Who else is from Wisconsin?

There seems to be a disproportionate number of WI DUers. How many of us are there?

Any one in or near the Milwaukee area want to get together some time? (I'm jealous of Boston, I freely admit it.)

I'm in Waukesha, BTW.

Am in Osceola. I look across the river (St. Croix) and there is MN. So am on the other side of the state. About 50 miles to MPLS.

and a nice train museum!

I have to get back up there this summer...

if you can see the St.Croix from Osceola! My mother graduated from Osceola HS (in 41) and I have been there a few times. Seems like it is a few miles to the river from there (but a lovely town nonetheless).

I was born in Hudson, on a hill overlooking the St. Croix, and you can literally see Minnesota from there. I'll be back later this month for a visit. Even though I have not lived there for 27 years, I'll always be a Badger.

The most boring landscape in the state. And, unfortunately, about 60/40 repuke.

Thank goddess the winds died down last night. Thought I was going to loose a tree there for a little while.

on edit: love to get together, but I don't get to that corner of the state very often. As a matter of fact, I don't get out of the county much at all anymore. My hubby and I have a business and most of this year he has been on the road so I'm chained to the office.

Gotta be close to Marshfield..............

Far enough that my property taxes are about half of what they'd be if I lived closer.

There's another DUer in the vinicity!

In the business circles here it's freeperville! It gets damned lonely sometimes......

That's why we haven't joined our business in with any of the chambers of commerce here. Not interested in plastering a phony smile on my face to schmooze with those people just so my business can get a few minor benefits.

I was always going to ask you if you knew the Wagner that was a guidance counselor at the Jr. High in Marshfield. He was a great guy and I haven't seen him around in a while.

but never met them.........my son Graduated from MSHS in 2001 so Jr. High seems like a looooong time ago.

There are a lot of Wagners running around loose....more loose than locked up, probably related but very distantly.

...that had an engineering office in the Milwaukee area until they shut it down in '98. With the exception of a couple nice people (one engineer, one extremely cool purchasing person, a couple of the electricians, a welder or two) that outfit was a Repuke good ol' boy hell. Hated the micromanaging Vice President, hated the project managers (who all seemed to be brothers,) especially hated that one loudmouthed fat dickhead engineer. Glad I don't work for those guys anymore.

They keep reformulating their control engineering department every other year. They've gotten rid of it at least once and have now revived it again. I know a few dems who work there, but just about all businesses around here are puke businesses.

for an Ag manufacturing firm in Marshfield.

In the last few years, the owner went really fundamentalist on us

Worse yet, I had to handle Customer Service for a year or two and fielded calls from Newt Gingrich's boiler room soliciting extra contributions from the owner.

That is definitely a candidate for worst job in the state.

...although I grew up in Milwaukee/Waukesha during the 40s-50s. Madison is far removed now from the progressive paradise it was when I moved here, but still far moreso than Waukesha--my sympathies, eyesroll!

but, yes. Thank you.

I am running for the U.S. House of Representatives against Jim Sensenbrenner in Wisconsin's 5th CD.

Send me money.

2-1/2 hours from almost anywhere.........

DU meetup in Stevens Point was cancelled because couldn't get 5 people.....

least one more there. I've been following the Eau Claire meetup because my hubby ends up there most meetup nights. I'm not driving to Point to go as well. If it was in Marshfield, I might even have gotten my kids to go.

I'll sign up to vote for a Marshfield venue next time if you will.

It would be nice to meet some other DUers..........

I suspect my neighbor (former Mayor of Marshfield) would join DU also but he and his wife have taken an extended motor-home vacation and won't be back until late February or early March.

Is the Eau Claire meet-up still on?

Are there any others close by?

I doubt most of them are in it for anything but the long haul. It'll be on.

Is it on the 19th also?

and where?

besides, I've spent the past hour extolling the virtues of Madison!

:toast:

and live there most of the time, but my folks and dogs live in prairie du chien, which i've come to love and at the same time despise, just a little bit. but the people are wonderful, and that's saying a lot: my folks are a mixed race couple and the town is almost all white. i suppose it helps my folks are "upper class" in that town and can afford to play golf.

overall, i've found WI filled with rural progressives. there was even a protester once in a little town down the road with a big sign about the SOA.

and we cannot forget the Real Hero, Russ. we all know how he voted, there's a man who can stick to his guns.

...to WI Duers. I LOVE Wisconsin. I've spent a lot of time in Lodi, but have been all over the beautiful and friendly state.

:hi:

Archae? Jackpine Radical? htuttle? Bobthedrummer? Goddess40? MessiahRp? You can't hide. We know where you live. :hi:

RetroLounge, WillBowden, Bushfire, AnnabelLee, DragonLady and probably others I'm forgetting...

Come on! Check in! Wisconsin needs a DU gathering!

Archae I think is from sheboygan area
Rabrrrr is from Milw?
Jackpine radical is from up north somewhere's

Me, I've spent most of my life in the South, but I was born in Green Bay and went to UW (Madtown! representin'! Go Badgers!)

I have family in Green Bay and oconto county. My best friend in the whole world lives in Minaqua

Jackpine is from Eau Claire/Chippewa Falls area.

Bobthedrummer is a Wisconsite? Wow! that's cool!

Over by the thumb, I think.

And you're right about Jackpine. Met him a couple of times.

Born in Milwaukee, raised in Sheboygan County, lived in Sheboygan now for decades.

Best damn town in Wisconsin! :-)

Liberal? Conservative? We don't give a shit.

Just grab a brat an' a beer, come down by da lake, and enjoy yourself.

Seriously, Sheboygan is liberal AND conservative.

And we like them all.

Sheboygan is the bratwurst capitol of the USA. Except maybe during football season, then the honor belongs to Lambeau field.

But I am indeedy from WI, and bloody hell well proud of it. :-) I'm a Rock County and Monroe County kind of guy.

And I know of one other DUer who is in Eau Claire, whom I doubt will chime in on this thread, since she rarely posts, but I will not mention her name since I don't know if she cares for anyone to know where she lives.

No offense, I hope. You're the artist guy right? Hows that gig going?


Funny story, I met this gal once and we get to talking and I could tell by her accent where she was from and I say, "so what part of Milwaukee are you from?" and she gives me this look like I've 2 heads. "How did you know that?' Freaked her out. The accent is a dead give away. Curiously, people from the Hudson River valley area of New York ahve a similar accent.

:-)

Yes, many different accents in WI. (and also in NY).

Cheers!

Sorry if I got the rrrrrrs wrong.

Whitacre D_WI and I attended Beloit College from 1993-1997, and I student taught at Janesville Parker in the fall of 1996. (I'm out of teaching now.)

Meno Falls - NE corner

A meetup would be great - maybe on the county line between Milwaukee & Waukesha - close to Hwy. 100 and I-94 may be a good spot

When is the most difficult . . .

I was reading all the locked sex threads... :)

Wauwatosa DU'er here, looking forward to voting for Vince!

and one more chance to rally for Wisconsin

for Wisconsin!

:kick:

Well, right near the middle of it, anyway.

I grew up about 10 miles outside of Waukesha in what used to be a farm town, but is becoming a commuter-community. Went to school at UW-Waukesha Extension for way, way too long. Lived in Milwaukee's East Side for quite awhile, too, as well as shorter stints in various places like the near south side, and the 'West Bank' (ie., near North side).

I went to High School with that scurvy RAT Scott Jensen (a year or two behind him). He was as slimy then as he is now. Quite the drinker and pot-smoker (and cheerleader-groper), as I recall...

One of my favorite Wisconsin things: Freshwater marshes. Love 'em. Love the smell, love the flora and fauna -- feel right at home. I've spent a lot of time roaming about 'The Kettle' (Moraine), too.

Brown Deer... just moved here a few months ago from a little cardboard shack we were renting in Glendale. Lucky we moved out of that place, a few more windy nights like last night, it won't be standing very much longer.

UWM grad. Also lived on the East Side c.1990, lived in Beaver Dam a few years in the mid-90s, grew up in Wauwatosa in the 60s and 70s and 80s.

:kick:

otherwise, I reside in Minnesota.

We're so open-minded we even like 'Sodies!

:hi:

then Greendale... Now I'm in Michigan...sniffle...but I do return home quite often. :hi:

on School Road in Madison; learned to swim in Lake Mendota. Yes indeed!

Born and raised in Green Bay,
Graduate of U-Wisconsin,
Family has TWO sets of Packer Season Tickets
And a Cabin near Lakewood ...

HOW MUCH MORE OF A WISCONSINITE CAN YA' GET, EH ??

:silly:


:hippie:

And can I buy a ticket for the NFC championsip game?

a transplant to Wisconsin from upstate New York, a fellow DUer, and my hubby - who can't be with us today or most days for that matter. (There are two so don't get them mixed up) He has a fulltime day job, unlike me, and is on the road.

He does peek in when he gets a hotel room with access. :hi: Miss ya, honey.

I never even had been here before until I visited the college that I would go to. I suppose that it is alright living up here. I am not going to say where I live because I've given out too much information about myself and what I do. I live in a fairly small place so I don't want anyone identifying me, not that I'm paranoid.

It's okay to be paranoid. Some on DU have been harassed by freepers and other creeps when they accidentally gave out too much info on themselves.

:hi:

I went to Beloit from '93 to '97. Ended up staying here.

Nice state, eh?

West side, near Tosa.

As for the Vikings avatar? Lived in Minnesota for a while.

as I am a Bears Fan, living in Tosa, Grew up in Chicago.

:)

Cooler by the Lake, as always. But it does look relatively calm this morning. Bright sunny day, with small whitecaps.

Milwaukee (City of)

keep us posted if a gathering is planned.
we could post guesses of what DUers look like then laff at how wrong we are