Christmas is Next Friday?

Well everyone its finals week here at Montana Tech and the Library is full and students have their nose to the books. Well this finals week compared to all of mine in the past has been pretty easy. I only have two finals and they are really spread out so I have time to study for them both. Well I’m getting really excited to go home for Xmas break. I’ll hopefully be doing a lot of ice fishing. Yes everyone it’s that time of the season again to bust out the ice cleats and poles and start drilling holes threw the ice. I’m stoked to hang out with some of my friends from high school and not have to worry about papers or test for about a month. So I didn’t realize that Xmas was really that close what Christmas is next Friday? I have most of my Xmas shopping done but still have to get my sister something, she’s always hard to shop for because she has everything hahaha. Well everyone I better go get some studying in talk to you all later.

The Holiday Season Is Here!!!!!

So it’s official the Holiday season is here. I’m currently watching Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town, the 1970 version. I love the Holidays; I don’t know if it’s because my birthday is two days after Christmas or what. But ever since I was little, I have just loved putting up lights and the tree. In our old house in Montana City, we had a 12-foot fake Christmas tree, which took us all day to put up. This year in Butte, I actually put up decorations at my house.
I put up a Christmas tree and decorated it with green ornaments and silver garland. My tree would look really cool if it had white lights on it, but the tree came with colored lights, although it still looks sweet. Then I put up my grandma’s ceramic Christmas tree that was made around 1984. Then I really got into it and wrapped lights around the fence that goes around my house. I have bought my mom her present and birthday presents and haven’t bought anyone else theirs yet. Well finals are right around the corner, meaning next week. I don’t have to take my math final because if you have 80% or greater in attendance, then your final is optional. So I only have two finals, one in Management on Tuesday and one in Biology on Thursday. My next week schedule shouldn’t be too bad. Breaking news, everyone: I will be going to Phoenix to the Fiesta Bowl to watch Boise State play TCU. We, and when I say “we” I mean Chuck, Sully, Wacy, Bo, A-Train and me, are going to Vegas for a couple days before the game and I will be 21 years of age by three whole days. Then we are going to the Fiesta Bowl game and are going to try and get some tickets to the Cardinals and Packers game. We will be leaving the 31st of December and coming back the 6th of January. Well everyone, I will check back in before finals are over!!!!

Biggest Buck Ever!!!

Hey everyone! Well just to let you know, I shot my biggest buck ever up in Malta last weekend. Vance and his dad think that it will score around 140. I have never scored a buck that I have shot. I usually just say a 4x4 or 3x3, which are just how many points the buck has. The buck I shot was a 4x4; it’s very thick and 19 inches wide. I’m going to get this buck shoulder mounted which is going to put a dent in my wallet, but I really don’t care because this is my biggest buck ever and it’s something to build off of for the rest of my hunting career.
So Thanksgiving went pretty well over at my Aunt and Uncle’s in Whitehall. There were around 16 of us eating dinner, so it was a packed house. After dinner, the girls went back to Helena to shop for Black Friday, and the guys stayed at my Uncle’s to hunt for deer. With me already shooting my buck, we were looking for a nice one for my dad. My Uncle said he had seen a nice buck the night before, but of course it never showed its face.
My dad, myself and our friend Bill went hunting today since today is the last day of hunting season. We went up to our usual spot and didn’t see a thing. If you recall from one of my old blogs, for some reason they decided to log right where our favorite spot is. So we decided to go and check our spot out since they are done logging for the year and aren’t going to start again until spring. Anyways, they weren’t in there today. After not seeing anything, we went to a different spot, and Bill ended up shooting a cow elk.
So when I’m hunting, sometimes I feel like the animals talk to each other. I know that it sounds crazy, but sometimes I’ll be walking and hear a chipmunk or a bird making noises and it makes me think. Maybe they are telling the elk that there are hunters coming. (LOL) you all probably think that I’m crazy or something, but just next time you are hunting (if you hunt) think about it when that stupid chipmunk is making noises and then you don’t see any elk.
Well everyone, I will talk to you all later!!! Enjoy my pictures!!!!!!

Malta Baby!!!

Well hello everyone! I am currently sitting in the Board of Regents meeting in the SUB in Bozeman. Jen and I came down last night because we had a meeting that we thought started at 6, but didn’t start until 7. So we had to hang out in the SUB basement for an hour, which sucked. The meeting was our MAS meeting, which is where the Presidents and Vice Presidents of all the colleges in Montana meet and discuss things like bills and money to give out. Today we will leave Bozeman around one o’clock and head back to Butte. Then when we get back to Butte, I’ll be heading off to Helena to go up to Malta to do some hunting with my Dad and Vance. Hopefully I can see a nice Whitetail buck to shoot. We will be deer hunting out of a blind, which is something I’ve always wanted to try. That’s how they hunt on the hunting shows, and I’ve always thought that it really looks like a blast. Then in between deer hunting during the morning and night, we will be bird hunting in the afternoon. I have never gone bird hunting, which again is something I’ve always wanted to do, since there is a lot of shooting and I love to lay the hammer down. Well everyone, next time I will post some pictures of the animals I shoot this weekend.

Done With Football!!!

Hey everyone, what is up? Well my first week off of football did not really seem like football was over. It was more like, I would say, Thanksgiving break or something. I went up to our annual hunting camp at Park Lake last Tuesday afternoon until Friday afternoon. I decided to head up on Tuesday because we didn’t have school on Wednesday, so then I would only miss two days of school. So I’m not very happy that football is over because I really think that we had good team and that we could have went to the playoffs this year if we hadn’t lost that first game to Mines. We would have been eight and three in conference and eight and eight and three overall, so I’m thinking that we would have made it in the top 16 in the nation. I heard that we are like 24th and maybe 22nd in a couple polls. Next year I think that we are going to roll teams up. We will be bringing back a lot of our offensive starters for the past couple of years. But we did lose some key guys on defense, like Skippy Sims and Joel Wilson. So enough about football, you are all probably sick of me talking about football for the past couple months. But that’s really the only thing that I do during those months; it takes up all of my time. So I can’t believe that it is already time to sign up for classes. Also I can’t believe that next year will be my senior year in college, but I do have two senior years for football. This pretty much means that I have one year of school to do in two years, which is always a good thing. It means that I can get a lot of hunting and fishing in. So this weekend I’m heading up to Malta with Vance and my dad to go horn hunting. I hear about all of these huge bucks up in Malta from Vance, so this weekend is his time to prove it to me. This week is going to be a really short week for me. I have school on Monday and Tuesday, and then Wednesday I will be in Bozeman for the Student Regents meetings. We will be staying there Wednesday night and then coming back Thursday for classes. Then hopefully we will head up to Malta Thursday after my class. Well everyone, I hope you all have a great week!!!! I’ll check back in later this week!!!!

Following The Pens!!!

Well good morning everyone! It’s a beautiful morning here in Butte. So this blog will have two main topics. The first is pens and how they get around, and the second topic is tires. So lately I’ve been thinking about pens, yes the pens that you write with when you’re at, let’s say, Target or Applebee’s. I first was thinking about this because I was studying for a test in the library last week and looked down and had a personal pen from Garry Bock in Seattle, Washington. Now I have no clue, not even an idea of how I went about to get this pen. Think about it next time you’re out and about and you write a check or have to sign your receipt. Look down and see what your pen says and where it’s from. It makes me want to start a track the pen website, like how people have track your bill. Sometimes on your dollar bill there is a stamp that has a website where you can type in the dollar bill number and it will tell you exactly where that dollar bill has been. It would be interesting to see how pens circulate. I would really like to know how many people my pen from Gary Bock has been with and how it really got to me in Butte, Montana. So now that we got that up in the open, I would like to ask: when did new tires get so freaking expensive? I blew a tire out on the way back from Helena on Sunday afternoon right outside of Boulder. Since my left arm was hurt from the game on Saturday, it was really difficult to get the new tire on. Then my truck came off the jack so I couldn’t get the truck high enough to get the new tire put on. My dad had to come and bring me a couple of blocks so I could lift the truck up a little bit with the jack and then lower it and set it on the block. So I could then put the jack on a block to the lift the truck high enough, it was a process let me tell you. My tires still had 20,000 miles left on them so Les Schwab gave me a $100 off and then another $100 because I’m a Montana Tech student. You can believe my excitement when I found out that I got $200 off. Well everyone, I will chat will you all later this week!!!!

Different!

Hey everyone, I know it’s been awhile, but I have just been swamped lately. Last week I had three tests. It’s like all of my teachers get together in a room and try to kill me with tests. So I was studying my butt off all last week and spending many hours in my study room which no one usually gets because it’s all glass. Well we played Eastern Oregon this past weekend, and they WERE ranked #18 in the nation until Saturday when we beat them 28-24. I really hate this trip out to Eastern because last year was the first game I started, and if you recall from my old blog, I had food poisoning and threw up all nine hours of the trip. Well yesterday was opening day for regular hunting season, and I was stoked. Jon, A-Train and I went up to Park Lake and went hunting in my usual spot. We saw a lot of elk, and Jon and I had a spike elk walk about five yards in front of us. Unfortunately, you can’t shoot spikes because they have to have a brow tine which is a horn that comes out the front of the rack. Also A-Train got into the elk across the gulch from Jon and me. We were sitting across telling him where but he couldn’t find them of course. This opening day was like no other. This was the first time that I have ever gone elk hunting and not been with my dad. He and my mom drove back half way from Eastern after the game, so it was really weird not to have him around. After hunting, we stopped at Chubby’s and had some FREE stew. You really can’t beat free anything. Well everyone, I’ve got to run off to class!!!! I’ll check back in later this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have You Ever Thought You Just Bombed A Test?

Hello to all my loyal blog fans! Well I’m freaking sick again and have been pumping myself full of orange juice. I went to dinner last night with my mom’s friend Lisa to the Land of Magic, which is always good. She bought me dinner since I’m a poor college student; I tried to buy dinner, but she beat me to the check. Well this Saturday is our homecoming game against Montana Western. We really gave it to them last time in Dillon, but I really believe that they are a whole different team this time around. So we really need to win this weekend, because if we loose one more game, then our playoff hopes are gone. I think that if we can win out the rest of the season we will be in the postseason for sure. I don’t know about the rest of the state, but here in Butte it has been snowing all day. The snow really isn’t sticking that much, but there still is snow on the ground. Also, to top the cold weather off, the heat is not working in my house. So it’s freaking cold in my house, and the heat guy will not be here until tomorrow morning. I’m really glad that I put my electric mattress pad on my bed yesterday when I cleaned my house. It feels so good to get into an already warm bed and then turn it off before I go to sleep so I don’t burn my house down. So my parents will be down on Friday for the game and to go to the Brew Ha Ha thing that is going on. I’m pretty sure that my sister and Vance will be down also to go. I’m really excited for the game on Saturday except for one thing, the freaking cold weather. The only weather that I don’t like playing in is the snow. I don’t know why I love to play in the rain and heat, but there’s just something about the snow that I hate. Well everyone, have you ever thought that you just bombed a test and then found out that you aced it? I did (LOL). I didn’t think that I did very well on my math test, but come to find out that I got a 100% on it. Go figure. Have a great weekend, and I hope that you come cheer us on at the game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Itch!!!!!

Well hello everyone! If you haven’t heard, we won last weekend against the Northern Lights 17-14. The game was a really hard fought battle in the trenches. We rushed for over 300 hundred yards, and one running back, Skyler Knuchel, rushed for 209 yards himself, which means that us O-Lineman must be doing something right to have rushed for over 300 hundred yards in back to back games. The family game up to the game, and since Vance, my sister’s boyfriend, is from Malta, he and my sister came up, and then they all went to Malta after our game on Saturday. Well I really haven’t talked a lot about ASMT this year yet. So we decided to get everyone winter jackets this year instead of the wind breaker jackets we got last year. There really are only two big items that have come up this year with ASMT. First, parking is a really big problem on campus since our campus enrollment is up this year. We have talked with the chancellor on numerous occasions, and he has a couple of ideas that will make some new parking lots on campus. The second item is that the HPER expansion was finally passed by the board of regents, which means that our student fees will increase next year. I’m willing to pay the increase because our current HPER condition is not really acceptable. The locker room is really disgusting, and I refuse to walk on the floor bare footed. So I don’t know about you, but with this cold weather, I’m sure starting to get that itch. Now this itch is not a bad one, it’s the itch for hunting season and ice fishing season to begin. I keep seeing elk and deer everywhere, and I will be hunting hopefully every second that I don’t have football or school. Then when the temperature drops low enough and that ice starts forming, I will be out there drilling holes. Well everyone, we play Montana Western again, which means that we are on our second half of the season. We really gave it to them last time in Dillon, and we plan on doing the same again. Then next week we play Carroll, but I don’t have enough space on this blog to talk about that game…….(LOL) Well everyone, I’ll shout at you later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DUMMY ROMO!!!!.

Well hello everyone I’m sorry that I haven’t blogged in a while I was sick last week and I was not feeling up to it. Well if you haven’t heard we won in Billings this last weekend 33-13. Our offensive line accompanied by our running backs put up over 300 yards of rushing. Which is exactly what we need to do every single weekend, I was interviewed after the game by Bill Foley which was cool and he had some of my quotes in the paper on Sunday. Well last week I had two tests actually is sort of a funny story, I was sick on Monday so I didn’t go to Biology, well come to find out on Tuesday night I was informed that we had a Biology test Wednesday. Last week I brought my new big screen T.V. to get it fixed and I’m going to pick it up today, I’m really excited get it back to watch the COWBOYS PLAY TONIGHT. They play the Carolina Panthers who aren’t very good. I just hope that dummy ROMO doesn’t suck it up tonight and they win by 100 points. But on the flip side I need ROMO to not play very good for my Fantasy Football team, I’m winning right now but the guy I’m playing has ROMO so I can’t afford for ROMO do really good. Well after the game on Saturday I stayed with my parents and we stayed another night in Billings. We ate at the Olive Garden which was pretty good and it was my first time eating there, it was nice to have something new. Also on Sunday morning we went to Cabela’s for a couple hours but they are so darn expensive you can’t really afford to buy a lot of things there. I bought a ladder for our boat so you can get out of the water after you jump in for like $15 which is a steal. Well everyone I promise I will right another blog this week!!!!

Pancake Block!

Hello everyone, I hope that you had a better weekend than I did. Well it started out being a good weekend with my family coming down. My sister, Vance, their friend Falcon and my parents all stayed at my house Friday night, and then Abby and everyone else stayed here Saturday night after the game. We ate our usual O-Lineman dinner at Fred’s, which we won’t eat there for next week’s game because of our loss to Carroll College. So now to our game this weekend: we lost, if you haven’t heard. It was a really close game until halftime, and then the five turnovers kicked in, and we got our butts kicked. I played a really good game on Saturday; I didn’t give up a sack and had four pancake blocks. If you don’t know what a pancake block is, it’s when you block or hit someone and they end up on their back. After the game, everyone came back to my house and ate dinner, and we watched the USC vs. Ohio State game and pretty much every other college football game possible. At one time I think there might have been fifteen people at my house eating and hanging out; a lot of them were family. I decided not to go out on Saturday night mainly because I was super tired from the game. The game was the hottest of the year, and I played every snap, which I’m not complaining about, but let’s just say I was pooped! Well this week will be nothing special except for I’m bringing my big screen down to Anaconda to get the picture fixed. The guy seemed pretty cool, and Louie will be helping me get it down there and back. Well everyone have a great week, and talk to you soon!!!!

Kick Carroll College's (you know what)!!!!

Well Its Tuesday everyone, which is one day closer to kicking Carroll College's (you know what) on this Saturday afternoon. We will prepare for this week just like every other week in the season. But it seems like we fly around a little harder this week in practice. If you haven’t heard we stomped Western last weekend 42-28, it was a good game at first. They would score and we would score which happened a couple rounds then we stopped them right before halftime and we scored to go up by a touchdown and never looked back from there. After the game I rode back with my parents and we ate in Melrose, I have never had a burger so big in my life! I’m not joking at all everyone, these burgers were gigantic. These burgers were 8oz and had a half pound of roast beef stalked on top of it. So Ms. Abigail came to Butte on Sunday night from Helena and stayed the night. Then yesterday we decided we would go out and try shooting my new 17/HMR. We were shooting bottles and I will not lie to my loyal blog readers, Abby shot two bottles and I didn’t shoot one. She out shot me yesterday, so GOOD JOB ABBY! Well I hope that you all come to the CARROLL game this weekend to watch us go 2-0 in the Frontier Conference. I hope you like the video of Abby shooting the 17/HMR!!!!!

Frontier Conference

What’s cracking everyone? I just got done doing some homework and cooking a very scrumptious dinner. I cooked three burgers, and I would just like to say they were the best burgers that I have ever cooked on the BBQ! Well everyone, the first full week of school is here and almost done. Geez the weeks and days just seem to roll just right on by when I’m so darn busy. Football keeps me very busy between practice, lifting, film and trying to catch some shut eye in between. We lost last weekend in South Dakota, which we shouldn’t have at all, but let’s not talk a lot about last weekend. So this weekend we play Western. They always play us tough, and I will be watching a lot of film from last year’s two games so I can scout the guy I will be playing against. So Sully will be in the house this weekend, and I’m excited to see him since I haven’t seen him in a really long time, not to mention how weird it is not having Shannon Baby and Sully here this school year. My parents will be coming down on Friday night so they can just get up and drive to the game Saturday morning. We are practicing very well so far this week, a lot better than last week’s practices, and I’m really excited to dominate some Dawgs this weekend. So we only had two applications turned in for the Freshman Senators this semester, and elections are tomorrow and Thursday, so everyone should vote! Well everyone have a good week, and I’ll check back in when we are 1-0 in the Frontier Conference.

ASMT!

Well happy first week of school everyone, if there is such a thing (LOL)! Lately I have been spending a lot of time with the other ASMT executive team pretty much gutting the office. When I say “gutting the office”, I mean getting rid of boxes and boxes of papers, like the Student Handbook from 1972. This office has been the storage room for a while, and we have cleaned it out, and it isn’t looking too shabby if I say so myself. Well it’s the first GAME WEEK of our 2009 season, and our destination is the National Championship. We leave Thursday night at midnight for South Dakota. It’s nice leaving so late because then we can sleep on the bus and wake up and be in South Dakota. If you are a freshman here at Montana Tech and want to join the student government, come to the SUB in room 202 and pick up an application to run for our two openings. Employers really like you to have extracurricular activities, and student government looks really good on an application. Well I took my first ice bath yesterday, and let’s just say it was cold. It was different sitting in ice-cold water, but it felt really good. I was ice-bathing for my right leg and ankle. So I was sitting in the ice bath with two ice bags on my shoulders, so I looked like I was really beat up, which I am. Well everyone have a great first week of school!!!!!

Back In Butte!

Well first of all I’m sorry I haven’t blogged in a really long time everyone!!! I finally have time to sit down and take a break to give a shout out to all my loyal readers. I’m back down in Butte, and football is in full swing. We just finished up with two-a-days, and now we only have one-a-day, which is a good thing because I don’t think my body could take much more beating. I had Direct TV installed on Monday, so I’m really excited to have that up and going and really excited to have NFL Sunday Ticket, which means I will be able to watch every Dallas Cowboy game this season. I’m really excited to have DVR so I can record the Cowboys games when we are watching game film and I can watch the game after. My parents came to Butte this last weekend because they were in Yellowstone for the weekend and made a slight swing towards Butte. They will be back this weekend for my scrimmage, and my sister and Vance will be down also, so it will be nice to see everyone again. So I got my Sunday Ticket room all setup, and I have buddies that have already decided to invite themselves over to come and watch the games with me (LOL). School starts next Tuesday, and I’m excited to get back in the swing of things here in Butte. I have already started my ASMT work: I put in my order to get keys to the office so I can go in and clean and look around. Well everyone I promise to start blogging twice a week, so I will talk to you very soon!!!!

Hello Everyone!

Hello everyone, and welcome to my last week of work until I go back and the real work starts LOL. Well I really have enjoyed working at MDT this summer, even though the summer has just flown by. I really feel like I fit in, and I made a lot of great connections for the future. If you guys would like to see some of the videos that I have created you can click on this link http://www.mdt.mt.gov/jobs/video.shtml, and they obviously are on the left hand side. They will probably glitch at first, but if you click play and then stop it and play it again, it should work like a champ. So those are just a couple of videos that I have created this summer. As you probably already know, I went around and made a video for most every intern. I had a couple of interns who didn’t return my emails or phone calls, so they didn’t get one. It’s official everyone: I have ordered Direct TV which only means I have, oh yes, I have NFL SUNDAY TICKET now, which is great news, because now I can watch every Cowboy game and watch them dominate the league. Well when we get back there are around twelve of us that are going to get a fantasy football league going, and I think that if we all put in ten bucks then the pot will pay out $120 bucks, which isn’t too bad for doing something fun. This week I have to pack everything up, and when I say everything, I mean my clothes and that’s about it LOL. Since I kept my house over the summer, I don’t have to move anything back and forth between Helena and Butte, which is always nice. Well everyone, my summer in review will be coming on Thursday, so stay tuned!!!!!!!

Well Good Morning!

Well good morning to all my loyal bloggers! It’s Thursday, which means I only have six days of work left in my first official internship with the Department of Transportation. Actually my Aunt and I were talking yesterday, and she couldn’t believe how fast this summer has gone by. She said it seemed like it was just two weeks ago that I was starting on here at MDT! Well this week has been busy upon busy, but really, what else is new! I have been coming to work every day, and then after work I go and do yard work for Liz at the new house in town that she bought. Russell is helping me with everything, so it’s nice having someone else there, and also the help is really nice too. On Monday, we went to bring up some of the patio furniture from her house in Montana City, and then she explained really what she wanted us to do. So then on Tuesday, we got everything ready to go work up there, and we got rained out. I was mad because it just put us a day behind of where I really wanted to be. So yesterday we did cut a lot of dead branches off trees, and then we cut down a fairly good size tree, but my chainsaw started to act up after a while, so we quit for the day and will go and finish up with all the tree stuff today. So this weekend is really my last weekend, and I plan on going fishing at least one of the days. It’s going to be weird when I go back to Butte, because it’s a whole different lifestyle down there than here in Helena. Actually it’s pretty much like a whole different life. I say this because I won’t see my parents until our game in South Dakota, and I have been working and mowing every day this summer. Then when I get to Butte, I will start with the ASMT Vice President job and football pretty much 24/7 for the next, oh, four months, and then in about a month I will be adding school to the schedule. But I’m excited for school and football to start. I say this now but I’m sure I’ll be regretting those words soon. Well everyone, next week I will be recapping the summer so stay tuned!!!!

Intern Wrap Up!

Well good morning everyone, and HAPPY MONDAY to all my loyal blog readers! So I have been very busy at work doing editing upon editing. My eyes have been red and sore all week from doing so much editing; I had to complete all of my intern spotlight videos before yesterday because we had our intern wrap up day. The day went pretty good. In the morning we had a little class taught by Kila, and she’s a bad ‘A’ if you catch my drift. Her class was on generation caps in the work place. The four different generations are Veterans, Baby Boomers, Gen X and Millenniums, which I’m a Millennium. It was a pretty cool training with a lot of pictures and open discussion of what we thought about the other generations, and then they told us what they thought about us. For example, she taught them that our generation can multitask (we can text and still be productive or listen), and that if we are texting it’s not to be disrespectful, it’s just that we need to be in constant contact with our friends and family. Then we had a BBQ out in the courtyard, and the Director flipped burgers for us, which was pretty cool. After lunch was a session where we went around and told everyone about our internships. There were a lot of great ones, but sadly a couple where people just kind of hated being an intern here. When it was my time, I showed on the big projector screen everyone’s intern spotlight videos. They all seemed to really like them, which really made me feel good that I did a good job, which brings me back to the generations thing. Kila told us that my generation needs to pretty much have an “At a boy” or instant positive feedback. So this weekend I will be moving stuff around at the units. I will be moving my stuff which is a little here and a little there into one 10x10 unit. So I will be getting up early Saturday morning to move this stuff before the sun hits and then probably hit the lake or the rope swing. Well everyone, have a great weekend and HAPPY MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Twin Lakes Here We Come!!!!!

Well another happy Monday is probably appropriate for today! Well right now its pouring rain outside which sucks big time for me because I have mowing to get done and the rain doesn’t help me at all. I had a great time camping out at JoBonner this past weekend with Autumn, Vance and Ms. Abigail. We went out on Friday afternoon and then made our way to the rope swing and the water was freezing cold. I was the only one out of us four to swing off the rope; the others are just big wimps I guess! My dad came out Saturday morning and brought the boat and we went Carpeye fishing (if you have read my past blogs then you know what I’m talking about). My dad caught one little one and then Vance caught a Perch we can officially say the only Perch ever caught in our boat. Then that afternoon I tried Trout fishing and didn’t catch any either but we were only out for about forty five minutes and the lake was crazy with people tubing, jet skiing and sail boats, actually one sail boat couldn’t turn and came within about five feet of running into us. So this week and work I will be working four-ten hour days for our family camping trip up to Twin Lakes. I’m sure if you have been following my blog since last summer then you seen all the pictures I took and posted. Ms. Abigail and I will be taking off Thursday after I get off on Thursday and make our way up to the best lake in Montana. My parents are taking off on Wednesday and going to stop and stay one night on the Big Hole on there way up and then we should both get there on Thursday. Autumn and Vance will be coming up Friday after work and then they will stay until Tuesday or Wednesday next week but my parents and I will be leaving on Sunday. So I hope you all have a great week and another happy Monday to you all!

APPLESLEAZE

Well everyone, I haven’t chatted with you all in a while, so I would like to start out by warning people not to eat at APPLESLEAZE or as it’s more commonly known, Applebee’s. My sister, Vance and I went there last night for dinner, and everything was going great until I got my meal. It went downhill fast from there. First of all, I found a smaller grey hair (maybe from a beard) in my French fries, which is just disgusting to begin with. Then my sister said, “Well at least it wasn’t in your burger,” while I’m taking a bite of my burger and yup, you guessed it: a hair that was THREE INCHES LONG was in my burger. That’s when I thought enough is enough and went and found our waitress, and she said, “What, do you want a new burger?” First off I was like, no way, and then I took a new burger so I could eat it for lunch tomorrow. Then when our waitress brought over our ticket, they had tried to charge me for my dinner, so I went over and found her and told her that there was NO WAY I was going to pay for my burger. She tried to get off by telling me that they were making me a new burger, and I said, “Miss, I found two separate hairs in my dinner,” and she said, “Well let me go talk to my manager.” The manager never came over to talk to me or anything, so I will officially say that I will NEVER EVER EVER go to APPLESLEAZE ever again, and I would highly recommend that you not go there either. Well everyone, the summer is just flying by. I only have around a month left of summer, and all I have really done is work and work some more. It isn’t always a bad thing having some extra cash around. That’s one problem I would gladly always have. My plan is to save up money and pay for the difference of my football scholarship and then buy a nice piece of land which I can make a nice investment off of. Well everyone, tonight I will be going to the Hangover with my sis and Vance and maybe four-wheeling with Russ Pat after I get off work. So I leave you with some words of advice: don’t eat at APPLESLEAZE.

The Big Trip!!!

Well I guess you could say that it’s been a while since my last posting! Like one great band Aerosmith says, “Same old song and dance.” Work has been going great I have created around five videos I believe and they look great to me. Since my last blog I have been down to Bozeman for a whole day job with those students again. Which was Tuesday of this past week, and then from Wednesday through Friday I was in a fantastic class. It was how to give effective presentations; I really enjoyed this class because of my lack of speech experience. The only experience I have is giving four ten minute speeches this past semester in class. The thing I liked the most was the presentation style our instructors used, we went through a smaller Power Point and then most of the teaching was done by discussion and not by notes or Power Point. We had to give two speeches only five minutes long; I did one on playing Left Tackle and the other on my video job profiles that I have been working on. So today will be the beginning of my four day adventure through Eastern Montana, I will be heading up to Lewistown to do one interview. Then tomorrow I will be a busy guy, from Lewistown I have to get two interviews done. One of them is in Glasgow and the other will be down by Fort Peck Dam which is nice because I will be making my way towards Miles City where I’m staying tomorrow night. Well everyone I’ll check back in later!!!!!

"HHHEEEYYY"

Well everyone, it’s Tuesday and just think that you have made it past the worst day of them all: MONDAY! Yesterday I was in Bozeman doing some videoing, of course. This program is called the Summer Transportation Institute which is held at Montana State University. There are sixteen high school students enrolled, and they stay on the Montana State University campus in the dorms for two weeks. They go through different classes, such as Geotechnical Engineering introduction, demonstration lab, and soil tower competition, which I watched yesterday, and one group’s soil tower held 150 pounds. Well I’m not going to lie to my loyal blog readers; I almost died running my ten one hundred yard sprints last night! I made all of them in less than nineteen seconds, but jeez I can definitely tell that I haven’t run wind sprints in quite a while. We have to run these sprints at the beginning of football this fall, and if you can’t run all ten under nineteen seconds then you have to run extra after practice with Coach Bo. Or I hear you get kept out of fall practice until you can run them all under the time. Well this weekend I’m back down to Butte to coach the eleven man football camp, which should be tons easier since I played eleven man, and I think that the whole strategy in eight man is a lot different. So I will be leaving for that on Friday, and I have to remember to bring my dang weed whacker because my grass is about four feet tall and looks like crap. Well since I know Shannon baby reads my blogs, I’ll give a shout out to him, “HHHEEEYYY” Shannon baby!!!!!!

Dumb Battery!

To start off this morning’s blog I would like to make a statement: there are no stores in Butte, Montana that have camera accessories. Yesterday I was down outside of Butte videoing the core drillers, and my battery went out on me. I charged it all night before, which was thirteen hours, and the battery decided not to hold a charge. So I had to run back into Butte to look for either a new battery or a charger. My first stop was Wal-Mart which had nothing, then Staples which had nothing, Radio Shack had nothing as well, then Kmart, which didn’t having any to purchase but had a charger from their display camera that they were nice enough to let me charge the battery in the store. I wanted them to lend me the charger, and I was offering to leave some sort of collateral like my cell phone or my driver’s license, but it was a no go. I don’t know why they wouldn’t lend it out, because if I didn’t bring it back, they had my name and everything on my driver’s license, but oh well; at least they let me charge the battery. This morning I’m off to Livingston to video tape the Snooper truck which winds around the bridge and lets the inspectors take a better look at underneath the bridge. So this weekend I’m thinking about heading down to Butte to help out with the eight-man team camp we hold at Tech each year. I hear that it’s pretty fun, and word on the street is that you get paid pretty well also. Last night after work, my parents and I went out and grabbed a campsite at Joe Bonner. My dad is going to bring the camper out today and leave it for a couple of weeks like they did before. My parents really enjoy staying out there for weeks at a time, because when they had the old business, they had no time to leave work. If you haven’t seen the lake in the past week or so, the water is up a ton. I’m thinking from the last time I saw it, which was a two weeks ago, it has risen twenty yards up the beach. Think about how much water it takes to bring a twenty-six mile lake up twenty yards: A LOT!!!!!

Travel Travel Travel!

Once again everyone it’s Friday, and I’m very ready for it to be! This week was crazy for me. Between working at MDT and mowing, it takes a lot out of you. Just about everyday this week I woke up at six so I could be to work at seven, then work till 3:30, go lift at Fuel Fitness with Louie Blood, then mow until around nine every night. So when I got home, I was pooped. A couple of nights I just went straight to bed without eating dinner. Now I must have been really tired if I was skipping a meal, LOL! So on Monday, it was just a regular day at work with meetings and such, but on Tuesday, I went down to Butte and interviewed and videoed the officers working. It was a really interesting work station since you always see semis pulling into them and you don’t really think about all that takes place in them. On Wednesday I took a “How to Interview” class which was an all-day thing, but I really think it will help me in the long run. On Thursday, I was up to Big Sky to do some more interviews and videoing, and I really hadn’t ever been up that way, so it was a treat for me and the river was roaring. Then today I was around Helena with Bob Weber, and he took me around to different construction sites so I could get some video. If you couldn’t tell I’m doing a lot of videoing and not much editing, which means later I will have much to do in the editing division. Also if you couldn’t tell I really haven’t been in the office much and have been doing a lot of traveling, which I really enjoy. Well this weekend my parents are calling it a family weekend, which really is code for lets condense out storage units. We are doing this so we can rent them out, since at our first location we are pretty much full so we are going to move and shift things around so we can rent them out. Well everyone have a great weekend!!!!!

JERK!

Well here’s to another work week! Camping was a blast, except for the minor problems I had with the boat. So Ms. Abigail and I got out there about an hour late, which never sits well with me, because I always need to be on time. Well that night we just hung out by the fire and talked. Ms. Abigail and I had stopped by the local pizza parlor, because my parents were there, and we grabbed a pizza for the ride out there. Just to let you all know the Camp Host at White Earth is a JERK. He treated us like garbage. I don’t know if he did because we were younger or what, but it really made me mad, and I will not camp there as long as he is there. Sorry for the side track; back to the boat. First of all, the battery was dead when I tried to put the boat in Saturday morning.
Luckily we had a spare battery in the boat, so I changed it, and we made our way out to the fishing hole. We caught six trout that morning while we were out, and then after we headed back to camp, I cooked really cheesy scrambled eggs with hash browns added into them. If you’ve never put hash browns into your scrambled eggs, you’re missing out. When we tried to go fishing Saturday afternoon the boat was acting weird and wouldn’t get up and go like it should have. While this was happening a storm moved in on the lake, so the water was pretty choppy, and if you don’t know a lot about storms on Canyon Ferry, they hit with the blink of an eye. Usually when storms hit, the boats scram like when school gets out. There’s always the one or two boats that tough it out and think it will blow over, but I don’t call them tough. I call them thick. Well, I finally have a lifting partner. Louie Blood signed to play football with us next year at Tech, and I’m going to try and help him get ready. Well, I hope that everyone has a great week.

Great Internship Opportunity!

Thank goodness it’s Friday. Well everyone, we made it through another week, and next week it will be June. Jeez, where do the days go? It really seems long ago that I was talking my last final and packing up to come home so I could start my internship here at the Department of Transportation. Quick shout out to everyone: on our website we have a really cool internship available this summer. It’s called Respect the Cage, and three interns will be traveling the state to fairs and other social events to promote seatbelt use and to promote not drinking and driving. The requirements are on the website (www.mdt.mt.gov): click on the “Careers” and then on the big sun which says “Summer Employment Opportunity”. So if you know anyone who is looking for a summer internship, have them read through the requirements and apply. I’m pretty sure that A-Train and John and coming up this weekend so we can go camping out at Canyon Ferry. I told them that the fish were biting, so they really want to come up and camp. So today I conducted my first video interview, and it went very well. I got good footage, and the picture and sound quality are excellent, if I say so myself. I’m very glad that I keep organized, because I have tons of meetings throughout the day, and if I didn’t use the calendar on Microsoft Outlook then I would be all lost and screwed up. Also, keeping all of the work in files and tabs keeps you very organized, which comes in handy when you’re going from one meeting to the next, and you can just run back to your office and open the cabinet and grab your next folder. So my dad bought his new truck finally, which is great news to me, because I get his old truck, which is a 2004 Chevy. I have some work to do on it when I get it, such as getting it detailed, fixing the door and tailgate, and getting a new speaker in the driver door. But all of that is pretty minor. This is a sweet truck, and I’m stoked to get it. Well everyone I hope you all had a great week, like me, and that you’re all just as happy that it’s Friday, like me. So once again, TGIF!!!!!!

Burnt to a Crisp!

This week I have been living by myself at the parents’ apartment, since they have been staying out at the lake all week. It’s been pretty nice, since now I don’t have to fight my dad over the new flat-screen TV. So yesterday morning my mom had cooked some burger for me so I could make dinner. Well when she had finished cooking it, she left it in the pan and set it in the fridge on one of those cork pads so it didn’t crack the fridge glass. So when I came home to cook dinner last night, I got the burger out and set it on the burner to warm it up and went out in the living room to kill some time before the burger was warmed. Little to my knowledge, the stupid cork pad had stuck to the bottom of the pan, and I couldn’t even tell when I put the pan on the burner. So I was sitting out in the living room, and I smelled something weird, and I thought to myself, “Wow, that burger really smells weird.” So I got up and walked into the kitchen, and it was filled, and I mean filled, with smoke. By this time I thought that the burger had burned and that it was the cause of the smoke, so I grabbed the pan and lifted it up, and the dumb cork pad fell off from under the pan. It was burnt to a crisp, and embers were everywhere at this point. I had to open both doors to get a nice draft running through the house and turn the vent on all afternoon to get the stench out of the kitchen. To add to that, it’s just my luck that there isn’t a smoke detector in the kitchen, I don’t really know why, since that’s where I think most fires would start. Well everyone, I’ll leave you with a piece of advice, always check under your pan before you set it on the burner (LOL).

Well Happy Monday if There is Such a Thing…

Well Happy Monday if there is such a thing… Camping went great this weekend; the weather cooperated just like we thought it would. My dad, Vance and I went fishing a lot this weekend and did extremely well every time we put our poles in the water. We were trolling with Rapalas and just knocked the crap out of the rainbows. The trout we caught were huge. I’m talking four to five pounds, every one of them. We threw a lot of them back just because we didn’t need all of them and especially since we could pretty much catch them on demand. My dad and I probably tied for the most fish caught this weekend, and Vance definitely brought up the rear. One thing that didn’t go well this weekend were the bugs. They weren’t at our campground at all, but if you got out on the lake, you were swarmed. They were huge gnat bugs, I’m not talking about a few bugs, I’m talking thousands and thousands of these gnats. So we really had to fight them off while we were fishing, which is never any fun at all. At least they weren’t mosquitoes because we just would have been bitten into one big lump after fishing. The lake is really down right now because they’re letting water out of the dam. There are a couple of little islands that have popped up due to the drop of water, so if you’re out with your boat you better be looking around for new islands popping up. The water temperature hasn’t come up enough for any rational person to be swimming in the lake, but I saw a couple of crazy people swimming at Senior Beach. The average water temperature was probably fifty degrees, and the warmest I saw it was probably fifty-two degrees, which by any normal person is way, way, way too cold to be doing any recreation in the water. Well I have started to work out this week: I signed up at Fuel Fitness, and I think I will enjoy it. The one thing I really didn’t like about Fuel is that their whole gym is in one large room, which I guess maybe I haven’t been to a lot of gyms in my day, but to me I really don’t like to lift with everyone in one big room. But they have really nice equipment so I should be just fine to lift this summer. My goal is to re-break my squat record when I come in during the fall. I want to set the squat record so high that it will be really hard to break. Well everyone have a great week. I’ll check back in later this week!

My First Week!

Happy Friday everyone. Well I have completed my first work week here at the Department of Transportation. I have really enjoyed working here so far. The people are really nice, and I have been keeping pretty busy. The DOT has a maintenance academy out at their pits by Bob’s Valley Market, and they invite workers to come and complete this academy. During this, workers run every piece of equipment, not just the ones that they are specialized in or are used to running. They receive grades during the week of actually running the equipment, and at the end of the week, a closing ceremony is held, and the workers receive completion certificates, and then the best worker for each piece of equipment is given an extra award. So on Wednesday and Thursday, I was out there getting video of the workers running the equipment and also got some great interviews. I recorded tons of video of the equipment in action, which we are going to use in the DVD we will be putting together for campus recruiting and also high school road show. I even got to drive a loader out at the academy, and it was really sweet driving a huge piece of equipment like that; I even dug a huge hole. So my parents already have the camper and boat out at the lake.
Vance and I went out last night to try to fish in our boat, but the wind was blowing so hard. I’m talking G force winds LOL. Not really, but it was actually blowing fairly hard. Ms. Abigail will be coming home this weekend, and I’m fairly certain that she will be coming out to go fishing and maybe even stay the night. The weather shouldn’t be a problem at all this weekend, because the forecast is sun and more sun which I’m very excited for; I’m so sick of the wind blowing all this week here in Helena. Well everyone, hope you all have a great weekend!

New Job!

Well everyone, I made through finals week in one piece and have started my internship with the Department of Transportation. So let’s start with last week: Shannon Baby made it down on Friday morning and after my first of two finals, we went to breakfast. Sully, Bo and I drove down together and met Shannon at Great Harvest Bakery which has great breakfast. I had more final that afternoon and Sully and Shannon had to get ready for their graduation party. On Saturday, Shannon’s family came to my house to get ready for graduation. I didn’t go to the actual ceremony; I just decided to go to their graduation party at Shannon’s old house. On Sunday, Ms. Abigail was in Bozeman, so she stopped at my house that morning and helped me pack all my crap up to move to Helena for the summer. I still have my house rented in Butte for the summer, and I’m deciding if I want to move into a different house with two of my football players buddies. So I just brought my clothes and such things, but I went back today after work and brought up my bed because I have been sleeping terribly. So let’s talk about my new job for the summer. To start off, my sister and I both began our new jobs on Monday which was kind of strange. I have my own cubical, which I think is pretty sweet, since I have never really had my own office. I really like everyone I work with, and I seem to fit in just fine, but I guess I never have really had a problem fitting in anywhere. On Monday, I did a lot of learning and basic things like setting up my voicemail and email and getting my name badge which opens doors around the building. Then today I was supposed to video a class at the Red Lion Hotel, but that really didn’t pan out like we wanted it to, so I just sat in on the class. The class was on behavioral-based interviewing, which is learning how to develop questions to ask the possible candidates. This class was really interesting, and I think that it’s the kind of priceless class that will help me for the rest of my business career. Also, I think that it will help me during my future interviews just knowing how it feels to be asking the questions. Well everyone, this weekend my family and I will be going out to the lake to camp for the weekend which I’m very stoked for. I really want to go fishing on the boat. Well everyone, I’ll check back in later this week! Have a GREAT WEEK!

Shannon Baby Back In Town!

Well happy finals week to everyone here at Montana Tech, if there is such a thing LOL. Today I had two finals, one in Application Programming and one in Statistics, and the AP test wouldn’t hurt my grade if I bombed it, but I had to do well on my Statistics final to pass the class. So this last weekend, Ms. Abigail came up on Friday night, and we actually did something. She always wants to, but we usually end up hanging with the guys or something, so I decided to shake things up a little, and she loved it. We went out to Fairmont Hot Springs, and it felt so good sitting in the hot tub outside. It was such a beautiful afternoon and night out, so that made it that much better. She went home on Saturday, and my mom and sister came down to Udder Insanity. We didn’t win anything, so they went home after doing a little shopping. I bought Gears of War 2, which is a freaking sweet game. Well put it on the calendar everyone, Shannon Baby is coming back to good old Butte for graduation. He will be arriving to Butte on Friday midmorning and will be leaving on Saturday night, which I think he should stay until Sunday. Finals week is always a busy week at the library for pretty much everyone at every college. Some people don’t go to the library all semester until finals week; it’s pretty funny. On Monday, I start into the work force for the summer, and I’m really excited to start this job. Well everyone, I will be doing a lot of studying this week, so I will write another blog sometime this week.

Almost Summer!

Well everyone, I hope you all had a good week, because I did; it was good and busy. So my parents came down on Friday afternoon so they could go to the big auction in the HPER. I let my parents sleep in my queen bed because there’s no way they could sleep in my full size bed. Before they got here, I changed the sheets and pulled the bed out away from the wall so they both can get to their sides easier. I had to work the auction on Friday night; most of the football team was signed up to work. The jobs varied from parking cars, waiting on tables, showing auction items to running the games in the back of the gym. I heard we made somewhere around a hundred thousand dollars. I was tipped very well on Friday night and made seventy dollars from my table. Then on Saturday was the Green/White game. It is is our big scrimmage of the spring and is the last time we all will be together before the beginning of next season. I couldn’t play in the scrimmage, because my ankle isn’t full recovered yet, but I’m sure making great progress with it and still rehabbing it everyday. My boss for my internship called me on Friday and was checking in on how things were going, and we talked a little more on what I will be doing this summer and that they are getting ready for me. I will be starting on Monday, May 11th and have to head out to a conference on my very first day, so I’m excited to start right away and to do many different things during my internship. Today, I went to the Library to study for my accounting test tomorrow at 8 in the morning, so I have to do a little more studying then I’m off to bed. I hope you all have a great week, and if you’re a student here at Tech, you all better start thinking about finals, because this is our last week before them which puts us around twelve days until school’s out for summer!

Mobile Once a Again!!!

Hello to all my loyal blog readers! Well great news everyone: I got my cast cut off today, and I’m not going to lie, it’s amazing not to feel restricted. I was not even put into a walking boot. The doctor told me just to rehab my ankle and knee. When the doctor cut my cast off, I walked right after and still had a gimp to my step, but after a while it went away. I can drive again, and Mav and I will be doing rehab until I’m back and good to go. He said that we aren’t going to rush anything and are just going to take it slow. So I have been doing the ABC’s, which is outlining the letters of the alphabet with your foot. Well my parents came down today and brought me the hunting truck. My dad picked me up from practice and we came back here while my mom brought us dinner from the Bonanza Freeze. Then after we ate, I brought them over to the house that I’m thinking about moving into after this year. My parents will be coming back on Friday for the Digger Auction and the Green/White game. Event though I’m not playing, they still want to see how the team is looking. My aunt and uncle are going to the Digger Auction with my parents like they did last year; they all had a really fun time. So this is the last week of spring football, and it has gone really fast. I only got to practice for about half of spring this year, which really sucks, but when you get hurt your focus is really all about the fall. Well everyone, if you aren’t keeping track, just keep reading my blog and I’ll be updating you on how many days are left in the semester. There are only eighteen days left until summer will officially begin, and those eighteen days are not just school days so we don’t have much longer. Well everyone have a great week!!!!

Out For Spring Football!

Well everyone, my right leg is all casted up after I hurt my right knee and ankle last Tuesday during football practice. We were doing a drill called runway, and I took a step and my foot got stuck in the mushy ground and my knee popped then my ankle popped as well. I was a hooting and hollering when I hit the ground but luckily I didn’t do anything to my ACL. So on Thursday afternoon I went to our team’s orthopedic surgeon, and we decided to cast my right leg until next Monday, April 20, 2009. So everyone, if you haven’t ever tried to walk with crutches before, they suck so badly. Your triceps get sore really fast, and it takes you so long to get around everywhere. And the crutches aren’t the half of it. Since I have a cast on my foot now, the parents decided to take my truck away for this week until I get my walking cast on next Monday. They took it away so I didn’t have any urges to try and drive. It really stinks not being able to drive, since my life is so hectic. My parents came down for my appointment on Thursday, so my dad drove me and my truck home. We didn’t have school on Friday; they were calling it a mini spring break. Friday, my parents and I went fishing, which was really hard since I always help my dad out with the boat and everything. It was hard to just sit there and have him do everything. We didn’t catch anything but really didn’t try to fish that hard. I dropped a pole in the lake a couple weeks earlier, and we tried to snag it for at least two hours. On Saturday night, my dad talked to one of his old friends who scuba dives, so my dad is going to have him dive down and get our pole. On Saturday, I went to Bozeman with Abby and her parents so we could have Easter with her family. Her two little twin nieces had a blast at the Easter egg hunt, and then we went to the mall and saw the Easter Bunny. After the mall we had a barbeque at her brother’s house and came back around seven that night. Sunday we had dinner at my house. We cooked fajitas and nachos, and Abby, Vance, Autumn and Brad all came over so we had a really nice dinner. Abby drove me home last night and stayed the night. We really didn’t do anything but watch a little TV and go to bed. She went home this morning after she dropped me off at the HPER so I could try to lift, which didn’t work out. You don’t really realize how much you push off your foot when you do upper body lifting.

Aunt Nut Has Arrived!

Well hello everyone! I hope this snow isn’t bringing your spirits down. We really need it so this summer our lakes will be full and we won’t have as many wildfires. Well I have great news everyone: my aunt from Twin Falls, Idaho came Thursday afternoon with her friend. That night we went down to Matt’s Diner, and my aunt absolutely loved the homemade fries, milkshakes and burgers. She was telling me that it has been years since she has had a milkshake like this one; the ones from McDonald’s and those fast food restaurants aren’t even in the same league. Then my mother came down Friday afternoon, and we went to Herbergers and went shopping for some new work shirts. Since my mother came down on Tuesday, we went through all my clothes to find out that pretty much all my darn clothes don’t fit at all. So at Herberger’s we bought two new polo shirts for work this summer. After shopping I took them both to the Hanging Five, which they both just really loved. I keep telling my aunt she’s going to get back from vacation and have gained 50 pounds. All we have been doing is eating LOL. Well Saturday was our first day of spring football. Practice went fairly well except during our last team session we struggled through for some reason. Then on Sunday, since it snowed so much, we had our meetings and then watched film for about an hour. On Saturday afternoon, Ms. Abigail made a pit stop here in Butte on her way home to Helena for spring break. We went to dinner that night with Sully, Asheypoo and her friend at the Montana Club. Abby and I slept until ten in the morning, which felt so good. Abby went home around noon, and she said the roads were absolutely terrible. She couldn’t see the whole way home and drove around 15 mph the whole way. Then last night Sully, Wacy and I gamed for a couple of hours on our Dynasties. Today we had a full padded practice in the gym; we ran through our offensive plays then had a thud period against our defense. My mom brought my aunt back today since she’s starting to cut hair again, so if any of you loyal blog readers live in Helena, lose your old hairdresser. I promise you that my mom is the absolute best. Call her at 442-0655. I promise she’s legit. My aunt and I went to Chef’s Garden tonight for dinner. We just finished up watching Two and a Half Men and she’s going off to bed.
My aunt’s staying with me until Wednesday, so tomorrow we are going to the book store and then going to lunch down to Joe’s Pasty’s. After lunch, my aunt will be going to Micro Econ with me since she loves those kinds of subjects. Well everyone Have a great week, and enjoy the snow while it lasts.

Spring Break!!!!

Well everyone today was very hard to get back into my life back here in Butte. Going to Helena is always a lot different than here in Butte for me. My sleep pattern changes, and day to day operations all change. Spring Break is exactly what I needed. I was getting pretty run down from football workouts and school, but having that week off sure makes me want summer to come ASAP. Well over break I did tons of fishing. We put our boat in the water for the first time this year last week, and it was purring like a Cadillac. Before we put the boat in, we took a couple of days to do some routine maintenance on it and also installed the new fish finder that we bought dad for his birthday. This fish finder has about a thousand different options that my dad and I didn’t even begin to scratch. The first day we went fishing was on Wednesday, and we caught seventeen trout and released fifteen of them. The two I kept I gave to Ms. Abigail’s mom. Now these fish averaged around five pounds and twenty four inches. I joke you not everyone. All these fish were big, healthy fish. Thursday we caught seven trout averaging the same, and Friday we caught ten trout, and guess what? They averaged the same length and weight as the first two days. Then on Saturday, Abby’s dad and I welded me a sweet setup for my clay pigeon thrower. We welded a piece of pipe horizontally to my receiver hitch and then welded another piece of pipe vertically to that and welded my thrower to the top of the vertical pipe. We based our project on a model we found on the Internet, we didn't do exactly what it shows but pretty close. So now I can sit in the back of my truck and shoot clays. Ms. Abigail and I didn’t have the same break together so she came to Helena this past weekend and then came to Butte last night and we made tomato soup and grilled cheese. This weekend we hung out at her house on Friday night, and then on Saturday night we went over to my sister’s house and played Wii. Vance and I ended up play Tiger Woods golf. So on Wednesday my parents and I went to wing Wednesday at the Overland, and the service was terrible and the food was even worse. We have been there three times now when our waitress was drunk and the food was terrible. On our way out I grabbed a March Madness bracket to fill, out and I have all my final four teams left plus lots more. I think I might have a shot. Well everyone I hope the weather doesn’t bring you down the next few days. Have a great week!

Another Busy Weekend!

I knew that it had to snow sooner or later. Here in Butte four inches was dropped on us, and in Helena it was snowing when I left earlier today. This weekend was so much fun but very busy. Like I said, Abby, Vance, my sister and Vance’s friend came down to play in Mulletfest. They stayed Friday and Saturday night, and then Abby went back to Missoula early this morning because she had to work. The rest of us went to Helena to move Autumn and Vance into their new apartment. So back to this weekend. Friday night Abby and I went to Mackenzie Rive Pizza with Sully and Ashton; it was really packed. After Abby and I went home, we met up with my sister and Vance and hung out at my house. Then the girls went to bed and Vance, his friend and I stayed up and played cribbage. We had to wake up early for our warm-up softball game, which was at eight in the morning, so us guys didn’t catch much sleep. We won our warm-up game and really didn’t play bad at all, and then we crushed our first opponents by somewhere around nine runs. After our game, we went up to the M&M for some breakfast, which was amazing but afterwards I got really tired due to the lack of sleep and also my belly was really full. Sadly we lost our next game, and since the tournament is single elimination we were out. Saturday night we played some more cribbage and tried to catch a few more hours of sleep so we could move Autumn and Vance into their new apartment today. So this week I will be very busy. I have three tests and also have to strength test. Then when this week is over SPRING BREAK will finally be here, and I can relax and maybe do some fishing if the weather is good. Well everyone talk to you later.

Mr. Vice President

Well I would first like to thank everyone who voted for me during the elections last week. Thanks to all of you who voted for me, I was officially elected as the new Vice President of the Associated Students of Montana Tech. Also, the expansion and renovation of the HPER passed, which is supposed to start this summer. Well this weekend is Mullet Fest, and Ms. Abigail, my sister, Vance and his friend are going to be staying at my house Friday and Saturday night. If you don’t know what Mullet Fest is, it’s a one day softball tournament held by M Club. This is going to be a blast, just like last year. So on Monday I received a very nice care package from my aunt Debbie, whom we call nut, because maybe she is a big NUT (lol). In this care package she sent me my Las Vegas season back, and she added her Michael Jordan highlight DVD with it. But the best part of the entire care package was the cowboy cookies that my grandmother used to make. She sent me three whole bags and the best part was that no one else got any, not even my mom or my sister. So I would like to thank you NUTTY NUT for the sweet care package you sent me and just to let you know, I’m down to one bag, so don’t be afraid to send more down whenever. Well on Tuesday I had an interview in Helena for a summer intern position with the Department of Transportation. During this summer intern I would be making the Department of Transportation more appealing to college students through various projects. I thought my interview went extremely well and I really hope that I can get this internship, it sounds like a blast. Well everyone, it was good talking to you all! Talk to you on Sunday night!!!!!!

Vote For Me!!!!

Hey everybody! Hope that your short week went very well like mine did. It’s official everyone: I turned in my Vice President application for ASMT. Elections are this coming week, and I would really appreciate everyone’s vote. On our applications we had to choose three subjects that we would like to change or improve at Montana Tech. My first subject was to get more involved with the discussions about Montana Tech going to a smoke-free campus, which is a great idea to me. I really hate when I’m walking to class and someone lights a cigarette right in front of me, and then I have to breathe the smoke and stink as well. Also I hate when people stand right outside of the buildings and smoke and you are forced to walk through it. My second subject was to be a representative for the students while the HPER complex is under renovation. I think having someone voice the students’ opinions is crucial because we are doing these improvements for the students, so I can make sure that they are happy. Finally, my third subject is to improve the cross walks on our campus since right now you can hardly see the white lines. I have had a lot of students tell me that vehicles either don’t stop for them or speed up and try to beat them before they make it across. Well Friday night was fight night down at the Civic Center, and I knew a couple of the guys fighting. There were eleven fights, but what’s really sweet is that they usually only last one round, which means there’s a lot of action for those couple-minute rounds. My sister and her boyfriend Vance drove down Friday night and stayed here with me, and we went to the fights together. Then we went home to Helena because it was Ms. Abigail’s BIRTHDAY, and she finally turned twenty years old. We hung out at her house and opened presents and ate lunch and cake as well. Last night I took Ms. Abigail out on the town, and we went to Chili’s with Autumn and Vance. I couldn’t believe that we actually had GREAT service, maybe it was because we knew the waitress (but who really cares). So for Ms. Abigail’s BIRTHDAY I got her a new pair of sunglasses, a scarf and a ring of her birthstone (which is amethyst), and she loved them all, of course LOL. Well everyone, I have a meatloaf cooking in the oven, and I will chat with you all later.