Count Down!!!!!

So Spring Break was a blast! I did lots of fishing and watched the opening of March Madness. I went fishing with my dad and Vance three times and once with my dad and our friend Bill. The first couple of times we went fishing it was pretty slow, but it really picked up this last Saturday. We caught nineteen Trout, but only kept four, and hooked a really nice six-pounder. It felt really good to get out of school and Butte for a while and hangout with my parents and April. So April is my new girlfriend. We started to hangout over Xmas break, and now we’re dating. She went to Helena High with me but graduated a year behind me. So I heard that since Kansas lost in the tournament that forty-five percent of all brackets are screwed. I have two brackets for March Madness, and in one bracket I had Kansas winning it all, so I threw that bracket away. In my other bracket I have Kentucky and Syracuse playing with Kentucky winning it all. So I have officially started the countdown, and we only have thirty-eight days of school left, which means I’m only thirty-eight days away from leaving for Denver. I’m getting really excited to go down to Denver for the summer. Since I’ve only lived in Montana City and Butte in my life, I’m really excited to see what it’s like to live in a huge city with over a million people. So football starts this week, and we get our pads tomorrow; I’m excited to get back out on the field and do some hitting. The only thing that I don’t like about spring ball is the weather. Well everyone, I hope you all have a good week.

Mullet Fest......

Well everyone, we have officially started the countdown here at Montana Tech until Spring Break. We only have eight more days until a week of freedom. I plan on doing a lot of fishing and a lot of couching. When I say couching, I mean lying on the couch doing absolutely nothing for a week. Well lately school has been going pretty good, and tomorrow, Friday, is our last day of winter conditioning, which means that I don’t have to get up at five-thirty in the morning anymore. Next week is our max tests for lifting, and I should be putting up some pretty solid numbers. So this weekend is Mullet Fest here in Butte and Tech. The school is starting to get excited and people are making arrangements for it. For those of you who don’t know what Mullet Fest is, it’s a softball tournament. A lot of people shave their hair into mullets and dress up for the occasion. I have my sister and Vance coming down, along with April, Ashten, a girl I grew up with, and Ryan, my best friend from Helena who will be bringing a couple of his buddies. We should have a pretty stacked team, and this year’s winners get one thousand dollars. So my house is going to be packed this weekend, but I’m really excited to have everyone down. Well everyone, I hope you all have a good weekend….I’ll post some pictures from this weekend next week……

Denver Here I come!!!!!!

Hey everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your three-day break as much as I did. It just felt really nice to have three days off of school and work. My body sure needed a lot of R&R since my weeks are so hectic and busy. It felt good just to lie on the couch and watch the Olympics. Well let’s see, I’m getting really excited about going to Denver for this summer and working for NEWMONT. I have only lived in Montana City and Butte, and they really aren’t big towns. I think it’s going to be really fun to live in a huge town like Denver; it’s just a whole different type of lifestyle there than in Montana. I already plan on going to as many Rockies games as possible. I have never been to a MLB game, but I hear that they are really fun. Also, I hope the Denver Nuggets make it deep into the playoffs, so I can catch a couple of their games. I have been to a couple NBA games, and they are really fun. Being from Montana, we don’t have any professional sports teams at all, so being able to go to these pro sporting events and actually see guys like Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups play is something I would love to see. Also, I’m excited for the night life that Denver has with all of the concerts going on and other events like water parks and amusement parks. I’m just getting myself all fired up (LOL). My parents plan on coming down to see me since my mom’s best friend lives in Denver. It will be really nice to have some people down in Denver that I can go see so I don’t get lonely. My mom has been checking the concert schedule religiously so she can plan her trip down there and see some rocking concerts. My one buddy Josh only lives two hours away and another friend only three or four hours away, so I assume I will be seeing them some this summer. Also I’m trying to talk my Aunt Debbie into coming down for a couple of days. So I will keep trying my dandiest to keep that talk going. Well everyone, I hope you all have a great SHORT week, cause I know I will.

We Have People Starving......

Hey everyone! Well with school back in and football starting up, my schedule is pretty slammed this semester. I have already started the countdown: we only have forty-one days until SPRING BREAK, and I can’t wait. I will probably go home and fish most of the time with my dad and Vance. A lot of people are taking trips during SPRING BREAK, but I think that I’m going to save my money and try to make a trip down to Cancun during next Christmas Break with my buddies. So elections are coming up here pretty soon for the ASMT executive positions. I will be running for President this time around, since I couldn’t last year because you have to be a senior to be President. But I gained a lot of good experience being Vice President first. I would really appreciate your vote in the upcoming elections. So one thing that has been really chapping my you-know-what lately is that the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NASCAR are giving so much money to the earthquake relief in Haiti. I know that this is a terrible event, and I know that it’s really bad over there, but don’t you think that we have problems here in the USA also? We have people starving on the streets and people living homeless and WAR VETERANS starving to death. I understand that it’s really bad over in Haiti and that we should help them out, but it’s just hard for me to watch all these commercials about sending money to Haiti when we have kids starving and dying here in the USA every day. Now don’t get me wrong, I really do think we should help them out. I think it’s great that big names like Dwayne Wade and LeBron James are donating money. Haiti is in a lot worse shape than here in the USA. But when this is all over Dwayne Wade and LeBron James should be trying to raise awareness on commercials for starving families or WAR VETERANS here.

Books Suck!!!!

Good afternoon, everyone. I hope all of you students had a great three day break like me. Well it’s official: football offseason has officially begun. Last night we did our 20’s, vertical jump, height & weight and digger agility. Now the next three days we will be doing our max lifting so we can base our lifting schedule for the next three months. It felt really good to get back with the team and see everyone again. It’s weird being with the football team from August till November, and then it seems like everyone has their own clicks outside of football. The topic for the rest of my blog is going to be books. I think that it is absolutely ridiculous that our books for school are so freaking expensive. My total for books for just this current semester was $600. Now how are college students who are broke as it is, expected to pay that much money for one semester of books? So let’s say on average you pay $600 per semester and you go five years like me, that’s a total of $6,000 just for freaking books. I even bought my books off the internet which probably saved me somewhere around $200. I think that you should be able to rent the books from the bookstore for a flat rate of like $25 or $50, and then at the end of the semester, if you don’t wreck the book or lose it you will get your money back. You might ask well what happens if I rented a book and never returned it, well you would get charged full price for it and it would just go on to your student fees. Well everyone I hope you all have a great week!!!!!!!!

Denver Here I Come!!!!!

Back to the grindstone we go everyone. School has officially started back up, which means I’m that closer to going to Denver for my internship with NEWMONT. I’m so excited to spend the summer in Denver and test out the big city. My boss is coming up here to Tech this week, and we will be meeting to discuss some fine details about my internship. I’m even taking Process of Particulate Systems, which is a metallurgy class. My boss wanted me to take this so I’m more fluent with lingo, which is kind of exciting. This semester I will be taking nineteen credits, while having spring football and also doing the ASMT thing. If you haven’t heard, we are getting a new HPER complex here at Tech. They have already gone through the process of hiring the construction company and everything. I have been chosen to represent the students’ opinion in this important process. I will be mostly representing the athletes here on campus since I’m a football player. I thought it was really an honor that I was chosen. This Christmas Break was the sweetest ever. I hung out with a lot of my old high school friends and saw a lot of people that haven’t seen since graduation. I didn’t hang out with the family as much as I would have liked, but I had a lot of fun going out and letting my hair down, so to say, for once. Last semester seemed to drag on towards the end, and I just needed to have fun. I turned twenty-one over break and it feels awesome to be twenty-one. I still can’t believe that I’m already twenty-one years old, it feels like just yesterday I was having my birthday at the Adventure Zone in Helena, if you want to talk about a fun birthday party. Well Vance and I went ice fishing on Sunday, and we caught ten Perch. That’s not a lot by any means, but we did lose four or five each. Since we caught so many Perch at our spot last year, we GPS marked it so we could find the spot every time. Our spot wasn’t as hot as it should be, but from the sounds of it, we had a good day compared to everyone else. I can’t believe how big the Perch are this year; I bet that four or five of our Perch were pounders, which are a pretty darn nice Perch. Well everyone, I have to get my class stuff ready, so I will chat with you all later.

VEGAS BABY...........

Well everyone I finally got my account fixed and I’m back in action. My account password wouldn’t log me into my account and I apologize that I have kept everyone waiting. So let’s see, my Christmas went great. Autumn, Vance and Brad came over to open presents on Christmas Eve and then Autumn and Vance went up to Malta for Christmas but Brad still came over for Christmas dinner. Then two days after Christmas was my 21st birthday. Yes everyone I’m legal to drink now. Me and a couple of my buddies went out around Helena and had a great time. So then on New Year’s Eve I left for VEGAS. Me Sully, Atrain, Chuck , Bo and Wacy all drove down to VEGAS for a couple days and then we are going to Glendale Arizona for the Fiesta Bowl which will be so sweet. We are going to paint our bodies, be looking up in the end zone, that’s where we will be sitting. So we will be getting up early in the morning so we can try and go buy some tickets to the Packers and Cardinals game. I have never been to an NFL game so I really want to go and try to get tickets. I guess if we don’t we will be going to a pub or something to watch the other football games. Then on the way back we will be playing it by ear on if we will drive back in one day or break it up. Well everyone now that my account is working again I will check back in after I get back this next week.