Monthly Archives: November 2009

November 12, 2009 · 2:40 pm

11-12-2009

This is really interesting…

Here is all of us at the ol’ Pengiun (bar stop #6 on the day i believe, if you count the stadium’s full bar). We KILLED it in karaoke on every song except for michael bolton’s “when a man loves a women”. It was a complete train wreck. We tried salvaging it by breaking into “how can we be lovers if we can’t be friends” on our own, and we were doing really well until the lady running it said “nope nope that’s it, only 1 song”. On a side note, look at steph in this picture – probably pouting because they wouldn’t serve her.

This is really interesting…

So steph reminded me last night that we had to go to a breakfast fundraiser at 8 AM this morning. It was at the palace ballroom and after a quick check with steve klitz we realized this wouldn’t be a jeans and t shirt event for ol blade. Usually fundraisers are at night, so at least you can socially drink. Well, not at 8 AM on a thursday, instead of booze we got egg pie…whatever that is. great. Well the fundraiser was actually pretty good, and i guess it should be for how much we ended up “paying” for it….they tricked us. On a side note every single person at work today has wondered why i’m wearing dress pants

Currently reading…

This article that the whole Ivars underwater billboards for submarines was a hoax! I don’t think i’m ever eating there again – they even got a historian to lie

Currently watching…

I don’t know if any of you have been watching the ESPN 30 for 30 series, but the one on Len Bias is really good. You should dvr it fool

The Soapbox:

Happy TIDOA! Don’t forget the 1st reader of the day is tomorrow along with another surprise – have fun trying to sleep tonight!!

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November 11, 2009 · 9:40 pm

11-11-2009

Shout out to…

All the veterans on this fine veterans day – we appreciate all that you do! I don’t have very many patriotic pictures….so this one will have to do for now

Lately I’m thinking…

Today is the first day i’m starting to feel back to normal, and it doesn’t hurt that it’s a beautiful sunny day. Still no pictures from the weekend yet, but they’ll arrive soon

This is really interesting…

On Friday in portland we “beep bopped” (as a portlander might say) around downtown for a while. We were in nordstroms or something, joe and i were taking a break on some chairs, and steph starting looking at these leopard boots with the rest of the crew. Right when she started this lady walked around corner wearing a full matching leopard print jump suit – i mean this thing was out of control and was an exact cat match to the boots. Before Joe can point her out steph says “I like these, but you have to be really carefull with leopard print, if it’s too much it looks really trashy”. Everyone then proceeded to immediately scatter in about 8 different directions. nature

This is really interesting…

steph fell asleep in one bar and was refused service in 2 of them. just throwing that out there.

The Soapbox:

4 days later and i honestly can’t wait for MSU-psu 2011  UPDATE: shout out to heather for starting to feel better & getting a couple interviews, one of which being in oregon (somewhere?). Hopefully we can work something out that weekend!

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November 10, 2009 · 9:34 pm

11-10-2009

Current Status…

7. I’m already kind of tired of the rain and when i woke up this morning i thought it was saturday, so it was obviously pretty devastating when i realized i was 5 mornings away from that.

This is really interesting…

I’m really sorry for the short update, but i’m on my 5 minute coffee break from our 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM meeting. Oh and i made a rule i only get coffee on monday’s (with a friday option) so this “coffee break” isn’t that cool.

This is really interesting…

Reader of the week winner’s start this friday!

Lately I’m thinking…

I hope you’re having a great day

The Soapbox:

well, see ya later

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November 9, 2009 · 9:30 pm

11-9-2009

Lately I’m thinking…

This picture (like tanner’s gadget) doesn’t have anything to do with this weekend. It’s a puzzle with deers on it that’s shaped like a deer from tanner’s cabin in seeley lake.

Current Status…

7.2? I’m tired. I didn’t feel like it was safe for me to drive home from portland until about 5:00 last night, but that meant i had to drive in the dark with the back window open because Seeley the dog owns me.

Lately I’m thinking…

I’d love to talk about the trip/game starting tomorrow, but i will say i had an awesome time and thanks to everyone who made the trip. Also thanks to the Klitz’s for hosting everyone!

This is really interesting…

So yesterday when I was leaving I was hungry and decided to get fast food for the car trip. We go to the same burger king almost everytime back from portland, but as i was taking the exit i decided to try taco bell instead. This was completely radical because A) I’ve never once eaten taco bell in the car as a road trip food and B) I’ve only had good taco bell once since moving to seattle, and that was actually in some town on the way back from Crystal Mountain. I don’t know what it is about the seattle ones, but they suck at making tacos. Anyways I ordered my 4 tacos without lettuce and as i left the drive through line randomly grabbed one and starting eating it. DELICIOUS! I couldn’t believe it, i honestly felt like pulling over on the freeway and texting people, i was so happy. I mean after 3 years i got a well made taco. Then i went to grab taco #2 and, WHAT, it was a taco supreme or something with sour cream. So i went for taco #3 and it was a normal taco but with lettuce. Panicked i went for #4 and…there was no #4. What kind of jacked up order did i get? 1 was right and none of them were the same? (sorry this is long). Anyway i actually decided to push my “luck” to the max and went to taco bell again 30 miles later and what do you know – DELICOUS & CORRECT! i have more but i’m going to stop

The Soapbox:

sorry. CATS!

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November 5, 2009 · 9:26 pm

11-5-2009

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10! Last day of work for the week as we’re hitting the road (ro-ad, rowds) for portland this evening. Figured on the way I might as well stop and pick up Joe and Britt at the airport who are making their 2nd NW trip in a month. I’ll see the rest of you rascals tomorrow. CATS

This is really interesting…

Yesterday Steph got not one, not two, but THREE different car citation responses in the mail from the city of Seattle. I felt like we were playing scratch tickets or something as we opened them up to see what the verdict was. They waived the expired tabs ticket (since we just hadn’t put them on it, my bad), reduced the fine for blocking a cross walk (totally bogus ticket) and kept her speeding ticket where it was at. I’m not dating a criminal or anything, she just had a rough stretch. (but for her complaining about how slow the jeep is, she has over 1 million times more speeding tickets than me with it in Seattle). On a side note, it’s great having steph’s gadget back. It actually makes me more upset that I had to go without it for so long though.

This is really interesting…

They replaced a little glass recycling container at work with a 5 foot tall one. Now it’s pretty much impossible to recycle the bottles of beer that you sneak without alerting everyone with the sound of broken glass. Okay so i obviously don’t sneak bottles of beer, but it’s still loud when you throw stuff in there. And that would be harder in the future if i ever did

Currently reading…

I was reading a husky football chat from the blog yesterday, and of course there’s always a lot of speculation/questions about Locker going to the NFL next year. Maybe this guy who wrote in was joking, but for the gadgets sake I’m going to assume he wasn’t (and i wouldn’t put it past anyone on those). Here’s his post: “Bob, I personally don’t know the Lockers, but one of the cousins plays for my youth team and he believes Jake is coming back to the Dawgs next year. Not that 10 year olds are reliable resources, but he is confident.”

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!!! This would be a great weekend to call me and check in if you haven’t in a while…..CATS! (oh p.s. i linked the family reunion page one more time)

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November 4, 2009 · 9:20 pm

11-4-2009

Lately I’m thinking…

Hello, this is the portland trip Logistics Center, how can I help you?

Currently reading…

I saw on both my google homepage and cnn.com yesterday that one of the members of Boyz II Men has swine flu. Uhhh I thought like 65% of the country is supposed to get it or something at some point this year. Seems like they’re going to have their hands full if they are going to make 90s celebrities getting the flu front page national news. it’s a slippery slope people.

Currently watching…

Steph and I went to see “This is It” (the michael jackson movie) at big picture last night. First of all I had no intention of seeing this movie previously and couldn’t have really cared less when he passed away (i mean i didn’t want him to die, but it didn’t ruin my year). But I heard from a few people it was good and since it was at the big picture i figured why not – i always said i could watch pretty much anything there. And I can’t even believe I’m saying this, but it was actually really good. I mean all it basically is is him performing/rehearsing for a concert, which doesn’t sound like it would be very good, but I walked out of there betting there probably isn’t a better concert in the world to have seen. I expected him to be completely detached like ozzie osborne or something, but he was kind of some where in between. A little weird but still right on top of the music and performance, and kind of a perfectionist in regards to those. Oh and heather you would really like it because it’s a dance party. On a side note, i hate when i have to use back to back words (like “is is” back there) in a sentence.

This is really interesting…

for those of you that don’t have tanner’s gadget click here for a halloween costume from the CAT game last weekend – i want one

The Soapbox:

“Where we’re going we don’t need roads. ”

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November 3, 2009 · 9:16 pm

11-3-2009

Lately I’m thinking…

Is this picture inappropriate? I don’t think so, it’s not like i’m a male cow or something. On a side note, do kids even trick or treat anymore? We only had 1 family come by (they were awesome though and I made sure both adults got some candy too). Well i guess we had 2 if you count the kid that came by while it was still daytime outside without a costume on and yelled “trick or treat” at the top of his lungs about 3 times. Steph asked him what he was and he said “James Bond” to which she replied “What!” – he then said he was half james bond half robber and put his shirt up over his mouth. I just gave him some candy anyway, mostly so seeley would stop trying to bite his head off.

This is really interesting…

Apparently halloween occured before it started getting dark at 3:30 PM – seriously i wouldn’t be surprised if i’m eating lunch in the dark soon.

Lately I’m thinking…

What do baseball palyers talk about when they are on base? Almost every time someone is on base it looks like the defender on that base is talking to them. Is everyone friends in major league baseball? Or do they just sit there talking trash the whole time? In the NBA or something I feel like people have to be separated once a game by their teammates for jarring in some guys face. What would they do in baseball – “hey you go over there to 3rd base and you stay here and play 1st base?” It’s really strange to me that there are never fights at a certain base or something. Anyway all that aside, i’m really intrigued in general by what catchers say to people batting and what people in the infield when they’re standing next to batters. I’d rather hear them microphoned up instead of Peyton Manning or something yelling colors and numbers for 30 seconds every play

Shout out to…

Heather – i hope you feel better soon. it’s in your best interest too, as people don’t usually trust doctors as much that are sick. It would be like if a fireman showed up on your front step engulfed in flames or something.

The Soapbox:

“The human torch was denied a bank loan. ”

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