Good Afternoon from Racine Wisconsin.

I have one more day here, and then I head back to San Francisco tomorrow.

Aurora and Aaron both wanted me to give a little information about Kringle, as Racine is the Kringle Capital of the USA.

So what is Kringle?   It’s a Danish pastry that this town is famous for.  Apparently, Racine Wisconsin has the highest population of Danes outside of Greenland (and Denmark I assume) and they brought this high calorie delicacy with them.

Kringle is sort of like a huge flat donut, filled with jelly goodness and usually covered in some sort of frosting.    It probably packs something like 500 calories per square inch, and a lot of local Racinites use Kringle as the fast track to Fat Bastardization.

Elsewhere in the world… a couple of interesting post holiday shopping stories:

I came across this well written piece about what it’s like to work at Walmart,  it has a happy revenge ending, I highly recommend this read.

If you happen to shop at Best Buy, don’t use $2.00 bills, or you may end up in leg irons and hand cuffs.