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2010-05-11T20:05:00.001-07:00

Bass Masters!

2009-08-17T18:25:00.001-07:00

Ok so this is a little old, but I chuckle every time I think back to this story.

Dad and I had a couple good fish stories from Canada this year... but our favorite one happened on the very last day.

In the morning, we figured out that we needed to get 3 more Small Mouth, and 1 Walleye to fill our quota of fish we could take home.

We made it up to our Small Mouth Bass spot... We didnt really catch anything at first. I picked up a small bass jigging. We set a time limit on how long we were going to sit there. We made a move, not much was doing... I put a slip bobber in, and also had a jig over the side...

Dad sets the hook into a nice Walleye, he says Woooahhhh... this is going to take a while! I look and my slip bobber is missing...

I set the hook into a really nice Small Mouth Bass! I say Woooooahhhh this is going to take a while also.

I look down and my jig rod is going crazy...I set the hook on that rod, and it also was a really nice Small Mouth! I had nowheres to put that rod so I put it between my legs.

HOLY GEEZ WE GOT A TRIPLE!!!

All 3 fish are on the lines at once, none are in the boat, all are descent fighters...

I say to Dad: YOU GOTTA GET YOURS IN! No playing around!

He gets his in...

I hand him my jig rod so he can fight that fish...

Dad grabbed the landing net and landed my Bass...

I got that fish out of the net just in time to net the other Bass!

Wow ! that was fun! and that is how our 2009 Canada trip ended up, we caught all the Bass we needed to and it was an action packed last morning of fishing!

A$$ Bag!

2009-08-12T18:27:00.001-07:00

Fantasy World

Boss: Hey Bdog, can you step into my office please...
Bdog: Hey boss how is it going?

Boss: Not good bdog, we are going to have to let you go today.
Bdog: Sorry to hear that boss man, boy I really liked living here in Milwaukee, its sure going to be tough to leave, all of my friends are here.

Boss: Yeah I know bdog, you can still stay in touch with them through fax or postal mail, they still have your pager number right?
Bdog: Yeah they have all of that, but I thought I was doing really good for the team!?! I thought I was the best person at my position.

Boss: No, actually bdog, you were not helping the team in any sense of the word. You only got your reports in on time 20% of the time... so you had a .200 average... thats not good.
Bdog: Yeah, I know, I have been in a slump this year, but I thought I was getting better. Remember when I had a .300 average a couple years ago?

Boss: Yeah Bdog, I remembered that one day, I think it was Mothers Day, you were awesome! But, you actually have been getting worse for the last 3 years, we even sent you off for a week long re-training this year, but we didnt see much improvement since you got back.
Bdog: Just give me some more time I can make it happen! heck you paid all that money for me!

Boss: Yeah about that money, you can keep that...
Bdog: But, But, its a lot of money?

Boss: Yeah 10.5 million to be exact.
Bdog: HOLY $HIT! that much? are you sure you dont want me to do something around here?

Boss: Nope, we just want you to leave.
Bdog: I can sweep? I can mop? I can mow the lawn! I can take out the trash!

Boss: No, we actually have been trying to get rid of you for a very long time. We considered you for all of those positions... but honestly, you would probably suck at all of those too.
Bdog: Can I go to the competition and sign with them?

Boss: Yes, we actually want you to go to one of our closest rivals, especially the ones we compete with the most... please keep our money and steal all of their money too!
Bdog: Wow, this sounds great! thanks boss!

You really dont hear of this in the real world, oh wait yes you do...

Thanks for nothing Bill Hall, we will slowly remove your bobble head from our anooses! You certainly did shove it in deep.

If you are a Wisco Sports nut like I, I highly suggest a great blog .. Sheffields House ! I am certain you will hear some great follow up on all of the Brewers happenings from today!

In honor of the August Anniversaries!

2009-08-04T16:43:00.000-07:00

Gina, Jon, Kelly, and Todd congrats on your anniversaries this month! (in alphabetical order)

Im thinking this will probably be how my entrance will be at my wedding ... in a catholic church.

Sun Duck

2009-08-02T15:07:00.000-07:00

This year in Canada, we needed some help finding the sun... so we had a friend along for the trip... Sun Duck!

Sun Duck got in on a lot of the adventure this last week, as you can see in his week in pics and vids:

Dad, Ducky, and Me

Ducky and the whole gang

Dad and Ducky

Ducky helping bring out the sun

Ducky Jamming out at the Thursday Camp Fish Fry

Ducky taking a dip

Ducky checking his email

Ducky quenching his thirst

Dad and Ducky going down the arm

Ducky having a piece of walleye for lunch

Ducky digesting the walleye and beer lunch

Ducky and Me talking Politics and Religion

Cruising with Ducky

Ducky watching a movie

Ducky jigging for a walleye

Ducky caught a trophy!

Duckys daily catch

Ducky and his bros

Ducky cleaning his trophy!

Ducky and me looking out over the lake, hoping for some sun.

Oh Canada! Oh Nine!

2009-07-26T13:50:00.000-07:00

I cant believe im on the internet in Canada!

This is just crazy!!!

weather is ok, we got across the border ok, but dad and I got checked at the border, but we were good.

we arrived yesterday at 12noon, and was out fishing at 3pm.

good fishing last night and this morning! dante caught his trophy walleye already, 26" walleye ... woo hoo way to go Dante!

Update time, it is Tuesday about 430 pm

the rain has come :( and they have been very torrential down pours, ive never driven a boat as fast as i can through a thunderstorm before... very interesting
however we have heard the weather back home has been just as thunder stormy

We have had several meals of walleyes, the fishing has been excellent!

we currently sit at 360 walleyes, 44 northerns, and 10 small mouth.
we are on pace for a record year!

I caught my trophy today, about a 23" walleye, it was bleeding pretty badly so i decided to take it as my trophy.

With all of the rain, we have been held up in the cabin a little bit, thank goodness i have movies to play on the tv!

of course beer, cigars, and good conversation keeps us entertained as well :)

probably 1-2 more updates over the next few days!

Update Thursday 3pm

Well the sun has come back out and we continue to catch lots of fish! Sun Duck is even in on the adventure. Check out ducky in the pics!

At this time, our group currently sits at 507 Walleyes, 80 Northerns, and 22 Small mouth bass, 609 Total fish. We should be able to easily eclipse last years number of 698 total fish

Dad and I currently need just one more walleye, 4 Northern, and 3 Small mouth to complete our freezer numbers.

Last night was my night to make the meal, TACO'S... it went off without a hitch, very tasty. Afterwards I treated the guys to a very yummy batch of Kellys Brownies... it was a welcome treat at 10pm at night.

Last Update

Ok its friday afternoon, we have just yanked the boat from the lake and canada 09 fishing is officially over :(

This year I have been asking everyone to take a lot of pictures, and instead of everyone hounding eachother down for their pictures after we leave... i created them all a dvd this afternoon for them to take home that includes everyones pics.

This has been an awesome week, our final fish numbers were: 627 Walleyes, 101 Northerns, 25 Small mouth bass for a total of 753 fish.

thanks for following along, Sunday I will recap some additional stories and pics!

Re-Rack!

2009-07-13T15:40:00.001-07:00

Last night I was playing billiards, the opposing player racked the balls with this one out front:

Instead of asking for a re-rack, I hit the shit out of that ball when I put two and two together.

As for the outcome of that game, I won! The opposition decided to incorrectly hit the 8 ball in at the wrong time (I related that to throwing an interception to lose the game).

What does this all mean? Go ahead Brett play for Minnesota, we will just hit the shit out of you and then intercept the ball to seal the victory. Oh yeah we will leave a bag of flaming pooh on your stupid Minnesota condo doorstep.

Im flaking out!

2009-07-09T19:11:00.000-07:00

Well you have all seen the pics of my legs by now, ughhh they were uber red... painful for a couple days... and now they are peeling.

Ewwe gross, dead skinsville over here!

But it could also be me shedding off this 31 year old skin. Yah... 1 week from today I turn 32 YIKES!

In the mean time, im going to keep yanking off this dead skin... and continue to struggle with the Cold Stone Creamery website, Im trying to print out my free Ice cream coopun for my birthday!

June in Tweets!

2009-07-03T13:58:00.000-07:00

I am sorry everyone for my terribleness at blogging lately.

If you were all not aware, I am a member of the twitter nation, and I will sum up June with a series of tweets:

9:49am Im here at brandt park with some flasks full of bacardi, my bfff gina, and nothing but time!!!

3:43pm First bottle gone, its rainy and cold, but me and gina are still mixing! Stellas here ... STELLLA!

7:34pm Jon and Bra and Jeremy and Billy are playing softball, I think.

8:24pm Its 8 oclock and I am done with my second flask... Oooh people are dancing I think I will try my new break dancing moves.

11:14pm Wow Im Karaoking to the B52's love shack... I see the words, but they dont come out of my mouth correctly.

2:00am Maynard just dropped me off at the parents house but I think I would rather walk up to Aricks house and sleep on his porch.

5:02am Wow these squirrels start their racing really really early!

6:15 am Arick and Jake just came to the front door, in their boxers, wondering what the hell I am doing on their front porch!

9:20am Im sipping a miller lite and sipping a bacardi mixer, why on earth am I double fisting this early in the morning at the House on the Rock golf course?

230pm Jordons mom has the best spread of food ! EVER! 2nd annual Jordon open was a success!

7:20pm My bed never felt so good!

9:40am BLAHHH WORK cant wait until Wednesday and vacation!!

1030am Im driving to Iowa, yay!

1030am Im driving back from Iowa, see blog post for the yadda yadda yadda part.

2:15pm Happy Birthday Looney, you can have 2 brownies!

10:05pm OMG PRINCE FIELDER IS AMAZING!!! GRAND SALAMI!! WOOO HOO what a good night
Ben got to see everyone and the Brewers came from behind and won!

9:32am How could I possibly have this huge pile of work to do? I was only gone 5 days! Ughhh I cant wait until Friday to go tubing!

4:31pm Yes its friday and time for tubing, hope the weather improves.

6:15pm Me and Alvan are driving in a steady rain to go camping, are we crazy?

8:15pm The rain has stopped time to set up the tents, EVERYONE STOP STARING AT MY BUTT CRACK WHEN I BEND OVER!

12:32am SMORES! Beer Bongs! And Watch me jump this fire!

9:42am I have 7 bottles of vodka lemonade mixed, that should get me down the river finely. Hmmm that one looks tasty, I think Ile drink it now!

11:10am No need to put sun tan lotion on my legs, Ile be in the water!

12:23pm Oooh my chances of seeing side boob today are very very good!

2:14pm These lemonades are really tasty!

2:33pm Hey I just crushed a can with my boobs! Boy my legs look kinda red, maybe I should have put on sun tan lotion.

3:38pm Uggh this walk up to the campground is the worst! Hey theres a nice spot on the ground, I am going to sleep there!

5:22pm WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? Gina where am I? Did I puke? Did I see any side boob? Just side ball? Ughh that is totally not what I wanted to see today! Wow my legs ARE RED!

5:34pm Hey everybody let me cook all the food!!!

5:52pm I think Im still drunk, I cant even operate this spatula... oops sorry gina, just put your turkey burger in a big pile of ash :( Lundo you better take over :(

7:40pm Hey did we go tubing today? did I pass out? I think Ile start drinking again!

8:02am worst campsite pick up ever! so ready to puke :x Gina informs me that at no time this weekend did I earn my balls back.

10:02am So good to sleep on my couch!

12:12pm Happy Birthday Mommy!

4:15pm Happy Fathers day Daddy!

11:15pm YAY I won an ebay auction, 2 tix for Thursdays Brewers game!

8:02am Ughhh Work sucks, cant wait until Thursdays Brewers game.

9:14am The cars all packed up, coolers stocked with extra Sauer Kraut, time for a Brewers game!! hooty hoo!

11:14am ugghhh its so freeking hot in this parking lot. Hey theres some Twins fans doing a dong bong? Stupid Scroties. Extra Kraut on my Brat- Smiles!

2:14pm Great were losing! Its so freeking HOT! Twins fans are worse then Cubs fans.

5:14pm Me and Alvan are playing fetch with the frisbee! I think I have hit every single car parked around us! ughhh were out of beer :(

6:45pm Car parked for Summerfest, were at the corner of Jefferson and Wells, should be easy enough to find.

7:15pm $20 tickets for Bon Jovi? sure!

8:45pm Country Bon Jovi = GAY! Saz's Sampler platter = AWESOME AS EVER!

12:45am Im pretty sure we were parked at the corner of Jackson and Wells, I dont see the car anywheres though :( My feet really hurt :(

1:15am See I was right Jefferson and Wells! Wheeewww never been so relieved to find a car! Smiles how many steps are on that pedometer ? 20,000+ thats got to be a record!

9:32am Wow the blisters on the bottom of my feet are painful and large!

4:02pm Car's packed up, Me and Bra are headed to Country USA WOO HOOO!!!

5:30pm We are driving around aimlessly in Oshkosh, directions please!

6:04pm Yay we found the place we are spending the night at! Now time for some pre game and then off to Country USA!

7:32pm $2 just to get a bracelet that says Im 21 years of age... COUNTRY USA IS NOT LIVING THE HIGH LIFE!

845pm Keith Andersons playing songs I know YAY! Things are not going well with this chick. My feet really hurt :(

10:15pm Brad Paisleys on YAY! I know all these songs!!! Yup the chick ditched us! GREAT

11:45pm We otta here, back to Club GL, Incredibad Lonely Island... REPEAT! All the way home to McFun.

1:15am Club GL, FINALLY... I HAVE SEEN SOME SIDE BOOB!!! thanx Nancie!

4:15am Yup I am sleeping in Bra's chair :( But at least Im not driving home :)
Thanks for the after bar Nancie!

11:14am Here I come with my shiny shoes on Here I come with my Shiny Shoes on, Here I come with my Shiny shoe OOOH's ON! But they barely slip on over my blistered feet :( On my way to Andrea/Mike Brixious wedding.

11:02am Happy Bday Kevin!!!

11:30am redo, I forgot to put on my belt, back to the apartment!

11:35am da da da da da da da da, da da da da da da da, da da da da da da da da DaHHHH! Ok now im heading to Milwaukee for the wedding, with my belt on!

1:10pm Huh, im parking my car at the corner of Jefferson and Wells, been here before!

4:02pm Dustin your mustache is attached to your face with gum... THAT IS AWESOME!
shoot i couldnt find a pic

4:15pm Free coctail hour and the Cubs are losing! Great seeing all these peeps from Whitewater, THIS IS THE HIGH LIFE! YAY!

10:30pm Pat takes the stage ! YAY!!! If I had a Monkey Paw Ide put it in my pocket! Ide like to buy some happiness but no one seems to stock it!

12:14am Only took me 2 minutes to find my car this time around! YAY! Congratulations to the newlyweds Mike and Andrea!!!

8:02am Ugghhhh back at work, cant wait til Thursdays Pat Green Show at Skatz. But that is July, I guess Ile have to do a real blog for that!

Vacation!

2009-06-22T21:30:00.001-07:00

June 11-15th I was on vacation… in Iowa!?

Yah I know that’s not necessarily a choice destination, but there was a purpose.

ESPN Ben was in Fort Madison Iowa for the B.A.S.S Masters River Rumble! Ben has been working with ESPN for about 5 years now. Actually, the start of this Bdog blog, 3 plus years ago was recapping my adventures of working with Ben at the Great Outdoor Games in Orlando Florida.

Sadly, that was also my last travels out of state for something other than a fishing trip.

So, here it was Thursday morning, I left Middleton at about 10am and traveled down to Iowa. It took me about 4 hours to get there. I rolled into town around 2pm. You definitely knew that there was something big going on in this little river town… cuz they had hundreds of signs out welcoming ESPN and B.A.S.S.

One other thing that I should mention about the town is that there is a freight train that literally… literally … comes through every 9 minutes! And Literally as I just type this, I hear a train coming! So yah, it was pretty loud and annoying when they came through.

I drove straight to the venue, it was located at the river park, right on the Mississippi River. I took one step onto the grass in the park and it was mud over my shoes. OH BOY!

When I finally found Ben, he was working on getting a Bulldozer unstuck from the mud.
What a mess! It had rained several inches earlier in the week and they had quite a few problems in setup. Ironic, cuz when I worked in Orlando, we had nothing but problems there also. I am bad luck for Ben.

You may ask what Ben actually does at these events well I believe his title is Operations Manager. He spends several days setting up the venue and getting it looking perfect according to plan. While the fishing tournament is happening, he is putting out fires and handling problems. After it is over, he packs it up into a semi and takes it to the next town. So he is basically a hard working man 8am to 9pm every day of these events!

So what did I do while I was there?

Day 1 (Thursday) I mixed me some mixed adult beverages and I did what the tourists did, I watched the weigh in. After the guys got done working, we went to dinner and watched the Orlando Magic play. After that we went to a Bar, I entertained the guys by singing Karaoke.

Day 2 (Friday) I wake up with my head aching, slept in until 11am. I went to the hot tub, soaked in there for about 30 minutes. Went into town and toured the local shops, I dropped the car off for an oil change. 3pm I rolled into the venue, watched the weigh in, then went back to the hotel, changed and then we strolled up to Burlington for a Bees game. We went to a Bar, this time it was dance club night, but I was not feeling the greatest from the night before so I just watched the locals dance.

Day 3 (Saturday) I wake up, watch a little Brewers vs. Whitesox on Comcast Sports Net, I stroll on down to the venue, I was mixing some beverages again. Afterwards we went back to the hotel and ESPN treated the workers to some pizza and the guys sat around and chit chatted. There was a Wedding reception happening at the hotel and we got invited into crash their wedding.

Day 4 (Sunday) I wake up with a foggy head, I watch some Nascar and Brewers/White Sox, then I headed to the venue about 2pm. ON this day I wore my ESPN work outfit, cuz they warned me if I showed up, they were going to put me to work. I watched the final weigh in and I cheered the fisherman along with the locals. Right after taping was done, 5pm… time to take down the event. 9pm we had everything packed up in the semi!

Ben and ESPN treated me to a nice meal, and we had some beers at a local bar. Everyone was dragging pretty good, so we called it a early night.

I took a lot of pictures at the venue, but I didn’t get a whole lot of people, so I guess I would like to give a friendly shout out to them: Ben, Eric, Jon, Darby, Jason, and Brian.
Thanks guys for letting me hang while you worked! It was a fun different little weekend. I told Ben that I think next time I visit one of these events… maybe I would like to be a Marshall (A person that rides along with the anglers for the day).

Day 5 (Monday) We wake up and head out to East Troy Wisconsin. Ben and I had to visit Old-Man-River Looney and McKoy . Looney turned the big 31 so we stopped and wished him happy birthday and I gave him a piece of mud from the river. McKoy is certainly getting bigger from the last time I saw him!!!

Monday evening, we made it back in time to watch Bra and Jonnie play softball, Todd and Gina and Cooper and Kelly and Harold and Lundo and Nancy and Patty were all in attendance. So we had a nice little reunion and we went down to the BA to watch the Brewers come from behind to beat the Cleveland.

So it was a good couple of days off! It was fun to get down there and see the behind the scenes stuff of an event like that! Thanks BEN!!!!

Splinter Softball Tournament

2009-06-12T07:39:00.000-07:00

Well it was another interesting year of Splinter Softball. Of course everything is going to end up interesting if you drink a bottle of bacardi in a day!

930am, I meet Gina at the softball diamond and we watched Jeremy & Billys first game. They lost :( but they did give a gallant effort.

Afterwards, we watched Bra and Jonnies second game, 12pm, they won yay! Mostly because Bra and Jonnie gave their lineup a spark.

So, after this game we had a gap until 7pm ... frightful! We went over to Billy and Lindsays and did some drinking. 6 hour gaps of drinking... aye yae yae! I decided I no longer needed my blanket and chair, I threw that in Jeremys car.

So fast forward to the big match up, Jon & Bra vs. Jeremy & Billy's team. Who do you root for ? Well Bra & Jon won and thats where memory starts to fade me... and gets more interesting... Good thing I gave Gina my car keys!

So... AVD and AVG show up and now Bdog really starts to drink, which leads to some dancing... line dancing ... not a great idea... Nor was BREAK DANCING!!! ughhhh :(

Apparently I hurt myself break dancing/doing pushups and then everyone decided to go to Club GL. On the walk over, Kritz gave me a ride, which I left my Bag and Umbrella in his car. Upon arrival Gina gave Kritz my car keys.

At Club GL, we had fun! I sang B52's love shack with AVD ... she was excellent... I could barely read the words.

At some point in time I asked Kritz for my car keys... he just laughed at me. THANK YOU KRITZ!

Maynard walked through and I grabbed him and he gave me a ride to my parents. I decided to leave my jacket and camera and phone in his car!

Upon arriving at the parents, I decided to wake up them up and the dogs barked like they've never seen me before... pissed off at my lack of stealth... I decided to take a walk, with my golf clubs... up to Aricks!

The thought here was I had to golf Sunday morning in the Jordon open. Well I had no way of getting a hold of Arick, so I decided to just walk up to his place, plop my golf clubs in the driveway... and sleep on his nice new screened in porch.

Sunday morning, 6am he wakes up to a grizzly bear snoring away on his porch :( He asks why I didnt just go downstairs and sleep on the couch, I knew where the spare key was!

Well, eventually we made it golfing and had a great time. My golf game was terrible, Jonnie golfed well. Jordon and his mom were excellent hosts! We are going to make this an annual, YAY! About 4pm I hit a wall and I could no longer stop my eyes from rolling back into my head.

Sunday night/Monday I got all of my posessions back, apologized to everyone for my lack of responsibility and no-one got hurt and no DUI's so... It was another fun Splinter Softball weekend!!

Gina ... No more flasks! and no more 930am!! well , maybe we can... but just no time soon! well maybe we can :)

Work, then Play Ball!

2009-06-02T15:41:00.000-07:00

So this weekend was BUSY, but very rewarding!

It actually started Thursday night, I stopped by Arick’s and saw baby Jake and mama Brooke. He is getting soooo big! He is looking around and he has all of the little facial movements of his parents! He has a jumper now and he loves to jump! He is always Jumping!!

I was also here to pick up his grandfathers trailer. Yup, it is that time of year again, time to help Smile’s move. But, she is moving to the west side, so we can hang out all of the time now!

The move was pretty easy, but I was really sweated up from all of the stairs. So that constituted my Fat Camp for this weekend, cuz when I jumped on the scale afterwards… it was official, I am down 30 pounds since 3/14/2009.

And with that, I was given a free pass to eat all weekend 

Friday night I stayed up late making 2 batches of Kelly’s Cookie/Brownies.

I woke up Saturday morning and returned the trailer. Then I started my trek to Milwaukee. About 1pm I arrived at Nick and Carries place in Brookfield. We had tickets to go see the Brewers play the Reds! I was pumped, first game of the year HOOTY HOO! So we got all loaded up in their new vehicle and drove over to the park.

Just like we always do, get that grill out, cook those burgers, cook those brats… cook that sauerkraut? For some reason this year, I really enjoyed the Kraut! Maybe it was the cabbage soup diet, but mmmm mmm it was good!

The Brewers won and it was a great time!

Our Crew was Nick, Carrie, Tyler, Kate, and Me... Kevin, Spencer, and Ryan even stopped by for a beverage!

Sunday, I met Jeff and Amy for the baseball game. Yup 2 games in one weekend!

More Brats, more Sauerkraut, and Amys favorite Brownies!!! If you all remember back to a year ago, on this date... we were in the exact same parking lot, and Jeff proposed to Amy.

So happy engagement anniversary and more importantly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY!!! She made sure that the entire park knew that it was her birthday cuz she stayed up late making a sign that said "All I want for my birthday is a Brewers victory!"

During the 3rd inning they showed her and her sign on the big screen!!!

Then Trevor Hoffman came into the game and delivered her birthday wish!

WHOOO HOOOO Sweep Sweep Sweep!

When I got home I crashed hard, tired, sun burned, but a great weekend!

And... I'm Back!

2009-05-28T16:20:00.001-07:00

The lonliest geek : (

2009-05-23T08:46:00.001-07:00

This is a deep dark secret that I have kept hidden from people for years. I have only let a handful of people know about this secret. Only Ben, Kai, and I know … that I am secretly a Trekkie.

Recently, it has been easy to keep this a well kept secret cuz there really hasn’t been a movie for a while. But when I saw the movie Cloverfield, at the beginning of the movie there was a teaser preview for the new Star Trek movie. My heart raced!

I immediately ran to wikipedia and read that low and behold there was a new Star Trek movie coming out in the Summer of 2009. I read up about it as much as I could and immediately emailed fellow geek, Ben. I was really excited to read that J.J. Abrams was the producer, who also produces one of my favorite shows… LOST.

Fall 2008, I was so excited to go and see the new Indiana Jones movie, but as an added bonus they had a full length preview for the new Star Trek movie. It was awesome and left me salivating for more.

I continued my web page reviews. I read all about all of the actors that were going to be playing my favorite characters. There were some spoilers leaked online that Leonard Nimoy would be revisiting his role as Spock! OH JOY!!!

The plan was made, I was going to sneak into the local Imax theatre to watch the new Star Trek movie. I have to sneak, because during the daytime hours… I am a Star Wars fan. If fellow Star Wars people were to know that I watch Star Trek movies… there would be some big time trouble. For some unexplained reason, Star Wars fans and Star Trek fans are not the same breed of people. They just don’t mix!

I got to the theatre at about 6:15 pm, the second I get out of my car in the parking lot, someone screams “I can’t believe I am going to see Star Trek, I’M SO PUMPED!!!” I say to myself “I’M WITH YOU BUDDY!”

I get to the ticket desk and slide $12 over, the woman says “What movie Sir?” I slowly lift my hand up and slowly separate my fingers … my pointy and middle finger are touching they are separated from my ring and pinky fingers. She slide’s me a ticket for Star Trek.

I buy some candy, and walk into the Theatre. The place looks magnificent, the screen is huge, this is my Graceland!!

I am the first one here, I am the first Geek. I choose my seat in the theatre, the perfect seat, Middle Middle, no-one ever gets this seat!

I reach into my pocket and start to pull out my Spock pointy ears. I securely place them on my ears. I pull off my sweatshirt to reveal my blue, 1st officer, long sleeve t-shirt. I am ready!

40 year old after 40 year old strolls in, single guys mostly. Some women come strolling in, all geeks. A guy walks in with a really hot chick, she is obviously a paid date for the evening. The Theatre, slowly but surely fills up with geeks. I can only believe that somewhere out there, some computer help desk/tech support telephone is ringing and ringing, going unanswered.

They start some Star Trek trivia on the screen, guys are screaming out the answers before they even give you the multiple choice options. I keep the correct answers to myself, even before those guys answer.

7pm comes, and the first preview comes up… it Is for Transformers 2, which looks awesome on the big Imax screen, gotta see that one.

The movie starts and we all start clapping, I think I hear some crying and sobbing.

2 hours later the movie ends and we all start clapping, I think I am crying and sobbing.

Friday morning, the first hour of work, I am reviewing web pages to find as much info as I can find about the next Star Trek movie. I am talking with someone and I end the conversation… “LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!”

I gasp at my error!

“NO NO NO WAIT, I MEANT, MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!” I think that person knows my secret… set phasers to stun.

Im being dragged around Stoughton by this horse drawn wagon!!!

2009-05-15T15:43:00.000-07:00

I would be remissed if I didn't mention what some people have already known.

I have fallen off the wagon!

I have not fallen all the way off this theoretical wagon... Three chumps named Bra, Alissa, and Dave Dush pushed me off. While in mid air I grabbed a railing but now I am hanging upside down, my underwear got caught on an exposed nail... part of my pants are ripped... my face is dragging on the ground...

These bass turds got me out to watch a brewers game and I had 3, count em 3 tap beers. The brewers won thanx to a Ryan Braun homerun and Trevor Hoffman saved the day! So there were some celebratory pints! The end of the night turned profitable for me because I took their money in dice!

so all, dont be surprised the next time you see me kicking back a few adult beverages... I couldn't make it to Memorial Day, I suck :(

what the dilly yo?

2009-05-15T15:23:00.000-07:00

Where has the month of May gone? GEEZ IT'S HALF OVER ALREADY!

Well I have been very bad about blogging this month, sorry peeps.
Not much really has been happening here on this end.

The first weekend of May, Dad and I went up north fishing on our annual retreat at Muskytale resort. We got up there friday evening and we had really great weather for the entire weekend. Dad schooled me in the Walleye department, however I got him in overall fish. Last summer's fishing trip with looney educated us on the wide varieties of fish that are plentiful in the chip floweage, not just in summer, but at all times. So this year we did things a little bit differently and we caught a lot of fish. Almost every time we went out we caught our limit! We had a great fish fry on Monday and I froze a lot of fish to bring home.

Last saturday I participated in something I call "fatcamp." Basically it is Jeremy, with a whistle, yelling at me and others to run or do certain exercises at the McFarland High school Track. Afterwards, we went back to anytime fitness and he showed me some exercises and lifts to do at my gym. Gina attends this and calls it "bootcamp" and she told me I was going to be sore afterwards... boy was I. Overall I am hovering at 25 pounds lost and I am looking forward to future fat camps.

Lastly, my sisters made it back into town! Yay! They had a wedding to attend, but we got to hang out all day Sunday with Mom. Monday we went to dinner for Julies birthday. So even though it was short lived, good to see the sistahs again.

well I got another fatcamp planned this weekend and lots of golf! so hit the celly im around!

Outlawed word for April : CARBS!

2009-04-26T08:39:00.000-07:00

Outlawed word for April : CARBS!

Outlawed number for April: 280

My diet so far has been a success! I am down 20+ pounds and 30+ pounds is right around the corner!!! This has all been done without hitting the gym. Helping Dad around the farm, pushups, situps... has really been all of the exercise I have been doing. I am not too proud of that fact. I fully expected to be hitting the gym... but things just didnt happen the way I wanted them to... Ile be better over the next few weeks I promise.

I have gone mostly carb free for the entire month, there has been a few slip ups...but for the most part... Breaded and Potato items have been erased from my diet. At first I was missing those carbies but these days, I dont miss em at all!

A cheese stick or green veggies to start out my day, then a salad for lunch, cheese stick or green veggies in the afternoon, then a omelet, eggs n bac'y, scrambled eggies after work, then a light dinner.

Crystal Light is AMAZING! For some reason a glass of that stuff sends all those hunger pains away! With not drinking alcohol I have actually been getting buzzes off of coffee clutching! I can get really loopy off of that stuff ... WOooaaaahhh!

My diet will take a slightly new turn... I was on a month long manhunt for Soy Flour and I have found some! SO Im going to make me some baked goods that I really like... Carb free cookies and Carb free brownies... now I know these technically won't be Carb Free... but close enough!

Sobriety is a Serious Business and Business is not Good.

2009-04-17T14:16:00.000-07:00

Wow it has been 4 + weeks since I have last had a drink of any sort of alcohol. Wow! Im not going to lie to everyone and say it hasn’t been tough… it’s been extremely tough!

I have never been one to race right home and crack open a beer every night. I have never been the kind of person to just go down and sit at a bar by myself. I can smoke a pack of cigarettes like they are nothing and put them right down. I've never had issues with cig's addiction wise. I am a social drunk I guess, I need to be around people and having a good time, that’s when I feel that it’s go time!

It has been kind of interesting because I have come home and slumped in the couch and just kind of zoned out. I take a walk around the block and I have these flashes of memories of getting arrested for this or that. All of the stupid shit I have said or done. Being absolutely wasted and waking up with my car in the ditch, all covered in mud… Walking from East Troy to Mukwonago in a blizzard… Stepping in a hole, snapping my ankle, driving home with my foot feeling like a cement block.

My first drunk I was running on foot from the cops, the second drunk… same thing, two parties I hosted I had police involvement. A couple parties in Whitewater and McFarland we never opened the door for them. Both underage drinking tickets I got, I was driving around … God how many times could I have gotten a DUI for being extremely buzzed but got home safely? Of course, there was that one really stupid night.

Needless to say, the memories have been a problem, but also the Urges have been a problem.

Working down at the parents farm, I get off the hill and sit down to dinner and I see that half full bottle of Rum that I left from Deer hunting season… screaming… just screaming my name! I kick that old 12 pack of Leinenkugel bottles that has been sitting under the table forever. The bottle of vodka, in the back of the fridge, just wanting to be added to my glass of Crystal Light. I have been down here for 2 days and I haven’t noticed before… but they were there… I only recognized them when those Urges kicked in.

Yah, not only have I given up drinking I have pretty much given up all breaded carbs and sweets. Ughhh what was I thinking? How many more weeks to go???

Detox, just to Retox … Detox just to Retox!!

Ironies!

2009-04-13T15:57:00.000-07:00

This is a long story but I think it’s interesting … so I am going to tell it!

During my last days of high school, I was a very impulsive person. Someone got the idea into my brain that I should host a graduation party… one that had no adults… just adult beverages. So, I started to think about it... Why not… have… several graduation parties? So that was how Bdog’s Beer Bashes, began.

My official graduation party was the Saturday before Memorial Day at my McFarland parent’s house. You had the grandparents there, aunts, uncles, and everybody. Eventually, some friends showed up and then we started party hopping. I ended up going to my friend Jason U’s party, and then lastly I ended up at Bra’s party … passed out on his floor.

Bdog Beer Bash #1 was sometime during the week after graduation… My parents had all of this left over alcohol. So the Friday night of Memorial Day weekend, I had a bunch of peeps over and we drank up the rest of the alcohol. The most important part of this night was letting everyone know that Memorial Day night, BDOG BEER BASH #2, was still happening !!! Then Chris P. went onto break my basketball backboard 

Strategery and planning- I bought 3 half barrels, via some redneck, I gave the guy 200 bucks (which was some card money from my Grad party and he got me the beer. The party was for Monday night (Memorial Day), my parents would be leaving the farm around 3pm-ish. I would be parading a caravan of about 40 people to the farm at 3pm. I had made out invitations and directions. We all met at Babcock park and headed down there. WE PASSED THE PARENTS IN FENNIMORE!

Bdog Beer Bash# 2 – We arrived at my parent’s farm around 6-7 pm-ish. We had about 30-40 people, 10 plus vehicles, all parked up at the farm house. We left one half barrel in the trunk of Jason U’s vehicle, we put one in a barn on ice, covered in a blanket. We put one barrel in the house and tapped it. The beer was flowing and I had asked everyone to throw their keys into a bowl. I was collecting some money from everyone and had not even had time to have a beer. SOMEONE YELL’S COPS!!!

Holy crap! I look and there are 2 Grant County Sheriffs down at the gate. Most people scrambled up the hill. Jason told me to go down and talk to them, he was going to go around the house hide the half barrel and clean up all of the plastic cups. 18 year old, sober bdog, strolls down the long driveway ready to face disaster head on.

BDOG Hello Officers.

SHERIFF We heard there was an underage party happening here.

BDOG Well yes, but we are just camping and hanging out, maybe some fishing.

SHERIFF “Why would you have a bowl of car keys?”
BDOG “Ughhh… well , ughh, I just didn’t want anyone to leave officer?” (STUPID STUPID STUPID, why would I bring that with me?)

SHERIFF “Can we check out the premises and make sure there is no alcohol or drugs?”
BDOG “ABSOLUTELY!”

We checked out all of the barns, I almost peed my pants when their flashlight passed right over the half barrel. We walked around the entire house, the place was squeaky clean, they left no stone unturned. They opened the fridge and found one of dads Busch beers. But they never found any of the 3 half barrels!

SHERIFF “Well there ain’t much here to have a party with, just one can of beer”
BDOG “Well, we weren’t really looking to have that kind of party, just camping”

SHERIFF “Why did everyone scramble when we pulled in the driveway?”
BDOG “I can’t understand that either officer, natural instinct? I just think a lot of them told their parents they were suppose to be elsewhere’s and didn’t want to get in trouble.”

SHERIFF “Well to be honest, we had just been given an address, we couldn’t even find this place on any maps!” “I can’t believe you kids can get into any trouble out here, just keep it down.”
BDOG “Yes officer we will, have a good night!”

While I was walking back up to the house, I had the biggest grin on my face. Jason showed me that they had hid a trash bag with all of the cups and the half barrel stashed in a upstairs closet. Jason and I and everyone else felt like we had just gotten away with the crime of the century! We continued to party through the night and well into the next morning. People to this day, remind me of stories back to that day.

We had pondered a few questions: “Why were the Sheriffs there so quickly?” “Who called them?” “Did they possibly see the barrels and choose not to do anything about it?”

When I got home and added up all my remaining Graduation earnings, plus Bdog Beer Bash#2 revenues, I had about $400. I decided that my money would be well spent on a television, so I went over to American TV and bought a $370, 25” Sanyo TV.

Fast Forward 14 years later, Dad, Julie and I were working down at the farm. They needed to leave the farm on Saturday, however, I was staying until Sunday. While they were packing up, I laughed and said to them “This is the first time I have been at the farm unsupervised since that party!” They said “We will try not to call the cops on you this time.”

Easter Sunday, I drive back to my Aunts house and we have dinner. After Dinner I say to Aunt Lisa…Lisa, that TV you have there is the exact same model that I bought after I graduated. She says to me “You can have it, it works perfectly, and I just bought a new one.”

So if you are still following along… I got me a free TV (which I am very familiar with all of the menu’s) and solved a mystery all in the same weekend! YAY

Bdog Beer Bash #3 – We drank up the rest of the beer up at my Mom’s house in Wyocena, the following weekend. That one had a lot more drama and I think my mom aged about 20 years that night. We were loud, unruly, almost had to call the paramedics, we caused damage. The beer was dranken up and no one got in trouble or hurt and I got all of my money back.

Finally, I had to get rid of the evidence… I had 3 empty half barrels and didn’t know what to do with them. Jonnie and Todd saved the day, they talked the Liquor store worker into taking back the half barrels… she could keep the money for the deposits.

Ultimately, the Bdog Beer Bashes were a success … there will probably be another one some day down the road.

Advent TV Jan 20, 2002 to April 7, 2009 RIP

2009-04-08T17:08:00.000-07:00

Advent 32-1236

Advent TV passed away peacefully at his home on Tuesday April 7, 2009 with his owner by his side. He was born in China, 32" long, 20" wide, 150 lbs, silver and beautiful. He had just finished showing 24 Season 2 and minutes prior had just finally completed the evenings performance of American Idol.

There was a big spark and snap, followed by 3 quick small snaps and then he flatlined. Literally, there is a line in the middle of the screen and some sound. He was 7 years and 4 months old.

He was purchased at the East Side Best Buy in January of 2002 and was brought home to London, just in time to watch the Superbowl. However, it was a struggle during the morning hours to get him to fit into his entertainment center. It would ultimately require a trip to the local Wal-Mart to purchase a saw. The saw was then used to cut sections of the entertainment center away, in order for him to fit into his home.

Advents passions were sporting events, movies, television programs such as 24, Lost, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, 30 Rock, American Idol, and Nascar. He enjoyed being timed at night while his owner fell asleep... he would quietly turn off. He enjoyed entertaining several people at a time for big sporting events, most notably the UW-Warhawk football national championship game.

It was about May/June of 2008 when Arick started to notice a hissing noise from Advent. After his final move to Middleton, the hiss started to turn to a crackle. In January of 2009, he decided to only show television programming in Green and Blue colors for about 30 minutes until he was heated up enough to show regular colors. One night mid march his owner had peacefully fallen asleep, but Advent was still on and there was a loud SNAP! The owner awoke in fear that it was the end to Advent, but Advent, fought hard to stay alive. The next day, there was speratic SNAP's but he continued to fight on... then finally on that fateful Tuesday night... he gave out his final snap... and he was gone.

Advent was preceded in death by one Technics receiver, one Samsung DVD player, and several VCR players. He leaves behind an owner: Bdog, and several roommates that joined his company: Arick, Brent, Nick, Peter, Kevin, Nick, Guss, Danielle, and Looney. Advent will be greatly missed by family, friends, his digital converter box, rabbit ear antenna, and his Universal Remote.

In Lieu of flowers, please send donations to the households of Stephanie, Kelly/Jon, and neighbor Amanda. These donations will go towards their cable bills as Bdog is sure to be camping out there instead of missing his beloved tv programs.

Bdog Education Plan

2009-04-05T08:50:00.000-07:00

Readin, Riten, Rithmatick... ahh after writing this ... it all sounds like gibberish... I guess thats what you get when my mind isnt being influenced.

I have grown up in the public school system of Wisconsin; so naturally, there are going to be some aspects and ideas that make sense for us… but are ridiculous for other parts of the country. But here is the Bdog plan to fix our educational system:

We have great school systems, we have great teachers, we have great technologies, we have great ideas. In my time in the system I’ve experienced and heard of these great ideas: Year around schooling, Block classes, smaller class sizes, collegiate classes at the High School levels, and making school fun/hands-on learning.

I think we need to incorporate all of these ideas and start thinking outside the box when it comes to facilities/costs. I think our culture accepts that the educational process starts at age 4 and lasts until age 22. Preschool through College is something that the majority of our children go through. This should be cost free to the student during this time.

Education needs to be a mixture of home schooling, in class learning, online learning, study abroad learning, and on the job learning. If a child misses a day of schooling due to illness they should be able to conduct online learning or home schooling to get caught up. If a situation is set up where the child prefers to do online schooling, then this would be allowed also.

Where did this idea of summer break come from? Where did a school day of 8am -3pm come from? Why all of these off days and in-services? We need to instill from an early age that school is a year round event broken up by trimesters. The work day starts at 8am and goes until 5pm so does school. Classes are in 2-3 hour block formats. Once the school day is over with, we don’t take our school work home with us.

Ages 4-6 we start teaching children the basic learning blocks of education. During these ages, teachers need to make school fun! School should have frequent learning experiences inside and outside of school walls. There are no grades during these years… there are learning experiences.

Ages 7-10 are times that introduce some new concepts. Children attend 2 trimesters of educational classes, the 3rd trimester is dedicated to a sport, musical, traveling, or technological adventure. This adventure can be local or it can be abroad.

Ages 10-14 you have the same idea with trimesters, however we introduce a co-op adventure. Co-op programs are where the child has a job for the trimester and they earn money.

Ages 14-20 we continue with our Trimester concept. However we start introducing what we consider “Higher learning or Collegiate” level classes. Every 2-4 year college that you go to, you have these general education requirements. This is RIDICULOUS! We need to move this learning to lower levels.

It is expected by age 20, if not earlier, the student will have achieved the required credits to have earned a golden ticket. This golden ticket should allow them to attend any University/Technical College in the United States, cost free, to complete their Undergraduate Bachelors or Associates Degree in 2-3 years.

If they have not achieved a certain level of credits then they have a Silver ticket that allows them to attend any Technical College in the United States, cost free.

If by age 20 they have not earned enough credits, they will not be attending College on the publics dime.

Explanation of Adventures:
The 1st Trimester starts August 1 and goes until the week of Christmas. The week after New Years starts the 2nd Trimester and goes until Mid May. The 3rd Trimester goes from the day after Memorial day until July 31st. Your adventure can be taken any one of the trimesters.

A Sport adventure would be a full day of learning about sport and physical movement. Your trimester would be dedicated to physical education, nutritional education, sport specific coaching, and personal training. You would have practices in the mornings and evenings, you would compete against other programs dedicated to that Sport within and outside of the district. Sporting field trips would be scheduled. Fundraising activities will be required to earn monies for the program.

A Musical adventure would be the same, learning through out the day with an evening concert. Musical field trips would be scheduled. Fundraising activities will be required to earn monies for these programs. Sport and Musical/Art adventures have classes/teams of no more then 20 students. Facilities and equipment in the districts will be shared and filled to capacity. Facilities that are unused will sit empty.

The same for Technological/Co-Op/Travel adventures learning… through out the day, field trips, and evening events. Fundraising activities will be required to earn monies for the program.

No Adventure, if your child or you do not believe in this idea... then you can pull your child from this segment and you can conduct a home schooling program for credits or online classes. The child will be required to earn credits at home... but they are at home for this time.

Teachers:
Teachers/Professors are not glued to a certain school, they are expected to travel to the students. Classes are no larger then 20 students. Teachers/Professors are expected to Teach 2 trimesters and can utilize the 3rd for personal use… unpaid, additional training, or they can teach a 3rd trimester in a adventure program. A teacher/professor is hired by a district …not a specific school.

Teachers deserve to have engaged students that are not disruptive to the learning process. Students should want to be in class and should want to participate and learn. If a Teacher is the problem, they need to be trained or replaced. If the issue is with the student then the following:
1.) Student is mentored in the classroom.
2.) Student is removed from the classroom to another room to conduct the learning online and is mentored.
3.) Student is removed from the school and moved to another school in the district.
4.) Student is moved to home schooling online learning.
5.) Parent is in charge of the child’s education and no longer is required to pay tax dollars for the child.

Facilities/Equipment/Administration:
Schools are expected to be full. If a school has 30 classrooms, they will be filled at all times of the day with classes of 20 students. Desks, computers, learning equipment should move freely from school to school within the district. Facilities and equipment should be updated/expired/rotated. A school district is 10 -15 schools covering a 25 -50 square mile area. One Administrative team supervises that district.

Grades:
There is so much pressure out there on teachers to have students perform and perform well. “No Child Left Behind!” The concept is that the child moves through the system yet does not learn. Another concept is aptitude tests and the philosophy of a teacher “Teaching to the Test.” I believe we need to throw out the concept of grades, and maybe these ideas will fall by the wayside. Either the student passes or fails.

Each curriculum should be set up with a series of tasks. Each curriculum of tasks should incorporate several different methods to teaching that curriculum. A teacher will specialize teaching that curriculum with a certain popular teaching method.

The teacher’s jobs should be teaching of tasks and the student responds by passing a task. The job is also to identify if a certain method of teaching is working for that child. If at the end of that trimester, several methods have been tried and failed. The student does not receive credit for that class.

In summary I believe: year ‘round school, full school days, full utilization of facilities and equipment, and less administrative staff… would make schools considerably more affordable.

Adventure programs would no longer require the schools to pay the entire costs of Sports/Music/etc. Self funded “Adventure” programs would provide for a very unique learning experience. The student will no longer have the stresses of school and activity. The Teacher will no longer have the stresses of teaching and coaching. They can focus on the Adventure.

In life we pass or fail. I don't receive an A or a C for doing a job. I either get it done or don't.

Our current system is one that is old and no longer is functioning for our children. We need to throw it out and embrace all of the great ideas out there... and start over.

BDOG Environment and Energy Plan

2009-03-31T17:15:00.001-07:00

My vehicle, Air Force 1, is 12 years old, it gets 18 miles per gallon.

Newer gas powered vehicles are more aero dynamic, made with more plastic, and have improved exhaust systems. Yet Trucks/SUV’s have only improved mpg by 5 mpg in 12 years? Hybrid vehicles have batteries and battery recharging systems… however they still only get 30-40 mpg? The best vehicle I have seen gets 40 -50 mpg but that thing is so small I would not feel safe at all! I think the missing link is that we have not eliminated or improved the gas powered engine. Automobile makers need to stop focusing on making things lighter and sleeker… focus on creating a better engine.

Roads today are made with asphalt (a petroleum bi product). They look great, are smooth, and are put down very quickly. However they start to crumble in a year. Roads made with concrete last longer and can be repaired in sections to the condition they were put down in. We need to embrace more concrete and embrace technologies that improve concrete. Oh yeah… they need to build with more trees in the medians … So the roads get some shade and don’t explode. We need to look at who uses these roads and more importantly damages the roads and make sure they pay more.

Dad always makes the comment “They aint never going to be happy until they pave over Dane County!” Carbon emissions are partly blamed for green house gasses which raises the Earths temperatures. There is another factor that raises temperatures: Shingles, Tar roofs, and parking lots.

We need to enforce Green buildings and Green parking lots. What does that mean? We need Trees/bushes/marshes in parking lots and paved areas creating shade and absorbing water run off. We need to start enforcing Trees and lawns on rooftops of buildings and homes. Just think if your garden was on the roof? You had a nice little picnic table, grill, tree, lawn up there on your roof. You don’t have to worry about hail damage, your home stays cooler in the summer time, no more replacing the roof, and you increase your living square footage.

Shingles, tar, and asphalt parking lots are ugly! They create a lot of heat, and are more unneeded petroleum bi products.

Our homes and offices need to start supporting green technologies inside too. When we are not at home or work; the power - the heat – the ac, all needs to be off! Our outlets need to stop giving energy to energy wasting appliances when not in use. Our lights need to all have motion sensors.

We have a power problem. We need to continue to put up windmills, hydrogen power, solar power, and methane power from landfills. We need to continue to support renewable energies. More important to the power problem is our power infrastructure. We lose over 50% of our energy simply from the design of our power lines. We need to improve this technology immediately. We need to stop putting up power lines and start burying them.

Lastly, we need to look at how our communities are developed/re-developed. We should be able to walk, run, bicycle, or public transport everywhere local. Continuing to support spreading out communities is ridiculous.

We need to create a better, cleaner, more efficient engine, batteries, homes and businesses. We need to eliminate asphalt in our roads. We need to re-think how we do our roofs and parking lots. We need to support renewable energies. We need to improve our power infrastructure. We need to develop/redevelop our communities so that we don’t need to travel very far. We need to Bob Ross our communities… put a happy tree here, a happy little bush there, and everywhere.

Next up EDUCATION

BDOG HEALTH PLAN

2009-03-29T09:31:00.000-07:00

Well recently I blogged about the economy and it has not yet resolved itself! But I think some of the news is getting better!!! What gives economy???

In addition to my friend Dustin's blog, I just want to add that I think it is absolutely horrible that every Republican it seems these days... are against the President and his policies. I mean come on! The guy has been in office for 2 months and it seems like every Republican in office is aligning up against the President. I voted Republican the last 12 years and it just seems like this attitude just reinforces my vote change.

One common theme that the President keeps coming back to is improvements in Health Care, Education, and Energy.

Well I work in the Health Care industry and I agree… it’s messed up!

Why is Health Care linked to jobs and employers? It shouldn’t be? It should be everyone’s God given right to be healthy… and if you’re sick you should see a doctor. Ladies need to get there lady checkups. Guys need to get their guy checkups. Babies should get their Baby checkups.

People should not have to be afraid to go to the doctor because they don’t have insurance or money to pay a doctor...That is if we even see a Doctor. If we get sick or injured we should be able to see a doctor or go to a hospital without worry of having a stack of bills.

The solution is already in place and I predict by the end of the year it will be ready to go for 2010: The BDOG PLAN!

Eliminate Medicare, eliminate Medicaid, eliminate all of the State ran insurance programs for children and sick adults, eliminate all of the group plans, eliminate all the private insurance plans. They don’t exist anymore! The savings that we have from one centralized controller of expenditures and revenues... will be immense. When you do it, everything simplified saves money and makes sense!

There will be one Universal plan that costs X amount of dollars for each and every citizen that comes out of our paycheck/pay in taxes every week and at the end of the year. Your taxes go down if you prove you take healthy steps towards a healthier lifestyle (Itemized deductions). Your taxes go up if you burden the system (Additional Revenues). But your taxes would be capped at a certain amount.

People that do not have a job and if you are a burden to the system, well you will certainly be paying taxes at a higher cap.

Insurance companies, yes there is going to be a lot of jobs lost, but what we have now is not considered Insurance. Go back to doing your jobs! Insure Risks not Gamble with peoples health. Go back to cars, houses, properties, and life insurances. STAY OUT OF HEALTH INSURANCE! However, if you feel that you must remain in the industry... you will be in competition with the Government and the odds will not be in your favor.

Citizens, we have some homework to do, we need to work on obtaining all of the medical records that we have had over the last 10 years… and we need to get this data processed into one central medical database called your Social Security Number. The task of medical record keeping should not be placed on Insurance companies or Medical facilities. Hey we do our own taxes (which are a lot more confusing) why shouldn’t we be in charge of our own medical information and history? Going forward: We are in charge of securing our own medical records!

Medical facilities, we need to get on the same page and figure out what usual and customary practices and ultimately what costs are. A claim submitted in California should be the same as Wisconsin and the same as in New York. The claim is submitted to the IHS (Internal Health Services) and they reimburse the facility or doctor.

The focus should be on providing health coverage. Have doctors/nurses in the field and in the hospital! People only go to the hospital for emergencies, doctors/nurses/emt’s in the field determines who goes to the hospital.
If you do x amount of house visits or surgeries your salary is x amount. If you exceed your numbers you get bonuses. It is Pay for performance. In addition, If you provide certain amount of years of service you cancel your student loans.

Our health industry has gotten way … way … way out of hand. We need to take control of it now... no matter what cost. Centralize and simplify... we will then see cost savings. The benefits of doing this will trickle down through the economy.

Next up ... the evironment and energy!

The Cabbage Soup Diet

2009-03-26T14:18:00.000-07:00

Well I am really proud to say that I survived through the Cabbage Soup Diet!

There are 11 pounds of me that went somewheres… and I don’t know where and hopefully they are lost and never come back!

So here is a recap:

Day 1 Eat all of the fruits that you want along with as much soup as you want. Okay I can do this!

Day 2 I can eat all of the green veggies that I want and as much soup as I want. Today I am starting to feel the pains of not having any breaded carbs. I bring two bowls of Soup with me to work. 10am first soup down, 1 pm second soup down… and that is when I realized my mistake… you don’t eat two bowls of cabbage soup at work. My stomach started to cramp and I got the toots!

Day 3 I can eat all of the greens and fruits that I want! Yay!!! But most importantly I can have a Potato at dinner. IT WAS SOOO GOOD! It easily may have been the best tater Ive ever eaten!

Day 4 All the soup I want along with Skim Milk and Bananas… okay at first on paper I thought this day sounded interesting. Those Nanners really fill a guy up! I had one bowl of soup all day long! I cheat for the first time PUDDING!

Day 5 All the soup you want and 20 oz of beef and up to 6 tomatoes. Wow this venison was amazing. I only eat one bowl of Soup! I email Gina informing her I may have cheated yesterday with a bowl of sugar free-fat free pudding. She forgives me. However, I cannot be forgiven for some of my wind! IT’s TERRIBLE!

Day 6 All the steak you want… well its Lent and its Friday… how the heck am I going to do that? Well there is a blurb that mentions that you can substitute fish for steak so YAY! I go to Fish Fry dinner with Jordon and Stacy, I order my fish broiled. IT WAS FANTASTIC, I probably shouldn’t have added the butter. BUT IT WAS TERRIFIC!!!

Day 7 Brown Rice and veggies and soup. Well I kinda had a potato last night… so im going to just stick to veggies and soup.

Day 8 Wow I got like 3 bowls of soup left? Well keep going with it… Jump on the scale… wowza’s !! I am down 11 pounds!!! Yippeee!!

Present Day - This week I hope I didn’t fall off the horse! The no carb horse, that is!! But I want to eat up the rest of my fruits and veggies that I shouldn’t be eating in Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet. But as I mentioned before I want to get my weight down… I am hoping by the end of Phase 1 … 20 lbs of Bdog are long gone! Then I can work on my fitness goals!

Fatty Magoo!

2009-03-15T09:39:00.000-07:00

I think it was Bra a couple weeks ago that informed me that we are going to be having our 15 year highschool reunion next summer. 15 years?!?!? BaGezus!

So im not sure why the ticking timeclock got fired up this time around... but I've realized I have let my weight and body get way out of shape. Im FAT!

Years ago me and the guys were joking over at Jons parents house. We were talking about dieting and Jons mom flat out said to us "IF you want to lose weight you need to stop drinking." We all laughed and said "Thats a good one Diane! You are way too funny!" "No diet in the history of man has ever worked that has excluded drinking!"

Well years later I created "The Drinking Diet." The first ever diet fab that endorsed drinking as a mainstay of the diet, that worked for a short while.

But I have finally realized, that if I want to be serious about dieting and getting my body back into shape... I need to stop drinking for a short period of time. Let the 15 years of toxins work its way out of my system! I need to dedicate the next two months to working out, eating healthy, ... get my body back where it needs to be.

The goal... starting 3/15/2009 until 5/23/2009 (Memorial Day Weekend) NO DRINKING WHAT SO EVER! not a drop.

I am going to work with my physical trainer, Jeremy, and I am going to start out by going on a fad diet that I have wanted to do for a while... the Soup Diet.

Never in my life am I going to challenge myself like I am over the next two months. Its going to be crazy! But I am also giving myself little vacations... HEALTHY camping vacations... April I will be at Bluemounds State park, Eagle in May, Governor Dodge in June... I have chosen all of these parks for their proximity and also their trail systems.

Call me crazy ... challenge me... but this is really something that has gotten into my head lately... geez 15 years!

.10k in under 1 minute!!

2009-03-15T09:13:00.000-07:00

Outlawed words for March: Analog to Digital together

2009-03-14T05:14:00.000-07:00

Hey have you heard that there was some sort of swith from Analog to Digital? I was not aware!

Yeah right!! It has only been plastered all over our Tv's everywhere's for the last 12 months!!! I am so hoping that this just goes away sooner rather than later!!!

Of course you all know me as cheapy mc'cheapersons. I certainly have purchased a digital converter box and enjoy the nice digital life. It certainly has added to my viewing pleasure... now i currently have 12 channels to view! YAY!!! But when you first start it up you are looking at the old Analog channels. It is hilarious the programming crap they are airing over the old Analog channels. Basically if you haven't made the switch you get 24-7 infomercials about changing to digital... and they are soooo bad.

But the other day I was telling my mom that I just wish I had a DVR !!! A VCR doesn't really even work with the dang thing. So I was parusing the web... I typed in TV Laptop in Google and I came across Capture Cards... HMMMMmmmmm

A little further research I found this product:

Hauppauge WinTV-HVR850 TV stick $60
WinTV-HVR-850 brings over-the-air high definition ATSC digital TV plus analog cable TV to your PC or laptop! Watch and record TV, in a window or full screen. Use the WinTV-Scheduler to record your favorite analog or digital TV shows using high quality MPEG-2. Play your TV recordings back to your screen any time.

So basically... its a USB stick that you can screw in your rabbit ears to (Thats what she said?) and you can get TV through your laptop or pc... even more cooler is that you can set up timers to record things!

They are recorded into Mpeg format and so then I can burn them to DVD's and upload them to my Zune. All which I can playback on my TV!!!

I am also hoping it picks up channels 94.0 through 94.10 ... for all of you out there that already have digital tuners and know what these channels are all about... well basically you can spy on what your neighbors are watching.

For those of you that were looking for an alternative to your DVR... this may be an option for you.

Well anywho... this will be my next purchase... and I am just sick and tired of all this Analog to Digital crap... those two words are my outlawed words for March! You can no longer use Analog or Digital in the same sentence!

The Ghetto, The Suburbs, The Same ?

2009-03-12T14:09:00.000-07:00

About 3 years ago, I was enlightened to the world of Myspace. I was starting up my blog and I was looking for some different cool things on there. Well low and behold I came across Myspace. I joined up and slowly but surely I started to acquire friends, I dabbled with the artsy design of it, I posted pictures, I commented on other peoples pages.

Shortly there after I was informed about another social website, Facebook. But unfortunately ... not being in school, I needed someone to invite me into this cult. Dustin hooked me up and invited me! Thanks pal!

On the Myspace side of things, I quickly added on a bunch of friends and I reached about 200 friends! It was amazing ... I was the coolest guy on the block! All these friends, all these comments! I was soo cool that I decided to go through and weed out friends that I didnt need. I ignored friendships with people (if you can believe that) I felt I needed to keep things updated on there and keep people entertained!

My facebook page hovered at about 40-50 friends, I would sometimes forget to log into it... it was sooo bland. But more and more it kept picking up steam and you would log in one day and you were looking at 1/2/3 friend invites! OOOHhhh it was like Myspace all over again but in a different realm.

But the really interesting thing with Facebook is that you got to see the History threads, the Photo tagging, the comments... of friends of other friends. I finally realized that I was "Status Stalking!" Another cool thing happened one day as I was typing away... a cool little instant message box popped up.

Todd informed us of something he heard from his students... Myspace was the Ghetto and Facebook is the Suburbs!!

Well a funny thing happened along the way... the "25 things survey." The Picture tagging gets annoying especially on this comic pic. Everyone and their Sister is sending me these stupid application requests. Relatives are asking me to be friends which I dont know how I feel about this just yet. Everyone is friends with my Sisters. STOP IT ! And now we have ventured into the land of the "People you may know" feed.

Maybe you knew these people, but you really dont want to know them and certainly not now. I guess this rant all extends from this horrible article that i read:

http://www.channel3000.com/family/18870172/detail.html

I hate this author more than life itself! how irritating is this person? How pissed off would you be if you read this?

Well if you were unaware, I recently purchased a laptop computer and I can wire-less-ly connect to the internet... more importantly I can disconnect.

I cancelled my internet connection and now pick up my internet waves freely. Im actually sitting at the local Panera sipping some coffee as I write this. The more that I have gone down this path I realize something... When I disconnected the wire... I dont miss it that much... I can care less what everyone is doing ... and the more that I take a step away, I realize that the Suburbs was the Ghetto all along... it just took time to catch up.

So whats next? who knows???... but most certainly there will be something. It will be amazing for awhile... but eventually it will blend into the same Blahhhhhhhh!

Eastward Whirlwind Part 2

2009-03-09T14:52:00.001-07:00

Well we had plenty of Birthdays this last week:

Todd

Stephanie

Cooper

Dustin

Andrea(this coming Wednesday)

Happy Birthday to you old farts!!!

So where was I ? Oh yeah I was sitting at the Coffee joint blogging about Friday/Saturday now I need to blog about Saturday/Sunday.

Well with my GPS(Grogan Positioning System) in hand, which is basically the directions chicken scratched on a "Honey Do" list. I ventured my way through the fog and rain to Oak Creek.

Upon arrival I headed downstairs to find Mike and Andrea's bar already rocking! Dustin had yet to arrive. I was no stranger to taking my place at the bar and meeting new peeps. Proudly I learned all of the new peoples names with my special way to rememer people by giving them nicknames:

Shirty. Moley. Lazy Eye. Mexico. Baldy. Sugar Boobs. Black Woman.

With that I knew everyone! Michael unfortunately showed me the Wop so after one of my 30 beers, I was drinking the yummy wop for the rest of the night.

A bunch of people showed up, most of which I knew and it was just awesome to see everyone! The music was jamming, we started to play drinking games and we took shots.

I lost a game of beer pong :( My team lost in Hockey :( Most of the time I was the Asshole :( We tried to play golf which Dustin immediately pointed out that I was playing the wrong way :( so yeah the drinking games were a disaster :(

The music and the good times were fun, we finished off a bottle of my apple pie. We cheersed and we laughed we talked up the Brewers we talked down the Cubs. We reminisced the old days in Whitewater.

At some point in time I looked at my phone it... minutes ago it said 2:30am now it says 3:32am HUH?? oh yeah thats right daylights savings time! I then looked at the phone it said 4:30am??? GEEZ where has time gone?

Well shortly after this point in time Mike and I were drinking downstairs, and we heard a commotion upstairs. yadda yadda yadda... the cops were now in attendance with us. Oak Creek's finest partied with us from 5am until 7am :(

7am I shut my eye as I layed on Mike and Andrea's Brickwork around their fireplace ? Apparently my sleeping bag and the couch didnt sound very comfy to me (Dont ask!) 930am I opened my eyes! 10am I was off to mommies!!!

Mommies I arrived for lunch and we watched the race and for 2 minutes I saw the back of my eyelids... but then it started to snow/ice/sleet outside... TIME TO GO!!!

About 5pm my Eastward whirlwind ended at my apartment and I was exhausted!

Thank you to everyone! It was awesome!!! on this trip I spent all of $12 !!! everyone else fed me and drank me and it was just a great time! Guess what? I have to go back soon, I left my sleeping bag at their house.

consider it Bernarding Insurance!!!

Happy Birthday, Birthday kids!!!

Stuck in the Middle!

2009-03-07T16:34:00.001-08:00

Well I am currently in the middle of my eastward whirl wind.

This "party on wheels" headed out last night after work and the desty nation was East Troy Wisco. Well I got no further down the beltline then Fish Hatch Rd, when I called Kritz and he informed me to stop off at the shop. In reflection Im not really sure why I stopped at the shop cuz my tee shirt artwork aint done... but we basically made a plan to make a plan... plus I have not seen Jason in over a week, so I needed to get my fix.

Well the plan was me checking my email today to see the tee shirt design for st. pattys day, whadya think???

So any ways... I left the shop and then arrived in East Troy at about 530pm. Me and Looney were headed to a sports show to check out hunting and fishing stuff at State Fair park. We got there around 6ish and walked around for about 1 1/2 hours. We basically filled our bags with flyers and stickers. We oohed and aaaghed over stuff we cannot buy and places we will never go to in our life. Then we went home.

Upon getting back to their house we sat and watched TV with Linda. The real reason I wanted to stop down there was to wish them good luck for their big week coming up. THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A BABY!! Yay!!! They still dont know which type it will be (male or female) but they are already to go, bags are packed, the fastest route has been plotted to the hospital. Her due date is on March 12th, good luck Linda and Dan!!! Im super excited for you two!

Today I left at about 12 and headed up to Carrie and Nick and Sherlock's house in Brookfield. I haven't seen the both of them, and their house, and their new car in sooo long :( but we had a nice little afternoon. We ate pizza and chatted the whole time! USA and Canada were playing in the background (Ryan B was forgetable). But we planned to go to a Brewers game in May ... YAY!!! and I vow I will be back to their house before the end of May! Way too long without Nick and Carrie and Sherlock.

So I then hopped back in my car and headed further east! And after driving around for a Panera... this is where I currently type... drinking coffee getting ready for a fun Birthday evening with Andrea/Mike/Dustin and everyone else in Oak Creek!!! Then tomorrow off to mommies!

Bockfest 2009

2009-03-01T14:58:00.000-08:00

Well we had another great Bockfest this year!

A couple weeks ago Stephanie had sent an email wondering if anyone was interested in Bockfest and I got really excited. I was starting to think that I may not be attending this year cuz there was a lot of people out of town. But things came together and we actually got some VIP passes to get in early!

So I had 3 vip passes, Steph had 3 ... so our crew was Bra, Nick, Me, Stephanie, Rachel and Kelly. We arrived at 10:15am and it was COOLLLDDD. 16 degrees and I was dressed in my many layers and could have added more! My first beer was my Favorite of the Capital Brews ...Capital Amber.

The Bockfest is a celebration of the beginning of Spring (Even though it didn't feel like Spring). In fall you have Octoberfest and they tap the kegs from the Summer. Bockfest is the tapping of the Fall kegs. Follow me?

Well anywho, last year there was way too many people and it took about one hour to get a beer this year... 1 minute. They put limits on how many people could enter the grounds and this helped tremendously!

Well we had some beers and did some toasts and then they started throwing beads off the roof. I caught 8 myself... I am awesome!

Well we got cold enough and headed over to the Hody, then we headed to Quaker Steak and Lube for dinner.

It was a great day! We had a lot of fun and I was sleeping on my floor at 8pm... that is probably why I was up at 430am this morning :(

BTB!!!

2009-02-23T14:35:00.001-08:00

Back to Back victories !!! wooo hoo !!! He is amazing!!!

I would say 2 4 2 but i dont like to put the numbers 2 and 4 in the same sentence.

Seriously???

2009-02-21T08:40:00.000-08:00

Who ever signed me up for this ... I hope they get buried in snow!

The Greatest Rock Band of ALL TIME!!!

2009-02-20T12:44:00.000-08:00

So the time in my life was ... Early 2000's I think? Gosh it seems so long ago now... but it was Whitewater.

After I lived in the dorms, Cambridge Apartments, Scott Street, Green House, after all of that ... I lived on Whitewater Lake. My roommate ... for a short time was Ryan S. He was a pretty cool guy that I met through the fraternity...

But anyways the first week we lived there he asked me who was the Greatest Rock Band of ALL TIME? I racked my brain for a week, listing off all kinds of rock bands... Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Poison, Winger, Warrant, Ac/Dc... and now I cant even think of all the Rock Bands that I had named off... but there was one that eluded me all week and he was getting really upset that I couldn't figure it out.

Finally he said "When you think of Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll ... there is one band that is so much more that then any of them... MOTLEY CRUE!"

Fast forward like 10 years, we are at Holiday Happy Hour 3 and I find myself, Jason, Jeremy, and Stephanie in a conversation about Motley Crue and them coming to town. I was surprised to find out that my friends were not exactly Crue fans... but how big of fans they were about the premise of the Crue and what they stood for.

I started to think ... okay first Ryan, now these guys think that Motley Crue is the Greatest Rock Band of All Time? I gotta go see them in concert at least once in my life!

Well weeks became days, I found myself doing research on the band, listening to all of their greatest hits. I found a current set list and made sure I listened to those songs. I bought some mardi gras beads, Jason made some shirts.

Stephanie and Jason bought books. They had heard that one of the band members, Nikki Sixx' girlfriend Katt Von Dee was in town. Apparently she was doing a book signing, and they both are fans of her/her show. So they attended that at 3pm on the day of the show.

I on the other hand, made my way to McFarland and we did some pregame partying at Billy's then we headed to the Badger Bowl for the WJJO Pre Game Party. Im starting to get a pretty good buzz going at this time. We make it over to the coliseum. We are starting to feel extremely good at this time. We walk up to the gate and the Security Jag Off says "You cant wear those mardi gras beads in." Whatever!

Any whoo... we make it into our seats and sit down, our seats weren't the greatest. But I wasnt going to pay more than $50!!! We realized that we could move around a little bit, so after the opening band, Hinder, played... we decided to make a move.

We could now see the full stage and It was HUGE!!! There were soo many lights and the speakers were huge. I couldnt wait!!! The lights go dim... smoke starts rising and then the Crue comes out blaring away to "Kick Start My Heart" everyone is going crazy they are jumping around the stage... and then Doctor feelgood, Saints of Los Angeles, and Girls Girls Girls, and Wild Side, and Primal Scream... At some point in time in the show I realize ... I had gone deaf!!!

Something happened to me cuz I couldn't understand the music, the words, and anything! OMG!!! I still had my sight and my awesome awesome dance moves...

So I must have looked funny but I was dancing away in my seat... I think I was singing... but I have no way of knowing if I was on key or not! Well I actually know I was off key cuz I cannot sing... But It was such a different feeling!!!

Luckily my full hearing came back by Monday... but wow what a rock show!!! they certainly are The Greatest Rock Band of ALL TIMES!!! I cant wait to see them again... this time with earplugs!

250th Blog!!!!

2009-02-16T14:19:00.000-08:00

I am really happy to announce that this blog is my 250th blog...YAY!!!

It is pretty awesome to write this on today of all days... cuz my favorite race car driver and team won the Superbowl of Nascar racing. Yesterday, Matt Kenseth won the Daytona 500 !!! YAYYYYY!!!

Im not feeling the greatest today... but this weekend was absolutely awesome!

Saturday I took in the Motley Crue/Hinder concert which was awesome! We all met up at the Badger Bowl for the pre concert party. We had some drinks and then headed over to the concert. We rocked, we danced the night away and we all walked out of the building deaf! It was soo loud, exactly what a rock show should be! It's amazing that those guys still rock so hard!

Saturday night we headed back to the Tavvy in McFarland and we had a good time partying it up for Kim's Birthday...Happy Bday Kim!

Sunday morning, woke up on Kevin and Greta's floor feeling like crap... I had to sit upright, the room was spinning. But Sunday was Raceday, and after a huge breakfast I headed to the Parkside Pub in McFarland.

Now we have been going to the Parkside for a few years now, it aint the greatest of places... but the place is filled with racing fans.... and they put out a lot of free food. So Sunday, Jordon, Brandon, Lundo, Me, Bra, and Alissa showed up with one intention... Rooting on Matt Kenseth.

The race was exciting, we had the big one, lots of cautions, close racing... The race started at about 2:45pm Matt started dead last. I kept watching to see where he was he kept creeping up and up and then Matt Kenseth finally made it to the front... 18 seconds he held the lead and then another caution came out... They came back from commercial and I saw rain drops on the cameras... YES!!!! RAIN M'FR RAIN!!!!!

I texted Kenny, he was at the race with his dad... they were cheering: RAIN RAIN RAIN!!!!

I got a call from Nick and again... we were cheering RAIN RAIN RAIN!!!

Matt is still sitting in the car and then Nick says "THEY JUST CALLED IT OFFICIAL!!"

YESSSS!!!! WOOO HOOO !!!!

Matt Wins !!!!! WOO HOO!!

A lot of people say they don't realize that I am a big Nascar fan... I have to correct them... Im not a huge Nascar fan, Im just a huge Matt Kenseth fan!

But thanks to everyone for checking in on all 250 blog entry's and thanks for putting up with my wierd obsessions... What a great start to the week!!!!

Sorry for no pics also, they didnt allow cameras at the concert :(

Outlawed word for February: Ha

2009-02-10T14:46:00.000-08:00

Outlawed word for February: Ha

or linking Ha together like... Ha Ha

or even more outrageous ... Ha Ha Ha

and dont even think of putting an exclamation point on the end of there either Ha Ha Ha !!!

Stop texting this to me

Stop IM'ing this to me

Stop facebooking this to me

Stop emailing this to me Ha Ha Ha ... I puke in my mouth everytime I see it!

and while we are on the subject matter... LOL was outlawed way back in 2007, that word doesn't even register with me!

However,

one word that I think we cannot get enough of is Linger or Lingerers or Lingering.

It is fun to say and use in every day life, give it a try if you haven't lately...

I can't take it any longer
Thought that we were stronger
All we do is linger
Slipping through my fingers

I don't want to try now
All that's lefts goodbye to
Find a way that I can tell you

I hate this part right here...

BACKUP PLANS FOILED!

2009-02-09T14:36:00.000-08:00

Thursday I had some pints of brews with my friend Nick from Milwaukee.

Earlier in the day on Thursday I had heard that my work had eliminated some jobs and I was like WOW! It wasn't anything remotely close to what I do, but still I was like WOW!?!

So me and Nick were discussing that and the economy and politics, and other fun stuff. I had brought up to him my back up plans if I were to lose my job. I don't think I will lose my job but if I were to lose it... gotta be ready!

Backup plan # 1 - Go across the State/Country in the RV and live in peoples driveways until my unemployment benefits ran out.
Backup plan #2- Go back to school in Whitewater and try to get a job at AFS (where I worked for 8 years).

Well, as fate/karma/bad luck or whatever you want to call it, Thursday evening, for a short while... my Backup plans were both foiled!

I had received confirmation Thursday that AFS had let a bunch of people go and that they were close to closing down. Part of me is happy, I hated that place so much when I was there, I was so happy I got out 4 years ago May. Another part of me is ticked off cuz there were a lot of great employees there and they all lost there jobs.

Where is the loyalty to the employee in this day and age? Companies have had years and years of prosperity in the 2000's and then all of the sudden they are forecasting a bad quarter or year and they start dumping peoples jobs? Granted, maybe some of these companies got too big too fast, they have too many people costing them money versus making money for the company. But still the idea that people are just being dumped from their jobs just sickens me. Why can't they just try and fix the problem vs. eliminating the problem? I think I would rather take a pay cut or loss in benefits and work harder vs. the alternative.

Screw you Circuit City, same to GM, same to Home Depot, same to all the other companies that just make cuts without actually trying to fix the problems. You aint getting my money!!!

SO that was Plan# 2... FOILED

Plan #1 ... ALMOST FOILED

Thursday evening, 9:45pm, I have a phone call that comes up on my phone as Private Call, I ignored it.

Then the person calls again and leaves a voicemail. I listen to it... Bdogschneeby... this is Officer so and so with the Sheriffs department. We need you to call us back.

WOAAAH what is that about!?!?

I called the Sheriff back and he did not have many details just said that my Trailer was involved in a police chase... HUH??? He said that another Sheriff had more details and would be calling me tonight. OH NO MY RV HAS BEEN DESTROYED?

Plan#1 has been foiled also! ALL IN THE SAME WEEK? What a bad week! Time to start thinking about enacting Back up Plan#3 ... CARNIE!!!

Phone rings again... 10:30pm The Sheriff tells me this story:

Lawdog: "A damn drunken dirty undocumented Mexican was trying to get away from us in Lodi" "He made it to the storage facility in Dane and the Dumb Ass thought he could jump a snowbank and get back onto the Highway" "He landed on some trailers and totally destroyed them."

Bdog: Okay officer, I have the RV out there... was there any damage to that?

Lawdog: There is very minimal damage to that, the truck came to a stop against the RV and he pushed the awning bar in a little bit.

Bdog: Well thanks for calling me lawdog!! And thank you for being a racist!!

Wheww, calls from Sheriffs department are never good!

Hollywood Week!

2009-02-08T08:48:00.000-08:00

It certainly has been a week of High's and Low's, and a long one at that.

Well first I would like to mention that I had a great day Saturday attending the Port Release at Wollersheim winery. My friend Peter from Milwaukee came up and we had a great time attending the wine tasting. Peter's parents treated me to dinner afterwards and that was really awesome too. As the night when along it took a horrible shitty turn which I don't know how to put the right words to, but it just took a shitty turn.

Sunday was a day of sitting idly on the couch and eventually the Superbowl came on and I cheered on the Pittsburgh Steelers to victory. My friend Gina is a huge Steelers fan and seeing that I know absolutely no one that is a Cardinals fan, I put all my support towards the Steelers and they won!

I think the Superbowl was lackluster, up until the hilarious Doritos commercials and the James Harrison 100 yd TD interception runback. I thought the halftime show was absolutely awesome, Bruce, Max, and Silvio still absolutely f'n rock and I totally want to see them in concert in my life. The second half of the Superbowl left everyone speechless! Yay Steelers Yay Gina, and Yay for the previews for Transformers, GI Joe, and STAR TREK!! CANT WAIT!!! Gina its been a week you can probably breathe easily now!

Oh yeah afterwards, there was an hour long episode of The Office, which, ehhh maybe they should have had trimmed to just a half an hour, got a little long.

Tuesday was TACO Tuesday at Gina's house! Gina hosted Taco Tuesday night at her place for a night that was to be filled with Movie watching! Well my movies didn't work on her TV so we all sat on the couch and watched the movie on my Laptop... TOO FUNNY!!! The Turkey Taco's were fabuloso! We watched an episode of Sunny (laptop), Milk(laptop), and Biggest Loser (Tv). Good night!

Wednesday was Chili night at Steph's and she made a batch of awesome chili! We watched Idol and Lost... Lost is just so confusing and interesting and who knows anymore, but Wednesday's episode basically left with me wanting to go back and watch the first 4 seasons all over again! After that I got her Digital TV converter box working and she burned me a copy of the new Crue Cd!

Which I forgot to mention... that Valentines Day I will be attending my first ever Motley Crue concert!!! I bought the Tix on Tuesday and it should be awesome!!! And I do have a back story on Motley Crue that I will wait for another post probably after the concert.

So Thursday night I had a little TV watching night at my place and I was so impressed by the Turkey Tacos that I made round 2 of TT's. Sat back and watched an episode of Earl, Office, and 30 Rock. All of them were equally funny, but I think the funniest award goes to The Office! Dwight making the Birthday banner... Hilarious... It is your Birthday! too funny.

Friday was a fun night! Well it actually started on Wednesday for Bra and his divorce being final. I am happy for him and heather, and that they can officially start a new chapter in their lives. We went to Antler's, of all places, and had a great time! We went to the Silver Eagle afterwards and that was okay... but fun times were definitely had!

Saturday was a great day also! All week me and Arick had been talking about hanging out Saturday. Then I got a call Thursday night that DJ Kevvy was going to be in town for a pub crawl. UGhh how was I going to juggle both of these events? Well Arick Kevin and I went to Tilted Kilt on the East Side, food GREAT, SERVICE TERRIBLE! Then we did some shopping at Homey Depot.

At this point I was able to make a break and go downtown for Bomb 2k9. Now last year I did this all day event and we had a blast. This year I wish I could have done the same cuz it was bigger and better! Well I caught up with the crew at the Red Shed/Vintage stop, then we went to KK and then to Brats and then to the Pub. Good times! But I definitely need more Dj Kevvy time in 2009.

Well afterwards I headed to Aricks house and we watched the Daytona Bud Shootout and we hung with little Jakey. He was tired after a long day! But he such a little cutey! Then I was off to Jonnies for a beer and wind down the day.

Long WEEK! And that's only 2/3 of the story!

2 more vids from saturday!

2009-01-28T13:59:00.000-08:00

couple more resolutions!

2009-01-27T16:01:00.000-08:00

well we have almost gotten through this month... geez what a long month!!!
But a great blogging month for the Bdog!

One of my resolutions that I have made is that I want to do pushups this year... lots and lots of pushups!

Well on January 1, I got on the ground and did 1 pushup... and that was it! On January 2 I did 2 pushups. Jan 3 = 3 pushups

My 2009 resolution is to do them until 365 ! CRAZYY!!!

One may say that drinking and partying may get in the way... well then you have never partied with me if you had said that! You would not know how much stretching and pushupping I do while im doing these events.

So yay, today is January 27th and im up to yup 27 pushups!!!

Other resolutions?

Well ive been deleting and downsizing a lot of stuff... My zune peaked at 10,000 songs ... but im happy to report I currently have that down to 7,756 songs. Ive been throwing a lot of other crap and stuff away that ive been holding onto also.

My little studio apartment doesn't need to be cluttered anyways!

One thing I may start downsizing is the number of videos and picture taking !!! GEEZ I got a problem!

The last post was a little bit ridiculous for my standards, however when I was doing the other live blog earlier this month... I thought, Hey wouldnt that be cool to do one of these these for a partay? Especially for all those people that think I am just posing with those beer bottles and shot glasses ... and not actually drinking them!

oh yeah another thing we are getting rid of this year are words... first word up

COOLIO

nope you cant use it anymore! Coolio is no longer Coolio!!!

Live Blog!!

2009-01-24T14:27:00.000-08:00

Hey were doing another live blog!

We are partying it up at the teters today and I arrived at about 11am

1230pm We made a batch of Apple Pie , recipe later:

and we started working on building a beerpong table 130pm

First beer consumed 4pm

Second beer consumed 420pm

third beer consumed 510 pm
we had to pour our apple pie shots into containers and set em outside.

fourth beer 5:40pm

All right the Apple Pie recipe, first get a pot that will hold at least 3 gallons. Purchase a gallon of Apple Juice, a gallon of Apple Cider, and 1 litre of Everclear. Purchase a small package of cinnamin sticks (6-8 sticks) and sugar.

In the pot pour in your apple cider and apple juice. Once it starts warming pour in 3 cups of sugar. Bring to a boil for 2 minutes and add your cinnamin sticks. Cover and let sit, with the heat off, so the ingredients can blend thoroughly.

Once the pot has cooled to less than 100 degrees, add in the Everclear, stir and cover. (Everclear will evaporate in higher temperatures that is why it needs to be cooler).

Cool to a safe handling temperature and then bottle in air tight jars. Kevin likes to use one quart jars with one cinnamin stick. Cool them in your fridge. Serve best cold, but also can be served warm with whip cream on the top. Enjoy in moderation!!! it will fuck you up!!! 6pm

5th beer 6:18pm we are talking about the beer pong table and how amazing it will be to take anywheres we go!! a park, the lawn, work! or even the bar tonight!

Greta just called!!! party starts at 730!!! Yay.... 6:35pm

Bra just texted... him and eggs are coming... bring ladies!!! 6:42pm

6th beer 7pm we are pacing ourselves!!! kevin just plugged in his ipod and we are going to listen to the PORK Phat Pack song!!

yup we heard it and Pork does say Phat Pack!! totally AWESOME!!! 7:07 Pm

Beer number 7! party has officially started!!! 7:32pm

first guest!!! 7:45pm!!! yay kritz!

Yay 2 more guests!! Bra and Eggs 7:55pm And eggs brought a drinking glove too!!

Beer number 8 ... starting to feel a buzz 8pm kevin said that if we keep drinking at this pace we will still be drinking at 6am ... ugghhh i dont know about that kevo... i may be sleeping on your church pew by 2am SNOORRRIINNNNGG!!!

Yay first shot of apple pie! 8:05pm

First tinkles! 8:10pm

Junks is my numero uno commenter on facebook, and we are currently conducting a discussion to see when would be a good weekend to go down to kenosha!!! any weekend in February works for us except for valentines... MOTLEY CRUE!!! 8:15pm

8:19pm Pierce is back and Greta is here too!!! yay!!! bring on more apple pie shots!!!

Jello shots 8:29pm!!! delicious!! thank you for the recipe Kristin!

sorry for the lapse... i think ive had about 3 more shots of apple pie, did 15 pushups, but kritz says i only did 14... and had 2 more beers... along with Greta has passed out scarfs for everyone to match my GBP scarf!! woo hoo we are going strong... pizza was ordered from picassos, probably be at the tavvy round 11pm ish??? 9:14pm

Pizza arrived !!! yummy thank you eirik! 9:30pm

Dude minoqua's fur feels like a deer! Kritz
Kritz you have never felt a deers fur!! bdog
I felt it when i fucked a deer! Kritz
WHAT? KRITZ NO FN WAY!! bdog and greta
ha ha ha ha haa yeah your right ive never felt a deer but i bet minoqua's fur is what a deers fur feels like! kritz

just a few notes... Todd A has shown up YYYAAAYyy, just as importantly... Jeremy P has shown up too!!! the party is hopping the beer pong is going! 10:30pm
Bra and Eggs won in the first game, Barney and Jordon won in the second game! Hooty hoo!! yeah jo jo i stole that from you!

Denise im sorry you are so old and are saying turn down the music so you can here the videos! maybe you should turn down your hearing aide? 10:50pm Me and jordon just lost in beer pong to the jasons :(

Bra just went upstairs to take a poop! 10:45pm

and one more video for now!!! Jello shots at 11pm i think... then we went to the ba. cloudey!

Pat McCurdy in 2009

2009-01-21T15:04:00.000-08:00

As we roll into this new 2009 I think I have taken it as my goal or resolution to see Pat McCurdy any time he comes near me!

3 times I have seen him in Dec08/Jan09 and everytime it has been AWESOME!!! Claddagh in December, Club Tavern and Grays in January.

The last show that I saw him at was at the Grays Tied House in Verona. This easily was the best venue I have seen him at so far. I really wish I would have arrived earlier and secured a close table (note to self for next time).

To think that I have gone over a year with out seeing him is ridiculous!

Pat has been with us going way back to our days in Whitewater. 97-98 us rugrats started drinking at the bars and I remember Bra saying that we need to go and see Pat, he plays at Pumpers... errr or Mitchells? I can't never get those straight.

Well anyways we stroll in about 20 minutes early and of course it was already packed. We pay that man at the door his $5 cover charge. Pat takes the stage and we drink and we sing through the first set. He gets to the Pat Virgin part, I raise my hand as high as it can go... and he sings me my Pat virgin song. I dont remember what it was, all I know is a grown man was sitting on me naked, it was GLORIOUS! The set finished with a tribute to the 80's.

The second set begins and by this time we have a stack of about 10 pitchers of beer and we are singing and dancing. We want to knock things over, we want to choke the gopher, we want to Ruin our Lives!

Tribute to the 90's hits and I just go crazy when he starts singing "Tell me what you want what you really really want" "YO ILE TELL YOU WHAT I WANT WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT!"

With all Pat shows we have "Sex and Beer" then we stumble over to the pub, smiles on our faces... sweaty... loving life.

Its really enjoyable to bring new people to Pat shows, and we got Jason his first Pat Virgin song. I think a tear came to my eye... or my beer splattered back in my face. I bought Jason his first Pat tee shirt, it says Sex and Beer 2009. Ohhh thinking back to those nights in our college houses singing his songs... to those nights at Country Jam blaring "Sex and Beer!"

My entire life I have gone without hearing him play "Drive in Reverse." It is such a goofy song and I like to change the words to it for my own personal reasons. But as an added treat at Grays he also played "Camping with Lesbians."

I hope he actually has some sort of Google search of blogs for his name or something cuz I would be delighted if the coolest guy on earth stopped and checked out my blog... But please check out his website too and find his show when he comes to your town! My next viewing will probably be February

Well any who... PAT IS BACK IN 09 !!! and I cannot wait to hear his "Tribute to the Otts!" (00-09)

unfortunately this can happen to you in the parking lot after a pat show... singing to your favorite pink song :(

MOVIES!!!

2009-01-20T16:43:00.000-08:00

I have seen a lot of movies over the last few months. 2008 had so many good movies that it would be ridiculous of me to go through each and every movie and give you a critique. But I think that I should give you some of my favorites along with my predictions for whom I think will win Oscars biggest awards!

How do I know the future even before the nominees are picked? Well Oscar is about momentum and everyone is voting now! There are many more voters for Oscar then there are for the Golden Globes... so I would have to believe there are two movies that have really picked up momentum right now... Slumdog Millionaire and Gran Torino.

I don't believe these are the two best movies of the year, I feel that Batman-Dark Knight was easily the best movie of the year. I also believe that Wall-E was a very good movie, definitely in my top 5. But these two movies built there momentum up for Christmas so they could sell as many DVD's as possible.

So here we go:

Best Film:
Gran Torino, Slumdog Millionaire, Dark Knight, Milk, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button > > Winner= Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor:
Clint Eastwood, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Brad Pitt, unkwon >> Winner = Clint Eastwood

Best Actress:
Meryl Streep >> Winner

Best Supporting Actor:
Heath Ledger >> Winner

Best Supporting Actress:
Penelope Cruz>> Winner

Best Director:
Danny Boyle >>Winner

Animated Movie:
Wall E>> Winner

and here is my top 10 movies of the year:

1.) Dark Knight
2.) Slumdog Millionaire
3.) Gran Torino
4.) Wall - E
5.) Milk
6.) Rambo
7.) Tropic Thunder
8.) Pineapple Express
9.) Iron Man
10.) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

clearly the end of the list has some of my personal favorites of the year, i couldn't leave Benjamin Buttons off the list either. You will notice a couple of movies aren't on here also... Frost/Nixon, Revolutionary Road, Burn After Reading are some movies that are getting some buzz but rubbed off a little differently on me... Frost/Nixon - a movie built up to an interview, the climatic part of the interview comes and you are left feeling ... thats it? Revolutionary Road- Terrible, just crappy terrible! Burn After Reading- The movie goes along ho hum, then it gets interesting, and then leaves you with a chuckle... but i didnt feel the acting was worthy of any awards, the story was silly, and it certainly should not be considered as one of the best movies of the year.

movies i still wanna see still : In Bruges, Doubt, Vicky Barcelona

Live Blog!!!

2009-01-10T10:12:00.000-08:00

Kritz is getting a new tattoo!

Follow me along as i do a live blog!!! 12noon

Last week Jason told me about a motto that he wanted to have tattood... it is a tattoo of the shop motto and it is pretty cool... i will put it up here later. He is worried about this tat cuz it is in a place that is very painful... the soft skin under your armpit (ribcage area) The artists name is John and he rubbed the stencil on the area. its gooo time! 12:15pm

He is in pain his eyes are watering! No Screaming yet :( 12:38pm

The tattoo parlor is really nice, its called Cha Chas and its at 912 Williamson Street Madtown. Half of the place is a tatoo parlor the other half hair stylist parlor. and one corner is a manly area where the men can get a clean shave. 12:45pm

Well 3 lines are done and they are working on the 4th. Break time so John can have a cig. Kritz said he is in a lot of pain ... time for a pain reliever. The quote is "Our business in live is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." The new motto for K Custom T's -- Jasons T-shirt shop. 12:50pm

Got a text from Jonnie, Jonnie here is the answer: Didnt do a damn thing last night cuz went ice fishing with dad today...6am :( We didnt catch a damn thing! what did you do last night? Whatcha upto tonight? 1pm

This morning I was telling my dad at breakfast that I was going to do this today. He was like "Dont let him get a Tattoo!!" I laughed and almost peed myself... I said "Kritz has half his body covered in tattoos!" "I dont think one more is going to make a difference!"

Jason said that when he was going to get his first tattoo his dad said "I will pay you double not to get one." Kritz didnt take the money. 1:13pm

He is done with the first tattoo! But he is a gluten for punishment and going back for more! Dad wouldnt even let me get a butterfly on my ankle :( 1:30 pm

I would have appreciated a comment from you all letting me know that i have been spelling tattoo wrong this whole time... THANKX FOR NUTHING! :) 1:50pm

UGghhh i just realized my hat is on inside out too... DOUBLE THANKX FOR NOTHING, John has started up the tattoo needle, BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ 1:52pm

Okay 2pm just got a warning on the laptop that i am about 25 minutes from running out of juice... this live blog may go dead in a bit :( 2pm

Jason has the arm up and is making weird faces i think the pain is back! Hey if anyone is interested we are heading to Pat McCurdy tonight at the Grays Tied house, flier says he takes the stage at Ten pm ... 2:10pm

AAAggghh Now im really getting some warnings ... well everyone have a great weekend check out kritzs new tattoo if you see him! Thanks for checking out my first ever live blog! 2:16pm

Im back! who would have thought they would have had electricity here? and i remembered my power cord! well we are on the last leg of the tattoo trip, he has had some of his older tattoos updated and the main one is done! 3:00pm

MY FAV PAT SONG!!!

2009-01-08T16:50:00.000-08:00

2009 BOOH ... YEAH!!!!

2009-01-08T16:39:00.000-08:00

Well 2008 was certainly one of CHANGE for bdogschneeby! I would also say there was a lot of good change for a lot of friends, family, and the world! About 11 months ago I wrote that I needed a change in my life and I would have to say that certainly came true!

In 2009 I predict will probably be the year of DOWNSIZING. I would certainly like to DOWNSIZE my body a few pounds. But I certainly think this is going to be a trying year for everyone. We certainly need to change our lifestyles, our habits, our spending etc.

I have already started! Gone is that costly internet… I can walk to the library, local college, local bars and restaurants and steal their internet! Gone is cable… I only watch stuff on regular TV anyways or I can watch it at www.hulu.com . Gone is the driving commute… I walk everywhere!

I want to lose weight… so why go out and buy all of that costly food? This year I want to grow more food, maybe have a garden! I certainly have the Hunting and Fishing thing going for me too. I need to stop going to fast food joints and make more meals at home. Seriously, Pancakes and Syrup… CHEAP and YUMMY good at all times of the day!

If I don’t want to spend a lot of money at bars … I need to start hanging out at friends places or bring a flask with me to the bar. Cd’s/Movies/Books they are all free on the internet!

This year I want to go to less Brewer’s games and do a lot more camping. I have an RV that I haven’t really moved in a year! If I were to happen to lose my job, I think I would enjoy going on unemployment and taking my RV camping… I think that would be absolutely awesome!

2009 I say "Booh Yeah" cuz I think its going to be tough… so BOOH! But I think we are all going to learn a lot about ourselves and make changes and sacrifices and be closer with friends and family, and for that... I say YEAH!

Hopefully I am wrong, but I certainly look forward to the challenge.

A Roller Coaster of Events!

2009-01-05T14:51:00.000-08:00

No, I have not changed my blog to a video blog… I just have been super busy!

Where does this start?

Well the weekend after Christmas we had Brandon 32, Ben 2, Brent 1. This was a really fun little evening, We went to Benvenuto’s and we had some drinks and did some socializing. I was very happy that Brooke and Arick were able to make the dinner, cuz Brooke was past her due date! Well anyways we had a nice little meal, there was 14 of us and we had a grand ole time telling stories and catching up.

After that we headed to the Brass Ring and the Comeback Inn/Essenhaus and we added a few more peeps to the group. Happy Birthday Brandon! Thanks Ben and Brent for having time in your busy schedules for us! Sorry Todd you got sick and went home and puked 8 times :x

Saturday was the Badger football game at the Bowling Alley in McFun. We had the entire side of the bar full of peeps we knew… It was an awesome showing however the Badgers failed to show up.

Sunday, 6:45am I headed to Jason’s shop and we loaded up his vehicle to head to Lambeau! Yes my second Packers game of this year!! It took us a while to get to the stadium, we didn’t arrive until 11:30am, the roads were sooo terrible!

But once we got there we did some tailgating and then headed in. The first half was blah! But at halftime I recognized some familiar faces. Dad, Julie, Uncle Bob, and Aunt Bridget were sitting in our section! So I ran and we took some pics! After the game we went to their tailgater and we had some more drinks and some pics. Thank you to Jason for getting the tix! It was a lot of fun.

Tuesday night I headed to Bowling at Badger Bowl. I watched the guys compete, but this night was Jonnies night to shine! Congrats to Jonnie on his 289 game!!

That night I got a text message at 2:30am, Jacob Markus Ecker was born! Yay!

New Years Eve, I had to work until 330pm and afterwards I headed to East Troy. Looney and Linda invited us down to their place and we had a nice little evening. Too much food and drink! Looney made us some nummy Arkansas Buttermilk.

We played some drinking games, watched a movie, and wasted time watching Robbie Knievel jump some lame jump. The next day I was flipping through the channels and we watched a replay of ESPN’s New Years Eve jumps. THEY WERE AMAZING!

Happy New Years to everyone! I got a bunch of texts, but I totally forgot about my phone and didn’t see them till the next day :(

Friday I had to go back to work, that was soo slow! I started to realize why my 2 weeks sucked. It was the weekend-work-holiday-work-weekend-work-holiday-work weekend. I think I experienced like 5 Fridays in two weeks time! I really should have took one of those Friday's off.

Friday afternoon I headed to St. Mary's to go and see Jacob! What a little cutie pie! Brooke and Arick were doing really good and anxious to take him home on Saturday! Congratulations you two and welcome to the world Jacob! I am so happy for the both of you!

Friday night I headed to Kevin and Greta’s for just one! However one turned into a few, Jason and Bra showed up and we had to do some shots :( but I haven’t hung out in the garage for a while so it was a lot of fun. Afterwards we headed to Denny’s and ate like kings! It was a fun night!

Saturday, I chilled out all day and was hoping I wouldn’t get any phone calls… but about 4pm they came and our plan was to do some pre drinking/watching football at my apartment and then head over to Club Tavern to see Pat McCurdy!

Lundo, Jason, Bra, and I headed to Pat at about 8:30 and Pat took the stage about 9:30pm and he didn’t disappoint! We had a good night!

Well I ushered in the holidays and the New Years seeing so many family and friends and Pat. I had such a great time! My new years resolutions… more of the same… Friends, family, good times, taking more pics and videos, and hopefully losing some Lbs.

I hope everyone had a good year! And no matter how much of a Roller Coaster my week was, nothing topped Arick and Brooke's week! I am still so happy for you 2!

Jacob Markus Ecker

2009-01-02T17:39:00.001-08:00

Welcome to the world Jacob!!!

an evening with Brandon 32, Ben 2, and Brent 1

2009-01-01T10:41:00.000-08:00

Dirty Dancing at Monte's

2008-12-30T17:52:00.000-08:00

Strip Flip in a nutshell :(

2008-12-22T15:45:00.000-08:00

This is what happens when you challenge a bunch of sandbagging women to strip flip cup!

too funny

Holiday Happy Hour 3

2008-12-21T13:36:00.000-08:00

I am sitting at Monte’s with Kenny eating some all you can eat winggies for $8 and he tells me that he thinks he would like to throw a party at his house on the 19th of December.

My face immediately lights up and I say “WHAT AN ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS IDEA, I WILL BUY THE HALF BARRELL!” That is how Holiday Happy Hour 3 began.

In hurry up mode, we got the party planned, the evite was sent, and the pre party jitters kicked in. With it being December in Wisconsin, we typically have weather this time of year… and this week there were 2 big snowstorms coming our way and cold weather  Typically bad weather is party killers.

Tuesday evening I was invited to watch Jon, Arick, Ken, Bra, and Dan bowl. I felt this would be a good time to meet up with Ken and get our stuff together prior to Friday. Plus Jon had won a $50 gift card to Badger Bowl for food, so I got a free meal out of it also. My drive to Badger Bowl took me an hour and twenty minutes… DAMN SNOW!!

Well on this evening we did get our plans together, but I didn’t think I was going to be entertained with their bowling skills! They start their first game and I am just drinking beer and chit chatting with Arick and Dan. Before I know it they are already in the 5th frame. Arick and Bra have all X’s on the screen… hmmm maybe one of them could make some magic on this evening??!!!

Arick and Bra keep going up and throwing perfect balls. 8th frame Bra throws a pretty scary looking ball, but all of the pins fall! 10th frame they both still have all strikes… Brian gets up there and the alley has somewhat quieted down… he throws STRIKE, YEAH! Brian throws again, STRIKE 2 !!! The place gets really quiet he is at his approach… he throws… STRIKE 3!!! Perfect 300 Game for BRA!!! YES!!!! 1st one ever for him! Congrats to Bra!

Arick gets up to his 10th frame, he throws his first ball… STRIKE! He is really just humming with his ball… he has already thrown two 300 games at Badger Bowl this year already! He gets up and throws his second ball… STRIKE 2 !! Wow could we possibly see two 300 games in the same game??? He gets up and is on his approach, the entire place is quiet… over the loud speaker we here “SHRIMP BASKET UP FOR LANE 23!” Arick throws his third ball 9 pins down… 10 pin still standing  OH MAN!!! Congrats to Shrimp Basket on his 299 game!

Thursday evening, I had to go pick up the half barrel, which I always get at Riley’s Wines of the World. Sadly, this year we have only purchased 4 barrels of beer from Mr. Riley… next year will hopefully be better. On this trip I also visited Taj at the Irish Pub to give her her Christmas card. Afterwards I headed to the McFarland Bowling alley for Jeremy’s birthday.

Jeremy is on his 29th birthday for about the 5th time and didn’t want anything special this time around. He had a great little showing at the BA and I headed home at about 10:30pm and I was wondering where this huge 2nd snow storm was they were predicting for us.

Friday I wake up at 545 am to a text message that said… WOO HOO! Work had called off for the day! YES I get to sleep in! Had it really snowed that much in 6 hours? Well looking out the winder … yes it had snowed that much. About 1pm the weather had ended and I ventured out to Target. I called Jon at Target screaming… I HATE TARGET!! THEY HAVE NOTHING HERE I NEED! Is it really that much trouble to stock ping pong balls, mistle toe, and half barrel tubs?

Well I mosied over to Party City and bought some decorations, NO MISTLE TOE? SERIOUSLY? Wal Mart would have it for sure, NOPE, but they did have ping pong balls and tubs. WHEWWW!

3:30 pm I get to Kens place and we get the house ready. I tap the barrel at about 5pm and the first guests arrived… GINA and JEREMY! More and more people quickly began to arrive and about 630 we had a real nice party roaring.

I counted 30 guests arrived, which is right in pace with what I was guessing… you invite 60 you will get 30. Everyone brought so much food and drink, it was awesome! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

The beer was tasting good, the almost world famous Ken’s Jello shots were tasty, Kevin and Greta’s Apple Pie shots were awesome, but Kritz’s Grasshoppers WERE AMAZING!

There got to be so many peeps we needed to venture down to the basement… where Beer pong was awaiting! There was maybe 3 games of beer pong played… then time for TIPPY!

We had some awesome battles of Flip cup, battle of the sexes!! Guys vs Gals and at first Guys dominated! However the ladies turned the table on us… there was money flying around and Denise ended up winning 20 bucks… then we started to play STRIP FLIP!

Oh Man! The ladies lost their outer shirts… then we lost our outer shirts… THEN WE LOST OUR PANTS!  enjoy the video of us disrobing and my butt cleavage!

Half barrel empty, shots gone, and we were sipping on the Bush’e Late’s so we decided to Mosey to Monte’s at about 130 am.

The holiday sweater of the evening was definitely Jonnie’s ! HA HA Too funny, check him out dancing to Pink at Monte’s… and check out the encore dance! TOO FUNNY!

Well this is where things get fuzzy, basically we were only allowed to stay at Monte’s for one drink. Then, I headed right downstairs to sleep on the couch at Ken’s.

The next morning… was time for reflection, of such a fun night !! It was really really awesome, the turn out was great and Ken was an awesome host!!!

Enjoy the pics and the videos… and everyone have an Awesome Awesome Christmas!!!

October 11th and Pat McCurdy Loving!

2008-12-15T18:45:00.000-08:00

Sadly, the night of Kevin and Greta's wedding, was the last Friday or Saturday night that I have slept in my bed! Todd calls slut... I say yeah your probably right.

3 weekends at the farm, a couple in McFarland, one in Madison, one in Verona, one in Milwaukee, one in Watertown, and one in Greenbay.... man I sleep around!

This weekend I was excited about the prospect of sleeping in my bed, on at least one night! But there was a problem... Pat McCurdy was playing walking distance to my apartment.

Geez when was the last time I saw Pat??? I don't remember??? OH wait I remember now, at Club Tavern in >>> Middleton. That was at least a year ago, so I have been in a Pat drought.

I made some calls, sent some texts... wondering who would be interested in traveling all the way out here for some Pat loving! Dustin immediately said yes... Arick called and said he was on the way too!

Pat started at 9 we got there at 845 and there was NO ONE THERE! We got a table up front it was awesome. I was saying to Arick that it would be awesome to sit at the table that was a little more centered... those lucky bastards... Well low and behold that was a co-worker Chad and his gf Melissa.

Pat started playing, the drinks started flowing... the shots of Jameson started to get poured 3 at a time (Dustin, Chad, Me) and aye aye aye the evening started to get really foggy.

Its a good thing I forgot my camera, in no time I was DRUNK! More shots kept coming, drinks, Pats singing... I get up on stage and sing with Pat. He played one of my favorite songs that Ive never heard him play live... I always drive in reverse.

Oh man, at some point in time in the night I pulled a Houdini on poor Dustin.

The Houdini: The art of dissappearing on your friends at a drinking event.

Apparently, I came home and passed out in my chair, after Dustin buzzed my door for a half an hour and he called me 4 times... I apparently got enough energy to open the door. Then I went and passed out in my bed from 2 am until 8am.

Dustin and I could not remember the leaving of the bar, I dont remember the walk home. I talked to Chad today and him and his gf don't remember leaving the bar. THANK GOD NO ONE WAS STUPID AND DROVE!

I am pretty proud to say that I haven't been "black out drunk" in about two years. (That night of my dancing in G&K's garage was probably the last time, Gina you were there... I think). But, I guess you gotta do that once in a while.

Pat plays again on Jan 3rd at the Club Tavern (Middleton) and Jan 10th at the Greys Tied House (Verona) I am kinda interested in seeing one or both of those shows! WHOSE IN????

Holiday Happy Hour

2008-12-09T15:29:00.000-08:00

It's that time of year again!

The time of the year where you start stressing out from all of the Holiday shopping. The stress from work has really built up over the course of the year. The weather has taken a turn for the worst and you just want to go somewhere's after work on a Friday and have some drinks and some eats. The last two years Arick opened up his house, this year Ken is opening up his house!

Its going to be awesome and it drops December 19th, 5pm!

Check out the Evite! Check out the Facebook page!

Greenbay Weekend Recap

2008-12-08T05:26:00.000-08:00

Since my last post, winter in Wisconsin has shown up with a force! This last week we have had several blasts of snow and cold weather. Just like last year, December 1st is the start of Winter.

The problem, is that this last weekend we were heading up to Greenbay... for the Packers game! Cold weather in the forecast, I had to pack double the amount of warm clothes as I did for deer hunting:( Wool socks, Long underwears, Sweatpants, Jeans, Bibs, Boots, underwear shirt, long sleeve tee, 2 sweatshirts, 1 sweater, vest, Large over coat, mittens, handy warmers, and 2 stocking caps! All for one day!

Friday afternoon, I headed over to Jon and Kelly's we got packed up and headed for Greenbay. Now I havent been up to Greenbay since the beginning of March for Todd's birthday. Gina was on bedrest at that time... now, they have an addition to the family... Cooper!

Cooper, Gina, Todd, and Madison opened up their home to us and there were a lot more toys in their house then I remembered from last time. Cooper is getting big, he is very muscular and he is crawling all around the place. We were warned prior to getting there that Cooper has his own schedule. He wakes up very early... 5:30am and he is ready for the day to start. He eats and plays and then he takes a nap. This routine continues throughout the day... man what a life!

Friday night, we end up going to "The Bar" on Holmgren way, we had some coctails there and made fun of the band that was playing. When we came home Todd and I decided that we were going to stay awake to watch for St. Nick when he arrived. I couldn't keep my eyelids open any longer... Todd wasn't fighting it at all. We were both OUT and Saturday morning I awoke to find a St. Nick present for me... St. Nick has a terrible sense of humor.

Saturday we bummed around the house until Looney showed up. Dan arrived and we headed out for some lunch and then we went and visited Gina at her work. At her work is when Jon and Todd decided to drop the bombshell on me... they needed to pick up some mittens and hand warmers... the only place they would consider buying these from is... FLEET FARM! OH MAN! Kicking and screaming they made me go into the second worst place on this planet!

I was reaffirmed with my thoughts about this Fleet Farm place when the guys received poor service, long lines, incorrectly priced items, and Herpes. I made sure not to touch anything in the store and tried to hold my breath as long as I could.

Well after that experience, we headed back to the house, where we met up with Bra and Lundo. This completed our crew of packer backers and we hung out at the house. Played some drinking games and watched the first half of the Badger basketball game. Thanks to Bra, Todd, and Looney we were served some very delicious Toppers Pizza and breadsticks for dinner.

After halftime, we headed to "The Bar" East to catch the second half of the terrible game, only to see the Badgers falter in the second half. We had some more coctails and eventually made it back to get some much needed rest for Sundays events. The ladies had spent the evening with Cooper making some very nummy christmas cookies. They had the entire house smelling good upon our return.

Sunday arrived and Coopers routine started up again at 5:30am, we all started to pile on the clothes and we kept looking outside... BRRRRRR. It looked the coldest it had been all weekend out there!

Well time for the troops to mount up! Kelly stayed behind to watch Cooper. Once again we headed to "The Bar" Holmgren Way and we headed to "The Tent" outside "The Bar" While walking it I made the observation that in these tough economic times... if we dont go to "The Bar" three times in one weekend... they might not make it!

After a few drinks we decided to head into the game. We put on all of our clothes and we all seriously looked the little kid from the Christmas story waddling down the street.

Eventually we make it to our seats to see the Texans score right away :( The first half was pretty boring, back and forth punting, turnovers, poor officiating... eventually the Packers had driven into Texans territory and Todd says "GET YOUR CAMERA READY!" I reached into my pocket and pulled it out and started recording a video... the Packers scored then YAY! Finally it turned into a game!

3rd quarter, I headed over to see Sarah and Andy, sadly I couldnt find them in their section... I hung out there for about 10 minutes, Oh well. Cell phones don't like the cold either.

I headed down to see Gina working and YAY I found her! Check her out in her work uniform... and watching the Packers on TV! We are on to you Gina!

Well I eventually made it back to the seats for the fourth quarter, the Packers tie up the game at 21. The Texans march down the field and kick a game winning field goal :( oh well. I had a really fun time at the game, I didn't get cold, and it was a good group of guys too!

We made it back and Kelly n Gina had a really awesome meal for us. I zonked out watching Anchorman. It was a long day!

Today, I was use to Coopers schedule, and I was wide awake at 5:30am!!! We eventually all packed up and headed back. But we had a really fun weekend chilling in GB with Cooper, Todd, Gina, and Madison. Thanks again for having us!!!

2008 Deer Camp

2008-11-30T15:19:00.000-08:00

This year's deer camp was some what frustrating! I spent 53 hours in the woods and saw 3 deer. However I am very happy to report that 2 of those deer are no longer living.

Deer camp 2008 started out with a stop at the dentist, No cavities to report! Then I headed west but drove by the new Farm and Fleet in Verona. I spent about $75 but I think the best purchase was Hand Warmers! Every day of the hunt this years saw temps start out in the teenz. BRRRRRrrrr...

I arrived at the farm at about 5pm and relaxed and chit chatted with the rest of the crew. We have my Dad, Step mom Julie, Dads friend Kevin, John, and of course me. Our group has been hunting together with the same people for about 5 years now. We have a pact, any deer that we shoot, we all split the meat evenly.

Saturday morning we wake up at about 430am. Take our baths get all clean and unscented. 530 am we drive to where we have to walk into the woods. On the way Dad takes the wrong turn, then while walking in dad walks us down the wrong path... GEEZ DAD??? by the time I arrived to my deer stand... It was already light out :( Not good, We need to be in our stand in the dark.

It starts to snow. 745 am I have a doe try to sneak behind me and I quickly turn to the other side of the tree bring up my gun and bring the doe into my sights... BANG the doe drops! YESSSS!

I am the first in the group to shoot. Check out my video, for some reason the sound cuts out... probably cuz I had my finger over the microphone.

In the video I congratulate Kevin T. he texted me to inform me that he shot a 8 point buck and a doe.

9am I see another doe, however she sneeks by me without even being able to get a shot off.

11am Dad and I meet for lunch and We got a text message from Julie, SHE GOT A NICE BUCK... WOOAH DID SHE EVER! She shot the nicest buck we have ever gotten on our land... YAY JULIE!!!

Fast forward 53 hours in the woods... and this was how long it took for me to see another deer! I hunted mornings, noons, and nights. Sat in about everyones stand, on the public land and our private land. In tree stands and on ground blinds. Hundreds of squirrels and several turkeys scared me silly.

I was sitting on Kevin's stand at about 145 pm on the second Saturday (Yesterday). I am listening to my tunes on my headphones... I hear some running in the woods... I bring up my gun and here comes a spike buck running at me! I turn and Shoot, the deer doesn't drop... HUH? I hit it! I shoot again, this time he drops immediately! YESSSSS!!! 2 deer! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

I have never shot 2 deer in one year and I am certainly blessed to be able to be in the right spot at the right time twice this year. On top of that even being able to shoot straight!

Well this morning we woke up and butchered the buck. In total the group shot 5 deer and matched our total from last year. My freezer is full of MEAT!!! Yay!

Gone Deer Hunting!

2008-11-21T11:15:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone , I am off to go slay a 30 pointer!

I hope everyone has a safe and awesome week, happy turkey day!

Hopefully I can snare me one or two so i can make it back and participate in the fun also!!!

video blog of the rocking weekend!

2008-11-18T18:29:00.000-08:00

There Will Be Blood!

2008-11-12T19:06:00.000-08:00

I am sitting in my cold deer stand, the wind hits my face, and I am shaking... shaking with Rage!

I just keep thinking that I want to see this animal dead. It needs to suffer as no animal has ever suffered before! I need to rip it apart, limb from limb, take it from this earth. Give this animal back to its creator!

Movies keep running through my mind... Rambo, Gladiator, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, the end of Forrest Gump... anything that reminds me of death is my motivation.

Immediately when I get home I set the trap for this beast... I dress in my camo, I put camo paint on my face. I turn off the light in the kitchen, I run to my hiding spot in the closet... and I wait.

SNAPPPPP!!!! YES DEATH!!! MWAAAA HA HA HA HA !!!

1 dead... 1 to go!!! I reset the trap and 20 minutes later..... SNAPPP!!!!

HA HA HA !

I got you damn mice, thats what you get for eating my 2 packages of Ramen Noodle!!!

Have a nice swim you bastards!!!!

Check out this video: So Long SUCKA!

I reset the trap, run to the closet...

but there has been nothing since :(

Puke Filled Cooler Watch DAY26

2008-11-06T16:06:00.000-08:00

They haven't moved it yet!!!!!

The Night Cap- K&G's wedding part 3

2008-11-06T15:04:00.000-08:00

The Limo pulled up to "The Heights", everyone made a dash for the door... WE GOTTA PEE! I'M SORRY "Tinkle"

I was also hungry, actually starving... but the Heights would certainly take care of that for us. The Heights is Co-Owned by the Picasso's owner Chad. Kevin had helped out at the new Picasso's and got to know Chad pretty well that they decided they would do their reception at his reception hall. The food was all catered by Chad's company... and it was really good and there was plenty of it!

I left my cooler on the first floor while we rode the elevator to the second floor, where the reception was being held. It was holding some cold beers and other odds and ends for us for later.... and the coolers story will be told later ;)

I walked off the elevator to a packed house it seemed like I knew everyone! After tinkling, I took a grand tour of the place, said my hello's to everyone, stopped by most of the tables and chit chatted... that is when my eyes gazed upon a table of cheese and veggies.... YUMMY! So for the next 20 minutes I could be found drinking beer and talking to the people at the Veggie/Cheese table.

Well eventually we made our way to the head table and were served up with quite a big meal of Chicken and Steak, it was awesome. I ate way too much.

Halfway through our eating Arick and Kristin made their way towards the DJ both and made their speaches. Both did very well, Kristin had some teary eyes... Arick not so much. But they both did make us laugh and had great speaches.

With the dinner over, we did some more mingling and then it was time for the Grand March. Ha ha I am not sure what me and Julie really decided upon, we just made a crazy face to the camera and there was some skipping and some finger snapping... I dunno, I wish I would have had more time to think about that.

Afterwards, I had a sour tum tum, I couldn't understand it probably cuz I had aten way too much! But going down for a cigarrette with my pal G certainly helped. Maybe just catching a breath of fresh air helped too cuz when I came up it was DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION TIME!!!

We danced our asses off ! it was a lot of fun, and with the DJ being part of the company that runs Z104 they also had newer music too! Which was good too!

Along with the Dancing, it seemed like every 20 minutes or so I was walking up to the bar and buying some peeps shots. Well I ran out of cash so I had to start a tab, at some point in the night I realized I had purchased a lot of shots so I asked the tender to cash me out... $19 THATS IT? wowza's I was thinking $150 or more! (Well later I came to find out that people in the wedding party got to drink for free) So sorry kevvo if you got the tab for all of those shots :(

Along with going up for shots, they had trays and trays of hor de' vours , and they were sooo yummy.

At some point in time my new drinking glove made an appearance!

Eventually it was the last song and we were all feeling really good, some more than others!

all pics courtesy of Gina and Jeremy... many more awesome pics on her myspace page, check em out!

We meandered our way down to the bus that was going to take us to the hotels. There was about 12 of us on the bus and the ride seemed to go pretty quickly, then all of the sudden drama! some peeps had to go tinkle, so there we were on the side of the beltline tinkling at 1am.

A little bit further down the beltline we heard from someone in our group...who remains nameless, I GOTTA PUKE... and I said, Puke in my cooler! Anything but on me!!! If you don't know the bdog very well, one of my worst fears is getting puked on!

So the cooler got filled with vomit... AWESOME-IT WASN'T ME!!!! When we got off the bus I wheeled that cooler right up to the side of Cheeseburger in Para' Dise. Puke filled and everything... AYE YAY AYE!

Arick and I made the trek up to my apartment, we ordered a pizza and passed out watching Beerfest... time to relax!!

So the perfect day had a little hitch at the end, but I think overall everyone had a awesome time.

Thank you so much Kevin and Greta for including me in your special day, it seemed like a long time coming... but now when I look back at it... the day came and went so quickly.

You kids are so perfect for eachother and now you have the paperwork to prove your married!

Congrats Mr and Mrs Teter!!!

This Blog Proudly Endorses...

2008-11-04T14:50:00.000-08:00

Well today is election day this is like my 4th time voting for president, I think...

Ross Perot, W, W, and now ...

As I have told everyone whose asked... I think things line up for me and my life now to vote the other way.

Politics/Religion and everything else... who is really right and wrong... Just as long as you get out and participate!

And if I am lucky... maybe they will select me for JURY DUTY, that would be fun!

The Erotic Life of Bdogschneeby

2008-10-27T17:15:00.000-07:00

March 2007 was sadly the last time I have had a drink in Whitewater... until this last weekend...

What's been going on lately with Bdog?

Well there was some family stuff at the beginning of the month and I have to first say HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAGGIE, my sister! TURDY YEARS OF AGE :O

I have to also say Happy Birthday to Alissa, again! Geez how many of these you gonna have pal Al?

Friday night, the workday ends and I headed down to Whitewater. On the way I made a pit stop at JCP for a doorbuster sale... Shoes, Jacket, Stocking cap, 5 shirts... 50 bucks... sahhh weeet!

Whitewater hasn't changed much in the last 1.5 years. To be honest, I thought the local economy would have crumbled with out my cashflow. But any who... I headed to The Brass Rail and I meet up with everybody! Nick, Carrie, Luke, Daisey, Eric, Angel, Eric's Bro's, and a host of others.

Happy Birthday to Nick and Angel, also celebrating October B-days!!!

We had a bunch of drinks at the Brass Rail and then headed over to the Coyote Grill. From their, the Downstairs... I ran into a few ex coworkers, at some point in time we cruise over to The Pub, we win some games of pool. From there it's a little sketchy (as all nights in Whitewater end up!) We ended up in Rosa's (the old double dip deli ?) got some delicious Italian beef's and got a ride back to the hotel.

In the morning I wake up to watching E.T. ??? And I continue to watch it in amazement of how little I remembered seeing of it, when I was a child I watched it all of the time!

Well I said my goodbyes, got a ride to Airforce 2 and I gave Looney a call... Looney? this is Bdog... Bdog Schneey! I am 15 minutes from East Troy, 20 minutes from a Bloody Mary!

I headed over to Looney and Luscious' pad in East Troy, still wearing last nights clothes! When I arrived Dan was standing on his roof?

What are you doing up there Daniel? Well he was inspecting his new roof and that also explained the dumpster in his driveway... Dan's buying new roof's...rooves...roofs' ??? and he has a baby on the way... and the most I have to be worried about in a week is moving my plants off of the porch into my apartment, so they don't get frosty... ohh well.

Dan says he's hungry! So we decided to head to a bar and watch the Badger football game and grab some eats. The Honey Lake Inn, not much going on there but delicious Bloodies! Geez drinking again at 11am :(

The Badgers are winning and we have the bar to ourselves, the bloodies are going down good... the locals start showing up, so we scooted over to Dan's friends place, a few more beers and we were off to go BOWL!

We still have not eaten! There is a brat stand we stop, the Brats were delecious! Dan shows off the perks of being the Racine County coach of the year and get's another free hotdog. We make it to Towne and Country lanes for a 3pm bowling benefit... for Burlington Wrestling, ran by Country Jam alumnust Jude!

Jude is awesome, he is like a Brent P. but muscular... ha ha ha, I say this cuz Brent and Jude like to work the crowd and get around and talk to everyone, regardless what they are doing. They are just people people, does that make sense?

Well any who... time to choose the best lane ball for my 130 average... then I find out that it is 9 pin tap! Woooah, what does that mean? Apparently if I knock 9 pins down on my first attempt... that counts as a strike! WOW! That would have been a lot easier in my bowling league if we would have played that way. I am going to bowl 3 300 games !!!

Well not so fast there Bdog! Remember that you are terrible at bowling! So T&C lanes have something awesome that helps you with bowling... IT is called the "Tower of Power" a big tube filled with beer and a nice little tapper on the bottom... This helped me bowl a 160 average on the day! Not too shabby bdog. It was actually a lot of fun bowling and we had a fun team!

Lastly about the bowling was that they had raffles going on during the entire time! It was awesome!!! I won a Burlington wrestling tee, a Huntsville Starz Jersey, a Golf Bag can cooler, and some new hunting Binoculars! Hoooty HOOO! After Bowling they had a nice little buffet... then me and Looney were out!

We got back to Dans about 7:30 and we wanted to have a bonfire in his driveway, SO we went crawling through that dumpster looking for wood. We ended up burning a couple pallets, smoking some stogies and drinking some fat squirrell. 930 rolled around and I sad my goodbyes to Daniel... But he also had some treats for me too! Smoked Catfish, Salmon, and a Ryan Braun Bobblehead! SAHHH WEEET! Thanks again Dan, it was a great time!

9:30 I roll out for Madison, Destination Down town for Jordons birthday! I drove across to Janesville and then headed north to Madison. Jonnie kept me entertained for a little bit... he had been downtown celebrating a birthday as well... Happy Birthday Shari!!

Any who, I arrive in Madison, with a little help from Pal Al... I identified the birthday crew was at Madison's. SO I got in there found Jordon and we had a birthday beer! We slid over to the Silver Eagle and had a few more beers and then the lights came on! BAR TIME!

This day could only be capped with a Burrito as big as my head... from La Bamba's!

So after logging a couple hundred miles on this weekend, having a great time, seeing a bunch of people. I come walking into my pad at 3am carrying a Burrito, a huge bag of stuff from JCP, a huge bag of Burlington Wrestling goodies, a bag of Looney goodies...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ALL??? OR HAPPY 1/4 BDAY TO ME?

The phone rings at 11am Sunday... It's Arick... LETS GO WATCH THE RACE WITH KENNY... 50 cent taps!! GEEZUS!

G & K's wedding and picture taking at the Cottage Grove Country Club!

2008-10-27T15:27:00.000-07:00

WEDDING

11am, time to assemble the troops at K & G's house, we had gotten items for the cooler in the limo and packed it with as much booze as we possibly could.

At Kevin's, we got into our tuxes... had a bite to eat, then it was go time!

We got to the church and hung out in the pastor's office, this is when the reality started to sink in...

1pm hit, time to start getting ready to make our walks... Arick and Kristen, Julie and I, Jason and Gina, Jon and Jenny.

We got all paired up and the music started, I was looking good, and it was my turn to strut... I was amazing!

However, the Bride upstaged me again! Greta was looking awesome, and I don't know how she got around with the dress she had on! I have tried doing that and fell on my face plenty of times.

Now the one thing with a Lutheran church thats a little different, I had to stand up the whole entire time! I was thinking "No Biggie, this should be really quick" NUH UH , The pastor had a huge folder full of pages and he was intent... very intent on reading every single page!

IT TOOK FOREVER! I felt bad for some people in our wedding party cuz we had some cripples amongst us: Sprained ankle, 2 back surgeries, and a gouty foot!

About the 1/4 way point I noticed a few beads of sweat on Kevin's forehead... then there were hundreds of beads of sweat... that is when I started realizing it was really hot standing up there! I felt really bad for him cuz we had a whole stack of hankies that we left in the pastor's room. But we now have a new saying... "Your sweating like Kevin in front of a priest"

I now pronounce you man and wife... Kevin and Greta are hitched! Yay!

PICTURES

The picture taker was picture crazy! I am not talking about myself either... They took 700 plus pictures... check out their website

We did pics in the church outside the church in the limo... man oh man! Then they asked me to climb in the limo to the far front and dropped a huge bomb on me WE ARE GOING TO THE STOUGHTON COUNTRY CLUB! What ? NO! lemme out of here!!! AAAGGHHHH!

Well we made it to the SCC and I have to admit the place was nice, it was a beautiful day. The pics there turned out really good. We all climbed back into the limo and stopped off at a fence for more pics, Ugghhhh.

Then finally we were free! Pic's were done and it was time to pop the top off some bubbly... YAY!

Check out this video: G & Ks wedding 1

We drove around for a while and had some drinks, had a lot of laughs, and really enjoyed the afternoon. Greta was hollering at people and we had to stop for some more beer.

Everyone was getting really excited for the Reception and we rolled into the reception hall at about 5:30pm.

To be continued...

Greta and Kevins Wedding

2008-10-12T12:04:00.000-07:00

They have the house, the fenced in yard, the two car garage, the doggy... the pool, the family room, and each other... but now they have the paperwork too! Greta and Kevin got hitched over the weekend!

Countless Thursday nights were spent in the garage, on the bar stools, talking about the big day and the plans G & K had been whipping up. Finally, the week was here, it was happening... AAaaaghhh!

PREPARATION
Wednesday night, the boys headed to get their Tuxes fitted... but first, we headed to a fine family restaurant, The Tilted Kilt! One last meal was needed before we went and had to make a financial investment into this wedding, while gazing at scantily kilted ladies.

Well we made it to The Men's Warehouse for a fashion show. It was a lot of fun, guys running around with nothing but boxers and suspenders on. Amazingly, every one's tuxes fit... everything matched... and in great condition. This never happens!
Best part about this was that our $160 we paid, got us a free pair of socks... YIPPPEEEE!

REHEARSAL DAY
Friday came, and myself and Arick had the day off... we hooked up with Bra'ski and we did a little golfing. It was just an awesome day, sadly, one of the last days that we would be golfing this year.

The rehearsal was at 6pm at the Lutheran :X Church in McFarland. Kevin introduced all of us guys, Greta introduced all of her ladies. I would have to say that this is the first wedding that I have been in that I knew all of the Ladies and all of the Guys... so that made things a lot more relaxed.

All of Kevin and Greta's family from out of town were at the church too. They were all very nice and put up with our shenanigans through the night.

Pastor walks us through our duties... K&G's duties... and his duties. Now these sneaky Lutherans, I shoulda known better when the Pastor went over his duties. Cuz during the actual wedding his duties were anything but brief!

Well any who... we got through the rehearsal pretty cool and then we were off to the rehearsal dinner. This was held at Picasso's in McFarland and the owner Chad, Manager Eirik, closed it down for our private party.

They put out an awesome spread of food and we all ate like Kings and Queens! I also likened it to Carb Loading cuz it was all pasta's and Italian foods. But very nummy foods.

Kevin and Greta had a little speech and they thanked everyone for coming and being part of their big day. Yah Yah Yah, HAND OUT OUR GIFTS ALREADY!!!!

All of us guys got personalized travel bags, inside my travel bag consisted of:
2 drinking gloves
1 engraved drinking mug
2 gas-x packets
1 (4pack) of Shout stain removal sheets
1 packet of aspirin
2 Condoms
1 Tube of Chapstick
1 pack of gum
1 Listerine breath freshener
and a lot of laughs!

Oh man! I didn't realize this was my Survival kit to get me through one wedding!!! I guess I have a really bad reputation!!! Thanks K&G!

Afterwards we had our final drinks and eventually all parted ways, some left later than others and had a few more drinks then others.

WEDDING DAY

As with Kevin's Bachelor Party, I didn't get hardly any sleep the night before! What gives? I guess I was just really nervous for the big day... or it could be my new found Pirating hobby that I have picked up!

Well anywho, Arick came over and picked up Jon and I on the West side of town. Our Tux's were at G&K's house, and we all had a plan to avoid driving at the end of the night. So we get picked up at 10am, we head to the Tobacco Outlet for Celebratory Cigars and then to Pick N' Save to fill up our cooler for the limo.

THE WEDDING>>> TO BE CONTINUED...

My Brewers make the Playoffs!

2008-09-29T18:22:00.000-07:00

I realized over the weekend, I have not been to as many Brewers games as last year :(

Last year I attended 10 games, sadly my record was 3 and 7 on the year.

This year my record has been much better! First there was a Ben Sheets awesome performance against San Fran, then a win against Cincinatti... come from behind fashion. Third was a unfortunate loss against St. Louis- but attended with a fun group and fun times. Fourth, a Houston Blowout and an engagement. Fifth a thrilling one nothing win over San Diego.

This last weekend was my 6th game of the year! My record to date was 4 and 1, so no matter what, I was going to have a winning record this year... Yay! More importantly the Brewers were going for a Playoff birth!

For those who haven't heard the news lately, the Brewers have not been to the playoffs since... 1982.

I was 5 years old then and don't remember anything about those days. But I found it interesting to read an article that compared this year's team being earily similar to that 1982 team.

In 1982 they fired manager Buck Rodgers mid season and signed manager Harvey Kuehn. The team acquired, mid season, pitcher Don Sutton who had several wins... carrying the Brewers to the playoffs. There was a mix of young and old players on that team: Robin Yount, Jim Gantner, Paul Molitor, Dale Sveum, Cecil Cooper, Ben Oglive, Pete Vukovich, Gorman Thomas, Ted Simmons, and Charlie Moore... just to name a few! The year prior, they had acquired a Cy Young reliever by the name of Rollie Fingers. They had several home run hitters on that team, they would later be tabbed as Harvey's Wallbangers.

Fast forward 26 years later, Ned Yost is fired, Dale Sveum is promoted as the manager. CC Sabathia (Don Sutton) was acquired mid season. We have a strong mix of young and old players, Ryan Braun (Paul Molitor?) JJ Hardy (Jim Gantner?) Corey Hart (Robin Yount? well that may be a big stretch) Prince Fielder (Cecil Cooper?) Cy Young winner Eric Gagne (Rollie Fingers) Ben Sheets (similar to an Oft injured Pete Vukovich)... This team is known for their powerful offense and Homeruns.

Okay I know... BORING! But has history repeated itself?

Well back to Saturday, Todd had purchased us tickets way back in May and we had a group of 6 of us: Todd, Looney, Bra, Ritter, Jon, and I. We were hoping this day would be the day we return to the playoffs! We needed a Brewers win, NY Mets loss, and as an added bonus... a Badger Football victory in Michigan.

We had a really good tailgater going, it was hot and sunny, the beer tasted really good! The food was excellent (Prop's to Jonnie the chef!) Ritter made some yummy taco dip, Looney made some awesome triple chocolate cookies!

We packed up about 2:30pm and we walked into the game early, to our dismay... THEY STARTED TO CLOSE THE ROOF! WHAT??!!!??

We climbed to our steamy hot seats and started to watch the game, and the immediate dismantling of Ben Sheets.... ughhh down 4 zip. They bring in Dave Dush, I knew then we were gonners...and they just showed the NY Mets score... they won! GOD DAMN METS!

To add insult to injury we are getting no hitted into the 7th! oh man!

FURTHER INSULT, the Badgers have blown a 19-0 lead

Jon and I have seen it all, infuriated, we walk out of the stadium.

Oh well, no magic on this day... However, my record on the year was 4 and 2 YAY!!! I aint a jinx!

Fast forward to Sunday, I wake up early, I am so nervous... for the brewers and whenever I am nervous... I watch the movie "The Notebook!" wheww that calmed my nerves.

Packers Football starts, Nascar starts... I am switching back and forth... I have the Brewers on the radio... I have the Mets/Marlins game on the computer.

Things are looking good... Marlins up 2 zip, Matt Kenseth leading, Packers leading, Brewers vs Cubs zero-zero.

THEN DISASTER! Matt Kenseth Spins out, Packers lose their lead, Brewers down 1 zip, Marlins and Mets tied 2-2.

So angry, I turn off the computer, I turn off the radio, I stop watching the Packers, I only watch the race... Matt Kenseth starts working his way back up... this gives me some hope!

The ESPN bottom line is scrolling, I see the Brewers have tied it up. Then I see old Brewer Wes Helms has hit a homerun, Marlins up 3-2... then my favorite Marlin ... Thug, Dan Uggla smacks another 4-2 Marlins! Then I see the Brewers are up 4-1 !!! RYAN BRAUN HOMERUN!!!

I quickly turn on the radio, listen to Bob Uecker call the ninth... and then listen to him call the rest of the Marlin's game MARLINS WIN!!!

THE BREWERS ARE BACK IN THE PLAYOFFS AFTER 26 YEARS WOO HOOO!!!

I immediately run to the fridge and find a Miller Lite and 2 Pabst Blue Ribbons, I shake the 2 Pabst Blue Ribbons up and I am spraying myself!! I am jumping on my bed on my couch on the porch WOO HOO!!!!

The neighbors might have been upset with the site of me in nothing but my beer soaked tighty whities... Drinking a Miller Lite, BUT WHO CARES!!!

THE BREWERS ARE BACK IN IT!!! YAY!!!

Kevins Bachelor Party

2008-09-22T15:31:00.000-07:00

7:30 am the alarm goes off... oh my god! I have only had 2 hours of sleep! F'N A! Cheeseburger in Paradise, we are on a break!

I lean over text Jon, he texts back ... we decide to sleep in past breakfast.

Kevin calls "You going to be able to make breakfast?" "Nope! its going to take a little bit to get this bod ready for this day"

AAAGGGGHHHH! it's Kevin's Bachelor Party Day!! YAYYYYYYYYYY~!!!!

Arick and Kevin for weeks have schemed up a plan of golfing day and golfing at night!

When they lived downtown, they use to do a little event called "State Street Golfing!" They figured there was about Nine Bars going down and Nine bars coming back up State Street. They would stop in any bar that had Neon, Two fat men... tight hugging jeans, cowboy boots, belt buckles, cowboy hats... strolling in, Two Miller Lites Please! When they sucked those down in five minutes, they strolled onto the next establishment.

That was a site back in the day, it was also interesting some of the reactions they would get! Not every place served what they like, not every place typically had the cowboy clientel.

Well anyways, there was no doubt in Aricks mind what Kevin's bachelor party would entail, a group of guys playing golf, all day long.

They had made there list and checked it twice, invitations went out, tee times were made, a bus was reserved. Some people declined, some had good excuses, some had poor excuses... some said "where do you want me ... ILE BE THERE!"

Saturday we all met out at Yahara Hills golf course and we got our carts took some practice swings and then hit the links at about 10:35am.

The day was perfect! Shorts and Polo weather, it was awesome for a Saturday late in September. Everyone knows, you can't say that you have been drinking all day if you don't start drinking in the morning! Most guys had a beer cracked at the first hole!

Several of the holes had little contests... Shortest Drive, Closest to the hole, Longest Drive in the Fairway, Longest Putt, etc. We all throw in $5 ... Check out me and Bra's amazingly close Longest Drive contenders:

Check out this video: kevins bachelor party 1

The night before the bachelor party, we all meet in Kevin's garage to give him his bachelor gift. We bought him a Golf club-alcohol dispenser. Kevin opens it up, puts it together, we find some batteries for it, we put some water in it to test it out... NOTHING HAPPENS! We all take a look at it... STILL NOTHING! You can't be serious... This totally sucks!

Jon extremely, p'd off, Arick slightly p'd off ... decide to go and buy some new batteries. They get back, they leave the task to me to put the batteries in, I take my sweet time and get them all lined up perfectly. I push the button... nothing... I push the button again... WHHHHIRRRRLLLLLLLL! YES!!! Liquid is flowing perfectly!

The thing is totally awesome, Kevin's job during the day was to drive around and serve shots of hurricane out of this thing... and that he did! The pic below gives you an idea! 54 fluid oz of goodness!

In addition to our gift to him, Kevin had some gifts for us... A shotgunator, can beer bonger, and bottle beer bonger. Like we needed more of an excuse to get alcohol in us on this day!

So you can imagine, nine holes of golf, sunshine, good times, beer consumption... it was a fun time! Afterwards we headed to Reverend Jims... eeehhhhh, good, cheap food though!

3:30pm we make it to Arick's, quick change of clothes, then we were off to meet everyone else at the Bowling Alley in McFarland.

As a passing of a torch, of sorts, the Dad's of the "soon to be wed's" were at the Bowling Alley. We shared some stories... and it was really awesome of them to buy the young guys a couple rounds.

The bus arrived at 8pm, yikes... bdog's a little buzzed at this time :o We get the coolers onto the bus, we take role call and the bus heads downtown! The Dad's wave us good bye...

Check out this video: kevins bachelor party 2

And the bus drops us off at the top of State Street, we trek down to the bottom of State Street... Sorry, guy code... I really cannot share any more of the Bachelor Party experience... but here are some pics

Kudo's to Arick for pulling off a fun Bachelor Party! From the condition of Kevin the following morning... He was certainly going to be hurting the entire day!

I think it was a very good job of celebrating Kevin's last days of freedom as a Bachelor! Greta... he's all yours now !

sweet nothings

2008-09-16T17:38:00.000-07:00

in my mind, ive been up to nothing lately... boring old nothing over here!

what do i do in my nothing- ness... well as i have found out... not much!

-I bought 28 items at the dollar store for my apartment
-I bought a couple James Patterson Books at half price books
-I made my first big meal... delicious Bass! Baked in the oven, sweet corn, and steamed green veggies! yummers
-I now have Arick 2 , my new plant
-Some workouts at home and work.
-I have relearned that if i am tired and cannot get to bed, start watching "Cast Away", the part where he goes onto the island and doesn't talk to anyone for a while.
-watch tv as in Season 1- 2 of Arrested Development, Season 1-2-3 of The Office.
-Volcano Taco's are AWESOME!
-catch up on movies: Worlds Fastest Indian, Dewey Cox Story, The Bank Job, and Tropic Thunder... others that i cannot really think of right now.
-Put together a puzzle, which is actually going to go on my wall!
-Watch the packers and badgers, avoid watching the Brewers.
-Pay my first few bills ($35 for electricity YAY, $20 internet YAY)
-Bowl (or at least attempt to... but bowl so terribly that they won't ask you to bowl again!)

It could be the turning weather, it could be the luxury of living on my own... but I just really like the peace and quietness! its awesome.

and of course I did have a fun weekend with some friends though, ventured to the tilted kilt friday night (first time at the tilted madison... food was good surprisingly), Hody& Bostons Saturday night, and Tullys 2 for a bit Sunday. So its not like I have been held up in the apartment. It just has been pretty cool not doing really anything!

This coming weekend, should be fun times for Kevin's Bachelor party...

Today is Egners Bday, Tomorrow Jonnies Bday. Happy birthday buddies!

SO funtimes shall be had, all week long!!!

I ruined Kelly & Jon's Wedding :(

2008-09-10T15:00:00.000-07:00

Work ends at 3:30pm, I run down to my vehicle and scream up the Beltline to head to Milwaukee. Destination, K&J's Wedding rehearsal, TOSA 5:30pm.

SO, hitting every single pocket of traffic along the way... I arrived at 5:45pm, WHAT?! Ron... Jon's dad, has to stand in for me which he proudly states that he couldn't drink enough to fill my shoes. Huh? cmon Ron I'm not that bad am I ? I only crashed in your basement after the bars... OHhhhh from age 20 until 26 :( okay maybe he's got a case!

The rest of the rehearsal was a blur, I was so upset with myself for ruining K&J's rehearsal that I honestly don't remember what the priest had to say!

Afterwards, we headed to the Waterstreet Brewery, we could finally relax and have some brewski's and have some good eats. We got to mingle with everyone, B.Ash was back in town for the festivities, we got caught up. The most important part, we got our gifts!!!

Check out this video: k&j wedding 1

K&J did not disappoint, we got totally awesome gifts! Socks, Tie, and hanky, Sweet Nike Kicks, and best of all we got a glass boot! So Awesome! Thank you guys, im still wearing them! not the glass boot of course! Thank you to Ron and Diane for a great meal!

That night we ended up at the Delafield Brewhaus. We had a few more pints and laughs. At about 11pm, Jon got a "1 hour event reminder" that came up on his phone... 1 hour until his wedding! Yah I don't think he needed any reminding, cuz he was soooo nervous!

This night went from zero to creepy at the stroke of midnight, a 20 year highschool reunion had been happening in a private part of the bar... well that ended and they all came into the normal part of the bar. SCARY COUGAR'S AND DON JOHNSONS, one of those scary cat's bought Jon a shot!

Eventually we made it back to the hotel and crashed! Fast forward to the next morning... Swimming in the pool, head to the bank, head to the grocery store for a bunch of booze, buy Ben a tie, and then we had lunch at 5 Guys Burgers and Fries. You may have read a blog from another person, linked to this one, but 5 Guys B-F's lived up to her hype, very tasty burger, lotsa fries... I am a fan!

We then head back to the Hotel and we get changed into our suits. I was looking GOOD! (Ron Burgundy Voice) We pile into the Limo and head to the church. Now Jon was really nervous and so we needed to get him a doctor... Doctor McGillacuddy's that is! We all took a swig and that was all we needed... IT WAS GO TIME!!! No more Nerves!

Being the only single guy of the crew, I did some strutting through the church, showed off my goods... did some push ups, I had to make my presence known!
The priest came in and gave the order to assume our positions... at the back of the church.

We met up with the ladies, I grabbed my lady's (Andrea) arm and with perfection, I glided down that aisle like ive done so many times before... Right together, Left together, right together... Left... I stop at the alter, bow, give Jon a kiss on the cheek and take my place in line.

Check out this video: j&ks wedding 2

Now everyone goes to a wedding to see the 4th groomsmen! No-one's interested in the ladies, the bride, the groom, they are there to see me! YAH RIGHT! SO I figured that no one would notice me there on the end... so BDOG PAPARAZI time! Check out my vids:

Check out this video: j&ks wedding 3

I had the most perfect video going... K & J were exchanging vows and right before the priest sez "I now pronounce you Man & Wife" my camera goes dead! When it goes dead there is some very loud beeping that happens... so with one swift move I throw my camera into my pocket but at the same time, the batteries go flying! UGgh so embarrassing! Jesus hates me for ruining Kelly and Jon's wedding :(

Actually no-one even noticed... why ? Cuz no-one is looking at the 4th grooms men, especially not when the vows are being exchanged!

Well after the very nice ceremony, we all pile into the Limo and drive around for some more pic's! We head to a park and got some very nice outdoorsy pics a train comes by, hell lets take a pic with that! It starts raining, oh no! So we headed to the Chancery bar. Which turned out to be awesome! They got some awesome pics their too.

After a while we head over to the reception, we got some pretty cool outside pics taken there at the golf course. Of course I made all those pictures look good, really good! (Ron Burgundy voice, again cuz you know when I look in a mirror thats how I talk in my inner voice!)

The reception hall was pretty cool! It had a wonderful view! I took my place at the table... closest to Kelly & Jon, just so I could make sure there was no Shenanigans going on! The meal was really awesome, good steak and veggies, TATERS TO DIE FOR!

The speaches/toasts start, first up the best man Scuba Steve (Jons Bro) a touching speach, he cried and I lost all respect for him at that point. (just keeeding steve)

Gina (Kellys sis) was up next... an awesome speach, with a gift!

You see, Jon met Kelly at Gina & Todd's wedding... and how could she have fallen for a guy in crutches, rainbow sunglasses, and a rainbow wig? But she did, they fell in love, and they gave me spatula's, plates, and pots for my new apartment! Its such a beautiful story!

Kellys, Dad has the best speach of the night... Irony that him and his best friend married two sisters... only to repeat itself that Jon & Todd married two sisters.

and now the party really kicks up!

Check out this video: k&js Wedding 4

Check out this video: k&j wedding 5

WHHEWWWW... Shots, Short ties, beers, cigs, dancing, dancing, dancing, more shots! Spill a beer on the dance floor, clean it up, Spill another beer on the dance floor, clean it up, Spill a Beer all over Greta, clean her up ... and then continue the dancing. Sorry G :(

Looney and Linda arrive with awesome news too! "Barney, we have to go to Hooters again... WERE EXPECTING A BABY!!!" YES!!!!! I cannot handle all of this awesomeness!

The day/night was just perfectly awesome, it was a lot of fun, I am still waiting for the DJ to play my song though... My Humps. I really wish I could have had the caterers freeze up about 10 of those plates of food too. I danced a lot and had lotsa fun, so... great party!

I am soo happy for you Jon & Kelly, I am so happy that you found each other and I enjoy watching you two grow together and create a family!

Thank you for having me participate in your special day and sorry for ruining it with the flying batteries :(

MOVED!

2008-09-02T14:59:00.001-07:00

August 4th, 2008 was the day that I ceased living in McFarland and began living in Middleton. Why you may ask? Well, several factors came into my decision making... but ultimately it was location-location-location!

I arrived at the rental office at 12:45pm and we finished up the required paperwork, I paid my first months rent, I got my keys, and the apartment was officially mine! At the time of signing my docs, some things got changed around... and now my lease reads that it runs from Sept 1, 2008 until Sept 1, 2009... I will explain this later.

Now upon moving in, I took pictures of the appliances and carpets/floors and the walls. Filled out the paperwork for damages (which were none). Everything was in excellent condition, I was really happy!

I unloaded my first load of stuff into my storage unit. The truck empty, I headed back to McFarland to Arick's house. There, we got caught up on the previous weeks events. He then offered to help me move and I was like>>> SURE! I didnt have much stuff anyways, with Arick helping, it was going to go quick. Alissa, thanks for offering too, and thanks again for the futon/coffee table!

We made two trips out here... and it was done... very effortless! ARICK YOU WERE AWESOME!!!

On the last trip, I treated my ex-roomie to some Rocky Rococo's, it was nummers.

I made it back to Middleton at 9pm and crashed!

Since I have moved in, I have met some very awesome neighbors... the people at the rental office have been very nice... and maybe one of these days they will cash one of my rent checks!

Yah, they haven't cashed my check yet... They have had it now since Aug. 4th, I have asked them 3 times if there is something wrong, and now I am starting to think that the main office doesn't know that I am moved in yet and haven't looked through my paperwork for my check. I think, they think, I moved in September 1st cuz thats what my lease said.

Well anywho it has been a real culture shock over here. I have had to go to Wal-Mart and Target 2-3 times to get odds and ends... I went to throw something away... Oh I don't have a garbage can. I go to fry something up in the frying pan... OH SNAP I don't have a frying pan. I buy soups and tuna fish, well you kinda need a can opener dummy! I made a frozen pizza... well it looks like I am using a steak knife to slice it.

Lastly, Bdog is going green!

I walk to work every day, I ride my bicycle to places that are a little bit further. I don't have cable, I pay internet for now but am looking to replace it with a laptop and take advantage of local wi-fi spots. The only bill I have is the electric bill. My work out facility is no longer paying for Snap fitness... but the apartment complex's and the workout facilities at my work are free! Thanks to Bill, I have now ridden on the Madison Metro, first time ever, he has forever educated me!

I think the best part of it all is that I can still go and have a funtime in McFarland. Everyone has been really awesome with offering me a ride or a place to crash. I don't want to ever be driving on that beltline after I have consumed too many in McFarland.

So yup... bdog is in Middleton now and loving life! I have had some peeps out, hope to have y'all out real soon!

oh yeah, check out my new roomie... BRENT 2

CANADA 2008

2008-08-27T17:21:00.000-07:00

This years Canada trip snuck right up on me.

If you remember, way back in July, I had just finished Birthday celebrations. I was also frantically packing everything up for my big move. It was crazyness!

So Wednesday night had come and I had to pack my bags for Canada, but I also had to pack up my vehicle for the first load of stuff to move. Thursday, I went to work for a half day and once the clock hit 1pm VACATION! WOO HOO!

Check out this video: canada vid 1

This years border crossing was no big deal, we made it across without issue. However this is going to be the last year you can cross without a passport, they were sure to remind us of that too... and also gave us crap for wearing Packers gear. STUPID VIKING FANS!

Check out this video: Canada vid 2

So Saturday at about 12noon we made it to the cabin... it cost us about $300 in gas for the truck and the boat up to this point. So we realized gas this year was going to in total cost about $500 plus, YIKES!!!! This along with the declining dollar, the cost of the resort going up... and everything else... kinda made a lot of people feel that this may be the very last year :( It was just getting really expensive!

But we got out on the lake and did a lot of fishing all week. The first few days turned out to be better fishing then later in the week. We had several meals of fish and several very good dinners. We always eat very good in Canada.

When it came to drinking... Well this year Dad wasnt able to drink much (due to some medications he was on). He had brought up a case of Non Alcoholic beer, I tried a couple of those... not bad. I brought up a case of real beer and during the week I would switch back and forth between the reals and non-real beers... and I really didn't notice a difference.

The crew this year was a solid group of 10 guys, there was some newbies and we did some hazing. Some people pulled some pranks on eachother, the funniest... Someone taped a picture of JL on JW's pee jug... and when he went to tinkle he was tinkling right on JL! too funny!

Well it came time to pay for the resort. We all went up to the office and we were pleased to find out that the cabin cost us $120 less per guy this year!! WHAT?!? AWESOME! We tried to figure out the math, we just couldn't. I think the resort owner realized that we have been coming up there many years and gas prices were really bad this year so he gave us a break...

YOU KNOW WHAT? Smart business move, cuz when we all got back to the cabin, we were all smiles and talking about next year.

The last night there we drank heavily and partied hardy, it was a lot of fun... I may have had about 10 beers of mine, about 6 of dads, and a few of other peoples... I got quite tipsy! But it was a great end to the trip!

Check out this video: Canada vid 3

Saturday morning we packed up and headed back to the trailer in Northern Wisconsin. We got there at about 4pm listened to the brewers game, Brewers WIN! (THIS WAS LIKE THEIR FIRST SINCE WE HAD LEFT) made some great steaks on the grill and had some more beers.

Sunday morning we woke up and I got back into town at 12noon, I had to be over to my apartment at 12 noon to pick up my keys... so I was running late ... But I picked up my keys at about 12:30pm and that is when the move started...

TO BE CONTINUED...

BDOGS BACK!

2008-08-26T18:09:00.000-07:00

Well it has been a LOONNGGGG Hiatus, But I am back!

So much has happened im so sorry to keep you all waiting, but I have had my modem for about a week but the technician was not here until today to hook it up!

I owe you all some blogs and I promise they will all come this week!

lets see what has happened? Hmmm...

Jonnie had day 3 of his bachelor party.

I turned 30 , then I went to Canada.

Upon returning from Canada, I moved to my new apartment in Middleton.

I had about one day to organize some things here, then I was off to Milwaukee for J&K's wedding.

The next week I got settled in, finally, but then it was Bra'ski's birthday weekend.

Then I really got comfy here but Tuesday I headed for vacation to Hayward again with Looney and Krick.

MAN OH MAN! I have been busy!!!

But I PROMISE I WILL GETCHA ALL CAUGHT UP!

Oh Canada!!!!

2008-07-23T19:46:00.000-07:00

Alright, this week has been a whirlwind :( but basically I have been running around like a chicken with his head cut off!

But tomorrow, after work ends... I will be in vacation mode! YAY!!! Then upon my return I will be in moving mode, YAY?

So everyone, have fun without me :( im sure you would have had a blast anyways, but just without the pushups!

Everyone be safe... and I will see you all when I get back!

Enjoy some pics from a previous year, with everyones favorite Can Coozie:

Birthday Bender!!!

2008-07-22T15:46:00.000-07:00

Well Wednesday was my birthday... yah last Wednesday... and I am just blogging about it now :(

As I so eloquently put it, I am now Turdy One ... however my entire birthday night I explained that once I turned Thirty I am now rolling back the years, every birthday... so technically I am 29 again!!!

The work day was fast... it started with me stopping down at Pick N' Save... chit chatted with my Beener (Bra)... he was the first to wish me a birthday wish, and they didn't stop there! All day I got birthday wishes and myspace messages and facebook messages and cards. It was awesome everyone, Thank You!

On your birthday, at Spartan Bowl (The BA, McFarland BA, the Bowling Alley, what ev's) you get free drinkies! Of course I had to hit that up!!! Upon walking into the BA, Jordon and Stacy were there... just for me's !!! Jordon drove hundreds of miles just to come back and have a drink with me! Thanks Pals!!!

Well we had a little dinner and then people kept coming and coming and coming... the drinks kept being poured. Then the shots started! Ughhhh it was a great night, I got a sober ride home and I called it a night.

I really didn't tell anyone that it was my birthday, I am getting old... people have stuff going on... 31 is so dreadful sounding... but that didn't stop everyone from coming out... I was really touched and I am very greatful...

The rest of the weekend... not to summarize this but I have crap to do around the house.

I had a really good time Thursday with Arick, we did a little hooky from work day, sadly probably our last time as roomies. Golf at 12noon at tumbledown then Hooters lunch.

Thursday night I had a kick ass time at Tantric... Gina, Jeremy, Billy, and I. Those guys put on a great show, their new cd plays very well in concert. I Highly recommend seeing them in concert and will next time they are around.

***Here I am writing this, I am between boxing things up for my big move, packing bags for my big trip to Canada... and Billy Hall just hit a homer and Brewers win in come from behind fashion two nights in a row... woo hoo!!!***

Friday I made it through work, got home and Dustin and Peter talked me into going down to Waukesha for the Everclear and Soul Asylum concert. It took some convincing, but they got me! I had a blast, Everclear was my favorite band for a while in the 90's and they didnt dissapoint in concert either. Plus I got to see em for free!

After, we had fun bowling, yah I said the words "FUN" and "Bowling" in the same sentence. I got off to a rocky start by falling on my face (Literally) and my bowling game smacking me in my face with reality, a 56! (ouch) but I was finally able to improve... Peter won four games, Bdog won one game, Dustin... well he competed!

Saturday headed to Mikey Yates Bday party... Woo Hoo!!! Mikey's 30!! Happy Birthday Mikey!!! We played Flag Football and Volleyball, 3 months of snatch fitness kept me somewhat in shape, but just all of the running around and sweating did me in! Volleyball, OMG Yates' family is a breeding ground for awesome Volleyball players. Marie, thanks sooo much for hosting a big bash, it was awesome!

Sunday headed to moms for a birthday luncheon and then came back to town to catch some drinkies with smiles until the wee hours... A man can only lose soo many games of pool, ping pong, and silver strike bowling before he can admit that he totally sucks at all of those things!

Sunday night, Kritz calls me and says... We're going to the Toadies on Monday night! OH MAN!!! NO WAY! ... errr Okay! That would have fit in perfect, who can claim they seen Tantric, Everclear, Soul Asylum, and the Toadies in a four day stretch?! Thank god it turned out that he was referencing a week from monday.

Oh man, What a long bender, but a lot of fun! Thanks to everyone that came out and forced fun upon me! Now... I will live the life of sobriety for 3 weeks! until Kelly and Jon's wedding... which I cant wait!!! Oh man Kelly I'm sending out my RSVP as I type, just me coming and mark me down for the Top Sirloin!

TURDY ONE :(

2008-07-16T04:08:00.000-07:00

Man I am officially old and this picture makes me look creepier then ever! As Brent pointed out, I am so old... I forgot to pop my collar on my Calvin Klein Polo... REDICULOUS.

It has been a wonderful year of being 30, which started at the Brewers Game last year, watching the Crew beat up the Rockies. I received the best gift I have ever received, which I am sure you all agree... my first digital camera. To date, I have taken 3,450 pictures with my little camera and 3 video's. I have helped celebrate everyone elses 30th birthday in the last year... and I think I've done a pretty good job documenting all the funtimes in between.

All in all, I don't really feel that old, I am looking forward to my upcoming move, vacation, upcoming weddings... and the adventures of being 31!

My plans today are work then the bowling alley of McFarland, if you would like to share a drink with me today I will be there from 4pm until whenever! Hope to cyah!

Bring Your Own Milk!

2008-07-13T10:07:00.000-07:00

Three months ago, Heather hosted an event called the Spring Fling. During that event she had mentioned that sometime this summer we should do a Milk Chugging Challenge.

When Blooming Good Time came around, it was brought up again that we should have the Milk Challenge and we should set a date. Well a couple different dates were thrown around and eventually we decided on a Friday night.

July 11th was eventually planned on... Now we needed a venue... Well Brian and Heather have softball on Friday nights... so why not Brandt Park??? Jokingly, I also threw in there that we should do it at the Gazebo, or the steps of the Capital. But we needed to go somewheres where we can make a mess!

Well everything was coming together and all we needed to do is go and buy a gallon of milk and drink it in an hour!

HUH???

Well, ever since our days in college we have all heard about something called the Gallon Challenge/Milk Chug... Some say it's impossible, others have proven it is possible. But basically there is only so much milk a stomach will hold before your body says... Pukey or Poopy, its coming out either end and you have no say in it!

The rules are that you have to drink a gallon of milk in an hour. You cannot eat anything else, You cannot drink anything else. You can go Onesie(tinkle) but you cannot go twosies. We added in that you cannot touch other competitors and you cannot spit.

My story goes: I tried doing this in college. Ben and I had just gotten home from the Grocery store, I was eating a bowl of Ice Cream and we got to talking about it... So I decided to do it. I failed and puked a little, but I finished the gallon. But still I DQ'D cuz I puked. Any who, earlier this week I was thinking that I better have a practice run to see if I can do it... I failed miserably. I got through 3/4 of a gallon and then started cramping up! OHHH NO!!!

Thursday night we went to BW3's and I started to talk smack! I figured I better start a different game... Confidence! I figured if I couldn't do it, no ways they could do it!

Friday came along and I started to get nervous, I didnt eat anything all afternoon, I worked out when I got home. Wen't to Kevin's and we grabbed some coolers and some beer and got ready. We made our purchase of milk at Kwik trip, and then we were off to drink some Milk.

We got to the park, Brian and Heather's team were warming up for softball... SO I tried one last chance to get into their ear. Trash talking is not my specialty and Heather noticed it was wierd, I never talk trash!

The softball game ends... YAY on their 6-0 victory!!! But uh oh... now its go time!

By now a little crowd of Milk Chugging Fans had developed... people really wanted to see us puke our guts out!

Gina and Jason were the Judges/Hosts, they were not competing so they were going to be official time keepers and make sure we weren't rule breaking. They announced that as an added bonus, McFarland Softball Assoc. Would contribute a gift certificate to the Maple Tree, to the winner!

the Competitors were:

Barney "Udderly Smooth" Grogan
Kevin "Straight from the Teet"er
Brian "Lactating women are hot" Anderson
Heather "I always swallow the white stuff" Anderson
Jeremy "I get my milk for free " Pierce
Billy "milk juggs" Thompson

So there was a reading of the rules, the tapping of the gallons, and then CHUGGY!

Immediately Brian, Jeremy, Heather, Kevin, and Billy start chugging two quick glasses. However I was walking around sipping my first glass. Socializing talking more smack. I informed them my strategy would be to go slow in the beginning, but finish fast. I had no faith that any of them would be able to finish a gallon with out puking before the end.

I did a bunch of picture posing, picture taking, I was eyeing up the competitors, careful not to touch them though. Me and Lundo posed for some funny pics. I did an interview with Lindsey and Gina which was kind of funny.

Kevin and Bra kept drinking though, Billy and Jeremy and Heather had slowed down a bit.

About 15 minutes in, I grabbed my second glass and I drank that one slowly. I noticed after I finished that mug, that Kevin was making his final turn... He was pouring up his last mug! Brian saw that too and he put on his game face... BRIAN CHUGGED HIS LAST MUG with about 30 minutes to go!!! WOW!

All Brian had to do was keep it in and victory would be his! But he also had to sit there with a gallon of milk in his body for 30 minutes... NO WAY HE COULD DO IT! so I decided to stay on my game. It appeared that Kevin was struggeling with his last glass so I figured him a puker too!

Jeremy grabbed his jug and started to chug through his last quarter of a gallon. But he stopped and informed a judge, that he had to go two-sies... BAD! No more milk would be dranken for that guy!

With about 20 minutes to go I started my 3rd mug, I drank that down slowly, my aiming point was 5 minutes to go, then start chugging! Oh man the cramps started to kick in when I got through 3/4 of that mug...

After Brian had finished his gallon, I thought the most entertaining part of the event was the worried looks on Heather's face! She was worried for herself and getting her gallon done, but mostly for her Husband. The pain of him taking down the whole gallon and having to hold it in was clearly on her face! She got 3/4 of the way done and didn't finish any more.

Billy put his glass down, he had about 3/4 of his gallon done... but he also had to Barf. He pulled the trash can over, put his head into it, and let it fly! Haha ha ha the first puker!!!

Jeremy upon seeing Billy doing this, decided he could not hold anything in any more either, he was 3/4 of his gallon done. He told the judge he was done too! He ran to the port a potty and somehow in a combined effort... we could hear quite a bit of puking and pooping noises coming from his port - o - pottie. Egner would later say in the night... YOU ABSOLUTELY DON'T WANT TO GO IN THERE!

OH MAN!! too funny.

So this all went down with 20 to go! Brian is watching this all going down, he is laying down, crouching, walking, closing his eyes. ANYTHING HE CAN DO TO KEEP IT IN! Heather keeping an eye on him at all times. The entire croud analyzing his face. Then DRAMA!!!

Brian spits on the ground! What??? Thats against a rule, we made before hand no spitting!! he just broke a rule! I chimed in that was B.S. Don't disqualify him for that! Gina and Jason decided Brian's punishment would be to replace the spit with a swig, of milk. OH MAN!

Kevin is sitting on the bench he too has finished his milk and he informed that there would be no way that he would be getting up from his seat or he too would be making a run for the port - a - pottie!

Lastly there was me, the 5 minute mark had come, I poured my last mug... I was hurting. I finished off what was left in the gallon. I took a couple sips of my mug.. and UH OH! I needed to walk over to a trash can! I continued to sip on my milk, Jason and Gina reported there was a minute left! No way ! I had way too much milk left in my mug, I took a few more swigs... but my body would let me do no more!!

With the time expiring on the hour, BRA was the Winner, Kevin was second, Heather was third... and I was Puking my guts out into the trash bin! Oh it was bad, chunks of milk coming through my mouth and nose, three little spurts of puking... The trash can reeked...Me/Jeremy/Billy all tied for last PUKERS!

WAY TO GO BRIAN!!! Woo Hoo!!!

What thought could not be done, could be! He wins the milk chugging belt! He is the greatest ever... well except for this nice video of Joey Chestnut chugging a gallon in 41 seconds:

In a great display of sportsmanship we all shook hands and parted ways...

I ended up at the Bowling Alley with Arick, Kevin, Greta, Gina, and Alissa. We decided to conduct one more challenge... eat 6 saltine crackers in a minute... that was easily done! Then you had to whistle also, that was not so easily done.

We heard via cell phone that Bra had eventually puked when he got home, Heather let the milk exit from both ends.

Leaving the lone big man, Kevin "Straight from the Teet"er to have a gallon of milk in him and it had not left! 12:21pm on Saturday I received a text message: Still haven't Pooped! AMAZING!!!

Well, that was our latest "Feats of Strength" the older we get the more ways it takes to keep us entertained... If anyone else has any idea's/challenges for us to do, we would be open to try it! Hopefully there is alcohol involved next time!

Jonnys Bachelor Party Rd. 2

2008-07-13T06:57:00.000-07:00

Friday morning comes and we all start to wake up slowly. The night before's beer pong and speed quarters matches were weighing on us heavily... but not too bad. However Jon and Steve were still cursing Tony and I's names for making them have to do "Half Jack/Half Absolute" shots for losing beer pong. The evening apparently ended with a poker game, I didn't stay up for that, but Tony defeated Kenny as the first Texas Hold'em Tourny winner.

We had a Tee time scheduled for 9:15am, so we were all starting to get up around 7:45am. I woke up covered in pillows, huh? Well apparently Andy was sleeping on another couch and didn't much care for my snoring. SO he remedied that with piling a bunch of pillows on my head. Well Andy, I took a nice one of you sleeping, so we are even:

Breakfast for this day was to be donette's but the guys were more interested in showering. It felt wonderful! We all slowly but surely started to prep ourselves for golfing. I prepped myself by creating a flask of Jack Daniels and Pepsi. So we mosied over to the Golf Course... which is not far aways away... one could drunk walk it back, but not with golf clubs.

There were 7 of us that golfed the first day... Brandon and I golfed together. Ken and Todd, Steve and Tony, Jon got a cart to himself. This was Brandons first time golfing and he borrowed Kevins clubs. Brandon's first swings weren't much desirable so we played best ball for the first few holes... but he quickly started to strike some good ones. BETTER THAN ME :( Here is a nice one of Brandon in the sand:

As with most golf courses, there is a beer cart girl. She showed up around the third hole and helped quench our thirsts. Her name was Becca and she didn't know what she had coming in for her on this day and the following day... Cuz we would be thirsty!

Brandon and my golf game came to an end after 9 holes, that was enough for us, Ken and Todd finished the back 9 with the rest of the gang. Apparently Becca treated those guys pretty good with plenty shots on the course. She said it was the first time it had ever been requested? Houston, we may have a drinking problem!

Brandon and I headed back to the cabin, Andy and Mike stayed behind cuz they are getting old and it takes a little extra for them to get going in the morning... jeessst keeedin!

Anywho, I loaded the half barrel back up with ice dragged it outside, and had dreams of taking the boys across the lake in the pontoon boat, one problem though... no keys ?!? Todd had them locked in his car. So we decided we were going to start and play some lawn sports... Washers to be exact! Mike and Andy waxed us in both games.

The brewers game had started so I backed up my vehicle and cranked Bob Uecker and listened to the Brewers toast the Pirates. Eventually the guys came back and they were pretty lit. They demanded food!!! So I fired up the grill, did up some brats and burgers. They were delicious! Towards the middle of cooking: Bra, Egner, and Teter had arrived.

More lawn sports started up, bags and block bashing. You may wonder what block bashing is? Well Ken Anderson had a block of cement that got pushed up on the shore so he challenged us young and strapping guys to see if we could bust it up. IT WAS SOLID AS A ROCK! Oh my god! I took about 60 swings on it and it wasn't going anywheres. Matt and Tony got some pretty good whacks on it too. They both agreed she was pretty solid.

Todd took Me, Andy, Kevin, and Brandon out for a little boat ride. I stocked up the cooler and away we went! Yay! There were sooo many weeds on the ride, so it took us a lot longer cuz every few minutes Todd would stop, put it in reverse, get the weeds off and then go again. We made it back after an hour or so.

The last of our crew showed up, Miller and Kritz. SO we were all complete! Me and Todd collected $20 from everyone to cover our costs. We handed out the tee-shirts, I told everyone... DO NOT MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT ANY GRAMMAR ERRORS OR IT WOULD BE MY FOOT UP THEIR A$$E$!! They didn't seem threatened for some reason, but complied.

We decided to go to the Lighthouse to grab some dinner. They had a wonderful fish dinner there and they had cold miller lite. So we were in heaven. We all wore our tee-shirts out to the bars, we had quite a few good comments on them. Jonny decided he would wear his, somewhat:

It was technically the fourth of July so the owner of the Lighthouse had a bunch of fire works to light off, Kevin showed me how to take video's with my camera and here is my very first video I ever took:

Freedom!

There were some shananigans all around the bar, beer bottles broken, Jonny was trying to cook a meal. We took a nice group pitcher, did a bunch of group shots. However we decided it was time to mosie!

We had been told by the beer cart girl that there was another good bar in town, so we headed over to the Longhorn, ehhh it was okay. We decided to call Ben up, he was in Orlando celebrating his birthday. We did some shots over the phone with him! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN!!!

After another group pic at the Longhorn, we mosied back to the cottage. Some people had their fill, however, Brandon took Jon, Steve, and Dan to another bar. Only Brandon and Dan made it in, Jon and Steve stayed passed out in the car.

Back at the shack, we started up a nice campfire, we got some more speed quarters going. We were loud and rowdy and there was some wrestling and somehow a lawn chair got broken. It just had that Country Jam, after the concerts buzz... it was fun.

In all, this day was a lot of fun and with all of the guys up there now, the group had a feeling that we were complete and ready to party... and that we did!

At about 3am there was another poker game but Bdog didn't get to stay up for that either, SLEEPY!!! I am not sure whom won that one.

Well stay tuned for Rd 3!

Jonnys Bachelor Party Rd1

2008-07-08T19:03:00.000-07:00

I got the honor of helping to plan one of my bestest friend's bachelor parties. Our planning started about 3 months ago with the decision making process... what on earth were we going to do for Jonnys Bachelor Party???

There were several ideas tossed around, but we kept coming back to the same thought... we had such a good time at Looney's Bachelor party... lets do it again! In the summer time though. SO we decided to head back up to the Anderson cottages on Shawano Lake.

About 2 months ago we got the evite out, July 4th weekend :O Shockingly, that was the only weekend the cottages were open! Majority of the people were able to make it, so we went with it.

Months became weeks, weeks became days... Tuesday night I went down to Kritz's shop for the T-shirt making process. Joe and I gave the tee a look over and we thought the artwork was amazing, the backside logo was funny... however we didn't proof read the words on the Tee to well. The Tee's rolled off the presses and I got home with them, I got a phone call... WE ARE MISSING AN APOSTROPHE?!? HUH??? I take a look at the shirt, that aint all we were missing ... it read: A CELEBRATION OF JONNYS LAST DAYS OF FREEDOM AS BACHELOR. Ooops!

Thursday, I had to do a lot of running around... First and foremost, I needed to get some new rear tires and an oil change on Air Force 2. Who is the most trusted man for Auto repairs?? Dan the Man. I then grabbed some lunch with G. Headed home, packed my bags and packed the truck. Golf Clubs, underwear, clothes, extra pair of underwear, ping pong balls, cooler, beer, and a tapper. I was ready!

Went and picked up the half barrel, tub, ice, tee shirts, and then headed to Ritters. I met up with Kenny and Brandon, and we were off! Next stop, SHAWANO!! WOO HOO!

During our 2.5 hour drive we listened to the Brewers win, talked to Jon/Todd/Steve golfing, and jammed out to Kenny's Ipod. We heard that Todd almost had to buy drinks for the clubhouse... inches away from a Hole in One!!! Way to go Todder!

We arrived around 6pm, however, the drinking started at about 530pm ;) some people became dehydrated. The beauty of arriving first at the cottage, we got the first selection of bed's! I chose couch, in the furthest corner of the house, away from everyone upstairs... apparently I snore? But heck, we are on a bachelor party? Whom would be considering sleeping?

Kenny, Brandon, and I headed to the Lighthouse for some more beverages and a burger. We ordered at 7:58pm, the grill closed at 8pm... But it was oh so good! The next people to arrive were Andy and Mike. They just missed the grill, so those guys decided to mosey to another bar, however I had some more shopping to do, I headed to Pick N'Save.

Pick N'Save Shawano was exactly opposite of Pick N'Save McFarland. It took me a freeking Hour to find breakfast, lunch, and snacky items.

I made it back to the cabin about 9pm the guys called me and the guys told me to stay there... No one could get food at any bar they went to, so they were heading back to play some drinking games and ordered in the best Pizza on the planet.

Amico's Pizza Shawano, instant Orgasm in your mouth! OH SO delicious!

Well our crew at this time was now: Jon, Steve, Todd, Tony, Mike, Andy, Kenny, Ritter, and Me.

The night ended with a lot of speed quarters, beer pong, and a poker game... We all crashed around 2-3am, almost all of the canned beer was dranken up at this time :(
It was a great start to the weekend, no one made it up there with any travel issues, and Tony and I dominated in Beer Pong!

stay tuned for Round 2!

Kevin's 30!

2008-06-30T18:43:00.000-07:00

June 27th, 1978 Kevin Larry T. entered this world through his mothers vaginal canal... Fast forward, 30 years later we all arrived in Kevin and Greta's garage and drank so much that it felt like we all got shoved through some sort of canal too.

Friday at 3:30pm, I peeled out of my work's parking lot and headed straight to Riley's liquor store to purchase a Half Barrel of cool refreshing Miller High Life Light. I then went home and picked up the Phat Pack Half Barrel cooler and the Phat Pack tapper. From there I headed to get some ice and then to Kevin's.

I arrived to find Jason P. and Kevin clearing off the flip cup table. Greta arrived with the skeeter fogger and that was the end of the preparations. Time to celebrate!

People showed up and kept showing up, baby emma came, she brought Brandon and Nicole, baby Jon and Kenny came, Annimal and Riley, Stacy and Jordon, oh of course the rest of the gang too. It was quite the turn out and technicaly the party wasn't until Saturday!

The drinking games had begun, our night of casually hanging out and casually drinking, reflecting back on Kevin's first 30 years, had turned into Full Throttled consumption.

We had many virgins to Tippy cup, much to my dismay, after 17+ games, we conceded victory to the opposing team :(

The bongo board came out, the pushups started, the belly flop contest started (Between Jason, Jeremy, and Ann). We had a lot of fun Friday night and eventually my night ended with me sleeping on the church pew. Greta saved me at some point in the night and made me sleep on the floor... Thank you Greta!

Saturday morning I woke up on the floor, Kenny was complaining about me snoring... I DON'T SNORE FOR THE LAST TIME!!! I left at about 830am and picked up some 'gredients for a pasta dish. I mosied back to Kevin and Greta's around 12noon, with my pasta dish, and much to my dismay, the half barrel was empty! OH MY GOD!!!

So what the hell, I jumped back into the vehicle, peeled out of the driveway, headed back up to Riley's. The young kids were probably not too amazed that this old geezer brought back a half barrel, but I think they were a little shocked when I shelled over $70 for another one.

Back to Kevin and Greta's, Jordon, Kurt, and the other Greta Rausch showed up, Koda too! The Half Barrel was tapped and we started again! I then got a phone call from Smile's, HER CAR WAS BROKEN DOWN! Oh no! So Jordon and I jumped in Air Force 2 cruised to the west side. Diagnosed a Starter issue... Hmmmm, nothing much you can do on a Saturday afternoon other than drink from a cold keg... So we headed back to the party!

Kevin had opened his gifts... all I can say is MANY WII PARTIES IN THE FUTURE. He had received a birthday card that is just hillarious, this same song, different hamster though:

Jon, Ken, and Arick, Nancy, Maynard and Kim, all arrived at the house. So we fired up a game of Croquet! Shout out to Smile's on her victory that she stole from Kenny! The food started up and more people rolled in! The drinking games started again and this nights drinking game of choice, Beer pong. Me and Smile's battled Jon and Ken to a draw!

Well it was suppose to be the opening of the pool weekend, however the weather wasn't all that agreeable. But that didn't stop Maynard, Arick, and Jon from jumping in. However, not all of them had swimming trunks :(

Kevin whipped up a huge batch of food and we feasted throughout the night. More and more people kept coming and going... The Tee shirt guys showed, Jason K + Joe, Justin, Richard, and Jill, Eirik and Jason and Ann. Lil Jen and Shannon, and I am sure there were many more...

Kevin and Kurt treated everyone to a fireworks show, and the skeeters didnt seem to be pestersome on this night.

Eventually it was time for this guy to get home... nowhere's near the level where I was on the drunken scale of Friday night. However if you call my cellphone right now, I recorded my funny new greeting just before I left Saturday night, it was helium, I couldn't help but to do it :)

Sunday, to my dismay... I came back to K & G's ... to find the second barrel had been cashed also! Kenny and Kevin got the honors after I had left, at 3am!

Agghhh it was a good weekend, I think thats exactly what Kevin was looking to do for his Birthday... He pretty much got to see everyone, which was absolutely awesome.

So Kevin, Hope you had a really Happy Birthday!!! Now I have to figure out who drank those two half barrels in 24 hours time, YOU LUSHES!!!

8/1, LTJ, MOMMY, MAX, JJO GIRLS, and GINA's HW PARTY!

2008-06-25T18:55:00.000-07:00

Well that last blog certainly was a trip down memory lane... now lets get back into the now!

First the really exciting news... Today I found out that I got accepted for my apartment! Yay... I was starting to worry there a little bit.. but I guess they just take extra love and care in their selectees. Here is a pic of my new apartment and my work in the background:

Next, my favorite band, Less than Jake, released their 7th album on Tuesday. I flew over to Bestbuy on my lunch hour. Seconds after I had purchased it, I had that wrapper off and I was sprinting to my vehicle to listen... I was not dissapointed from first song to the last! check em out... they have a free stream of the whole cd online.

This last weekend was my mommys bday, Happy birthday Mommy... She is a regular reader of this blog and I am sure quite often she shakes her head with disapproval when reading. We lover her dearly and this year's Bday presents were Milwaukee Brewers themed. We went to Applebees and got some eats, came back to their place and watched the Brewers beat up the Orioles. It was a great day!

Saturday was my cousin Max's Highschool graduation in Ripon WI. We headed up there and arrived around 1pm, we were the first peeps there and so that meant we had first crack at the many hor douerves?? IS that how you spell it?? Well any who, they had a great spread and Max immediately steered me towards the keg... of rootbeer!

Sprecher rootbeer out of the tap, THIRST QUENCHING! It was kind of funny watching the kids doing kegstands and playing drinking games and stuff... oh you silly kids!! You have some years to wait! Yeah right, more like months... if not already! I haven't even wrote about my crazy highschool parties... some day I will. BDOGS BEERBASH #1, #2, #3!

Well we hung up there for a while and then headed back for home... where I got some phone calls.

I had a decision to make, either head to Cottage Grove for a Beer Pong Tourney with Arick, or head out to Waunakee with Smiles to Mojo's for the WJJO "JJO GIRL" Selection night. Hmmmm Beer pong, or an evening with scantily clad ladies, and Smiles. Easy decision... I was at Smile's place at about 9pm we headed up to the only Waunakee in the world.

We walk into the bar and immediately there were two bikini clad ladies right there... HELLO GREETERS! We found the gang and watched this gross display of young women strutting their stuff and men gawking at them... just disgusting! But we took pictures of it anyways :)

Eventually we headed to the Golden Nugget, just down the road and played some pool, saw a bodacious JLO booty, got a chick kicked out of the bar, and eventually closed down the bar. We headed to Perkins for a fun breakfast and discussion on politics. BEDTIME 4:30AM :(

LASTLY, Friday evening... Two events happened. Sadly, Amy has retired from work, so we had to have a retirement party!!! We headed to Quaker Steak and Lube. It is fun once in a while to kick back several pitchers of beer and spread the office gossip! GOOD LUCK AMY WITH YOUR NEW JOB!!

So I stayed a tad too long, cuz I had other places to be! GINA's Housewarming party!!! I headed all the way across the beltline up the east side of Madison... WOW what a long drive! But I strolled in about 9:30PM and the party was rip roaring! There were bags being tossed, snackies being eaten, and good times being had.

Somewhere's along the line I thought to myself "I would challenge everyone to a pushup contest" and that consumed of me walking around and telling everyone "I BET YOU DON'T THINK I CAN DO 10 PUSHUPS!" So then I would get down and do 10 pushups. That entertained me for a little while... Then I got caught up with a lady from my sister Maggie's grade, Breanne G. I always seem to run into her sisters but I haven't seen Breanne in a long time... She was good friends with my sister so I called my sister up and my own sister challenged me to 10 pushups... "OKAY ILE DO EM!" (That was for you billy!)

Any who... Then we played flippy cup... OH hands down our team was dominate!! Bra, Heather, Lyndsey, Ryan, and ME= DOMINATION!!!

Then, about the last thing I can remember before I got put to bed, was showing my stinky belly button off to everyone!! Somehow Heather got her fingers in my belly button and then gave Jeremy the "Dirty Sanchez" with her stinky Bdog Belly Button finger.

and now Gina is scarred forever!!!

It was such a great last couple of days!! Mommy your getting OLD!! OH wait my birthday is just right around the corner and I will be getting a year older too :( Congrats Max! Hopefully we weren't the creapy old people at JJO night. Hopefully Smiles still talks to me after the bender I put her through, and lastly awesome party GINA!!! I wish you have a cushioned garage floor the next time I decide on doing 200 pushups again.

Well am I going to dry out any time soon, No :(

This weekend Kevins 30th Bday party, Grade's BOOMING GOOD TIME, and next week Jonnies Bachelor party!

Then is there a break???

Nope My 31st Birthday, a weekend of Milk Chugging, Hotwing eating, Poison watching. August 1st I move into my new place and I am immediately having my phone disconnected... Jesstttt kidding :)

SE WI & a BDAY BOY!

2008-06-23T17:16:00.001-07:00

Last weekend was Looney's 30th birthday! Happy birthday old man river!

Looney lives in East Troy with his lovely wife- Luscious Linda. They have lived there for a few years now. They wed last year March, you may remember the DANL blog.

Well any who, we went down to Dan's house in East Troy and had a fun little day of croquet and drinking and movie watching and gin drinking. Linda put on a great spread of food. They had recently purchased a really nice croquet set, DAN WON :(

My favorite part of the whole time was just reflecting back of the stories through the years and joking around with the guys... We didn't make it out to the bars but just sharing stories... watching the Brewers, watching movies...then Looney said something shocking to me... that made me really think about things: "Barney, South Eastern Wisconsin has been experienced... time for me to move on!"

Almost 10 years of my life I have spent in South Eastern Wisconsin, Whitewater for 8, London for 1, McFarland for 1. I know almost every back road from McFarland to Whitewater to Watertown. Dan has also lived in SE Wisconsin for about 11 years; Our entire adult lives, we called South Eastern Wisconsin home!Shocking!

So last weekend and this weekend, I have taken the extremely long routes to East Troy, Whitewater, and Watertown... All roads go through London and Whitewater! Well it seemed like they all did anyways. Sadly there is so much flooding in SE Wisconsin, so any way I went, I would be driving in the vicinity of London or Whitewater and I said, what the heck... Lets take a trip down memory lane.

You all will be happy to know that some important landmarks in Whitewater are not under flood waters:

the pub

our house on main

the blue house

You may ask... what the hell is London all about? London is a small little community in South Eastern Wisconsin. Small as in 20 houses. Everything in London is centered around the London Depot, a very interesting neighborhood bar. You couldn't get cable out there and I was too cheap to get Satelite, so if there was some sporting event I wanted to watch... GO down to the Depot! Gina always had a Jack and Diet Coke ready for yah... and if your name was Gina... you would get a free drink too!

When you say you lived in London, most people are like HUH? England? or they say HUH, you mean New London right? Nope LONDON! I say it with pride cuz its a cool little town.

My place was pretty much a house of my own, a 2 bedroom apartment that I had paid about $600 a month for. I had two big bedrooms, a huge kitchen, huge living room, and 2 porches. A nice big croquet lawn and gardens and a fire pit.

For about 3 weeks Ben lived with me. For about a month Dan lived with me. I held a couple of parties out there, but for the most part I was on my own.

Everyday I would drive the back roads to Jefferson then down to Whitewater. It was a very scenic drive to work, through one of the most beautiful parts of the state.

Nearby was the Jefferson outdoor and Jefferson speedway. I washed my clothes at the Laundromat/Video store/Matt Kenseth Fan Club in Cambridge. London was 15 minutes to anywheres!

I lived right on the Glacial Drumlin trail and every morning I would wake up and would run/walk/bike on that trail to Deerfield and back. Man I was in decent shape back then!

IT was great living out there and that was the only time in my life that I lived on my own... well there was a short stint on Whitewater Lake, but technically I did have a roommate there... and Looney and Crick did live with me for a week or two.

SO, I really look forward to my upcoming move! I will still be 15 minutes from everyone... and I will be back to living on my own! Mom and everyone else have made it a mission to stock me up on stuff again... thank you thank you thank you to everyone giving/offering me their hand me downs... cuz I have NOTHING!

Well again Happy 30th Birthday LOONEY!!! Thank you again for a fun time down at your pad!

Splinter Softball Tournament 2008

2008-06-16T19:35:00.000-07:00

Here is a pictoral review of the tournament, when we weren't staring intently at the radar!

WOW HUH?

2008-06-16T17:28:00.000-07:00

Well that was some exciting news huh!?!

As you can imagine, its been exciting around here. There has been a lot of preparations on my part... and their part too! well actually... no... not exactly on my part :( I just got a few boxes from work, thats all!

I have been doing a lot of apartment shopping and I have had a game plan:
1.) First week, shop around nearest to my work.
2.) Second week, look near Jon & Kelly's place (Gannon/Mineral Pt. Road).
3.) Monona/McFarland, try to get a roommate.

Well this last week I submitted an application and a $100 check to an apartment complex that is really nice and near my work. It is called Quail Run Apartments and the rent is affordable... best of all... I can walk to work! (Oh yeah it has a pool, they are really nice apartments and its across the street from Pleasant View golf course and walking distance to four bars). I am still waiting on word if I am accepted.

I aint to sure why proximity is the biggest selling point for me right now... but I do the math every week... My vehicle gets 18 Miles to the gallon... it is 30 miles to my work, 30 miles back. 5 days a week x 60miles = 300 miles a week/18mpg = 17 gallons a week x 52 weeks in a year= 884 gallons a year/12 months a year = 74 gallons of gas a month x $4 a gallon = $296 a month in gas... driving to work! Times that by 12 months is $3552... REDICULOUS!

30 minute drive to work 30 minute drive home... 1 hour a day x 5 days a week = 5 hours a week x 52 weeks in a year = 260 hours of extra blogging time!

Me walking my fat butt for 5 minutes to work every day =$0 a month in gas and 1100 minutes a year of walking in late to work (Cuz you know I am not leaving until the last minute!)

Lets run some other numbers...
-325,000 miles on my vehicle,
-not paying for yearly repairs... $500 bucks at least a year
-not paying for cable or internet or phone(land line) or Snatch fitness (oh yeah I'm def going to try all of these!) $100 a month
-Limiting my partying to one or two nights a week or less(PRICELESS!)

One would think "Barney with you living like a hermit on the West side of town then we won't see you and that won't be any fun!"

I disagree! Cuz when you do see me, the fun will be all built up inside of me and I will be so happy to see you that I will shoot the fun all over you!

Well I will keep you all updated on my living situation as I hear word.