Rockies Baby!

Hey everyone well I can’t believe that it’s already! Well this week at work was more report writing which I’m getting really close to having number one of three done. I decided to tackle the biggest one first since it was two different companies until they merged in 2001. So my parents are in town, I know my mom just left this last Sunday and she is back already. They came down last night which would have been Thursday. Tomorrow night I’m going to take them to a Rockies game, which should be really fun since they have never been to a MLB game and it will only be my second one. Well on Wednesday Mike took me to my first Rockies game ever. It was so freaking sweet, going to pro sports I really don’t care what sport it is.
Baseball games are really fun to go to because of the laid back atmosphere in the stadium. The Rockies played the Diamondbacks when I went and tomorrow night they will be play the Dodgers so I will be able to see Manny Ramirez, which will be sweet since he is a more famous player. Then what I’m really excited for is when April comes down, one week from TODAY. We have some big plans for her trip down here; first of all we are going to skydiving indoors. I was watching the videos for it and it looks freaking SAWEET. Then we will be going to the Denver Zoo since April loves animals and I like zoos.
Then we are going to dinner with Mike and his fiancé at some awesome place where they have all you can eat meat (LOL). Mike told me it costs around $30 a person to eat but you never ever leave hungry and it’s the best meat he as ever had I his life. So one last thought that I would like to leave with you all, the light rail here in Denver is so much fun to ride. The light rail is the public form of transportation in Denver; it’s like the subway but above ground.
Mike and I rode it to and from the Rockies game and it only was $7 for the round trip. I like ridding it mostly because I can people watch, which is so freaking fun to do and also to talk with random people. Well everyone these are some pictures from the Rockies game I went to last Wednesday. Have a good weekend.

TGIF!!!!!

To start out this morning’s blog I thought I would say HAPPY FRIDAY! So this was my first week of work and it’s almost complete. Newmont is a sweet company to work for; they pay really well and also treat you like family. So this week in recap, on Tuesday we had our company softball game and we won by the way, I played short stop and it seemed like every ball was hit right to me. So I played baseball growing up but I stopped playing in around 6th grade and it seemed to come back to me just fine. Well work has been going really good I have four different projects that I’m working on. One of them is to develop an inventory list of our machinery and call the vendors and get quotes, find the expected life of the machine and take all their contact info so when Newmont goes and buys the machines it will be easy for them. Also one other project I’m working on is an executive summary of BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Anglo American on what acquisitions and mergers these companies have had since the mid 1970s. Then to add to the report I need to add all of the patents these companies hold from the last thirty years. This may seem boring but actually it’s really interesting to learn about the top players in the mining world. So it’s Friday if you all haven’t noticed and I cant wait to see what Denver has to offer for a night life, since during the week I don’t do anything but work workout and sleep. I think Tyler and I are going to catch the light rail to 16th street, which is down town. Then next we I’m going to go to a couple Rockies games, since I have never been to a MLB game. Well everyone I’ll snap some pictures this weekend I hope you all had a great week and TGIF……… This picture is of my office here at Newmont, it's legit, I even have a window.

First Couple Days!!!!!!

Wow everyone what an internship I have at Newmont. Today was only my first day and I already had a blast, this summer is going to be the best EVER. So to start out, my room is crazy sweet, it has a flat screen TV, king size bed and full kitchen. I was a little skeptical about the hotel at first, I didn’t know if they were going to give the interns the small rooms or something. But know, I don’t think so I have my own room and also have a pull out couch. So work today was orientation from 8 till around noon and then we went over to our work and I got a little more orientation then got to take off for the gym. So I’m working out at the Colorado Athletic Club, this place is huge. So when I say huge I mean freakin huge. It has everything basketball, weights, cardio, racquetball, tennis, swimming pools, restaurant, and then in the locker room there is free shampoo and conditioner in the showers. Also there’s flat screen TV’s everywhere, even in the locker room. Then the spa area in the locker room has the biggest hot tub that I have ever seen, also a wet sauna and dry sauna. This place has it all (LOL)……Well everyone I will check back in later and let you know how work is going………

Denver Here I Come!!!!!

Well everyone, my junior year is coming to an end. It seems just like yesterday my parents were helping me move into the dorms and my first year of football started. I only have two finals tomorrow, and then I will have it all wrapped up and another successful year checked off. I couldn’t believe that I already signed up for my senior year of college; gosh how time flies. I will have a hefty load of twenty three credits this coming fall semester, which is a lot to take during football, but one class I will be taking is an internship class which I will have completed this summer, and then another class is on-line and should be really easy. So I leave for Denver on Friday, and my mom is riding down with me so she can see her best friend who lives in Denver, and then she will fly back. I’m pretty much all packed up and have just been doing some cleaning around my house so I can come back this fall to a clean house.
So I will be staying at the Staybridge Suites, and when I was checking out their website, the rooms look really nice and legit. This place has free breakfast every morning, and I heard that three days a week they have free dinner. So I really only have to pay for my own lunches every day, and I’ll probably pack my lunch to work every day like I did last summer at MDT. So I have a new girlfriend everyone, and her name is April. We have been dating for a little over three months and she is from Helena. I went to high school with her at Helena High. I thought I would tell you all about her since I’m sure I will be talking about her in future blogs. So as some of you may have known, I have been serving on the basketball search committee. We had 90 applicants and had narrowed down that pool to ten applicants that we phone interviewed. Then we had chosen three to bring in to Butte for interviews. I liked all three applicants a lot but really liked Aaron Woliczko who we decided to choose and who I think will help rebuild our basketball program and lead us to a conference championship. I think he will bring what we need to Tech basketball. With our basketball program having been in the dumps since I’ve been at Tech, I hope this fresh blood will be good. Well everyone, my next blog will be coming from Denver, Colorado. Have a good week and students study hard!!!!!

29 Days Left!!!!!

Well happy snow day everyone. Today all over the state it has been snowing a boat load. So I don’t have to watch the Weather Channel anymore to see what the weather is around the state. All I have to do is get on Facebook and see all the status updates from my friends around the state that say, “Crap it’s snowing” or “why snow today” (LOL).
So football has been going good so far this spring, and we only have two weekends of scrimmages left. This coming weekend the Grizzles are coming to do their final scrimmage of the year, and then next weekend we will have our Green/White game which is our final big scrimmage of the spring. With only 30 days left until I leave for Denver, my excitement is mounting by the day. I have a lot of things to do before my trip down to Denver for the summer. Something crazy happened to me today: I signed up for my first semester of my senior year of college. It seems like just yesterday that my parents were helping me move into my dorm room. So this summer I have two trips planned. One is to Las Vegas with my best friend Ryan and some of his teammates from Missoula and then to Wendover, Nevada for Sully’s bachelor party. Then at the very end of the summer, I will come back to Montana for Sully’s wedding. Well everyone, I hope you’re keeping warm and dry with that snow coming down so hard.

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……