5-18-2011

Lately I’m thinking…

I’m heading to Vegas in 2 days for a little cutting street reunion/bachelor get together.  It’s terrifying.

This is really interesting…

Tanner is heading to Vegas a day early because of limited alegiant air flights out of Bozeman, and just planned on staying with his buddy Hawkins the first night.  Well apparently Hawkins is in missoula right now and doesn’t have enough money to get back home to Vegas…where he lives.   So tanner has to stay in a hotel by himself the first night.

This is really interesting…

For the path with art party last weekend they had 2 kegs.  They didn’t finish either one, so I had to return them yesterday half-full.  Most embarrassed I’ve ever been.

Currently Watching…

It’s wirrrrrrrrre Wednesday ya hear.  It’s all in the game fools

The soapbox…

What did the papa buffalo say to his son before he went to work? “Bison”  HAHAHHAHAHAHA

5-13-2011

This is really interesting…

The patio area on the side of our house is completely redone (thanks for the ‘dirt stomper’ skeelo!), which means we removed the cement stairs as well.  So instead, I was looking for a ladder we could use to go up and down.  I found this one, which is basically exactly what I wanted.  But when I went to buy it I realized it was meant for parakeets and was about 8 inches tall.  Shoot.  When I showed it to Steph she seriously couldn’t stop crying for like 3 minutes, made me regret not just buying it anyway.

Lately I’m thinking…

Not sure how I feel about ‘The hangover 2′ previews.  I think ‘The Hangover’ is funny, but I also personally think it’s one of the most overrated movies of our generation.  And now that I bring it up, I think that ‘Saving Silverman’ is one of the most underrated movies.

Lately I’m thinking…

Scott’s birthday tonight at Market Arms!  Tomorrow night, Betsy & Anya’s birthday at…Market Arms.  By the harbor

This is really interesting…

This has been the coldest spring in Seattle history, and it’s been 191 days since it’s been 70 degrees.  I’m trying to get to white pants and flip flop weather people!

The soapbox…

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!!!

5-11-2011

This is really interesting…

I asked Tanner for some ideas on possible Yellowstone trips and he replied with a photo album saying “this is what the locals do”.  They’re both robins.  Great…

Lately I’m thinking…

Had a blast last weekend.  Somebody forgot to tell us that Miller’s party should probably be over late Friday night though.  Thanks to everyone that came to the path with art event as well.  Here is a little slide show they made – looks like they decided to include 20 of the 1,000 pictures bonar took of himself

Lately I’m thinking…

Seattle Pizza Club (SPC) tonight at varlamos!  Bonus shout out to Scott who had his birthday yesterday, and gets to celebrate with a pizza party tonight

Lately I’m thinking…

Sometimes when I’m really thirsty and slam an entire glass of water, I wonder how much I would drink if the cup had an infinite amount of water in it.  I wonder that all the time actually.

The soapbox…

I have this friend who’s hair is way too long and everyone is tired of it.  Should we cut it off like people did to my mullet?

5-6-2011

This is really interesting…

Seeley is sleeping in the intersection or two hallways.  Pretty subtle.  I’ve basically just spent the whole day saying “sorry”.  Work to Seeley means tons of treats, basically mandatory petting, and lots of “free space”.

This is really interesting…

The Home Alone house is for sale (thanks for the heads up Britt).  I would move there in a heartbeat.  Seriously.  “When I grow up and get married, I’m living alone!”

Lately I’m thinking…

Party tonight.  Wedgwood Ale House

Lately I’m thinking…

If you’re trying to figure out how you can improve the world on Saturday, and aren’t sure what to do, then buy your tickets for the PWA and we’ll see you there.

The soapbox…

Have a fun and safe weekend everyone!!!!

5-5-2011

Lately I’m thinking…

On behalf of Paul, Fisher and myself, Happy Cinco De Mayo!!!

This is really interesting…

(i.e horrible) speaking of cinco de mayo, i have a meeting tonight from 7:30-9:00!!!  (A video chat with India) What!  My boss said he didn’t realize it was cinco de mayo when he schedule it.  uhh the name of the holiday is the date!  It’s not quite as bad, but almost like saying “I didn’t know the meeting on July 4th was on the 4th of july!”.  Just incredibly devastating.

Lately I’m thinking…

Pretty short update today, but one important programming note – there is no karaoke tonight!  Apparently the Ale House made a scheduling change and didn’t inform the KJ, pfffff.  Party is still of course on for tomorrow night though.

Shout out to…

Steph – she totally dominated the little patio next to the house

The soapbox…

feliz navidad

5-4-2011

This is really interesting…

Today is the 30th anniversary of Cuatro De Matto – Miller is officially 30 years old today.  Party is 10:00 at the Ale house on Friday night.  Of course there is also the “actual birthday day” celebration tonight (little red hen?), and then tomorrow just happens to be karaoke Thursday.  Oh and Miller also hopes to see you at the Path With Art fundraiser on Saturday.  Yikes-a-roni

This is really interesting…

Well it’s spring, which means the MT advertising is back in full swing in Seattle.  On my 15 minute commute to work I have to drive by 2 giant MT billboards with sunshine and nature (and if i look close enough, I feel like I can see myself in the 4th of july parade).  Anyway, it’s usually not very helpful as I drive to the office.

This is really interesting…

Everyone was right, having a girl is more expensive – Seeley is getting a new coat everyday!  She’s not doing a very good job taking care of them either.  I came upstairs this morning and the coat she got yesterday was lying on the floor.

Currently watching…

the finale of “3 for the show” on espn – really enjoyed that whole show.  My favorite part is while Cam Newton drove away from Radio Music Hall in a decked our escalade, locker was getting picked up in his dad’s ford taurus after giving a press conference at his high school gym.

The soapbox…

Speaking of locker, I’m pretty jacked for him and UW on how everything worked out.  He was famously declared the #1 pick last year by Kiper (who also said it was “etched in stone” he would be the #1 pick this year), but chances are if he stayed in the draft last year he would have been broken down just like this year, and most people think he would have went behind bradford, probably in the 5-10 range, exactly like he went this year.  There was also a lot of concern about getting drafted with the CBA uncertainty, but really the fact it was in the in-between stage this year ended up leading to a QB frenzy in the draft since teams couldn’t trade, which helped.  But the bottom line is he came back for other reasons and won his last 4 games including a bowl win over nebraska, which is pretty sweet.  Tennessee seems like a pretty good situation for him as well, and they just so happened to always be my madden team

5-3-2011

Lately I’m thinking…

Had a good (well, long) weekend with Paul in town.  The sounders game was super fun.  Everyone was wearing scarves in like 67 degree weather, but still fun.  A “USA” chant even broke out half-way through (and that was a day before we killed bin laden!), probably because we were playing Toronto.  On a side note, flying squirrel really comes in clutch towards the end of a night.

Lately I’m thinking…

speaking of killing bin laden, did you know Obama has a twitter page?? Seriously, his last tweet was “about to address the nation”.  Has a casual 2 million followers, so I guess a lot of people did know that.

This is really interesting…

The Path With Art fund-raising event is this weekend!!!  Should be great – best party yet.  Click here to buy tickets.  It really is a good cause, you should come.  Don’t forget to wear black and white.

Currently Watching…

Well I convinced Steph last night it was time to watch the finale of top shot.  So i went to the DVR, and clicked play on the latest item.  In a flash I thought I saw “reunion special” on it though so I went to stop it.  Seriously in 2 seconds all we saw was the very last couple seconds from the finale (because the reunion special happened right after the finale, and started recording the very last bit of the finale) and all we saw was a guy saying “i won top shot”.  Nothing after that as it finally registered my stop button.  Well, that saved us an hour I suppose.

The soapbox…

Happy 30th to Zach Benoit last weekend!

4-28-2010

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.

This is not very interesting…

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.

4-22-2011

This is really interesting…

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.

This is really interesting…

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”

4-12-2011

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…