back to back 2 point losses

my soul is a little bit crushed. Stupid Southern California schools.

WSU vs. UCLA

tonight at 6:00 these two teams go at it. UCLA has beat us 31 out of 32 times. Hopefully tonight that will change, but I'm not holding my breath.

a fullish house...

this weekend we are going to have roughly 200 people on the mountain! There are three separate groups and it should be a pretty good time. If only this happened more often...

last night

Klay Thompson is a Freshman at WSU. This kid is going to be the real deal soon, but this dunk was awesome!

Happy New Year!

I am sick. I hope you are not. My first post of '09!

we are in Texas!

Last night, Tori and I arrived at DFW airport. We then made the trip to Crowley, TX to surprise my grandparents who had no clue that we were coming for Christmas. We were able to pull it of and once the screaming and crying (in a good way) subsided we had a great time. We will leave on Tuesday and be back up at camp on the 31st. There it is.

it's great to be on vacation

I am up at 1:30 a.m. watching Quigley Down Under. This doesn't normally happen.

another good one

one of my favorites as a kid...

up to my eye balls...

in a fixed asset inventory. There is so much stuff here at camp! It feels like my days off have been busy running errands and my days on have been really full, which is all great. But, my blog has been neglected and that is not great. I needed to post if for nothing else than my own sanity. Any readers that used to follow this thing have probably given up at this point, oh well. I'm alive.

we survived our Thanksgiving feast.

We celebrated Thanksgiving at The White House one day early. Today we will be going over to a friends house to watch all the football and basketball and of course play rock band. But yesterday, Tori and I made our first Thanksgiving meal and shared it with a few friends at our house...it was awesome. There was, of course, a lot of work that went in to the preparation and cooking of the food but we had a good time doing it. Highlight for me was everything was enjoyed and then cleaned up by about 9:30. So on that note, Happy Thanksgiving II!

Oka and a baby.

Today Tori and I are going to go down in to town and grab some Oka to take over to Ryan and Nellie's house. We are going to meet their new baby, Naomi! After that, maybe Quantum of Solace?

fall is lasting a very long time.

I can't believe our fortune in weather. This is incredible. I know that the snow is going to come eventually and most likely we are going to get dumped on. But, I'm just trying to soak up the sun while we still have it. Also, I can't wait for thanksgiving. I'm just sayin'.

what I smell right now...

a fresh pot of chili. Lily and Tori are making some bomb chili, we have fresh baked bread and were sipping on beer an Julies sangria. This should be an incredible evening. Oh yeah, Haas, James and Dustin are also here.

a shout out to interim

tonight, it is time for another rousing game of signs. Somewhere Ginny Siverly must be giddy.

cat hair is like a visa...

it's everywhere you want to be. I've been cleaning a bit today and I'm pretty sure I've vacuumed up the equivalent of five of our cat (Apollo.) The battle rages on. Geoff vs. Hair and Dander.

As I see it...

out of my office window. It is most definitely fall. Even though we are having unusually warm weather for this time of year, the colors are still changing. We don't get as much of a color change up here (compared to Spokane lets say) because of all cedars, but the oaks are in the midst of their fall for sure. Some reds, some yellows and some orange the colors of fall are nice and a precursor of what is to come...

a great night

Tonight was awesome. A fire in the wood burning stove. Good wine. Good friends. A couple rounds of cribbage. Fresh pressed apple cider. And a movie that I really enjoy. The only downer was our bank statement; not enough money. I'm sure that the readers of this blog can give an amen to that one!

Sincerely,
Geoff

I thought I was joking when...

I said that USC would beet Washington State by a score of 82-0 last week. It's currently half time of the game and the score (no joke) is 41-0. They are exactly half way to making my stupid prediction stand up. Sad.

My friend James and I started from the beginning, not too long ago, with the TV show Heroes. What a weird idea for TV. It was a little hard to follow at first but we have since warmed up to it, that is to say, wayyy warmed up to it. We are at the finale of the first season and lets say that the tension is a little high.