pale Ale for the first time. Single-month high: 59 beers, including 10 Yuengling Traditional Lager bottles from a case which we bought at a Corners Beer Distributor. We drank these at various relatives' houses. Single-year high: 413 beers. DAYS of EATING MEAT 20 days 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 March 21. Skokie, Illinois. Ate 2 burgers off the grill at C Shoda's 30th birthday party. March 9. Chicago, Illinois. Ate a Wendy's Jr. Hamburger. It was my first fast food burger in over a decade. June 21. Jersey City, New Jersey. Dad made homemade hamburgers with onions. I ate 1. May 21. Daly City, California. Ate at an In-N-Out Burger for the first time. The place was really crowded in the middle of the afternoon. I mean, really brisk business. And while I enjoyed my burger, I thought, "The world has a long way to go." July 27. Woodbridge, Virginia. Ate at a Five Guys for the first June 6. Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Created and implemented rule of only eating meat burgers that are named after the restaurant. I call these "namesake burgers." Proceeded to eat a Mr. Helsinki Burger at Mr. Helsinki's Restaurant and Wine Bar. fime. Closest margin of victory: Scrambled beats Fried with Rice by 1.5 eggs. HOW I LIKE MY EGGS, PAST WINNERS 60 eggs Scrambled: 5 wins, 434 eggs 40 Overeasy: 2 wins, 412 eggs Fried with Rice: 3 wins, 356 eggs 20 Omelette: 1 win, 339 eggs 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 TOTAL EGGS DIWITTYS (Days In Which I Talked To You - if I speak to you at all during a day, you receive a DIWITTY) Began teaching afternoon classes at Marquette University's Upward Bound summer program. April 4. Set a single-day record by speaking to 180 people during my performance piece Making a Spike at the 5th Annual Transmodern Festival in Baltimore, Maryland. During that performance, I spoke to people and created a graph relating to those interactions. AVERAGE NUMBER of DIWITTYS per DAY per MONTH Single-month high: 2087. 70 DIWITTYS 30 2002 Sarah Buecheri * (255) Steve Wetzel (179) Didier Leplae (17o) 2001 Steve Wetzel * (226 DIWITTYs) 2004 Sarah Buccheri (300) Seth Goodman (269) 2003 Sarah Buccheri (247) 2005 Sarah Buccheri (288) 2007 Sarah Buccheri (231) 2008 Frank Straka * (269) 2010 Sarah Burgundy (322) 2011 Sarah Burgundy (343) 2006 Sarah Buccheri (257) Seth Goodman (141) 2009 Sarah Burgundy (295) Frank Straka (289) Eilis O'Herlihy (207) Sarah Burgundy (221) Sarah Burgundy (253) Sarah Buccheri (189) TOP 3 Monica Bennett (224) Seth Goodman (277) Frank Straka (170) Sarah Buccheri (103) Christine Khalafian (151) Seth Goodman * (193) Monica Bennett (144) Steve Wetzel (120) Eilis O'Herlihy (132) Eilis O'Herlihy (138) Sarah Buecheri (135) Sarah Buccheri (109) Steve Wetzel (91) * member of the 1000 DIWITY club TOP 10 of 20OT Sarah Buccheri Carolina Pfister Doug Smith Micaela O'Herlihy Carl Bogner Xavier Leplae Didier Leplae Christine Khalafian Eilis O'Herlihy Steve Wetzel ТОР 10 of 2011 Rachel Graham Patrick Hopkins Ashleigh Heller Steve Wetzel Sarah Buccheri Sarah Burgundy John Myers Keith Medley Carl Bogner Michelle Oddo Poul Terrien Emir Cakaroz In 2001, one needed over 100 DIWITTYS to make it into the Top 10. In 2011, 48 DIWITTYS was all a took. Housemates, of course, have a distinct advantage, and R Graham, my wife's housemate made her mark DIWITTY DefRation with 57 his age of E Cakaroz is married to S Buccheri. They live in the house right next to mine. He is also on Skype all the time. S Buccheri and S Wetzel are the only people who have been on the Top 10 List every year. This is despite each of their gradual decline in yearly totals. Each year I see both of them less and less, and each year I think of coming up with a metric to determine quality of interaction, a sort of superstat that will put my family and friends in their 343 DIWITTYS in one year ain't no joke. If I kept track of Days In Which I Thought Of You, S Burgundy would easily hit the maximum each month and each don't keep track of that. That would be nuts. So you'll have to take my word for it. My employment at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's Film Department and, beginning in 2004, the Brass Bell Music Store has predictably given co-workers regular representation in the Top 10 list. Everybody on the 2001 List is somebody I have met through UW-M, which makes perfect sense. I often wonder how the 1996 or 1997 Lists would have looked like: I'm sure co-workers from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management would have dominated those Lists, along with my al e hout a and call them up say, every week, bue. Iregret that none of my immediate family sin the mid-90's, A Dorn, M Vannatta, and C Whipple. members (Sagrario, Rodolfo, Rodrigo, and Ranniel) are on these Lists. Sure, I " con acually Ihave never ben able to sustain thoin that for an entire * place. year. But I HOW I FELT QUITE EXCELLENT VERY GOOD NOT BAD 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Felt weird electric shocks on my head as I laid on what I thought would be my death bed. Biked from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Evanston, Illinois, mostly with B Brown, I Passon, and U Reynolds. After nearly 7 years, restarted relationship with S Burgundy. S Burgundy moved from Portland, Oregon to Madison, Wisconsin. Got married. Started relationship with M Bennett. TURNING 40 AVERAGE WAKE / SLEEP TIMES 9 AM 3 AM midnight 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Cousin's house, living room, fold-out bed, cable television. I returned to my hostel, the Hyde Park Inn, at 530 AM after a gig with E Beaumont in SoHo. Hung out with M Germain after Performance Night at Darling Hall. Ate at Classic Slice (Bay View) with J Myers; stayed up and prepared for the Hung out with M Bennett in the old Polish Flat. Drove back to Milwaukee from the Wisconsin Film Festival and after-party with J Montgomery. Drove back to Milwaukee from the Slipper Club in Madison, Wisconsin after The Paragraphs last show Went to Pizza Shuttle after the Performance Night / Batten Revue show at Darling Hall. Brute Heart / Dreamland Faces / Batten Revue/ The Chain show at Medusa's in Minneapolis. Hung out at home with S Burgundy after a hockey game in which I played right wing in the 1st period and tended goal in the last. Did my first official stint biking as part of team Good Eggs in the Riverwest 24 bike ride. [645 AM 5/11] [530 AM 1/1] Umali Awards. [546 AM 12/19] ever. [602 AM 2/18] [430 AM B/3] [445 AM 2/2) [504 AM 7/29] [607 AM 4/3] [446 AM 5/16] [450 AM 3/5] [319 AM 6/12] DRINKING BEER privete residences bars and esewhere Most Frequented Bar: The Stork Club Onopa Brewing Company Polish Falcon Bowl Stonefly Brewery Stonefly Brewery / Mad Planet Liquid Johnny's Polish Falcon Bowl 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Most Consumed Beer: Leinenkugel's Original L Loke Front White L New Glarus Spolted Cow Pabst Blue Ribbon 123 beers consumed from June through August, including my last real bender before, during, and after the penultimate Horn Band show at the 7th Street Entry on August 8. C Smith took pictures. Single-year low: 165 beers. Lakefront White defeats Pabst Blue Ribbon 20to 14. Single-month low: 6 beers, including 2 Budweisers, 2 Blatz, 1 Spotted Cow, and 1 Franziskaner. Drank 8 glasses of wine. June 17. Drank Deschutes Brewery Mirror Pond Pale Ale for the first time. Single-month high: 59 beers, including 10 Yuengling Traditional Lager bottles from a case which we bought at a Corners Beer Distributor. We drank these at various relatives' houses. Single-year high: 413 beers. DAYS of EATING MEAT 20 days 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 March 21. Skokie, Illinois. Ate 2 burgers off the grill at C Shoda's 30th birthday party. March 9. Chicago, Illinois. Ate a Wendy's Jr. Hamburger. It was my first fast food burger in over a decade. June 21. Jersey City, New Jersey. Dad made homemade hamburgers with onions. I ate 1. May 21. Daly City, California. Ate at an In-N-Out Burger for the first time. The place was really crowded in the middle of the afternoon. I mean, really brisk business. And while I enjoyed my burger, I thought, "The world has a long way to go." July 27. Woodbridge, Virginia. Ate at a Five Guys for the first June 6. Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Created and implemented rule of only eating meat burgers that are named after the restaurant. I call these "namesake burgers." Proceeded to eat a Mr. Helsinki Burger at Mr. Helsinki's Restaurant and Wine Bar. fime. Closest margin of victory: Scrambled beats Fried with Rice by 1.5 eggs. HOW I LIKE MY EGGS, PAST WINNERS 60 eggs Scrambled: 5 wins, 434 eggs 40 Overeasy: 2 wins, 412 eggs Fried with Rice: 3 wins, 356 eggs 20 Omelette: 1 win, 339 eggs 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 TOTAL EGGS DIWITTYS (Days In Which I Talked To You - if I speak to you at all during a day, you receive a DIWITTY) Began teaching afternoon classes at Marquette University's Upward Bound summer program. April 4. Set a single-day record by speaking to 180 people during my performance piece Making a Spike at the 5th Annual Transmodern Festival in Baltimore, Maryland. During that performance, I spoke to people and created a graph relating to those interactions. AVERAGE NUMBER of DIWITTYS per DAY per MONTH Single-month high: 2087. 70 DIWITTYS 30 2002 Sarah Buecheri * (255) Steve Wetzel (179) Didier Leplae (17o) 2001 Steve Wetzel * (226 DIWITTYs) 2004 Sarah Buccheri (300) Seth Goodman (269) 2003 Sarah Buccheri (247) 2005 Sarah Buccheri (288) 2007 Sarah Buccheri (231) 2008 Frank Straka * (269) 2010 Sarah Burgundy (322) 2011 Sarah Burgundy (343) 2006 Sarah Buccheri (257) Seth Goodman (141) 2009 Sarah Burgundy (295) Frank Straka (289) Eilis O'Herlihy (207) Sarah Burgundy (221) Sarah Burgundy (253) Sarah Buccheri (189) TOP 3 Monica Bennett (224) Seth Goodman (277) Frank Straka (170) Sarah Buccheri (103) Christine Khalafian (151) Seth Goodman * (193) Monica Bennett (144) Steve Wetzel (120) Eilis O'Herlihy (132) Eilis O'Herlihy (138) Sarah Buecheri (135) Sarah Buccheri (109) Steve Wetzel (91) * member of the 1000 DIWITY club TOP 10 of 20OT Sarah Buccheri Carolina Pfister Doug Smith Micaela O'Herlihy Carl Bogner Xavier Leplae Didier Leplae Christine Khalafian Eilis O'Herlihy Steve Wetzel ТОР 10 of 2011 Rachel Graham Patrick Hopkins Ashleigh Heller Steve Wetzel Sarah Buccheri Sarah Burgundy John Myers Keith Medley Carl Bogner Michelle Oddo Poul Terrien Emir Cakaroz In 2001, one needed over 100 DIWITTYS to make it into the Top 10. In 2011, 48 DIWITTYS was all a took. Housemates, of course, have a distinct advantage, and R Graham, my wife's housemate made her mark DIWITTY DefRation with 57 his age of E Cakaroz is married to S Buccheri. They live in the house right next to mine. He is also on Skype all the time. S Buccheri and S Wetzel are the only people who have been on the Top 10 List every year. This is despite each of their gradual decline in yearly totals. Each year I see both of them less and less, and each year I think of coming up with a metric to determine quality of interaction, a sort of superstat that will put my family and friends in their 343 DIWITTYS in one year ain't no joke. If I kept track of Days In Which I Thought Of You, S Burgundy would easily hit the maximum each month and each don't keep track of that. That would be nuts. So you'll have to take my word for it. My employment at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's Film Department and, beginning in 2004, the Brass Bell Music Store has predictably given co-workers regular representation in the Top 10 list. Everybody on the 2001 List is somebody I have met through UW-M, which makes perfect sense. I often wonder how the 1996 or 1997 Lists would have looked like: I'm sure co-workers from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management would have dominated those Lists, along with my al e hout a and call them up say, every week, bue. Iregret that none of my immediate family sin the mid-90's, A Dorn, M Vannatta, and C Whipple. members (Sagrario, Rodolfo, Rodrigo, and Ranniel) are on these Lists. Sure, I " con acually Ihave never ben able to sustain thoin that for an entire * place. year. But I HOW I FELT QUITE EXCELLENT VERY GOOD NOT BAD 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Felt weird electric shocks on my head as I laid on what I thought would be my death bed. Biked from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Evanston, Illinois, mostly with B Brown, I Passon, and U Reynolds. After nearly 7 years, restarted relationship with S Burgundy. S Burgundy moved from Portland, Oregon to Madison, Wisconsin. Got married. Started relationship with M Bennett. TURNING 40 AVERAGE WAKE / SLEEP TIMES 9 AM 3 AM midnight 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Cousin's house, living room, fold-out bed, cable television. I returned to my hostel, the Hyde Park Inn, at 530 AM after a gig with E Beaumont in SoHo. Hung out with M Germain after Performance Night at Darling Hall. Ate at Classic Slice (Bay View) with J Myers; stayed up and prepared for the Hung out with M Bennett in the old Polish Flat. Drove back to Milwaukee from the Wisconsin Film Festival and after-party with J Montgomery. Drove back to Milwaukee from the Slipper Club in Madison, Wisconsin after The Paragraphs last show Went to Pizza Shuttle after the Performance Night / Batten Revue show at Darling Hall. Brute Heart / Dreamland Faces / Batten Revue/ The Chain show at Medusa's in Minneapolis. Hung out at home with S Burgundy after a hockey game in which I played right wing in the 1st period and tended goal in the last. Did my first official stint biking as part of team Good Eggs in the Riverwest 24 bike ride. [645 AM 5/11] [530 AM 1/1] Umali Awards. [546 AM 12/19] ever. [602 AM 2/18] [430 AM B/3] [445 AM 2/2) [504 AM 7/29] [607 AM 4/3] [446 AM 5/16] [450 AM 3/5] [319 AM 6/12] DRINKING BEER privete residences bars and esewhere Most Frequented Bar: The Stork Club Onopa Brewing Company Polish Falcon Bowl Stonefly Brewery Stonefly Brewery / Mad Planet Liquid Johnny's Polish Falcon Bowl 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Most Consumed Beer: Leinenkugel's Original L Loke Front White L New Glarus Spolted Cow Pabst Blue Ribbon 123 beers consumed from June through August, including my last real bender before, during, and after the penultimate Horn Band show at the 7th Street Entry on August 8. C Smith took pictures. Single-year low: 165 beers. Lakefront White defeats Pabst Blue Ribbon 20to 14. Single-month low: 6 beers, including 2 Budweisers, 2 Blatz, 1 Spotted Cow, and 1 Franziskaner. Drank 8 glasses of wine. June 17. Drank Deschutes Brewery Mirror Pond Pale Ale for the first time. Single-month high: 59 beers, including 10 Yuengling Traditional Lager bottles from a case which we bought at a Corners Beer Distributor. We drank these at various relatives' houses. Single-year high: 413 beers. DAYS of EATING MEAT 20 days 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 March 21. Skokie, Illinois. Ate 2 burgers off the grill at C Shoda's 30th birthday party. March 9. Chicago, Illinois. Ate a Wendy's Jr. Hamburger. It was my first fast food burger in over a decade. June 21. Jersey City, New Jersey. Dad made homemade hamburgers with onions. I ate 1. May 21. Daly City, California. Ate at an In-N-Out Burger for the first time. The place was really crowded in the middle of the afternoon. I mean, really brisk business. And while I enjoyed my burger, I thought, "The world has a long way to go." July 27. Woodbridge, Virginia. Ate at a Five Guys for the first June 6. Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Created and implemented rule of only eating meat burgers that are named after the restaurant. I call these "namesake burgers." Proceeded to eat a Mr. Helsinki Burger at Mr. Helsinki's Restaurant and Wine Bar. fime. Closest margin of victory: Scrambled beats Fried with Rice by 1.5 eggs. HOW I LIKE MY EGGS, PAST WINNERS 60 eggs Scrambled: 5 wins, 434 eggs 40 Overeasy: 2 wins, 412 eggs Fried with Rice: 3 wins, 356 eggs 20 Omelette: 1 win, 339 eggs 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 TOTAL EGGS DIWITTYS (Days In Which I Talked To You - if I speak to you at all during a day, you receive a DIWITTY) Began teaching afternoon classes at Marquette University's Upward Bound summer program. April 4. Set a single-day record by speaking to 180 people during my performance piece Making a Spike at the 5th Annual Transmodern Festival in Baltimore, Maryland. During that performance, I spoke to people and created a graph relating to those interactions. AVERAGE NUMBER of DIWITTYS per DAY per MONTH Single-month high: 2087. 70 DIWITTYS 30 2002 Sarah Buecheri * (255) Steve Wetzel (179) Didier Leplae (17o) 2001 Steve Wetzel * (226 DIWITTYs) 2004 Sarah Buccheri (300) Seth Goodman (269) 2003 Sarah Buccheri (247) 2005 Sarah Buccheri (288) 2007 Sarah Buccheri (231) 2008 Frank Straka * (269) 2010 Sarah Burgundy (322) 2011 Sarah Burgundy (343) 2006 Sarah Buccheri (257) Seth Goodman (141) 2009 Sarah Burgundy (295) Frank Straka (289) Eilis O'Herlihy (207) Sarah Burgundy (221) Sarah Burgundy (253) Sarah Buccheri (189) TOP 3 Monica Bennett (224) Seth Goodman (277) Frank Straka (170) Sarah Buccheri (103) Christine Khalafian (151) Seth Goodman * (193) Monica Bennett (144) Steve Wetzel (120) Eilis O'Herlihy (132) Eilis O'Herlihy (138) Sarah Buecheri (135) Sarah Buccheri (109) Steve Wetzel (91) * member of the 1000 DIWITY club TOP 10 of 20OT Sarah Buccheri Carolina Pfister Doug Smith Micaela O'Herlihy Carl Bogner Xavier Leplae Didier Leplae Christine Khalafian Eilis O'Herlihy Steve Wetzel ТОР 10 of 2011 Rachel Graham Patrick Hopkins Ashleigh Heller Steve Wetzel Sarah Buccheri Sarah Burgundy John Myers Keith Medley Carl Bogner Michelle Oddo Poul Terrien Emir Cakaroz In 2001, one needed over 100 DIWITTYS to make it into the Top 10. In 2011, 48 DIWITTYS was all a took. Housemates, of course, have a distinct advantage, and R Graham, my wife's housemate made her mark DIWITTY DefRation with 57 his age of E Cakaroz is married to S Buccheri. They live in the house right next to mine. He is also on Skype all the time. S Buccheri and S Wetzel are the only people who have been on the Top 10 List every year. This is despite each of their gradual decline in yearly totals. Each year I see both of them less and less, and each year I think of coming up with a metric to determine quality of interaction, a sort of superstat that will put my family and friends in their 343 DIWITTYS in one year ain't no joke. If I kept track of Days In Which I Thought Of You, S Burgundy would easily hit the maximum each month and each don't keep track of that. That would be nuts. So you'll have to take my word for it. My employment at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's Film Department and, beginning in 2004, the Brass Bell Music Store has predictably given co-workers regular representation in the Top 10 list. Everybody on the 2001 List is somebody I have met through UW-M, which makes perfect sense. I often wonder how the 1996 or 1997 Lists would have looked like: I'm sure co-workers from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management would have dominated those Lists, along with my al e hout a and call them up say, every week, bue. Iregret that none of my immediate family sin the mid-90's, A Dorn, M Vannatta, and C Whipple. members (Sagrario, Rodolfo, Rodrigo, and Ranniel) are on these Lists. Sure, I " con acually Ihave never ben able to sustain thoin that for an entire * place. year. But I HOW I FELT QUITE EXCELLENT VERY GOOD NOT BAD 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Felt weird electric shocks on my head as I laid on what I thought would be my death bed. Biked from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Evanston, Illinois, mostly with B Brown, I Passon, and U Reynolds. After nearly 7 years, restarted relationship with S Burgundy. S Burgundy moved from Portland, Oregon to Madison, Wisconsin. Got married. Started relationship with M Bennett.