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June 11, 2010 · 1:48 pm

6-11-2010

Shout out to…

The new Reader of the Week….Matthew Hollllzer! Holzer and I were roommates in college, and I give him a lot of credit for helping to get me through college. Holzer lives in Portland and loves the black cat and the penguin. Mostly bars with animals in their name I suppose. He also enjoys green heineken sweatshirts, and will wear one every day for a year if you ask him too. Holz, you win one free vodka redbill or beer next time I see you, which I hope is soon.

This is really interesting…

UW had a grand opening for a new store in downtown today, so I decided to go after being at work for 1 minute. I tried getting a picture with Sark twice, but the first time I chickened out and the 2nd time my phone died. Oh well, I can probably get one when he invites me over to his bbq for best friends. Anyways, I bought a tailgate hitch cover, a portable dog bowl and some eye blacks – i’m surprised they don’t have package deal for those things or something

This is really interesting…

Lost in all this conference shuffling is Kansas, along with kansas state, iowa state, baylor and possibly missouri. What’s interesting is out of those 5 teams, 4 of them will be ranked in the pre-season top 25 for basketball next year. Out of the possibly 16 Pac 10 teams……one. Just goes to show how much more money football makes compared to basketball.

Shout out to…

Everyone who came to karaoke last night – it was probably one of the best nights of my life. I could definitely see myself quitting my job and doing that once every two weeks

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!! I’m looking forward to a lot of fun and sun.

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March 26, 2010 · 1:03 pm

3-26-2010

Lately I’m thinking…

Okay this is the last of the Spokane trip pics, and sorry for those that this is a repeat. This is Tanner and I singing “any man of mine” by shania twain, and I’m pretty sure we absolutely killed it. A lady asked Tanner for his autograph on a napkin afterwards and he signed it S. Twain and then casually lifted her up. I’ll tell you what, any man of mine better be able to support my weight with one arm while holding the microphone with the other. Let’s go boys

This is really interesting…

and by ‘interesting’ I mean ‘frustrating’ – Kansas beat kansas state three times this year and yet kansas state is in the elite 8. oh well i guess. On a side note, worst case scenario for me is kentucky wins the whole thing. best case scenario is kentucky wins the whole thing and then the ncaa takes it away for an unprecented 3rd forfeited final four by calipari

Shout out to…

Everyone going on the big sky trip, wish i was there. Say hello to Chet for me – hope he alphorn playing goes well, bring me back something french

This is really interesting…

Montana Fun Fact of the Day: “In Helena, Montana it is illegal to throw an item across a street.” I’m looking at you Jamie McCullough! She must be going nuts with the lenient laws in vegas, just throwing stuff everywhere

The Soapbox:

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!! Reader of the Week returns next Friday after 2 weeks off. RAARRRRRRRR

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March 23, 2010 · 10:23 am

3-23-2010

Current Status…

Let’s go with a 3.4 – I can’t remember a recent time where I felt this anxious at work. Oh ya and in case you didn’t notice, yes Kansas lost and no your rubbing it in doesn’t help

Lately I’m thinking…

30 minutes before selection sunday started I said “the one team i don’t want in Kansas’s bracket is UNI” and everyone had no idea why I would say that. I guess it’s pretty clear now, although I’d much rather not be able to say i told you so.

Shout out to…

Everyone who went to Spokane, (and to joey for not going, as much fun as that would have been i can’t imagine what sunday/monday/today would have been like if you went). Lots of peaks and valleys but that was a really fun trip. On an unrelated note, Tanner you’re completely correct, nobody I’ve ever heard sing karaoke is very good (especially hearing skeelo’s 4th rendition of wind beneath my wings) but whenever I do it I feel like I absolutey killed it and the crowd is going crazy…Something there doesn’t add up

This is really interesting…

The karaoke bar might have been the most ridiculous – here’s how the conversation went when I went up to order a drink: “Hi, I’ll have a rum and coke please”….”Oh sorry sir, we’re not serving you anymore”….”why?”…..”you dropped the microphone, danced with a chair, and switched pants with that guy at the bar”…..”oh okay, that’s fine”

The Soapbox:

Turns out all the things combined were enough to get our 10+ person group cut off. Here were my favorite quotes from that day alone: “Blade didn’t have his bag for 2 days, and once he got it back that’s what he decided to wear” -Mikey. “Wow we’ve been here a lot and never seen anyone cut off before” -2 people tanner knew at the karoke bar. “The karaoke bar was fun, we got there a little early though, the music hadn’t started yet, then we got cut off 10 minutes after it did” -Tanner on the phone. “It’s not a big deal guys, this happens all the time” -Tanner to our best friends from Texas A&M who couldn’t believe the bartenders would do that

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March 16, 2010 · 12:16 pm

3-16-2010

Lately I’m thinking…

I don’t have a lot for today

Currently watching…

This video of people just wrecking & falling down (my favorite kind of humor) from my Russian friend Nikita. You don’t need sound, although the first minute or two it’s pretty funny to hear people scream and yell, but after that it’s just this weird techno background music and nothing else. Oh ya and it’s 7 minutes long

Currently watching…

The Bird/Magic show on HBO, it’s really good. I really like when shows like that transcend sports, if that isn’t too cliche to say. I also watched half of the Reggie Miller 30 for 30 ESPN series, but i’m only half way through it. I was going to finish it before I mentioned it on here, but eh what can ya do. It’s good so far

Lately I’m thinking…

Filling out Brackets is stressful. The last couple years I’ve got down to my final four and then I’m like “wait, i don’t think these teams are going to make the final four”, but because of the bracket I can’t think of who else to put there. I’m also not sure if I should fill out every bracket the same for every pool, or change it a bit to improve your chances of at least one bracket being good. I just hate seeing an upset and then saying “I picked that! ..in a different bracket”, and then everyone you’re with is like “suuuure” or “who cares”. I think i’m going to try and have the same bracket in all pools for that reason. Oh and once you second guess your pick and flip it, you’re totally screwed, because now instead of possibly just incorrectly picking a game, you’re twice as mad at yourself if they lose for screwing yourself over. So you think about flipping it back, but now the “flip” argument applies both ways.

The Soapbox:

Montana Fun Fact of the Day: Big Sky/Moonlight is the biggest ski resort in America, with 5,512 skiable acres. “Well I didn’t have a mountain, I had a newsroom”

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March 15, 2010 · 12:15 pm

3-15-2010

Lately I’m thinking…

Well Kansas was awarded the #1 overall seed in the tourney…and then got put in the toughest region, so I guess the ranking of the #1 seeds doesn’t actually apply to anything? Besides big 10 champ ohio state (who was in the running for a #1), co-acc champ maryland, and big east tourney finalist georgetown they also drew the only 2 teams to beat them this year and UNI is the exact kind of team that gives kansas trouble. Oh well, you have to win tough games to advance, and it’s not like they’ll play all those teams, but the committee definitely didn’t do them any favors.

This is really interesting…

I was on an ESPN chat yesterday for my comment “The supposedly top 2 teams (Kansas & Kentucky) have the two toughest roads”. I should be on TV or something

This is really interesting…

So the beer pong kicked off at 3:30 at work on Friday, and Dan and I went 5-0! 3-0 to win the bracket championship and then we won 2 more for good measure against challenging teams. At one point we were listening to Britts Mix (the CATS edition no less) playing out of the speaker on my iPhone! Somebody asked “is this the kind of music you listen to??” to which I just replied “Uh no”. The best part is every cat growl somebody would say “what?” at the same time I was saying “cats!”

Current Status…

Strong to quite strong – I had a great weekend with some skiing and some alehousing (in wedgewood), the tournament is rapidly approaching and my work gave me both Friday and Monday off as comp days for working so much the last couple weeks – bonus! Joey’s gadget problems are a cause of concern though.

The Soapbox:

Montana Fun Fact of the Day: No state has as many different species of mammals as Montana  BONUS SHOUT OUT to Heather for getting accepted into 5 years of radiology programs! For some reason they don’t tell her where at until Thursday, but that’s great news

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March 4, 2010 · 2:26 pm

3-4-2010

This is really interesting…

Hey like at this smaller sized playing card I have, pretty cool. OH WAIT! It’s actually huge! So is the flask! (click here!). Steph thought I was pretty stupid for buying a flask that big because “it’s going to be hard to sneak it in anywhere”. Well I haven’t come up with a response to that yet, but it’s frickin awesome. I might just try tucking it in my waiste line? Or pull it underneath a blanket in a wagon? (p.s. 421 forever)

Lately I’m thinking…

I’ve been waiting most of the year for snow good enough to pay to ski on but it never really happened. Now that it’s march though i really want to go spring skiing, that’s the best anyway. I want to go to sun valley. I also want to see Gary Allen in MT, but I can’t drive to sun valley or MT after just taking a day off to drive there. I also heard he was opening for Brooks and Dunn who are having their last tour, so maybe I should just see that somewhere? I’m also really excited for opening day of baseball season, even though it will end up being the Mariners 7th game or something. Oh well. Wait, what am i talking about? Uhh i think my point is I just want to go skiing one of these weekends. Or maybe even just sit/stand in the sun somewhere

Current Status…

10! Today has just been a good day and it’s flying by. And sunny. and i just had a mountain dew!!!! Oh by the way “modern family” just gets funnier and funnier. Yesterday there was an asian lady on the show who said “I’m just never going to be the stereotypical asian my mom wanted me to be” and then proceeded to get in a car and hit 3 different things

Currently watching…

Great games last night. I tried watching the kansas game on my computer while the duke game was on the TV. It was really hard, especially while trying to do some work at the same time. Whenever someone took a shot on one game, i would hear a whistle from the other game and yell’ “No way that’s a foul!!”. Well turns out it wasn’t, someone on the other game was just inbounding the ball. The whole thing would have probably been easier if I just muted one of the games, but instead I just took turns turning up the volume of whatever game wasn’t on commercial until it sounded like there were multiple people in the house yelling. More thoughts on the games below

The Soapbox:

Maryland rushing the court is a great example of how it happens too often – they also broke about 3 rules from the rick reilly article. Big win for them though at home on senior night and not a bad loss for Duke by any means. As far as kansas goes, Sherron Collins has been one of my favorite players since he was a freshman, and just became the all time “winningest” players in Kansas history. Bill Self is a ridiculously good coach too. Dating back to Illinois, he’s won 8 of his last 10 conference championships. Oh ya and in the 2 years he didn’t win it, he won the conference tournament championship. See you tomorrow

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March 3, 2010 · 1:15 pm

3-3-2010

Current Status…

8.9 – although the cool ranch doritos i just had didn’t really hit the spot like I was expecting them to. Here’s a picture of Steph, Seeley and I

Shout out to…

Miller for the crazy bread last night and Molly for the info about the ‘Seattle Metropolotin’ pizza magazine and to steph for buying it for me! I’m excited to read it, and then try every place in there. Just trying to give credit where credit is due

Currently watching…

Wow Duke-maryland and Kansas-kansas state on the same night, what a lineup! kind of…considering the game featuring possibly two #1 seeds in the tournament (kansas and kansas state) isn’t even on TV. It is on espn360, which Seattle gets now and I think is pretty darn sweet, but I remember when the same thing happened 2 years ago for the KU-ksu game and I was hitting refresh on my computer browser every 15 seconds. One of these days somebody should probably just pick it up – maybe the ocho?

Lately I’m thinking…

I think that Wednesdays are consistently my worst days of updates throughout the week

The Soapbox:

“You don’t go out looking for a job dressed like that? On a weekday? ” …..”Is this a… what day is this?”

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February 23, 2010 · 2:59 pm

2-23-2010

This is really interesting…

I don’t have a lot of material today, but let’s go! Not sure that this is a traditional table top picture, but it did involve 2 people up to no good (jakers and tanner) knocking some people over and then pointing and laughing at them. Click here for the before picture, including my brand new drink I had made seconds before. Oh ya, and you can also see Jakers up to no good! (sorry if you’ve already seen these pictures)

Currently watching…

The Kansas game and women tell all on the bachelor – both were pretty boring compared to normal, although it was good to hear from Ali. Kansas now has a 58 game home win streak – do you know how ridiculous that is? It was over 3 years ago! Sienna is 2nd place with 34 and the closest school from a major conference is Duke/Kentucky with 17

This is really interesting…

Speaking of the NCAA, Mikey got our first round tickets in the mail yesterday and I also became a UW football season ticket holder. Now if only I could actually go back to college

This is really interesting…

I bought an electrc sander this weekend and sanded our gate down so that it swings freely without kind of getting stuck when opening and closing it. Our neighbors was way worse than ours, so I spent a lot of time and sandpaper working on his as well. Anyways, in front of our house we each have a patch of grass about big enough for a coffin each (bad example?). Well yesterday he mowed his 3 x 6 piece of grass…and didn’t mow ours. I think it actually makes his side look worse being next to a little patch of not mowed grass. very strange. Oh and I obviously don’t have a lawn mower for a patch of grass that size – i’m not even sure what he used. Maybe I’ll just let seeley eat a little bit of it each day and throw it up, since she seems to like to do that on walks

The Soapbox:

Apparently there’s a hard rock cafe by pike’s place now. A cool 95 minutes later I’m back in the office – let’s just say the whole process wasn’t as fast as say picking up jimmy johns or something. I did get to see the “pretty fly for a white guy” video though, and was reminded just how good of album Foreigners greatest hits was. Holzer, how about some Juke Box Hero to get ready to go out??

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February 16, 2010 · 1:10 pm

2-16-2010

Lately I’m thinking…

Seeley has more toys than I do. Oh ya and I’m out of pictures

Currently watching…

Wow how stressful was last night? Kansas probably shouldn’t have won that game, I don’t even know how they scored 59 points, I only remember them making 3 shots. That followed by the worst bachelor of all time (yes that was last weeks episode, until this one aired). Ali blew it, then Jake blew it, Jake’s annoying and says the same stuff every week and out of the 2 girls who are left one lives in a complete fantasy world with dancing unicorns and the other is a tramp. I knew jake being the bachelor wasn’t a very good choice but I never thought it would get this bad. Phew, i’d like to say i feel better, but i don’t think i will until the season is over. See you next week

Lately I’m thinking…

Holzer here’s a handy little DVR tip – if you’re wating a show on DVR but then change it to a channel (either to check a score or something or in your case you forgot you were watching a show on DVR) just hit the “back” button and it takes you to the place you left off on the recorded show. You can basically flip back and forth between a live tv show and the recorded one and not miss a beat! Sorry Tanner, I know you don’t know what a DVR is and I don’t have any VCR tips for you, although I have heard that you can get rewind machines that rewind tapes much faster than the traditional VCR.

Lately I’m thinking…

This looks like it’s going to be a great week – sunshine with temps in the high 50s and maybe even up to 60. On a side note, there’s no show anywhere in the northwest (see olympics in canada)

The Soapbox:

“What? Friends listen to Endless Love in the dark.”

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February 9, 2010 · 2:49 pm

2-9-2010

This is really interesting…

And hear is what Steph wore to Whrirly Ball – who would have thought that the mask I ordered for Joey’s Christmas masquerade party that was shipped to Seattle instead of Billings would ever come in handy? I know I didn’t, but I’m happy I have it.

Currently watching…

Saw a great Kansas win, followed by a good How I Met Your Mother, followed by….a HORRIBLE episode of the Bachelor – what on earth is Ali doing!? Couple things: A) Her job isn’t anywhere close to that important and B)She doesn’t love her job that much and would never leave the show for it. It was either her idea or the producers, but either way it’s ridiculous. It was pretty obvious it was all setup and that she wasn’t really that upset about it. They were just trying to have an “Ed” like scenario from last year. Anyways if she doesn’t come back and win i’m going to be livid, and i’m already pretty upset. By the way, does anyone else agree that Rick Barnes is the most overrated coach of a big name program? I mean they always have tons of good players and hence good teams, but i don’t even think they run an offense. Whoever brought the ball up the court either had the option of shooting with 25 seconds left on the shot clock or turning it over. When they had Durant 4 players just stood around while Rick Barnes drew up “pass the ball to durant and then let’s see if he scores” plays for 40 minutes.

Currently reading…

This article about adding a trophy for the Husky-duck football rivalry. Obviously oregon has been the better team the last few years, but I think UW will be closing the gap rather quickly and I like the idea. Do montana and Montana State have a trophy? It would be awesome if it was a live buffalo or a handle of Nikoli vodka something

This is really interesting…

Yesterday I saw a commercial for Dove body wash that had women compare the results of washing a mirror with soap compared to dove. The dove apparently left the mirror looking cleaner?? Let’s see, judging by that test I would rank body washes in this order: Spray Away Glass Cleaner, Windex, 409, Dove Body Wash, Bar Soap

The Soapbox:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADDIE AND SHANA! Nebel is a sucker for living with people born on February 9th apparently. Oh, and maybe I’m just talking crazy today, but the idea of a family reunion in vegas doesn’t terrify me right now like it usually does.

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