Late Pass Wednesday: Third Edition

Christmas Lights in Bozeman

During the christmas season, there are some really cool decorations in the downtown area of Bozeman. As you can kind of see from this blurry picture, there are these big chandelier type things that extend across all the intersections going down Main Street. Most of the buildings have a really historical/older feeling to them, and it ends up being a really different look. The only down part is that it makes it a little bit hard to see the stop lights! I would know, I almost ran one while driving Zeb's car.

On a note completely unrealated to Late Pass Wednesday. Time is almost up on the petition for Zeb blogging. Tomorrow is the last day that votes will be counted. Feel free to post up numerous times under different alias'.

Don't forget to get all your old/worn out news off of your chest today! Happy Late Pass Wednesday!

Cano agrees to switch to No. 24 from No. 22

If Roger Clemens pitches in The Pinstripes again next season, the Yankees are ready for his return.

Second baseman Robinson Cano will give up his No. 22 if Clemens returns to the Bronx. Cano will switch to No. 24.

A team official told ESPN that Cano approached the team's equipment personnel and said he was aware that he was wearing Clemens' former number and hoped that the availability of the number would be a lure for Clemens to New York. Cano chose his new number because its digits reversed would be Jackie Robinson's old number.

Cano's uniform switch was first reported by The New York Post.

"I was happy to give up the number to a future Hall of Famer if Roger comes aboard," Cano said in a statement, according to The Post. "Hopefully, he will be one of my teammates, I'll have the pleasure of playing with him."

Clemens, who has pitched for Houston the past three seasons, wore No. 22 when he pitched for the Yankees from 1999-2003.

The Post reported that the number switch already might have been relayed to Clemens' representatives.

However, Randy Hendricks, Clemens' agent, told The Post in an e-mail that his client is in no hurry to pick a team.

"No decision will be made until well after spring training, perhaps until after the season starts," Hendricks wrote to The Post.

Office Sunday

Due to some unfortunate circumstances of the past week, Office Friday has been postponed until today. But don't worry, it was worth the wait! Yet another great episode! This season is constantly upping my expectations. They are on a roll. Dwight working at Staples this week was hilarious, but I am so glad that he is back at Dunder Mifflin where he belongs. My favorite quote from this week was Michael's "I don't want someone to suck up to me because they think I can help them with their job, I want someone to suck up to me because they love me so much!" Michael isn't as clueless as he seems! Imagine that!

And what about Jim & Pam?? Back to their old office pranks, and Jim admitted that he still has feelings for her!!! YES! Too bad that I predict that in the next few episodes Pam will somehow start getting back together with Roy and ruin everything!!!! Ross & Rachel styles. How long can the madness go on??

NEXT WEEK ON THE OFFICE:
There are no new episodes until Feb. 1, what will we do with our Thursday nights? Not to worry, this week's repeat is a pretty good one, especially for anyone who was slacking earlier in the season.

THE COUP 8:30/7:30c 01.25.2007
FED UP WITH MICHAEL'S ANTICS IN THE OFFICE, ANGELA PUSHES DWIGHT TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST HIM - After Jan (Melora Hardin) busts Michael (Steve Carell) for declaring it's "movie Monday," where everyone watches a movie instead of working, an upset Angela (Angela Kinsey) pushes Dwight (Rainn Wilson) is into making a play for Michael's job. Meanwhile, Pam (Jenna Fischer) internet shops and has a fashion show at lunch and Jim (John Krasinski) plays video games and gets killed again and again in virtual reality. B.J. Novak, David Denman, Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Oscar Nuñez, Phyllis Smith, Paul Lieberstein and Mindy Kaling also star.

Have a great week & post up with your favorite quotes from this week!

Also, for anyone who hasn't checked out the petition yet, scroll down to the "Join The Petition...Today" blog! Only 4 days left to secure weekly blogs from Zeb!

My Appologies

Hey Everyone! Sorry that I missed Late Pass Wednesday this week, now I am even MORE behind. The other thing that I really regret to inform everyone is that there will be no "Office Friday" this week, due to the fact that I missed last night's episode. I hope to catch up when I get home on Saturday and hopefully we can make it "Office Sunday." I haven't heard to much about it yet, so everyone post up and let me know if I have a good episode to look forward to?

On another note, my travels this weekend took me through the great city of Preston, Idaho, which is famous for being the location where Napoleon Dynamite was filmed. The basketball girls wanted to stop at the high school that it was filmed at, but unfortunatly we couldn't find it easily. Too bad, I definatly had that in mind for a good blog picture.

Last but not least, great job with the petition so far. We have 5 votes from regular blog posters, which means we only need 3 more. Damon, stop holding out. And also we are still waiting to discover if there are any mysterious readers that we have never heard from before who will be willing to step up in support of blogs by Zeb. We have 6 days left on the petition, so if you are just now checking in on the blog, make sure you scroll down and hit up the petition! Make your voice heard!

Join the Petition...TODAY

Now we all know that there has been something very important missing from this blog for some time now, and that thing is ZEB.

After much debate we have agreed to leave this issue up to the loyal readers of the blog.

The deal is that this blog entry will become a petition for Zeb to post more frequently. If 8 people who have posted comments previously and 8 new people who have never posted comments before make a post on this entry, then Zeb has agreed to post at least once a week. Additionally the petition must be completed within 10 days to be valid.

Get involved! Post up in support of Blogs by Zeb!

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Its a good day to be thankful & reflect. Love you guys! Hope all is well.

Office Friday

Last night was potentially one of the top office episodes ever. And to think that we almost missed it. I forgot to set it on DVR, but luckily Zeb came through in the clutch and got it set.

Wow. Where to start? The whole thing was generally hilarious. Michael's talking computer. (BOOBS!) Classic. Picking teams for sales calls? Again, classic. Dwight & Jim's sales call team work. I didn't even see it coming. The one thing that I can not deal with though is Dwight quitting. I know that there is NO way that he would really leave the show, but its still a little nerve racking.

Also, due to the fact that I slacked on posting after last week's Office, How about Michael & Jan?! I'm glad that they came right out with it right away and didn't make us wait until later in the season to find out. And Michael's one little bead in his hair? Classic.

Here is the preview for next week:
THE RETURN8:30/7:30c 01.18.2007
THE OFFICE CELEBRATES OSCAR'S RETURN TO DUNDER MIFFLIN - Oscar (Oscar Nuñez) returns from his long vacation with mixed emotions on whether or not he still wants to be a part of the office. Meanwhile, Andy (guest star Ed Helms) takes advantage of recent events to get closer to Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell). Jim (John Krasinski) turns to Karen (guest star Rashida Jones) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) for help to stage a prank on a new target. Rainn Wilson, B.J. Novak, Brian Baumgartner, Angela Kinsey, Kate Flannery, Phyllis Smith, Leslie David Baker, Creed Bratton, Paul Lieberstein and Mindy Kaling also star.

And for those of you who missed this week:
http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/ Check out the 2 min. replay to get caught up.

I also suggest checking out the deleted scenes.

Post up your favorite moments from this episode!

Late Pass Wednesday: Second Edition

How cute are our Christmas Stockings?!? Wow. I almost missed out on posting on Late Pass Wednesday. That would have been pathetic.

Tomorrow is the big Cat/Griz Women's Basketball game, and the U of M Women are Ballers! We might be in trouble. I'm going to wear a suit, because we are 3 for 3 when i wear suits. Also, I am not letting Zeb come to the game (like he really cares) because they are like 0 for 23,445 when Zeb is in attendance. It's a fact.

Happy Late Pass Wednesday!

Something for you The Office fans...courtesy of Damon

Can you believe it, another week come and gone, its almost Late Pass Wednesday again! Until then, here's something all you office fans might enjoy.

The Office meets The Yankees

Things I Should Have Posted A Long Time Ago (A.K.A. Late Pass Wednesday) : First Edition

My first recurring feature on the blog is going to be called "Things I Should have Posted About a Long Time Ago." From now on, wednesdays will be known as "Late Pass Wednesday." This arises out of the fact that I am constantly taking pictures of random things with the intent that they would make a good blog post, and then I will put it off for so long, that the post is no longer relevant. Well, "Late Pass Wednesday" puts an and to that. From now on, on Wednesday's, no topic is out of date or irrelevant.

Feel free to take advantage of "Late Pass Wednesday" yourself by posting comments that are equally as outdated and irrelevant. Have news that you've been meaning to tell us all for a long time, but never got around to it? Today is your day! Enjoy!


Late Pass Wednesday: First Edition: Cat/Griz in the SLC Airport

The Cat/Griz football game is the state of Montana's equivalent to Civil War. In case you didn't know, its a pretty big deal. This year the conference championship was on the line, winner takes all, and my Women's Basketball team just happened to be on travelling that weekend. God forbid we miss the big game, so during our LONG layover in the Salt Lake City Airport our coaches hooked up the laptop and projector, purchased the live game stream via the airport's wireless internet, and projected the game onto the wall at one of the gates. The girls pulled rows of chairs from other gates and all kinds of other passengers from other flights kept stopping by to see what the hell we were up to. Too bad it was the same weekend as the Michigan/Ohio State game, and most people just wanted to know the score of THAT game. One person who stopped by though, was actually MSU alumni and had even played football for us on the 1984 Championship team. Small world.

P.S. Everyone here always makes comments about the '84 Championship team. Kind of the same way that everyone at OSU refers to the 2000 season as the "Fiesta Bowl Year." I Don't know exactly what Championship was won in '84....but I'll let you know when I do find out.

Well, there you have it. The first installment of "Things I Should Have Posted About a Long Time Ago (A.K.A. Late Pass Wednesday)" Hope you enjoyed it!

Happy New Year

Well happy New Year to all the loyal blog readers!

It's been a crazy couple of weeks for us, but its a new year, and time for new resolutions. So guess what mine is going to be? Well, I want to make a real effort to be a better BLOGGER! Yes thats right, I realize that this whole thing was my idea. And yes, I did force Zeb to post on more than one occasion. But come on, we've had some good times here. What about the Cake Stand Punch Bowl debate? And how about all of Melanie's hilarious comments? Now we all know where Damon got his sense of humor. I know you all like this thing just as much as I do, and that is why with this new year I am going to make commitment to take this blog to a whole new level. Right now I'm working on some idea's for weekly recurring blog features, such as possibly Napoleon Dynamite quote of the week, courtesy of Emily's daily napoleon dynamite calendar, or I could do hotel reviews from the places I stay on the road. Ummmmm...Zeb could do a weekly blog entry on the various shows he watches on PBS-HD. He watched one on beatles recently (the bug, not the band) which was apparently very informative. I know you all are interested. I also think we definitely need a weekly overview of "The Office."

Well, I hope everyone is having a good new year so far! Post up your New Year's Resolution & any ideas you have for future blog features! We need your help!

In the meantime, check out this link I found where you can have Dwight Schrutte call you! Some of you have already been lucky enough to hear from him!

http://www.theofficedvd.com/dwight/

Christmas Time

Okay! Enough of the TV mania! That TV took over our lives for the better part of 2 and a half weeks, but you know what, I think its finally blown over.

We are now in full force getting ready to come home for Christmas, and it is coming so soon! We spent the last weekend making another trek to Billings for christmas shopping, which ended up to be an all day affair. We actually got just about everything done in the course of only 2 days, which I think is a world record. I'll check into that. We can't wait to see everyone, and are especially looking forward to the second annual White Elephant Party hosted by Emily & Chicken. I can't even begin to imagine all the ridiculous things that will surface at this party. I need find something that will top the bowling ball bag complete with matching ball engraved with the name Jerry, that I brought last year.

The picture above is my office all decked out for the holiday season. My snowflake lights were a real hit, too bad Zeb and I haven't really bothered to put up any decorations at the apartment.

Hope all is well, we'll be seeing most of you guys in just barely over a week!

And now the TV that we all have been waiting for(or just me)

Of course you all know me and know I have wanted Plasma for a long time. Wait no more guys/gals the time has arrived. You know I don't buy anything full price so I did some dealing. So the biggest shopping weekend of the year was here and I thought it would be a great idea to start looking for the deals. So I started on Friday after my last day of work at Kamp Implement and drove to our local Vanns TV and Appliance dealer. I started off with just wondering around until the Ultimate Plasma TV, I WORK on Commission, gonna sell you the biggest largest Plasma with the MONSTER cables and the Surround System guy comes over to me. His name is Aaron. Anyway, he started talking about the TVs and then we came to the Samsung HP-S4253 where the picture was clear and the colors were so vivid that it felt like you were there holding the camera. I WAS IMPRESSED(it hit hard!!) So, he starts to tell me that it's 1299.99 on sale this weekend original price 1999.99. He goes on with his sale pitch of what else I can get with the saved money some Monster Cables, which you will have to get to watch TV and the super duper Surround Sound that is originally 1800.00 on sale for 425.00 this weekend. Gonna have to admit the deal sounded spectacular. So I got myself all physic up went home did some research on the TV and then did my sales pitch to Heather. hmmmmm.hmmmm Ya so after explaining to Heather my pitch she agreed that Saturday we would go and look at the TV. When we arrived Saturday morning Aaron saw me across the room and was like "HEY ZEB HOW ARE YOU" like he knew me for years. Im like hello? Anyway, He was too much for Heather and she gave him the death glare every time he did his sales pitch. They didn't get along so ya...We didn't get the TV but again Heather was right and a better deal awaited me. That night I did some calling to Best Buy and found out they match prices of Authorized dealers so they Best Buy guy his name is Trevor answered all my questions and even went to Vanns.com and was like yes we can match that price but we can also give you 1 more year on a warranty and 150 dollars cheaper. I was like this guy will work with me plus he was very intelligent with the TV. Anyway, I told Heather that we would be doing a road trip on Sunday in search for the deal of a lifetime on a TV. She said "I'm up or an adventure" SWEET!!!!!!!!!!! I was locked in Plasma mode now. I looked at weather conditions and what do you know SNOW AND ICE.... GREAT I was for sure that Heather wasn't going to be down with that. (But again she never fails me and was completely ok with it) Sunday comes and it snowed a good 5 inches with ice. Remember I was in Plasma mode now so nothing was stopping me. We set off at 10:30 and drove 2 1/2 hours to get there in the snow and ice. Below are some pictures of how it all went down at the Billings, MT Best Buy.
First Picture is Trevor showing me this Open Boxed Plasma, which added 10% off. Again, another Zeb Deal.

Applying for the Zero Percent
Checking Out damn that's a big bill

Waiting for the idiots outside to figure out how to load a fridge onto a trailer.
Trev shrink wrapping the TV for ultra weather protection
Trying to load it into the Civic(Trev said you BROUGHT A CAR?)

I say let me give it a try I'm going home with this TV

Civil War

Well the Beavs came away with a win at the 110th edition of the Civil War. They tried to give it away there at the end, which seems to be a trend this season. I guess they just like the excitement? Now we'll have to wait another season to see who will finally break the streak of the home team coming out victorious. Looks like O-State has the bragging rights for this year, sorry Uncle Phil.

Ban on Baseball

This week, one of the greatest american tragedies occured. Jeter lost the AL MVP race to the Twin's Justin Morneau. I am personally horrified at this, and have decided to completely ban baseball until this wrong is made right...oooor, until February when spring training starts. Who's with me?!?!

Although part of me says...this is what Jeter gets for dating Jessica Biel? Ick.

Travelling Man....errr...Woman

Well I was back in the great state of Oregon this last weekend on my final road trip for the season with the Volleyball team. Not so great weekend playing wise, but I got to see Emily, Gal, Mom, Charles and Ford. As you can see from the picture, Charles was a little bit worse for the wear. Rumor has it, he got in a fight with a samoan guy at a cocktail party. Hmmmmm. At any rate, it was great to see them all.

I'm off again on another road trip this weekend. This time its Long Beach State followed by Oregon State. I'm excited to get back to the Alma Mater. I should be able to see Dad this weekend, and hopefully Damon and Charles. Looking forward to seeing what they've done with the place since Zeb left.

Hope you all have a great weekend, and anyone in Corvallis this weekend, can't wait to see you!! I'll try to take lots of pictures!

Blog Awareness Weekend

It was great to have Mom here this weekend to visit. She finally got to see our new place, and the new city we call home. By the time she got here, all the snow had pretty much melted away for her, and it was actually a pretty warm weekend here. She is never going to believe us about this whole "frigid winter" thing. I got to take Friday afternoon off of work to hang out with her, so that was a very welcome break. Mostly we just hung around together and laughed. We made a trip to the local grocery co-op (a.k.a. Hippie Central), which was hilarious. Mom was right in her element with all of the hippies, and it made for lots of jokes!

I also got to explain the concept of the "blog" to Mom, and show her what we have been talking about the last few months. Come to find out that she and Ford had no idea what we had been talking about all this time. I guess it was good that she found out now, because it took her about 5 years to figure out what an Ipod was. (It happened last year around christmas time, she finally got the guts to ask me...."so hey, whats an ipod???") Anyway, we cleard up the difference between a blog, and the classic horror flick "The Blob." Hopefully now, with this new knowledge, Mom and Ford will start checking this out and making comments.

Hope everyone had as good of a weekend as I did! Love ya!

The Bahamas

The bahamas, you say....what does that have to do with anything? Well, I'll tell you what it has to do with. ME. Because for 8 days in May, thats where I will be. Say it again, The Bahamas. Dumb luck I guess you could call it, my women's basketball team is starting a tradition of taking a foreign tour to play basketball once every 4 years. And yes, you guessed it, this year is the bahamas. Awwww Shucks. And the real kicker is, Zeb might even get to come too! So everyone keep your fingers crossed for that. I just found out yesterday, so im pretty psyched. The prospect of this trip is definitely going to help me get through this cold winter!

Cat on a Leash

Well for those loyal blog readers, here it is: Cat on a Leash. This cat lives in the apartment buildings across the street from our complex. I have never seen such a thing in my life. The people put their cat on this lease tied to a rope, and then they let it roam around the yard of they apartments. Hope this gives you all a laugh.

In other news, we are going to a small halloween party tonight. Should be fun. Zeb is most likely dressing up as Pedro Martinez (again) and I haven't decided yet. Arg! Also, we went and saw the movie The Departed last night. It has Matt Damon in it, talking with that Boston accent. Excellent. It also has Leonardo Dicaprio, Marky Mark, Jack Nicholson, Alec Baldwin, and some others in it too. Its pretty good, we would recommend it, but not if you're squemish.

My mom comes to visit in 6 days! Can't wait!

Snow!

We had our first real deal snow this last week, including my first drive to work on the snowy roads. I saw a VW Bus spin out on the road ahead of me, but in spite of all that, I kept that hatchback on the road, and I made it to work on time. So far it hasn't been too cold, and the snow does make the mountains look beautiful, but.....we'll see what we think about it when it hits 0 degrees.