About Me

My name is Joe Ranthum as some of you may know. As I said last time I'm 21 years old and have lived in the La Crosse area for about a year now. I am originally from Watertown WI and went to Luther Preparatory Highschool their. After I graduated I went to Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC) in Waukesha for a one year automotive program. I finished the program and realized that I now strongly disliked working on cars all day everyday. I ended up taking a semester off to move to Onalaska and enroll in the Landscape Horticulture program at Western Tech. Now that I'm here and settled in everything is going good and I like my degree program a lot.

Some of the things I like to do in my free time is fishing, sleeping, working on my firebird, watching college and NFL football on weekends, watching the Brewers, wrestling with my dog, listening to music, and having fun any way I can. Some of my favorite bands are Pink Floyd, Tool, Jimi Hendrix, Metallica, Led Zepplin, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Crosby Stills and Nash, and Wilco to name afew but the list goes on. My favorite NFL team is the PACKERS and college football is the Wisconsin Badgers. I also love the Brewers very much. This is just a little bit about me and I hope it is a good week/weekend for wisconsin sports.

21 or older

It was my birthday on Tuesday this past week and I turned 21. It seems like its been forever. Now it is legal for me to drink and I don't have to break the law anymore. I do need to have some responsibility though since I am officially an adult. It is nice to be able to go out whenever you want and stop at the liquor store whenever you want.

A lot of people think that the drinking age should be lowered and a lot of people think that it should stay the same. Out of all the countries in the world the United States has the highest drinking age. Followed by Japan and Iceland with age 20, and South Korea with age 19. The rest of the world is age 18, 16 or they don't have any at all. Even though the U.S. has the highest drinking age, we still have the highest drunken driving rates and the highest alcohol related deaths. I don't think raising the drinking age will change anything. People in this country will always do what they think is fun and drinking is an American favorite. No matter what the drinking age is people of all ages will continue to drink.

Packer's season opener

It was a very long off season for the Green Bay Packers. First Brett Favre retired after having one of the best seasons of his career. We then went ahead and drafted two quarterbacks in the 2008 NFL draft to make up for this loss. After the Packers did this, Brett Favre decided he wasn't ready to retire and wanted back in. In the end we couldn't take him back because the Packer organization moved forward by changing the offense. And we would have wasted two draft picks on quarterbacks that we didn't need. The Packers ended up trading Favre to the New York Jets for a 4th round draft pick which will become better pending on how the Jets finish the season.

Here the packers are a month later and ready for Monday Night Football! It will be a huge test for Aaron Rodgers to see if he can lead the Packers back to the playoffs. They are playing the Minnesota Vikings in Green Bay at Lambeau Field at 6:00 pm. Hopefully the Packers will be able to stop Adrian Peterson and put a tally in the win column. I am extremely happy that football is finally back. Unfortunately I will be at work during the game but will check the score as often as I can. Go Packers!