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Is it just me or is Ty going insane?

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on September 12, 2008
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Just the transcripts of a press conference with Ty Willingham (Huskies head coach). And I’m starting think he’s going crazy!

Funny excerpts (questions in bold):

(Is the secondary one area you can exploit?) “They’re too good in the secondary. … The positive is, you can’t play the game on paper. That’s the positive. They got to line up and play. We got to line up and play. And when you do that, no one knows what’s going to happen. That sun coming off that west, southwest corner, they can not be familiar with that as it comes off our stadium. That could make a difference. The adjustments they have to make. Playing in this stadium as opposed to playing at home. I don’t know where they are sleeping at, the bed may be a little lumpy down there. (laughs in audience) I don’t know. If our hotels in town recognize that they have them, make the beds lumpy. (more laughs) All those things. You got to play the game. That’s what you do. That’s what so much fun about athletics, about football. You got to play the game.

Great so we’re counting on Lumpy beds for a win…

(You seem more loose this week.) “No. I’m not any more loose than i am most days. I’m usually pretty intense about what I do. You see it in different forms. That’s all. The focus is still the same. Win the next ball game. Oklahoma is next. We got to do our best job. Put our guys in the right positions as coaches and win that game.

(It was meant as a compliment.) “Ok. Thank you. I’ll take it.”

So, I’m not the only one who thinks he is crazy this week.

Bottom, line is we need the stars to align for a win this weekend and even Willingham is saying that. I think its possible and it would definitely be amazing but, I wouldn’t bet on it. In any case, it should be a nice day for some live college football.

Huskies

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on September 10, 2008
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Got basketball tickets today. I feel much lighter now ($360 lighter to be exact). I miss the days of $90/season Dawgpack tickets :( Vu and I are sitting in Section 8 (opposite the student section) in row 28. Not the best seats in the world but, I’m sure we’ll have an AMAZING time. I’m excited for the basketball season to start though, hopefully the huskies can get back in the big dance.

On the football front, we play Oklamhoma this weekend and it is gonna be rough. Our schedule is absolutely insane! Oregon (#21), BYU (#15) and now Oklahoma (#3). Oklahoma is supposed to have one of the best offenses in college football which could get disasterous with our sometimes shotty defense. I’m hoping for the best though, I think given the home crowd and fans being fired up after last week we could go into this game with some momentum and pull it out!

Tom Brady’s last two games = karma

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on September 8, 2008
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That is all.

edit: non preseason games.

Happenings

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on September 8, 2008
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Lots going on since the last post:

  • HTPC: The build went well. Everything worked out of the box except the wireless card (pci wrt55ag v1.2, no vista support) so I used my Best Buy gift card to get a Linksys WUSB600n which does 802.11n in 5ghz mode so no interference. Very nice throughput copying from pc to pc on wifi (2.5MB/sec+).
  • Huskies: It was a really fun game. I tailgated beforehand with Merz and his crew and afterwards with the same guys + some KAs and I saw Lane. Kendall’s Dad had tickets in the BYU section I sat with her and her Dad. I really like her Dad and he seems to know a lot about football. I was decked out in my purple everything (wig, jersey, socks, shoes, shorts) and so I stuck out like a sore thumb in the BYU section but, it was really nice. We ended up losing 28-27 on a blocked PAT after a bullshit excessive celebration call on Jake Locker after he threw the ball into the air after a miraculous 2-second-left would-be game-tieing touchdown. It was a hard way to lose because we had a good chance in overtime being at home and having the momentum going into the OT.
  • Seahawks (Seattle Sports): Ugh. Looks like another year for shitty Seattle sports. Hawks 0-1 in a blowout. Huskies 0-2. Mariners a few-a ton, bottom of the barrel. Soncis GONE. What else is there. At least my Blazers are looking strong.
  • Dane Cook: Kendall made me watch Vicious Circle and it was great. Constant laughs. Consider me a new Dane Cook fan :) He has so much expression and gets into his show sooo much. Great to watch :)
  • TV Shows: It is getting close to that time of the year. Here are the shows I’m excited for: The Office, House, Chuck, Heroes, CSI, Dexter and Reaper.
  • Boating class: I’ve been helping Frank on his boat over the last couple years and now after much work and a lot of money it is seaworthy. We’ve been out a couple times and it is really fun! As a thank you for all the help and to get me more acquainted Frank is paying for me to take a boating class with him. He and I (and a few of his friends from MS) are taking a the class which is called Boating Skills and Seamanship. I’m taking it for a few reasons: 1) to learn more about boating, 2) to get a boating license (required at the end of this year to operate a boat if under 25 years old) 3) for something fun to do on Thursday nights. It is a long class (13 meetings) from 7:00 to 9:00pm every Thursday until December 4th (except Thanksgiving). I’m excited to learn a lot but, a little worried that it might get boring over the course of 13 weeks.
  • Sick: Been sick lately. Had a fever on Firday, but went to work anyway. My Adenoids have been swollen so its been hard to swallow and my nose has been stuffy/runny. I hope it blows over quickly.
  • Parking Ticket: I got a $35 parking ticket on Aug. 13 for parking in front of Kendall’s house in a pay to park zone (at 8:15, started being pay to park at 8:00, those fuckers). I tried to pay it online a few weeks ago and I thought it worked but apparently not. Got a text from my Mom Friday night saying that they were charging me $60 because it was late and that if I didn’t pay they’d send me to collections. FUCK YOU PARKING PEOPLE. YOU ARE PIECES OF SHIT. I tried to pay the fucking thing and your system was broken. Now you raped me for an extra $25. $60 for 15 minutes of fucking parking. I HOPE YOU ALL DIE IN A FIRE OF AIDS. </pissed>. At least its paid now.

Upcoming:

  • Huskies: We play the Sooners this weekend at home. Hopefully we can pull away without an 0-3 start. I’ve got a Dawg Pack ticket so I’ll be sitting with Kendall (and the KAs) this weekend, yay!
  • Victoria: Kendall and I are going to Victoria next weekend. It is sneaking up on me very quickly and I’m starting to get excited!

That’s all for now. I’ll try to pop back in shortly ;)

August - Football, Microsoft, Pictures

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on August 1, 2008
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It is already August. That is kinda crazy! One thing it means though is that football season is coming which excites me. I got my Husky season tickets last week so I’ll be at all the home guys and I’ve got a ticket for WSU. I’m also considering going to: USC, Cal, Arizona and Oregon but, we’ll see how money, how much flights are and what it looks like timing wise. Kendall got the school pack too so she’ll be at a lot of the games with me. I’m excited for that! I’m also interested to see how the seahawks do. I haven’t been keeping up with anything in the offseason so it’ll be a surprise for me.

August also means I’ve been at my new job for almost a month! I started July 7th as a Program Manager at Microsoft on the Dynamics CRM team. I’m working on a CRM feature called the Email Router which essentially helps manage how emails get in and out of the CRM system. I like my team quite a bit, they all seem like great people and I love the environment here. I’m still getting ramped up with all the ins and outs of the Email Router but, overall I’m really enjoying my time here. I finally got my first paycheck yesterday (seems like I haven’t been paid in forever) which takes a little financial stress off. I’m using my first several paychecks to make big dents in my pile of debt collected during college.

My trip to New York City was a month ago now. I still need to post pictures for that (and for a whole bunch of other things that I’ve done recently). I think maybe as I post pictures of events I’ll do retroactive blog posts about them. Yeah, yeah it isn’t as nice as if I did it then but, at least it’ll be online!

I’m excited to see what August brings, I know it will be a great month!

Washington State Football Sucks … back?

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on October 15, 2007
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Seahawks 3-3
Huskies 2-4
Cougars 2-5

And in the last 3 weeks its all losses. I’m getting sick of watching my teams lose. I like it when the Cougars lose, thats fine with me but, at least Seattle teams accept this memo: STOP SUCKING.

Also, Cal lost this weekend which made me really sad. They’d have been #1if they’d won. Grr. All around disappointing weekend for sports.