Category Archives: Reader of the Week

May 28, 2010 · 11:19 am

5-28-2010

Shout out to…

The new Reader of the Week……Kara Rowton!!! Here’s a picture of Kara and Katie “walking” from Seattle U to IHOP. It was a pretty straight shot through campus so I’m not sure why they were having so many problems. Kara is getting married to Stephen this summer in Billings – btown represent. Kara went to MSU (CATS!) and then seattle U for lawyer school. I now owe you 1 regular priced cocktail, let’s hang out!! (p.s. sorry about the picture it’s the only thing i had available mostly)

This is really interesting…

I’m not going anywhere for memorial day weekend, which I’m pretty excited about. Although I could go for some weather more towards the summer side and less towards the end of january side. I think I got seasonal depression disorder or something last night, and then woke up with a minor headache trying to cure it with some coke and some rum. I need the summer to get here even more than LFO does

This is really interesting…

I’m going to Billings next week for a Village Inn pizza reunion – it’s been too long since VIP and I saw each other. It also happens to be my 10 year high school reunion – yikes! Should be fun though….and delicious

Lately I’m thinking…

Only one more episode of “tough love couples” before we can cancel cable.

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe extended weekend everyone!! Mikey if you’re reading this your test is over, good job. Buy yourself a beer for me, put it on Tanner’s tab. Bonus shout out to Farnatron who is in town this weekend!! That gets the ‘thumbs up’ and ‘ok’ sign from me

Leave a comment

Filed under Gadgets, Reader of the Week

Tagged as , ,

May 21, 2010 · 10:26 am

5-21-2010

Shout out to…

The new Reader of the Week…..Molly Kolpin!! Here’s a picture of Molly from the 80s. She’s on the path with art committee and with the party coming up tomorrow I figured she would be the big winner. Unfortuntately I owe a lot of people drinks tomorrow night, so your free drink is elegible starting sunday morning at 10:00 AM. Molly also enjoys kickball and getting kicked out of seahawk games. Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Current Status…

10! Chai-day Friday, nate and shana come into town today, holzer tomorrow, and Seeley the Dog comes home! I hope she even remembers who I am. if not I’m just going to give her lots of treats until she likes me again. NATURE

Current Status…

Update: probably actually a 9.8. I just remembered that as a celebration lunch for finishing an iphone app update we’re going out to lunch at …..a vietnamese place. I checked their menu, and they have 4 different sections of pho. That’s it. I guess a pizza party would have been too obvious a choice!!?

Lately I’m thinking…

CATS!

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!!!!

Leave a comment

Filed under Gadgets, Reader of the Week

Tagged as ,

May 7, 2010 · 1:48 pm

5-7-2010

Shout out to…

The new Reader of the Week…….Mariah Fariah Morgan!!! She just had a birthday so I figured, hey why not? Fariah is younger than all of us, but the reality is she’s more mature than everybody and 25 times more mature than tanner. Fariah enjoys nature, catching bigger fish than me, and drinking warm malibu out of the trunk of a car, chased with busch light. Come to think of it, that’s the free cocktail you’re going to win, so congratulations! (p.s. this is easily the most normal picture I have from Seeley lake, I’m guessing 10 seconds after it was taken we both got pushed down and then someone tried to build a human pyramid on top of us. Oh and nobody remembers why we call her fariah. literally, nobody)

Current Status…

10.000 – three decimal places of perfect – it’s a sunny friday, i’m wearing flip flops, iced grande chai this morning, norms for lunch with Steph and Seeley, movie tonight and I just asked for 3 out of the 4 Fridays in June off. That seems reasonable

Currently watching…

Our DVR is packed – with weeds on demand all the time I checked the dvr last night and it had 30 rock, the office, modern family, pti, a dog show and assasin in pakistan or something. I brought up canceling cable with steph again and 5 minutes after we agreed on it they showed a commercial for the bachelorette with Ali starting May 24th!! I’m seriously devastated they even brought it up, i was having such a good evening

This is really interesting…

(NOT) – I googled “blank web page” to see if one existed.  Someone pays a yearly domain fee for that. On a side note, the new google is horrible right?

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!!!

Leave a comment

Filed under Gadgets, Reader of the Week

Tagged as

April 30, 2010 · 1:53 pm

4-30-2010

Shout out to…

The new Reader of the Week….Matty Mark Miller! Miller’s birthday is May 4th, or quatro de matt-o as i like to call it. Matt enjoys velour jumpsuits, sitting by bonfires until 5 AM, and drinking twice as much as I do per sitting. Happy Birthday and enjoy your free cocktail!

Currently watching…

I saw 15 seconds of teen cribs yesterday before I switched the channel. If you ever want to get really mad, just watch a show about a bunch of 13 year old punks sliding down a waterslide from their bedroom to their own personal foam pizza & dance party (or something). Probably the worst show on TV my personal opinion

This is really interesting…

I love steph’s prius – I like the little shifter thing, I like the dashboard hologram light things and I like the fact we took it skiing on a 5 hour round trip and it used less than a half tank of gas and averaged 64 mpg the entire way home. But they have got to do something about reminding you to turn it off. Yesterday we went eat and I pushed the ‘park’ button instead of the ‘off’ button. We came out an hour later and the dashboard lights were on, meaning it was just running the whole time. Worst part is now I can’t make fun of Steph whenever she does that. oops

This is really interesting…

It’s the last day to buy discounted Path with Art tickets – click the link to do so and enter the promo code PATH09 to get the discount. It puts the “fun” in “fundraiser”. Holzer I’m looking at you

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!! Husky spring game tonight followed by Portland tomorrow (enough time for golf) then onto Eugene to see Brett and his family, back to Portland Sunday and then Seattle Monday morning – wowzers. Have fun cycling Jakers and Joey – accidents don’t just happen, remember that. Bonus shout out to Tanner, Mikey, Maddie, Steph, Holzer, Nebel, Heather and Elie

Leave a comment

Filed under Gadgets, Reader of the Week

Tagged as , ,

April 9, 2010 · 1:42 pm

4-9-2010

Shout out to…

The new Reader of the Week…… David “Jeff Watkins class of ’97” Fisher!! Fisher convinced me to move to Seattle to work at Auuuu-beta and statistically speaking we’re the best friends in Seattle. Fisher turns vientiocho on Monday so tell you what, you win TWO free cocktails (that I usually avoid buying for people), what a deal! Have a good weekend muchacho!

Lately I’m thinking…

What’s going on this weekend? Steph’s on vacation in Arizona so Seeley and I need some company. On a side note, steph usually takes vacations to warm and sunny places (usually beaches). I usually take vacations by driving 8 hours to western Montana to eat mackenzie river, sing karaoke, and then drive 8 hours home with a bunch of bruises.

Currently reading…

graphs on this website. Like http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ you can spend a lot of time on the site just by clicking ‘back’ to see previous entries. The burrito one and miss universe one from 2 days ago are pretty good. Speaking of awkward family photos, might as well go there too, there’s a great unicyle one from 2 days ago. Wednesday must have been a good day

Lately I’m thinking…

Maddie, tell the guy at volvo that volvo’s are safe cars, that might make him want to buy yours

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!! UPDATE:  Who’s going to opening day on Monday and does anyone need a ticket?  I have one extra

Leave a comment

Filed under Gadgets, Reader of the Week

Tagged as

April 2, 2010 · 2:02 pm

4-2-2010

Shout out to…

The new Reader of the Week…..Ollie Peterson!! You can’t tell here, but Ollie really likes the color orange – he pre-games with sparks, wears orange polo shirts virtually every day, and just yesterday told me “there’s nothing better than the orange AT&T commercial background on an HDTV”. Um okay. He also claimed at sea fair that his skin was so white it actually repels the sun. A couple hours later he was orange himself sick in bed from a severe sunburn. I was going to use a different picture of Ollie….but they were all too gay. Enjoy the notoriety tonight at the draft party and your free cocktail sometime soon!

This is really interesting…

We have the annual basketball tournament tomorrow, which more importantly means the draft party tonight. I don’t really expect to be “picked”, but more defaulted to the team that selects last considering I haven’t played since last years tournament (when I scored 4 points or .5 ppg) and I’ve since given away my basketball shoes and recently broke my foot. blade imsande for…THREE! (sorry tanner and mikey). Anyways, i’m going to make it rain. raindrops! not

Currently watching…

I have to go to a wedding during the final four games tomorrow, so uh ya, somebody really blew it

Lately I’m thinking…

April torrential downpours bring may flowers (it rhymes if you try hard enough!) (hint: say flowors)

The Soapbox:

Montana Fun Fact of the Day: “CATS!!!”. Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!!!

Leave a comment

Filed under Gadgets, Reader of the Week

Tagged as ,

March 12, 2010 · 3:38 pm

3-12-2010

Shout out to…

The new Reader Of The Week….All the way from the big apple, Jon ‘Farnatron” Farnum! Farnum invented the international sign of awesomeness (thumbs up followed an “OK” sign) and coined the term “Montana happens”. For example, if Nebel threw a wall paper roll at Mikey but missed and put a hole in the wall, you could say “Eh, Montana happens”. Farnum is an east coast reader without an east coast bias. You can collect your drink memorial day weekend, feel free to wash your face and iron your shirt before going out to collect.

Shout out to…

And a bonus shout out to Mitchell Raun Thompson on his birthday!! Friday birthday this year, well done, hope you have a fun weekend planned. You probably want to make sure and enjoy this one considering next year you’ll be in your 30s. I remember whenever I went to get you a present for your birthday it was really hard because I usually wanted whatever I was giving you. I think i’d at least get one toy out of the deal at the store, thanks mom.

This is really interesting…

I can’t remember a longer week. I mean it’s not like it was a bad week, but the entire time it felt a day ahead. Yesterday I realized it was Thursday and not Friday on about 5 different occasions, incuding the first time when I told my boss “I can’t focus to save my life on a Friday”, “It’s Friday lets go somewhere fun for lunch” and when I left work and wanted to shout at the top of my lungs outside “It’s Friday!!”, until I realized it was still only thursday Anyways our beer pong party was supposed to start 14 minutes ago but everyone’s still working, i’m not sure if i should say something or what

This is really interesting…

We had a big new release to Whrrl this week – not really sure if that means anything to anybody reading, but there’s a link about it if anyone wants to read it. There’s obviously a lot more information out there and on the pelago blog

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!! Montana Fun Fact of the Day: “In Montana the elk, deer and antelope populations outnumber the humans.” I can’t believe I made it as long as I did without a pocket knife. I also can’t believe we call them “the humans” in fun facts. “She must have meant ten o’ clock at night! I just figured she was a raging alcoholic!”

Leave a comment

Filed under Gadgets, Reader of the Week

Tagged as , , , ,

March 5, 2010 · 3:03 pm

3-5-2010

Shout out to…

The new Reader Of The Week…Shooter McGavin!! PSYCH – it’s Britt Hesse! Britt regularly comments on the days gadget update, and unless she has the Cliff’s notes I’m pretty sure she reads at least most of it – and that’s more than enough to qualify! It also didn’t hurt that she got me peanut M&Ms and Twizzerls for my birthday. Enjoy your weekend of fame Britt, maybe you can cash that cocktail in tomorrow.

This is really interesting…

Yesterday I went to take a bite of a cupcake that had a ton of frosting, and in doing so got a bunch of frosting up my nose. Now I’m not telling you this because “it’s really interesting” or because I have nothing else to say (even though I don’t), it’s because it was horrible. Every time I breathed in I would smell it, and i couldn’t make it stop even after multiple nose blows. After about an hour I started to get a headache because I was basically huffing frosting every 2 seconds.

Currently watching…

Did anyone see “The Marriage Ref” last night? I thought it was frickin hilarious. It was basically just 3 people (Sienfeld, Tina Fey and the just wonderful Eva Longeria) making fun of couples for a few minutes and then just picking a side, mostly based on if they were the same gender as the person or not. Good stuff

Current Status…

I’m at a sunny Friday 10! Iced chai in the morning, little MOD pizza for the first time all week, and a weekend with no plans ahead – can’t remember the last time that happened.

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!! Holz & Neebs, hope you enjoy the golf, i’m jealous. “Damn you people. This is golf. Not a rock concert.”

Leave a comment

Filed under Gadgets, Reader of the Week

Tagged as , , ,

February 19, 2010 · 2:50 pm

2-19-2010

Shout out to…

The new Reader Of The Week (and birthday boy tomorrow)…. Mikey Ouert!! This is Mikey taking a “sobriety test” after trying convince us he hadn’t had that much to drink. I’m pretty sure the standard test calls for you to walk in a straight line with your eyes open, not stand on a straight line, close your eyes, and bust out laughing. I dare somebody to tell me not to use this picture for his birthday next year too. Anyways I now owe you a cocktail, which I’m going to have you cash in at the cheapest bar in MT I know. See you next weekend, happy birthday!

This is really interesting…

As an indication of how far i’ve expanded my tastes in food, last night Steph made a Thai noodle bowl with chicken fo me, after deciding she herself didn’t even want any – I was the only one who ate it! It was delicious too, I think I’m still well on my way to becoming a judge on top chef, but I’ll probably have to figure out what “puree” is – I think every meal they make is something puree.

Lately I’m thinking…

So there are a ton, and i mean a ton of groups on U-face that are like “I bet you <insert group here> can get 1,000,000 fans before <insert other group here>. Well I just saw one for Montana State fans compared to montana fans. Tell you what, if you find 1 MILLION people that are fans of either one I think you have a winner. There’s not even 1 million people in the entire state of MT, so there can’t be 1 million bandwagon griz fans from there. At least I hope not

This is really interesting…

He had “HA” written on one cheak, and sure enough “PPY” on the other

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!! I ate outside for lunch today.

Leave a comment

Filed under Gadgets, Reader of the Week

Tagged as , ,

February 12, 2010 · 4:55 pm

2-12-2010

Shout out to…

The Valentines Day edition Reader Of the Week….Stephanie Klitz!!! Steph puts up with my eating habits, sits through at least one SportsCenter a day, and spoils the dickens out of Seeley the Dog, all of which make me happy. Steph deserves to win Reader Of The Week every day, but that wouldn’t make sense simply by definition. She’s winning her free cocktail during her training stretch when she’s not really drinking, but maybe she’ll be able to enjoy it after the Snow Joke. A cocktail would be a lot more appropriate than whatever Katie has by the bottle in her trunk anyway.

This is really interesting…

I got my final four tickets in the mail the other day – they’re pretty darn official looking. I honestly don’t know what to do with them right now – just wait and see who’s in the final four I guess? I was also hoping that UW would be in the first round games in spokane, but their inability to win a road game means they’re not going to be in the tourney unless they win the pac-10 tournament. Latest bracketology does have texas and tennessee there though. I predict lots and lots of side bets, and I’m excited

Lately I’m thinking…

Heather I came up with a new rule – from now on you have to tell me BEFORE you have heart surgery – wait scratch that, let’s just say any surgery – not just after. Glad everything’s okay though and that you got a pre-surgery duke win.

This is really interesting…

I did my taxes last night. That’s probably the last time I do them by myself. I felt like I was kind of just winging it in sections. If it was a test in college or something, I’d probably walk away knowing that I passed, but not that confident in some of my answers

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!!! I’ll bet you twenty bucks I can get you gambling before the end of the day. I’ll give you 3 to 1 odds.  YOUR Montana State Fighting Bobcats are a pick in streak for the cash on espn today

Leave a comment

Filed under Gadgets, Reader of the Week

Tagged as , , , , ,