Family Guy

Charge Mo’s Irish Pub (Hwy 100 & Bluemound) $2,500 per month for exclusive use (from 6:00pm-2:00am) of the 25 public parking spaces at the Wauwatosa Public parking lot which is woefully underused.
People are parking on the street up to three blocks away instead of parking legally across Bluemound (across the dentist’s office parking). Have Mo’s valets, park customer cars in the public lot and with the revenue from Mo’s give the home owners on 108th-110th $50/home off their real estate taxes.
Mo’s is going to spent lots of cash to buy Pizza Hut (for more parking) so $2,500/month should be reasonable cost of doing business until Pizza Hut lot is purchased.

$50 for 50 homes is just compensation for neighbors which have been putting up with the parking mess since Mo’s opened.

Here one for the moms:

Dear Santa,


I've been a good mom all year long.


I've fed, cleaned and cuddled my children on demand, visited the Doctor's' Office more than my doctor, sold sixty-two cases of candy bars to raise money to plant a shade tree on the school playground.
I was hoping you could spread my list out over several Christmases, since I had to write this letter with my son's red crayon, on the back of a grocery receipt in the laundry room between wash cycles, and who knows when I'll find More free time in the next 18 years.



Here are my Christmas wishes:
I'd like a pair of legs that don't ache (in any color, except purple, which I already have) and arms that don't hurt or flap in the breeze; but are strong enough to pull my screaming child out of the candy aisle in the grocery store.
I'd also like a waistline, since I lost mine somewhere in the seventh month of my last pregnancy.
If you're hauling big ticket items this year I'd like fingerprint resistant windows and a radio that only plays adult music;, a television that doesn't broadcast any programs containing talking animals; and a refrigerator with a secret compartment behind the crisper where I can hide to talk on the phone in peace.


On the practical side, I could use a talking doll that says, "Yes, Mommy" to boost my parental confidence, along with two kids who don't fight and three pairs of jeans that will zip all the way up without the use of power tools.
I could also use a recording of Tibetan Monks chanting "Don't eat in the Living Room" and "Take your hands off your brother," because my voice seems to be just out of my children's hearing range and can only be heard by the dog.

If it's too late to find any of these products, I'd settle for enough time to brush my teeth and comb my hair in the same morning, or the luxury of eating food warmer than room temperature without it being served in a Styrofoam box.
If you don't mind, I could also use a few Christmas miracles to brighten the holiday season. Would it be too much trouble to declare ketchup a vegetable?

It will clear my conscience immensely. It would be helpful if you could coerce my children to help around the house without demanding payment as if they were the bosses of an organized crime family.
Well, Santa, the buzzer on the dryer is ringing and my son saw my feet from under the laundry room door. I think he wants his crayon back.


Have a safe trip and remember to leave your wet boots by the door and come in and dry off so you don't catch cold.
Help yourself to cookies on the table but don't eat too many and please don't leave crumbs on the carpet.


Yours Always, MOM...!


P.S. One more thing...you can cancel all my requests if you can keep my children young enough to always believe in Santa.

*Santa has asked that this gets passed on to all the mommies you know*


Thanks Wendy for the great list!

MVB’s and other awards

After seven months and hundreds of blogs, here are a few awards I would like
to give out.


Most Valuable Blogger

Christine McLaughlin (Tosa) & Shawn Matson (Brookfield)

I couldn’t choose between the two of them. Both blogger's stories were insightful, personal,
original and gave you something to think about. It’s fun to read their blogs because
are always interesting.


Rookie MVB

Aaron Kunzler (West Allis)

All three of Aaron’s blogs were colorful & witty. More stories to come from this rookie.

Honorable mention: Tom Wanie (New Berlin) Great student driver's story.


Technology MVB

Thomas Murray (Tosa)

Tom was the first to use pictures & sound. Tom was also the first to utilize polling.
Tom, find out how to videos and you will win next year’s award.


Graceful Exit Award

Richard Cieslak (Brookfield) Richard “Going out of Business” blog was classy. As Richard pointed out, if you don’t have the time to do it right, don’t do it at all.



Manager of the Year—Mark Maley of course. Great job on the Websites and thanks for
the opportunity to share our stories.




Sonia Simko (Bay View) blog said “start feeling RECONNECTED” We do this by
sharing our stories with each other.


Thanks everyone for sharing your stories and have a wonderful holiday!

Free Parking

Wauwatosa has a public parking lot on 109th & Bluemound. There about
24 parking spaces the butt up against Bluemound (South side) across from Tri-city
and extending to 110th st.

Reason for this info—Mo’s

Parking is a nightmare around Mo’s. People are parking legally & illegally all
Around Mo’s. The residents have complained and the police are starting to ticket.

Do yourself, and the residents near Mo’s a favor, and park across the street (just west
of Yanni’s).

The City should put public parking signs to let people know as well.

Until Mo’s razes Pizza Hut and makes an additional parking lot (as planned),
Parking will be a headache.

After my very handy father-in-law installed my new dishwasher (old one died),
I was left with the old one sitting in my driveway until today. Saturday’s are my
day to go to the Tosa Dump (one of my favorite places). You never known what
you will find at the Dump, but you will always find it free. Two weeks ago, I found
a brand new golf bag (with clubs).

Thank you kind person for leaving it off to the side.

Back to the story, I was telling a friend of mine that I was going to the dump to
pay $20 for Tosa to take my diswasher, when he suggested I go to Action Metals
on 53rd & State.

I went to Action Metals. They were quick, polite, weighed my dishwasher and gave me a
receipt to take to the cashier. I didn’t know how much it was for, but I ended up
with $5.73. Don't go there in your Sunday best, it's kind of dirty.

Instead of paying $20, I got back $5.

They take all metals.

I don’t know anyone who works there, but if info saves you $$$ then great.

Anyone else know a money saving idea, email me and I will share it.

Sleeping on the Job


When the County Executive Scott Walker showed a video of a City Hall employee
sleeping on the job, he used it to illustrate how County employees were lazy & not
needed. That outsourcing is required to solve the problem.

Now I don’t deny that the county worker was sleeping on the job—she was!

But you can’t hold all the county workers responsible for the behavior of a
Few lazy individuals, because if you do—shouldn’t you blame all county government
for sleeping on the job?

By indicting County Government in general, what does that say about government
as a whole?

Now if all government is to blame for sleeping on the job, isn’t that an indictment of American Society in general?

Now Scott Walker can do what he wants to that one employee, but there is no way in hell
I’m going to have him bad mouth the USA!

Shame on you Scott!!!! The USA deserves better!

Great for the Holidays!

Chef's New Orleans Bourbon Balls



1 pk of chocolate chips (12 oz)

1 box vanilla wafer cookies

1 can of sweeten condensed milk

5 Tablespoons Jim Bean bourbon (taste first to see that it's not spoiled)


Crush entire box of cookies until pretty fine. Add the bourbon and let soak.



Melt the chocolate in heavy sauce pan. Once melted add the condensed milk and mix thoroughly while warm. Take off stove, add the cookie crumbs mix together. Let cool for half hour and roll into balls. Coat with nuts or any topping




Thanks Tonya

President Bush had a high level meeting with GM’s Chairman to install all military vehicles currently located in Iraq with GM’s Onstar security system. All vehicles currently in a Iraq (Hummers, Bradley fighting Vehicles, Tanks and Jeeps) will all be retrofitted with the latest high tech Onstar System (the most comprehensive in-vehicle security, communications & diagnostic system available in the world.



Bush announced this new policy development to spearhead his new way forward in Iraq.
The cost of the installation and program maintenance is estimated at $2,000/vehicle x 57,000 vehicles for a total of $114 million.

Some estimates see the costs of staying in Iraq at $500 -$800 billion.
Bush sees the Onstar program as the first and maybe only way to get out Iraq. “Once Onstar is up & running on our military vehicles, all a soldier needs to do is turn on Onstar, set his coordinates to his home town and let Onstar lead him home.

“This is the perfect exit strategy” Bush exclaimed! “Even I (Bush) am smart enough to see that paying $114Million is cheaper than $800 billion!”

GM Chairman has also guaranteed that this is a winning strategy. “I guarantee that when you put on Onstar, it will get you home—no matter where you are.

Bush hopes that this new program will silence his critics and show the American people that he can come up with innovative solutions to the US involvement and eventual withdrawal in the Iraq Civil War.

Simple analysis of a common Tosa street - Alice St (in the village)

Summary- New home owner's tax bill increased 59%
Existing home owners (11) tax bill increased 11%

A welcome gift to new homeowners from your friendly tax assessor



Alice st 2005 taxes 2006taxes $ change % change
1443 $4,888 $6,140 $1,252 25.61%
1504 $4,367 $4,518 $151 3.46%
1507 $4,077 $4,912 $835 20.48%
1510 $4,630 $5,500 $870 18.79%
1513 $4,198 $4,742 $544 12.96%
1520 $4,570 $4,634 $64 1.40%
1526 $3,847 $4,561 $714 18.56%
1529 $4,987 $4,973 $(14) -0.28%
1532 $4,189 $5,381 $1,192 28.46%
1539 $3,850 $3,825 $(25) -0.65%
1540 $3,496 $3,194 $(302) -8.64%
Totals $49,104 $54,386 $5,281

Aveage $4,464 $4,944 $480 10.92%


1523 $4,250 $6,738 $2,488 58.54% Purchased 2005

Verify the numbers @ www.wauwatosa.net Check your street!

Reason--Reassessment gave new home owners in the village a disproportionally higher tax increase
than existing home owners.

Wauwatosa needs re-assessments every two years (not four)! Tell your alderman.

Twelve days of Christmas (Tosa Style)

12 Smoker's Smoking
11 Condo's a building
10 Lowes a leaping
9 Simma's a baking
8 Moe's a serving
7 Mrs Java's a brewing
6 Taxes raising

5 Miles Standish

4 Yanni's Gyro's
3 Panera Breads
2 MMSD dumps

And a cheese danish at Cranky Al's

8:00 am Dog food! My favorite thing!
9:30 am A car ride! My favorite thing!
9:40 am A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
10:30 am Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
12:00 pm Lunch! My favorite thing!
1:00 pm Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
3:00 pm Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!
5:00 pm Milk bones! My favorite thing!
7:00 pm Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
8:00 pm Wow! Watched TV with my master! My favorite thing!
11:00 pm Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!

Excerpts from a Cat's Daily Diary

Day 683 of my captivity: My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre
little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the
other inmates are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I
make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must
eat something in order to keep up my strength. The only thing that
keeps me going is my dream of escape.

In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the floor.
Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their
feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it
clearly demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made
condescending comments about what a "good little hunter" I am. The
audacity!

There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was
placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event.
However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that
my confinement was due to the power of allergies." I must learn what
this means, and how to use it to my advantage.

Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my
tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try
this again tomorrow -- but at the top of the stairs.

I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and
snitches.
The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released --and
seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded!
The bird has got to be an informant. I observe him communicating with
the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move.
The captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated
cell, so he is safe....for now....


Thanks Pat for the story!

Visa #3 (White Christmas)

Kils Primer 1 Gallon $27
Rug doctor rent w/soap $40
Paint Thinner $10
Rags & Towels $5
New Pajamas (2 Sets) $15

Having the patience not to kill your kids, priceless.

Here's an email from a reader (David) which includes more Tosa Nosalgia.
Does anyone know what Pep's place was called before it was Pep's?

Also, David brought open the Journal Sub Station next to Hector's.
Anyone remember subbing papers? The Sub Station was like a caddy shack for paper boys.


Renner Olds on 68th and Milwaukee Ave.
>
> The White Hen in the Village
>
> Jewel on 68th and State St.
>
> Suburpia on North Ave.
>
> What was the name of the bakery on about 69th and North? There was
> another "dime store" on the same block.
>
> Remember when the McDonalds opened on North Ave.?
>
> Remember when they used to have a street festival/carnival on North Ave.
> East of 68th st.?
>
> The bike shop, bowling alley, and archery store something like the 7200
> block of North Ave.
>
> Roller skating at Pius Grade school.
>
> All time best, Balistreris still on 68th St.

David,
Forgot about Renner. Know some people who use to take "samples" of bakery
that they would leave out
in back on White Hen on Sunday mornings. Jewel, both times it was there.
Suburpia, with the swinging doors. Don't know the bakery or dime store.
Wasn't there a custard place on 71st & North (in the dry cleaners?). My
brother was one of the first to work @ McDonalds (remember 25 cent hamburger
days). Tosafest started on North Ave. Johnson was the bike store. The
bowling alley was down stairs with the pool tables. Never Skated at Pius.
Balistreris still on 68th St- still best place during christmas.

How about the Sport's Page Bar.

If readers remember more email me @jrhart@wi.rr.com