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What I am listening to as I type this: Ron & Fez
What I am currently addicted to: running paired with the elliptical machine

January 31, 2006

Remember me bitching about the traffic from Sunday? There was an article about it in the paper today!! 2 days later and it is still being talked about in the newspaper!

It is slowly hitting me how ginormous of a deal this is .... the Seattle Seahawks ... my favorite team in all of sports .... is in the Super Bowl. No team can even touch how much I cheer for this team. The Iowa State Cyclones, Colorado Avalanche, Kansas City Royals ... not even close. I cheer for ISU football pretty hardcore, but nowhere near as much as the Seahawks. Watching the Seahawks play football is by far the most enjoyable thing for me to watch on television. If having to choose between 4 episodes of Lost that I could never see again, and a Seahawks game, I'd choose Seahawks. An ISU bowl game on at the same time as a Seahawks rival or playoff game, I choose the 'Hawks. I might watch an ISU bowl game over a meaningless Seahawks game (early season against the 49ers-type game), but that's about it. I can tell you the starting player at each of the 22 starting positions. I can tell you their record from each of the past 5 seasons without thinking twice. I can tell you their past 5 playoff seasons off the top of my head:
2005 (still playing)
2004 (lost to the Rams)
2003 (lost to the Packers)
1999 (lost to the Dolphins)
1984 (lost, eventually, to the Raiders)

Do you realize how huge this is? WE'RE IN THE FUCKING SUPER BOWL!!!

I've had several people call me out on this over the last month saying "I thought you were an Eagles fan?" YES I WAS!! I've have never hesitated to admit that. Three things about this, the first being why I switched:

1) I've said it hundereds of times, I was an Eagles fan. I stopped cheering for them at the start of the 1996 season when they choose not to resign Randall Cunningham (the best player of all time). I had always liked the Seahawks, how could you hate them? They never won, so they were never a threat to your team. Cunningham didn't play that year, so I was now officially a Seahawks fan. I briefly switched to the Vikings for the second half of 1998 as they had Cunningham for a starter (and threw 34TD's and 10INTs and they STILL didn't start him the next year!!), and I cheered for the Seahawks as well in 1998. Then the Vikings stopped starting and eventually cut Cunningham and he went to the Cowboys. Now cheering for the Cowboys, having been an Eagles fan for so long, is just flat-out unacceptable - it'd be like me cheering for the Rams or Broncos right now, so I ditched the Vikings after one year and went back to the 'Hawks. I realized the Seahawks were the team who never failed me, I could always count on them to not do anything stupid. And on top of that -- if any team needed a fan, it was the Seahawks. So while I have liked them forever, I'd place them as my #1 all-around team since 1996, but they took a back seat to Cunningham's Vikings for the 1998 season ... but the Seahawks were in the AFC then so it didn't really matter unless we made the Super Bowl against each other.

2) How can you say I'm an Eagles fan when they were in the Super Bowl last year, and in the NFC Championship the 3 years prior to that -- and I CHEERED AGAINST THEM!!! Not only did I not brag the Eagles were there, I cheered against them. I don't think that makes me much of a fan seeing how I haven't shut up about the Seahawks for, oh, 7 or 8 years now. Why would have I not jumped back on the bandwagon the last 4 year when they did VERY well?

3) I don't remember what #3 was supposed to be so I'll just say this ...

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! WE'RE IN THE FUCKING SUPER BOWL!!! HOLY SHIT!! HOLY SHIT!! 5 MORE DAYS 5 MORE DAYS 5 MORE DAYS!!!!!

Oh, and if anyone who isn't Scott Schau calls me during the game, I won't answer. He's a Steeler's fan so he can talk all the trash he wants, nobody else has the right.

What I am listening to as I type this: Ron & Fez
What I am currently addicted to: running paired with the elliptical machine

January 30, 2006

When I was in Aspen the first time, I was probably 8 or 10 years old. The only thing I remember is that I didn't like it. Just shy of 20 years later I decided to give it another try. Bad idea jeans. Aspen is full of dipshit, arrogant, foreign fuckheads who don't know what the're talking about. I hate yuppies. I hate foreigners. I hate shuttle bi (the plural of bus, in my opinion, is "bi". I'll explain that some other day). I don't want to go back, ever. On the other hand - Glenwood Springs is a haven everyone should enjoy several times in their life. Can't say enough good things about it. Did I have fun this weekend? Honestly - I had a blast. But if I wasn't with Jessica, I would have classified it as the worst weekend of the past several years. She made it fun. Props to her for allowing me to not let my head blow up from a weekend filled with frustration.

Friday
7:30 p.m.:    Pick up Jessica, leave Westminster
10:20 p.m.: Arrive in Glenwood Springs, Check in at Hotel Colorado. Door to door in under 3 hours.
10:21p.m.:   Our room number is 420, I chuckle.
10:50 p.m.: Decide to go get beer & some fast food
11:00 p.m.: Get Jess food at Arby's in Glenwood Springs, ask drive-through attendant for directions to a liquor store
11:15 p.m.: Give up, liquor stores close at 11 in Glenwood, even on weekends. Buy a 6 pack of Bud Light at a gas station
11:20 p.m.: Order me food at Taco Bell (I no longer boycott it, I realized slave-labor (they use it in their tomato fields) keeps the cost down to me, and I hate foreigners)
11:30p.m.:   Realize the kids standing in front of Laetitia at the drive-up window had to order through the drive-through as the inside is closed, so they had to "walk-through" in order to get food. They are holding a completely disassembled bicycle between the two of them. It is snowing. They are 14 years old. This is bizarre.
11:40 p.m.: Get my food, that took too long. The voice the drive-through guy said "Hello" to us in gets a 4 star rating (out of 4 possible) on the unintentional comedy scale
11:50 p.m.: Eat Taco Bell and Arby's food back at the Hotel, it is delicious. The Bud Light is even more delicious.

Saturday
1:00 a.m.: Neighboring hotel room pounding on wall telling us to be quiet, not sure why. Go back to sleep
5:59 a.m.: Alarm clock goes off, it sounds like a fire alarm, I wake up in serious panic mode
7:00 a.m.: Finally decide to get out of bed, trip on bed sheets. Ouch.
7:15 a.m.: Get to car, drive around to find a breakfast place... no luck.
7:40 a.m.: Realize no place in Glenwood Springs opens until 8am for breakfast, bastards. We eat at McDonalds. I take 7 napkins from the dispensor, only use 2. That'll show Glenwood for not opening nice restaurants until 8am.
8:40 a.m.: Arrive at Buttermilk Mtn., find out that you can't park in Aspen, foreign Aspen employee #1 gives us directions to another parking lot
8:45 a.m.: Foreign Aspen Employee (FAE) #2 tells me lot is full, gives us directions to another lot
9:05 a.m.: Arrive at another lot at Snowmass, FAE#3 tells us, in weird accent, to park in another lot, but we should get rentals (for Jess) there and she'll let us temporarily park for free.   Fucking con artist.
9:30 a.m.: Jess's ski rentals are fucking $46!!! They're $12 in Denver.
9:45 a.m.: Drive to parking lot #4, put on ski & snowboard boots, walk to shuttle bus #1
10:00 a.m.: Arrive at bus depot, have to walk a block to another bus station
10:08 a.m.: Get on shuttle bus #2, bitch busdriver tells me I can't carry my snowboard on the bus and have to put it on the rack outside
10:08:30 a.m.: Find out there aren't racks for snowboards, just skis, so I go back on bus. Jess & I are the only ones on the bus with skis/boards
10:08:45 a.m.: Go back on bus, bitch bus driver tells me I have to sit in the back of the bus. She doesn't like my response of "Don't make me pull a Rosa Parks on you, bitch." I slap her. Ok, I didn't really slap her ... hard.
10:12 a.m.:   Jessica didn't "get" my comment to the bus driver, so I had to explain to her who Rosa Parks was. Jessica is from the south (Tennessee). I am absolutely dumbfounded that she doesn't know who Rosa Parks is.
10:15 a.m.:   Bus stops, lots of people get off, bitch doesn't tell us what the bus stop is
10:20 a.m.: We're in downtown Aspen, Jess goes and asks bitch how to get to Buttermilk, she says "That was the first stop." I say quite loudly, "Thanks for announcing the stops you fucking bitch."
10:30 a.m.: Jess is trying to cheer me up by kissing my cheek and calling me pet names, I'm not buying it. I'm fucking pissed as we were at the base of the mountain 2 hours ago but because Aspen people are assholes, we can't park within 10 miles of the place.
10:40 a.m.: Depart bitch's bus at a bus stop, get on a different one.
10:41 a.m.: FAE#3 driving SB#3 tells us he'll bring us to Buttermilk, I am somewhat happy now
11:00 a.m.: Arrive at Buttermilk, on foot, snowboard boots on ... yadda.
11:15 a.m.: Go to meet Kier Dillon at 'BPI tent, tent isn't even set up yet. I ask 'BPI guy when he'll be there, he says "12:30"
11:17 a.m.: Jessica and I are on lift after FAE#4 and FAE#5 both scan my lift ticket for some reason. I am confused.
11:22 a.m.: I am very scared of heights when the lift is going DOWNWARDS with a 50 foot drop below, yikes.
11:25 a.m.: FINALLY RIDING MY SNOWBOARD!!!
12:55p.m.: Back to 'BPI tent to meet Kier Dillon, he isn't there, I give up on meeting him
1:00p.m.: Watching X-Games stuff from the slope & base
1:30p.m.: Decide to go for a beer, find out Aspen does not sell beer a the base of the mountain. I am pissed
1:40p.m.: At top of Buttermilk taking pictures of Pyramid Peak, see a lodge, go in - THEY SELL BEER!!
1:45p.m.: Drinking a Never Summer Ale... mmm. Eating some of Jess's chili. Mmmmm.
3:00p.m.: Didn't have enough speed to ride rail, tried again, fell off rail, tried again - successfully rode a rainbow rail to the apex. Jess captures me looking very bad, I promise I'll look better while doing this in the near future.
3:15p.m.: Watching Slopestyle from the slopes
3:30p.m.:   Watching slopestyle money booter from the base
3:45p.m.: FAE#6 tells us which bus line to use as that's where we parked, wait in line
4:00p.m.: Get on shttle bus #4
4:15p.m.: Realize FAE#6 told us the wrong bus, consult a guy wearing a bank-robber mask and security coat about where we are and how to get to our car. I have to let Jess do all the talking as I'm so shocked to see an American.
4:30p.m.: We realize American dude doesn't know the difference between a chicken and a basketball. We decide to hitchhike and ask the driver for advice as to where we parked
4:35p.m.: Some stoner guys are dropping off some random people at the lot, Jess asks them to drive us to Snowmass, guy says "ok"
4:37p.m.: I am scared as the guys are talking about how they just finished all their pot brownies and the driver says "Man I'm fuckin' drunk." I want out of the car, but it's getting dark and we're in the middle of nowhere.
4:42p.m.: Stoner guy actually knew his shit, drops us of 20 feet from Laetitia. We thank him genuinelly and gratefully, offer him money, he won't accept. Great guy.
4:46p.m.: Looking for the rental shop to return Jess's skis ...
5:00p.m.: ....still looking
5:15p.m.: .....still looking
5:20p.m.: FOUND IT!!! Run in literally as we see the metal store-front grate going down, symbolizing the store's closure for the night. Beg them to open store and let us return $46 rental skis, they let us. Guy was American as well, I'm again shocked.
5:30p.m.: Seeing how I was incredibly, incredibly frustrated, we decide to skip the rest of the X-Games and beat traffic back to Glenwood Springs
6:20p.m.: Arrive in Glenwood Springs, discover from my reflection in the car ahead of me that driver headlight is out. I am pissed as it only lasted 14K miles
6:30p.m.: Get RAPED at Napa and pay $24 for a GENERIC LOW-BEAM HEADLIGHT!! My Silverstars are only $19/ea and these are more dull. I am extremely pissed
6:32p.m.: New headlight installed. I need a beer. I fucking hate Aspen
6:40p.m.: Collapse on hotel room bed. Jess starts rubbing my back as she knows this has been the single most frustrating day of my life.
6:50p.m.: Get in shower.
1:00a.m.: Get out of shower, it felt so good I stayed in the shower for 6 hours.
1:01a.m.: Realize Jessica will be pissed I wasted the night by showering, so I install a flux capacitor in Laetitia, get up to 88MPH, and go back in time to 7:00p.m. and tell myself to get out of shower
7:00p.m.: See myself telling me to get out of the shower, I do. But damn that shower felt good.
7:05p.m.: Getting back massage from Jessica. Man, I love that woman.
7:10p.m.: Watching Cold Case for the first time. I enjoy it.
8:00p.m.: Dinner time! We go to The Italian Undergound. Little hole-in-the-wall place in Glenwood Springs
8:30p.m.: Have orgasm from the best italian food I've ever had.
9:00p.m.: Get bill, have another orgasm. I had Linguini with White Clam Sauce (yes, just like Mike Damone), Jessica had Fettucini with Shrimp. We had bread. We had ice cream. We ordered a bottle of wine. Entire tab: $46. This meal would have been $150 at Maggiano's and it was twice as good.
10:00p.m.: Arrive at the brewerey, both get carded and bartender tells us he thought both Jess and I were under 21. We are happy
10:15p.m.: Watch Avs lose another shootout. I fucking hate the shootout, I've said it since day 1.
11:30p.m.: Last call. Huh?! Go home.

Sunday
4:00a.m.:   Sleeping
7:00a.m.:   Sleeping
9:00a.m.:   Sleeping
10:00a.m.: Watching Say Anything for the first time
11:04a.m.: Check out
11:08a.m.: Get Jessica coffee cup#1
11:20a.m.: See a picture of a guy on the wall at the breakfast place who I met on my birthday and played his Ricola instrument
11:30a.m.: Eating delicious, delicious breakfast
11:32a.m.: Talk to Kelly OB on the phone, she tells me weather, although perfect in Glenwood, is shitty in Vail. We decide to not go to Aspen and get a jump start on the drive home as it sounds like they might close I70 at Vail Pass (already closed Loveland Pass) and we did not want to get stranded for the night.
11:40a.m.: On the road
12:30p.m.: Drive is going good, regretting not going to Aspen
12:45p.m.: Kelly calls, asks if we want to do lunch in Sliverthorn, I say ok, should be there by 1:45 at this rate.
1:20p.m.: Hit a wall of a storm. Seriously, it was like a glass wall, one side - perfect roads and no snow, other side, pelting ice snow and horrible roads. You could have drawn a line where it was and on the other side it was t-shirt weather, strangest thing I've seen in years
1:28p.m.: Talk to Kelly OB .. tell her at this rate won't be to Silverthorne until 3:00p.m. It's 15 miles from us.
1:30p.m.: Stopped in Vail in traffic
2:00p.m.: Stopped in Vail in traffic
2:30p.m.: Stopped in Vail in traffic
2:45p.m.: Slowly creep up Vail pass, about 10mph, seriously
3:00p.m.: At summit of Vail pass
3:15p.m.: At Frisco exit, now realizing being in Silverthorne by 3:00 would have been a dream.
3:30p.m.: In Silverthron, still on exit. Jess has to pee, "How bad?" I ask ... "I can hold it awhile" she says
3:45p.m.   5 miles from Eisenhauer tunnel. Riki calls
3:55p.m.: Jess really has to pee now... 25 miles to our next exit, I say "Should be an hour or so maybe?"
4:00p.m.   Off the phone with Riki, she asks where I am now, I say "10 yards from where we were when I started talking to you."
4:15p.m.   Taking a Cosmo quiz about how open to change I am. I score a 6. I'm not very open to change. The next song that comes on is Garth Brooks' Go Against The Grain. I chuckle.
4:45p.m.: Still nowhere near the Eisenhauer tunnel. Have officially driven 25 miles in the last 3 1/2 hours
5:15p.m.: In the tunnel, it smells HORRIBLY of Carbon Monoxide. Jessica covers her mouth while I cough and close my vents
5:45p.m.: 2 hours after Jess really has to pee, I get to the next exit. Guess my hour estimate was off
5:50p.m.: Drinking Gatorade and eating beef jerkey. Holy shit does it taste good
7:00p.m.: HOME!!! And it only took 7 1/2 hours to go 160 miles.
9:20p.m.: Watching the news, hear the headline, "Up next, I70 Eastbound traffic today possibly the worst in the history of Colorado." It turns out they were closing the tunnel for 10 minutes every 5 minutes to clear out the Carbon Monoxide fumes. The cars that were bumper-to-bumper in Eisenhauer (1 mile long tunnel) were producing so much Carbon Monoxide that the system they installed to clear it out couldn't handle it all. Guess it was legit that we couldn't breath right while we were in the tunnel.

Pictures are up.

What I am listening to as I type this: Opie & Anthony
What I am currently addicted to: running paired with the elliptical machine

January 27, 2006

I knew before the season started I was going to f**k'n hate the NHL shootout and I bitched and bitched about it. Well I ain't going to stop bitching about it, it screwed us again last night. The shootout is gay. We only get in them when Budaj is playing.

It's been brought to my attention that according to Roffle Haus (Iowa State's wiki system) -- I'm right up there with Adam Haluska in the "29 Infamous People" from Iowa State list. I can't believe I'm classified with a worthless piece of garbage like that faggot Adam Haluska. I guess Larry Eustachy and Jason Berryman are in there too, and I have a ton of respect for those guys, so that's cool. Man I hate Adam Haluska, I'd really really enjoy beating the living shit out of that tool. Mallory Snyder is on the list too, she's hot.

I am dead serious about this next topic. I was talking to Hornick about this when I was in Iowa for Ty's wedding back in November. I want to open a Chipotle in Storm Lake, Iowa. Meat packing plants everywhere, a college town, a town with not-so-many fast food restaurants, big nice lake, cheap cost of living ... and I guarantee you you'll make a fortune and retire by the time you're 40. I am dead serious about this and if anyone is interested in doing so, think long and hard about it and contact me to talk me into actually doing it. I've been thinking about it for months, and after yesterday's IPO of Chipotle's stock, I really don't see any way it wouldn't work. Chipotle's stock is like me playing NBA Jam on Sega Genesis - it's on fire!

I'm drinking a Green Machine Naked Juice right now. I don't quite understand how they can pack so much good stuff into one little 15oz drink. This thing has 2 apples, 1/2 of a kiwi fruit, 1/2 banana, 1/2 pineapple, and 1/2 mango in it. It's got 100mg of Green Tea, Spinach, and Broccoli. It's got 50mg of Blue Green Algae, Garlic, and Echinacea ... and it has countless other things. On top of this - it's delicious. I think they're like $4 at the store, but Marv (for whom Marv the Miner is named after) gave me this one so it's free today.

Off to Aspen tonight ... well, Glenwood Springs actually. Staying at Hotel Colorado. Found out from KBPI that my tickets I won double as a meet & greet for Keir Dillon, so I'll likely stop by and say hey to him. Pretty weird that when they called me they pronounced his name "Kai - er" instead of "Keer". I had to correct them and I realized I'm a dork for snowboarding knowledge. The 'BPI chick says, "That's how you say it? I don't even know who he is." ... I reply with, "He's a pro snowboarder ... he's either black or a mulato, and I think he's from Jersey (I had to look that up, I was wrong, he's from Pennsylvania .. maybe it's Danny Kass who is from Jersey? I dunno), almost 30 years old." ... all the while I'm thinking, "Wow, I could go on. He's married with kids, finished bronze in last year's X-Games Superpipe, and needs an excellent performance in the Superpipe to go to the Olympics this year." Then I realized one more thing ... I need to stop watching the Fuel network when I go to bed!

Back to work - have a great weekend. Hopefully I'll have some kickass Aspen pictures for you next week! Adios.

What I am listening to as I type this: Slick Rick - Lodi Dodi (listening to the rap station today as they have Super Bowl tickets to give away)
What I am currently addicted to: running paired with the elliptical machine

January 26, 2006

I hate Peter King, yet I read his Monday Morning QB article every Monday. There's just a glimmer of hope that some day, if the Seahawks go 16-0 during the season, he might say they're at least an average team. Mr. King treats the 'Hawks just like Rodney Dangerfield -- with no respect. I normally read his article just trying to find one somewhat intelligent thing he wrote, and this week he finally did it!! Here are some intelligent things Peter King wrote for the first time in his life:

On Lofa Tatupu: "The kid's a brilliant playmaker and runs a new defense like he's been in it 10 years."
On Qwest Field: "What a great venue."
On Jake Plummer: "Same ol' Jake."
On Denver-based Peaberry Coffee: "You're doing a good job, Peaberry Coffee Company. I know it's hard to fight the Starbucks monster, but keep it up. You make a nice latte all over Denver." (I figured Jessica would like that one since she used to manage like 8 of them)
On the best drink on the planet: "Green tea is taking more and more of a role in my hot-drink life."
On Denver: "Denver's really a nice town. I just wish it wasn't hundreds of miles from anywhere. Maybe that's why the natives love it so."

I came to a conclusion on how Peter King got so intelligent; He started seeing things my way. He came to Denver for the games last week, saw the Broncos lose and Seahawks win, and he realized the way to go in life is to be a Seahawks fan in Denver ... it's the only way for one to see life clearly.

"Extreme Makeover: Laetitia Edition" is almost complete. She got a window brake light last weekend (never had one, long story). I threw her red taillights on Sunday morning so I won't get pulled over any more. Seahawks license-plate holder is installed on the front. New CV Joint for the passenger-front side was put in this morning (she's sitting at the shop right now). Just 2 more things to go -- XM Radio install and my new Slipknot Tribal S black sticker for the back tinted windshield. Yes, I realize I sound like I'm 18 again, but she will look like a completely different car. She now uses the Club nightly ... only things left to do are replace the rear-deck speakers and install my starter killswitch, and Extreme Makeover: Laetitia Edition will be complete, and it only took me 200,000 miles to finish her! WOO HOO!!

Sweet Shaun Alexander will remain the MP3 until the Super Bowl is over. Heading to Aspen tomorrow after work - hope to have some incredible pictures of beautiful Glenwood Springs and Aspen ... the X-Games ... Jess and I being ourselves (I've had a request for that, not sure why) ... and lots of other goodies. Have a great Thursday!

What I am listening to as I type this: Ron & Fez on XM
What I am currently addicted to: working out

January 25, 2006

Busy ... was yesterday too ... GO SEAHAWKS!! new pic of the day and KICKASS NEW MP3 are up

What I am listening to as I type this: Ron & Fez on XM
What I am currently addicted to: working out

January 23, 2006

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NFC CHAMPS!! SUPER BOWL XL HERE WE COME!! BRING ON THE STEELERS!!

Let's get some other news out of the way first ... my weekend. Friday involved Jessica and I lounging around watching a movie and drinking tea. We watched Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Two things about that movie ... 1) Quite stupid. 2) Angelina Jolie furthered her opinion of "ugly" in my mind and has me absolutely stumped as to why society tells me she is just stunning hot? She's got some weird elf eyes and lips that look like she shoved 8 pillows in them. How, again, is this attractive? Couple this with a "Billy Bob" tattoo on her arm and you've got a slutty ugly machine with robot eyes. As for the movie ... ok, here's the deal ... lots of guns and explosions do nothing for a movie if the plot sucks.

Saturday went to the Avs/Wings game (we lost, but did you see Aebischer's kickass save?! WOW!), went to Blake Street and had another Rothleis-Burger (they were making them at Steeler's bars this week for $7.77 since the Steelers were in town) ... filling .... like 12 oz of sausage and hamburger, cheese, grilled onions, tomatoes, lettuce, and 2 scrambled eggs on a 10" roll. This coupled with about 1/2lb of fries ... if you ate it all you got a $10 gift card. I couldn't finish mine on Friday, but Saturday I finished it. giggidy. Then it was time to go rollerblading for Faith's b-day party. I learned that my ankle does not approve of rollerblades quite yet. Saturday night went and met up with Hornick and Rhonda at the Buffalo Rose in Golden ... saw Bag Lady Sue perform and record a DVD performance (for free). Pretty raunchy humor, and very funny stuff. Yesterday went to Nick & Lissa's place and watched the BRONCOS LOSE and, much more importantly, the SEAHAWKS FUCKING DESTROY THE PANTHERS!!!

....to sum it up, kickass weekend, just flat-out kickass weekend. Nothing could have been better. Football with chips, dip, cheese, sausage ... a Bronco's loss and a Seahawk's NFC Championship .... phone calls from Seth who was AT THE GAME in Seattle (I'm regretting not charging up the credit card to go to that game with him ... I'll place that in one of the top 5 worst decisions I've ever made that didn't result in any harm) ... going to hockey games ... eating huge hamburgers ... man, kickass.... The only way the weekend could have been better is if Cori could have gotten me a picture of Shannon Elizabeth when she ran into her (sorta) at Sundance in Park City this weekend ... I love that woman.

Now what's on the Agenda? Jessica and I are going to Aspen this weekend ... do some snowboarding and watch the X-Games. Kinda hoping to bump into Tara Dakides ;) And I need to find a way to win Super Bowl tickets ... I'm going to compile a list of every contest of people giving away tickets ... from here, you will all enter these contests, and if you win I'll pay for your transportation to and from Detroit and all meals, beers, hotels, etc. for our trip when you invite me to have the second ticket. Deal?

I'll save my talk about the Seahawks for tomorrow ... I just want to relish the moment for awhile and congratulate my 'Hawks ... way to go guys, thanks for giving us some credibility!! On to the Super Bowl ... one more win, guys ... almost there ... almost to the level where I'm immune to any and all criticism.

What I am listening to as I type this: Tool - Stinkfist
What I am currently addicted to: working out

January 20, 2006

Very tired ... played poker last night until like 10:30, ended up just buying out because I had to get to Tiff's thing ... then I ran out of gas, that was a whole 'nother story ... then I got to Tiff's going away party, stayed there until late, then went home and although tired I attempted to watch Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. Around 3:00 I realized I would hate myself today if I didn't go to bed, so I went to bed. A fe pix are up on the January Colorado Pix page from last night.

This morning I awoke with some hunger, so I grabbed a banana with intentions of eating it once I got to the office. However, I was in the car so damn long this morning I think it's now rotten. It was ripe when I left. I was out of my house just after 7:30 ... didn't get to work until AFTER 9!! Ridonkulous. The traffic was just awful - photographic evidence. It took me literally 40 minutes to go 4 miles on the Interstate.

Mayor Hickenlooper deemed today "Orange Day" ... ridiculous. Seeing how everyone was going to wear Orange and Broncos stuff to work today, I took it upon myself to wear Seahawks gear to the office. I've decided I'm wrong, I don't want the Broncos to win, and I don't want them in the Super Bowl. I'm disgusted of hearing about how awesome they are, and how great Jake Plummer-Crack is, or how wonderful of a coach Tanahan is. The fact stands, they suck ... they are the damn Broncos and I detest them. I can't put up with 2 more weeks of talk about this stuff, so Pittsburgh - please - get rid of this horrid team for me this weekend.

I cannot emphasize this enough -- and I put more stress on this than I have ever put on this statement regarding this Sunday at 4:30MST

GO SEAHAWKS!!!!

What I am listening to as I type this: System of a Down - Aerials
What I am currently addicted to: working out

January 19, 2006

This is such a fast week and in no way is that a bad thing. It's snowing out and in no way is that a bad thing. However, I'm tired as a cat in the sun and that is a bad thing because I can't concentrate and/or get anything done.

Picture me listening to KBPI yesterday, the Uncle Nasty show is playing "Patriotic Karaoke" ... "Patriotic Karaoke" is when the guy on the show sings lyrics to a song, only in the tune of the Star Spangled Banner. You'd be shocked to hear how difficult this is, even if the lyrics are of your favorite song, it's tricky. The lyrics hit me yesterday like a ton of bricks ...
Through Ever Forest, Above The Trees
Within My Stomach, Scraped off My Knees
I drink the honey.....
I immediately know it, so I pick up the phone, first try, Nasty answers, "What's your name?" ... "Bryan" ... "Ok, Hold on". I'm certain I know it and I know nobody knows those lyrics. They're from a very popular song but they're lyrics you can barely hear. The only reason I know them is because it's from easily one of the top 5 coolest parts of any song ever created (around the 4:30 mark of the song). The song itself isn't that great ... but that part is just phenomenal. One time I thought I heard an almost inaudible voice in the background of the kickass music, so I googled the song to find out what he said... the lyrics have stuck with me ever since. So sure enough, after waiting I finally get on the radio -- and I win -- 2 ASPEN LIFT TICKETS FOR THE WEEKEND OF THE X-GAMES!!! Aspen tickets are ridiculously expensive ... after all, it's where the women flock like the salmon of Capistrano, and where the beer flows like wine, mmmmm - California! So yes, Jess and I will now be going to Aspen next weekend to ride my snowboard and watch the X-Games!! Giggidy Giggidy Giggidy!

I've discovered that I can't even think about the Seahawks game this upcoming weekend, I get too nervous. I start reading an article and my heart rate jumps up to like 165 immediately. I see that Darrell Jackson and Bobby Engram didn't practice yesterday and my heart skips a beat. I read that Peter Warrick is replacing Jimmy Williams on the kickoff returns and I relax a bit and can even get a smile out, that's good news to hear. Shaun Alexander will be back, but will he finally play well in a playoff game? Has the reality really set in yet that this Sunday, if the Seahawks win, they will be IN THE SUPER BOWL!!!??! Wow, just amazing, flat-out amazing. I can't stop thinking about this... and the possiblity that we could play the Broncos ... and give me ultimate bragging rights permanently ... holy cow, this is the stuff dreams are made of. GO SEAHAWKS!!!

Adios, todos...

What I am listening to as I type this: Bulletboys - Smooth Up In Ya
What I am currently addicted to: working out

January 18, 2006

When I got back from snowboarding on Monday afternoon, I realized I was 100% exhausted. My camera battery was dead. Both cell phones' batteries were dead. I was hungry and both physically and mentally tired -- in essance, my battery was dead. Amazing what 14 hours of sleep, a day's work, running 2.5 miles, doing elliptical for 30 minutes, lifting weights, cleaning house and doing laundry, sleeping for another 8 hours, and coming back to work can do to recharge the batteries. I feel like I'm back to 90% again! Well, plus I have a cord charger for each of my cell phones and a plug-in charger for my camera, those worked their wonders too.

Pretty busy at work, but I took a short break and threw up pictures from Minneapolis and a few from snowboarding on Monday.

I'm ~almost~ 100% back to "bare minimum" status. This is a status I made up in which in all areas, I'm never allowed to get below a certain level, and when I was fresh off the broken ankle, I was FAR below this. Mind you this does NOT put me even close to "in shape", but I'm almost back to bare minimum. Chest, Biceps, and Shoulders are back to bare minimum. Back and Triceps need some work. Running is just below bare minimum -- I should be running at LEAST 10 miles a week (I'm comfortable at 20, but bare minimum should be 10) .. I'm at about 7 right now, but hopefully can be at 5 after today already. Point being -- I'm gettin' there, slow and stead wins the race.

After the gym tonight shall be shower, finish laundry right quick, then go to Jessie's to watch Lost ~daaaaa~ (that was supposed to be the noise it plays when the screen goes black and it says "Lost", pretty weak - I know). Tomorrow is Tiff's going away thing, Friday chillin' with Jessie Saturday going to the Avs/Wings game, then likely to Faith's b-day party, and Saturday night it sounds like Mr. Hornick will be in town yet again. Sunday the Seahawks get to dismantle the Panthers, then we're back at it for another fun-filled week at work. That, again, is my life in a bloody big nutshell.

I'll get back to fun stuff tomorrow now that you're caught up on the life and times of me.

What I am listening to as I type this: Tom Petty - Breakdown
What I am currently addicted to: cough drops

January 17, 2006

That was a fantastic, yet tiring, yet now caught-up-on-sleep, weekend. Got to MPLS on Friday and hit the town with everyone. Saturday spent the day watching ISU and the Seahawks lose and win respectively, then went to the Wild/Flames game, then went to the bar. Sunday I flew back to Denver, watched the insane Steelers/Colts game, then went and met up with everyone to watch the Bears lose. Yesterday went snowboarding at Keystone all day, came back, went grocery shopping, and went to bed at (no lie) 5:30pm, and here I reside at work.

No time to put up pictures, I'm quite busy.

I'm listening to XM radio right now, quite nice hearing no more commercials. I also got about 70 more cd's to rip today, maybe 100, I dunno. Either way, I think I'm running out of CD's to get. I got handed a whole book ... and in the first book, there was like 3 I didn't already have ripped. Pretty kickass, eh?

So the Seahawks are playing the Panthers next weekend in the NFC Championship Game. That is going to be a strange experience. I may have to lock myself in my room to watch the game as I'll be on nerve's edge. Just think if it was Broncos/Seahawks in the Super Bowl ... I'd have the opportunity for ULTIMATE BRAGGING RIGHTS!!! No more trash talk from Bronco fans and I can talk all the trash I want indefinitely. Talk about a dream come true, and it could happen. It just might ... but for now, just gotta take it one game at a time.

What I am listening to as I type this: Ant Banks - Packin' A Gat
What I am currently addicted to: cough drops

January 13, 2006

Wow, a Friday the 13th and I'm not even going to put up my "ch-ch-ch-ch, ha-ha-ha-ha" noise from the movies OR my Jason Vorhees picture.

I'm out to Minneapolis in about 1/2 hour, GO SEAHAWKS!!! Have a great 3-day weekend!! Monday holidays rule.

What I am listening to as I type this: Deftones - Pink Maggit
What I am currently addicted to: cough drops

January 12, 2006

DEFTONES ARE COMING TO DENVER MARCH 25!!! GIGGIDY GIGGIDY GIGGIDY!!!!!!

The weekend is practically here, should be a wonderful one. My flight for Minneapolis leaves around 2:30 on Friday afternoon. Probably hit up happy hour or something Fridya night, Saturday ISU/Texas Tech is on at 11, the Seahawks/Skins playoff game at 3:30, then we're going to the Wild/Flames game in St. Paul on Saturday night. I fly back here Sunday morning, watch football all day Sunday, then Monday I'm going snowboarding all day. Gotta love those 3-day weekends for Monday holidays - makes for a nice break.

My ankle, while somewhat sore from snowboarding, was able to run 1 1/2 miles last night then do the elliptical for 20ish more minutes, so I got a decent workout in yesterday, I'll try to emulate it today. Busy at work, coding and upgrading ... upgrading and coding.

Going to the movies with Jess tonight. Tomorrow is a much-needed payday, I've lived cheap this paycheck on purpose. I wrote out my official "Goals of 2006" list ... wow, I've got a lot to accomplish this year. I'll post it after I scan it. Quite ridiculous, and if I meet all my goals, I'll be thrilled.

Remember when I told that story about the hair being stuck behind my eyeball? Well I'm hoping to soon have photographic evidence of me doing something even more disgusting in the near future: Ear Wax Candles. I've been wanting to do that for awhile, and I'll be sure to show you the disgustingness in it's entirety. Until then, happy Thursady. (Oh, my cell phone is still acting weird ... if you have my Treo #, use it).

What I am listening to as I type this: Master P - Throw 'Em Up
What I am currently addicted to: cough drops

January 11, 2006

really busy .... probably will be tomorrow too

What I am listening to as I type this: DJ Quik - Born And Raised In Compton
What I am currently addicted to: cough drops

January 10, 2006

Watched ISU pull a second-half "Mack Meltdown" last night. For those of you who don't know, the "Mack Meltdown" is a term my friends made up a couple years ago about me. At first it pertained to Golden Tee, but has since been discovered to work well for me in Fantasy Football, real golf, poker, my Seahawks games, and several other things associated with me. Defined, it is when I'm clearly doing very well at something, in fact, I'm on the verge of running away with whatever competition I'm in ... then I choke royally and blow it. Anyways, the Cyclones certainly pulled a Mack Meltdown in the second half last night as Texas shot 800 free throws to our none, and they made 87 three-point field goals in the second half alone. You'd think these would be some sort of record, eh?

After last night I'm about 1/3 done with my list of things I wanted to get done over the last 2 weekends, I don't know how I manage to get so far behind with everything in my life. This never used to happen.

Do you like the birthday cake Jessica made for me? It's on the Jan '06 CO page and today's pic of the day. And yes - I realize how God-awful that picture on the main page is, but I wanted one of me jumping on a snowboard, and sadly, that's the only one I have that's remotely close to decent. This year I will vow to get better pix of me on my board posted. I decided that Monday -- no matter how bad the ankle hurts or how bad my cold is -- I'm going to dedicate the day to mastering C-rails ... I will get this down eventually, and in turn, I will have kickass pictures for you.

What I am listening to as I type this: Fiona Apple - Criminal
What I am currently addicted to: cough drops

January 09, 2006

I feel like garbage. This cacophony coming from my lungs had me worried I was in the early stages of yet another dreaded battle with pneumonia, but I don't think that's it, I think I just have the flu or something. Either way, I feel like a heaping and sweltering pile of garbage. I didn't work Friday, and on Saturday (in classic horrible-decision-making-skills mode) I went snowboarding at Beaver Creek. I'd be damned if I was going to miss snowboarding on my birthday, but it was a bad idea. Went out to Carrabba's with Jessica on Saturday night, and yesterday ... sleep. I have no idea what I'm doing at work today, this might be a 1/2 day, I feel like complete shit, Ferris.

Jessica made me a kickass birthday cake ... it had a snowboarding guy on it, I have a picture but it's on my Treo, which is at home.

This is always a good email to get from a campus-wide contest:

Congratulations to Bryan Mack who won the Bowl Pick'em Contest! Bryan picked a perfect BCS series to take the competition. As a result, he wins a trophy and a $10 gift certificate to Woody's Pizza.

Bonus! Translation of that email: I rule.

Looks like a Seahawks/Redskins rematch this Saturday ... Go 'Hawks!!!

I'm off to Minneapolis on Friday afternoon. Going to the Wild/Flames game Saturday night, not sure what the rest of the weekend has in store. I believe Tyler and OGC are coming up as well. Hopefully I feel better by the time I get up there!!

New MP3 is up ...

Pictures are up from Beaver Creek. And THAT my friends, is how you celebrate a birthday without having to call everyone on the planet and say "HEY EVERYONE! LETS GO OUT IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!" Note to everyone: birthdays are no big deal, I don't care about mine ... let alone yours.

What I am listening to as I type this: Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
What I am currently addicted to: cleaning (I actually vacuumed the stairs, that's how addicted to this I am right now)

January 05, 2006

I suppose I was wrong. I predicted Texas to win by 20 last night, but they only won by 2. I seriously gave USC no chance in that game, so my hat is off to them for almost beating Texas. As hosed as this is, I was cheering for Texas -- go BIG XII!! The only teams I'd cheer against in the Big XII (with regards to football) are Nebraska and Colorado. Anyways, nice work Texas ... Vince Young - you're a beast. My only comment on the game is as follows:
If Reggie Bush is so amazing, what in the hell was he doing with that lateral pass fumble thing in the first quarter?! Just what in the hell was that supposed to be? Ok, the guy is an insane runner, but that was a horrible decision in the most important game of the season.

I still must admit, after looking at the above 2 photos, USC is still the winner ;o)

A frog was living in my throat last night, I could barely understand myself my voice was so raspy. Hopefully that'll go away before the weekend. I'd like to go snowboarding on Saturday, I've skied or snowboarded on my b-day every year since I was 19 with the exception of last year when I was running in Phoenix. I think I'll head up to A-Basin Saturday morning, then hang out with Jess Saturday night. Got some stuff to do on Sunday, and have to pick Andy up at the aerpuerto that evening.

I had 73 things to say today, I've only said 2, I forgot the other 71.

What I am listening to as I type this: turned the radio off as that damn Disturbed song I hate was on ... again
What I am currently addicted to: ankle rehab/working out

January 04, 2006

I have several new year's resolutions, but my most important and official one is as follows:

I WILL NOT FIX ANYBODY'S COMPUTER (UNLESS THEY PAY ME $50/HR + A 12 PACK OF NEWCASTLE)

What I am listening to as I type this: RATM - Know Your Enemy
What I am currently addicted to: ankle rehab/working out

January 03, 2006

I learned 2 things this weekend .... 1) I can snowboard at about 75% of my best ability, and in no way is that a bad thing. 2) I'm never going out on New Year's Eve again (let alone, but even more so - go downtown!) as I learned that even if you have only 1 beer the whole night you still end up spending nearly $70, and that's ridiculous.

Pictures are up ...

I watched 2 of the Harry Potter movies yesterday with Jessie, got 1 more to go then we're going to see the 4th one in the theatre.

I had lots of things to say today, but I can't remember what they were. Back to work, I don't like this whole "work 8 hours a day" thing... this is going to be difficult to get back into!