Monthly Archives: February 2011

This is really interesting…

Had a great day snowshoeing on Saturday.  On a side note, The bus stop closest to my house blew over in a huge wind storm last week, so now the bus just doesn’t stop there.  Uhh okay, I hope someone fixes that sign soon.

This is really interesting…

I am participating in the Pineapple Classic 5K event the weekend after this one.  I’m on a team with Steph, Ryan, and Brett and some of our other friends are participating and forming teams as well to raise money for leukemia and lymphoma.  If anyone wants to donate to my team I would REALLY appreciate it.  Click the link to donate and learn more information

Lately I’m thinking…

People eat often, I mean 2-3 meals a day is a lot.  The reason I thought about this is I feel like all I ever do is try to figure out/decide what to eat.  Every night we have to figure out what to eat, it’s like hey, didn’t we just have to do this yesterday!  It’s really a full time job with no end in sight.  Tonight should be easy though as apparently it’s National Margarita day!  And it’s a Tuesday!  Meaning Taco Wednesday is coming a day early resulting in a somewhat catchier name in “Taco Tuesday”.

Currently Watching…

Lots of shows, including the Bachelor, obviously.  Yesterday Steph got a text from her Mom asking what Chantell’s or Shontell’s parents did and steph meant to reply “they own a car dealership” but instead replied “they own a cat dealership”.  Okay that’s great, but honestly steph was laughing so hard I had to stop the show.  She couldn’t even get the words out to explain it for about 5 minutes while I just sat there.

The soapbox…

Rushing the court/field has got completely out of control.  It seems like anytime anyone beats a team they weren’t favored against they rush the court.  I don’t even know where to begin with examples there are so many.  I bet someone rushes the court 5 times per week.  It’s actually got to the point where it’s refreshing to see an underdog/rival win a big game at home and not rush the court.  The latest one to just push this thing over the top for me is when Cal rushed the court after beating then 14-12 non-ranked UCLA.  FOURTHEEN AND TWELVE!  They aren’t even your in-state rival, they aren’t ranked, aren’t leading the conference and can’t score more than 18 points a game.  Even if any of those were true I see no reason to rush the court.  I’m about to lose it.  Have a good day.

This is really interesting…

(some of you already know this, but it sets up my next point)  Besides the obvious pepperoni or sausage on pizza, my next favorite is probably hawaiin.  I pick off all the pineapples though, because I don’t really like chewing on them as part of my pizza.  I mean I like pineapple, i don’t even mind cooked pineapple, I just don’t like them as part of my pizza very much.  So people have suggested I just save myself the trouble and order a canadian bacon only pizza…but those aren’t very good.  I like the flavor the pineapple leaves behind without actually having to eat them.  At stellar pizza, my last 10 orders have been hawaiin pizza, and then I remove the pineapple.  Anyway, moving forward, I’ve always been very anti-green pepper, much more so than hawaiin.  But at the village inn buffet they sometimes put out sausage green pepper pizza and if I can’t wait for more to come out I’ll grab some those and try to pick off the peppers I can (which is hard because they’re small and cut up, but whatever).  Anyway I actually kind of liked the taste and I realized my next big pizza “breakthrough” might be ordering a pizza with green peppers and then taking them off, leaving the flavor behind just like pineapple.  I had actually been considering this for 2 months as my next step

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Then on Friday after I finally got off work I met Steph at the new Serious Pie location in south lake union.  I had never eaten there before so was excited to try it, even though the toppings they use are pretty non-traditional (like you can’t get pepperoni, pffffff idiots).  The only one that seemed remotely normal was a green pepper and sausage pizza.  This was my big chance!  Only I didn’t even want to be the guy picking off the green peppers, so I just ate it.  I was basically high fiving myself the whole time.  Anyways the pizza was frickin delicious (not giving all the credit to the green peppers, it was mostly the sausage and crust, but they were a part of it so get their due).  I want to eat there everyday now, and it might have moved into my top 3 pizza places in Seattle.  At least top 5.

This is really interesting…

Steph and I did a little bit of registry activity on Sunday.  Basically, playing with the scanner gun is fun.  Picking a silverware set out of 20 identical but somehow different sets is not as fun

Currently Watching…

The Bachelor – I’m not sure why, but I love this season, it’s fantastic.  It was great because last night one of the trailors for what was coming up after commercial had Brad saying “This date is spriraling out of control” and then at the exact same time I said “Yeah!” as Steph said “It’s about time”.  Haha fantastic

The soapbox…

“there goes the sun, here comes the moon” – Brad

Lately I’m thinking…

Happy Thursday International Day of Awesomeness (TIDOA)!  I hope everyone has a great day.  Bonus Shout out to Maddie and Shana who had a birthday yesterday!

This is really interesting…

Yesterday Steph told me “you should have seen Seeley fetch yesterday , you would have been so proud”.  There are these 2 labs that she sometimes plays with across the street who have tons of energy and just run around really fast.  Apparently they were throwing the ball and Seeley would outrace them and snag it off the bounce.  “it was one of those cases where you have no idea how the dog comes up with the ball, but they do”.  So I was like that’s, awesome, and she would bring it back and everything?  “oh no, she would zig-zag all over the field with both dogs and me chasing after her and it took us 10 minutes to get the ball back every time”.   Yep, really proud

Currently watching…

Wednesday is a great night of TV as well (Modern Fam, Cougar Town (seriously it’s funny, especially the first season, although it wasn’t on last night) & top Chef).  But like Monday when you add a good basketball game to it, it gets even better.  Duke-unc was a great game, fun to watch.  Glad the good guys won

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Quite the lineup tonight:  Seattle Pizza Club (#SPC for you young kids checkin yo tweets) 6:30 at Piecoras followed by karaoke at the wedgwood Ale House at 9:00.  BAM

The soapbox…

Season tickets for the huskies next year are the same price as they were last year, which is awesome!  Unfortunately they include one less game because the apple cup will be at Qwest while they renovate Husky Stadium.  That does not seem like as good of deal, especially because tickets aren’t nearly as cheap there, but whatever, hopefully future Blade will enjoy it and be able to make it to more than 2 games next year

Lately I’m thinking…

Hello everyone!  Enjoy my two posts last week that I promised and never delivered?  Didn’t think so. I should go into politics.  Anyway here’s the deal, Reader of the Week can now happen any day of the week.  Awesome.  Also wanted to give some late birthday shout outs to Seeley who turned 7 (21 run) and Skeelo who turned 25 or something.

Currently Watching…

Big Monday.  In fact it’s so big, I can’t watch all of it!  Monday night they show Big 12 and Big East games on ESPN, so there are a lot of Kansas games on that night of the week.  However Monday also happens to show ‘How I met your mother’ and ‘The Bachelor’ and those both start at 8:00 PM!!  Do you realize what the means?  Yep, you have to be on one of those channels in order to record them because it can’t handle recording 2 shows while you watch another one (because that means it’s recording the other one as well in case you want to rewind).  Luckily espn360 was invented (which is awesome by the way) so at 8:00 I can flip to another channel, hit pause, and finish the basketball game online.  Then the other two shows can be watched with zero commercial interruption.  Of course last night the online game wasn’t necessary because by 8:00 Kansas had already pounded rival missouri out of the building.  On a side note, at this point in the Bachelor season this is the least mad I’ve been about watching it in probably 3 years.

Currently Watching…

The Fear Net Channel.  Does this happen to anyone else?  The TV is usually set to ESPN, and whenever I accidentally hit a button on the remote it either happens to be “On Demand” or “Channel Down” which takes me to a channel called “Fear Net” or something (that I don’t have so it’s just a subscription dialog).  Either way, those are the worst 2 things to land on because the cable box basically explodes trying to display this information in less than 10 seconds.  Going to On demand when you don’t want to is the worst, but I would say Fear Net comes in 2nd.  It usually registers my “last channel” button after 493 clicks.

Shout out to…

The Jordy’s (bad guys) who beat the Millers (good guys) in the Bonopio.com I bowl.  We jumped out to a 14 point lead but couldn’t hold it together after that.  Here is the AP story.  On a side note, the next day I felt like I participated in a UFC fight, not a no-contact flag football game.

The soapbox…

“What happened.  Did you fall in some mud or something?”

Lately I’m thinking…

Wow, this last week has been my worst blog performance yet (and I’m hearing it from angry readers)  I was going to offer some free coupon or something but I don’t really have any, so instead I’m going with some themed editions (yay! what? who cares? alright!).  Today’s theme is football.  I hope to also have a basketball one this week along with a reader of the week (so yes, i’m boldly saying there are at least 2 more updates this week).  Anyways sorry for the lack of updates and sorry today’s probably won’t be funny…unlike every single other one right!?  To get us started her is yet another set of alternate jersey’s (and scout team players) of the oregon ducks.  These jersey’s are so alternative that they actually incorporate their team colors!

This is really interesting…

This year we’re having our very first Bonopio sanctioned flag football game, taking place this Saturday.  It’s the “Miller’s” versus the “Jordy’s” for the title.  We already had the draft and the combine, and get this:  out of the 12 people that participated I had the 2nd fastest 40 time, highest vertical, and not the last bench reps!  You can check out the players and combine results.  Unfortunately after the combine I realized I’m still afraid of the ball and a huge liability on the field.  As Ahern put it, I’m still “really raw”.  This event is sponsored by Bladerade, and we hope to see a lot of people out tailgating and enjoying the game.  It’s at Lower Genesee field this Saturday with kickoff at 11:30.  Sports

This is really interesting…

Tomorrow is national signing day for college football recruiting.  There will of course be some surprises (some good, some bad) and some shuffling in rankings, but as of right now UW is ranked in the top 12-22 classes (based on scout, rivals, and espn) and has the parade national player of the year in Kasen Williams.  I will once again be attending the recruiting event with Miller tomorrow and I’m basically just hoping Nick Holt doesn’t yell at me.

This is really interesting…

Bobcat Stadium (CATS!!) is undergoing renovation right now to add in more seats and close in the bowl.  I hope they still have that super delicous hot chocolate for 75 cents.  On a side note, bonus shout out to Moopie on his Birthday!!

The soapbox:

The NFL draft is a long ways away, but there’s obviously going to be a lot of talk about Locker.  The #1 thing I hear said is “He blew it by staying a year and would have made more money if he came out last year”.  The thing is Locker never came back to make more money.  There’s only one way to go from the “projected” #1 pick and it’s not up.  He came back because he loved college and because he wanted to lead UW to it’s first bowl game in 8 years, which he did.  The argument should really stop right there, but I’ll just keep going a little bit just for fun.  The same people that predicted he would go #1 overall are also predicting him all over the board, some into the 2nd round this year.  Kiper said it was “etched in stone” locker would be the #1 pick this year.  The point is they’re just predictions.  Nobody really knows if a player is going to slide or climb on draft day.  Locker could still be a top 15 pick this year or a 4th rounder, who knows.  He could have slid out of the top 15 last year.  And what if he did go #1 last year?  If people are saying he’s not ready right now, then he definitely wasn’t ready last year.  Is it better to be a Ryan Leaf and go in the top 2 for a ton of money, or be an Aaron Rodgers and go a little later but have a successful career?  And if money is the only issue, Rodgers will make way more money on his second contract than a #1 overall bust does on his first.  Wow, sorry.  And I’m not saying Locker is the next Rodgers, I guess my overall point is it seems Locker genuinely doesn’t regret coming back to school because he didn’t come back to improve his draft stock or make more money, he came back for another season of college football.  And regardless of where he goes in the draft, he’s a better football player this year than he was last year who still has the potential to get a lot better.  He’s basically had 2 years in a pro-style system with proper coaching.  Sark said most quarterback prospects these days have more than that in high school, working with private coaches and camps.