Monthly Archives: April 2011

This is really interesting…

Pablo is in town for the weekend

Currently Watching…

well not yet, but you can bet your skinny jeans I’ll be watching African Cats soon!  Are you serious – could this look any better?  Steph mentioned to me she thought it was “based on a true story” as well, which makes me excited that this wasn’t just thousands of animal actors in Africa…

Lately I’m thinking…

well I took a big step back as far as updates went this week.  Work has been really busy – we recently launched Kindle in Germany and announced you’ll finally be able to check out ebooks from the library.  Also in work land, whrrl was acquired by groupon so whrrl comes to and end in 2 days.

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In the terminator movies, they said “skynet became self-aware on April 19th 2011”.  Umm I think we’re pretty far behind.  I guess they are coming out with some better 3D glasses though, so that’s cool.

The soapbox…

There has been tons of stuff on the draft and on locker, it’s all over the place, but “Three for the show” was great.  I’d probably put locker’s dad up on my friend list with Mr Gyro.

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It’s been a week since I’ve updated, I was in Bozeman for 4 days, and I still don’t even have a new picture to add…so here’s one from last year.  (Joe is neither in a biker gang nor was he able to tow the car with a bike cable like he thought).  On a side note, that’s my first time using the word “nor”.  Not even sure if it’s correct or not, but I don’t care, I enjoyed it.

Shout out to…

Everyone in Bozeman last weekend.  Mikey, thanks a ton for letting us hot rod your car all over MT.  It was a busy weekend but good to see friends, family, and every single person in the Bozeman wedding industry.  BTW the “wedding walk” just involved stores on main street putting signs outside that said things like “10% off sports apparel – wedding walk” or whatever that particular store sold.  I ate it’s greek to me, mackenzie river x2, rosas, santa fe reds, ted’s mt grill, and a snickers.

This is really interesting…

Every day on the country station here in Seattle, they play the star spangled banner at noon, and the pledge of allegiance at 7:30 AM.

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I was extremely tired for karaoke last night, but figured I should go anyway since it’s my job.  Well it was the most epic Thursday night of karaoke ever probably.  Whitsoe obviously killed it, and then the single best singer I’ve ever heard was just crushing songs.  Miller and I even decided to start a talent finding company half-way through.  At one point it went Bruce (local Neil Diamond legend), Whitsoe (lots of range), Shaina (all of our electronics almost exploded) back to back.  In my head I was thinking “who on earth can follow that”, and called out….”My My”, a Vietnamese man who spoke broken English and was also celebrating his 42nd birthday that night.  He got half way through his song and walked off with the applause so loud you couldn’t hear the song anymore anyway.  Then Shaina’s friend joins the party and was so good people just started submitting songs for him instead of themselves.  The entire bar at one point was dancing in front of the pool table, I thought I was in twilight zone and was afraid they were going to riot or something.  That’s when it just got even better, a lady in a full length sequin gown went up and sang the Little Mermaid song “i want to be where the people are” a cappella…complete with dramatic pauses and everything.  She later song another song a cappella, then someone else did too and it felt like they were putting me out of a job since I was just standing there, so I put an end to that.

The soapbox…

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!!!!   “Walkin’ around on those(Whad’ya call ’em?) oh – feet”

This is really interesting…When I was looking at this picture on my phone I couldn’t see the chair at all.  I thought Steph was either a magic dancer or was taking the biggest spill in dance history.  Even after realizing she’s sitting on a chair here, this is a really advanced move considering how we were doing at that hour of Saturday night

Shout out to…Fish “fish” Fisher on his birthday!  Fun fact: I didn’t know “David” was his first name for about a year in high school, even though we were friends and hung out all the time.  I never even thought about it until I called his house and had to decide if it was less ridiculous asking his mom if “fish” was there, or asking for “fisher” in a house of 5 fishers.  Thanks for listening.

Lately I’m thinking…Well opening night was Awesome!  First we got to see Ichiro get presented with an award for becoming the all time Mariner hit leader, then Felix was awarded his Cy Young, then there was a great tribute for long time Mariner announcer Dave Neihaus (during which Steph basically balled her eyes out) all while the roof opened.  Unfortunately the mariners then started playing and ruined the entire day.  The place literally was half cleared out after the 45 minute 3rd inning.  People that wanted to “beat” the traffic actually ended up just staying longer waiting for it to clear up.  I mean our second baseman just decided not to play an hour before the game started for crying out loud.  We’re really bad and I was all ready to go off on them even more today…and then all of a sudden they come from 7 runs down in the 7th inning to beat the jays on a walk-off hit in the 9th last night (in front of the smallest crowd in Safeco history, and that’s when the game started, can’t imagine how many tens of people were there when we were down 7-0 in the 7th).  I think them winning that game actually made me ever more upset.

This is really interesting…(kind of, not really) this guy was walking his full grown lab the other day in south lake union, when the lab decided to just lay down in the middle of the sidewalk.  The guy tried pulling the leash, but the lab wasn’t having any of it.  You could tell he was kind of embarrassed and didn’t know what to do, standing there with the leash pulled tight and the dog just lying there, so he just decided to sit on the curb on wait it out.  When I left he was still just sitting there.  Heck he might still be there, I’m not sure

The soapbox…If anyone wants to know a Russel Terrier breeder, we met a guy…

This is really interesting…

Lately finding a picture for the gadget/blog has been the hardest part about updating it.  If i don’t have a picture I don’t know where to start and that usually isn’t a very good sign for an update that day, so Steph suggested when I don’t have one to do a ‘throwback’ photo to the entry on this day last year.  Well here you go, a picture of Joe arresting me at a baseball game last year.  I also realized that I plan on talking about the exact same stuff I did a year ago – basically weather and baseball.  Which mostly means if you’ve read one of these udpates, you’ve read them all, so that’s great…

This is really interesting…

So it turns out the same weekend we’re going to Bozeman to do a bunch of wedding stuff, they’re having their yearly wedding show.  That works out well considering we didn’t plan that – should also note this sounds like a girls type thing to me.  Hello Specs

Lately I’m thinking…

It’s said all week that today was supposed to be partly sunny today and I was incredibly excited because it’s been raining for weeks.  So I woke up in a good mood, checked my phone and sure enough it still said partly sunny/partly cloudy.  Told Steph it was sunny today, walked upstairs and it was…pouring.  Figured it would pass but it’s still raining 7 hours later.  They did update the icon since then from partly sunny to just cloudy…I mean predicting weather is one thing, but when you’re looking at today shouldn’t the “forecast” just be what’s going on right now?  I mean the “current” icon says rain but they’re still sticking to their guns and forecasting just clouds.  It’s also freezing outside btw.  If tomorrow isn’t 57 and sunny like it says I’m going to seriously lose it.

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It’s Thursday – same karaoke time, same karaoke place.  Hope to see you there!  Also for anyone heading to opening day tomorrow let me know what your plans are and maybe we can meet up!  I think I’m just planning on going to pyramid if it’s sunny outside (again, that’s just according to the frickin WEATHER FORECAST FOR ONE DAY AWAY so who knows if it will be)

The soapbox…

“Got a little distracted by the repeater”. “That will happen”. “Yeah that will happen”

This is really interesting…

Steph and I are heading to Bozeman in 8 days.  We have some wedding stuff to do, but mostly just to eat Rosas & Mackenzie River I believe.

Lately I’m thinking…

Really fun weekend – Birthday party in Ballard Friday night and a Birthday party at the duchess Saturday night, with a little scavenger hunt for Molly’s engagement in between (which we won, obvs).  What wasn’t that fun was Saturday night at about 4:00 AM our smoke alarm located 1900 feet up towards the top of the ceiling started beeping to tell us our battery was low.  I was able to ignore it for the most part and sleep, but ol’ Seeley the dog didn’t like it too much, so she compensated by running downstairs and taking up 96% of the bed.  So I’d say all in all it was a really good night’s sleep….

This is really interesting…

I’m in the middle of a pretty solid/delicious stretch of meals, dating back to Friday night – might as well go through them!  Stacias pizza, Mr. Gyro, Pizza Ragazzi, Piecoras, Homemade pizza, MOD pizza, Homemade Tacos.  I’m probably going to blow it at lunch today though.

Currently Watching…

So ya, that was the worst championship game of all time probably.  What I don’t agree with is the people now saying “see the BCS isn’t that bad blah blah blah”.  If there was the BCS in basketball, we would have had Ohio State and Kansas playing, two teams that didn’t even…wait, crap, that’s exactly the match-up I wanted to see.  Well anyway, it’s not like Bama-texas, lsu-ohio state, florida-ohio state, or usc-oklahoma were anywhere close to great games.  But wow, butler could not make a shot to save their life.  Pretty sure the first thing to touch their nets were the uconn scissors.

The soapbox…

“Why you going to the airport? Flying somewhere?”