...would I get in trouble with my wife because we are apparently moving to Alaska where I’m going to become a hunting guide, which is a rumor her mother heard from a relative who heard it from a friend of a friend in southeastern North Dakota.

How’s that for a gossip grape vine?

Note to those of you who are invoking the wrath of my wife by misinforming my mother-in-law: It was an April Fool’s joke.  So chill out.  I’m not going anywhere.

I’ll be posting here - and irritating North Dakota’s scant liberal minority (to the point where some of them make every other one of their blog postings about me) - for years to come.

But I guess it is cool that my North Dakota readership has grown to the point where silly little jokes cause a buzz that reaches halfway across the state.  And sort of scary that there’s only a few degrees of separation but some of you weirdos who read this site and my family.

Update: I meant the “weirdos” remark in the best possible way.