Washington

God was missing for six days. Eventually Michael, the Archangel, found him, resting, on the seventh day. He inquired of God. "Where have you been?"
God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction, and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look, Michael. Look what I've made."
Archangel Michael looked puzzled, and said, "What is it?"
"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put Life on it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."
"Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused.
God explained, pointing to different parts of earth. "For example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, while southern Europe is going to be poor.
Over there I've placed a continent of white people, and over there is a continent of black people. Balance in all things," God continued pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."
The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a land area and said, "What's that one?"
"Ah," said God, That's Washington State, the most glorious place on earth. There are beautiful mountains, rivers and streams, lakes, forests, hills, plains, and coulees. The people from Washington State are going to be handsome, modest, intelligent, and humorous, and they are going to be found traveling the world. They will be extremely sociable, hardworking, high achieving, and they will be known throughout the world as diplomats, and carriers of peace."
Michael gasped in wonder and admiration, but then proclaimed, "What about balance, God? You said there would be balance."
God smiled, "There is another Washington...wait until you see the idiots I put there."

next blog button strikes again

So I saw the little choice for flagging blogs with objectionable content. So I went to that ass pirates site or what ever it was called and flagged it, then tried to find something a little better. After a bunch of foreign sites, another pillow biter site that I flagged and then threw up in my mouth a little, I found this site
http://theredsrocket.blogspot.com/

A big time Reds fan, I need to save this to check out after the weekend series in Seattle that I am going up for. I hope we win so I can see what he has to say.

This also prompted me to get on myspace for the first time since last year at least. Got some pictures from my trip to LA last month from Apul's site.
http://picasaweb.google.com/wsuape/May16thErikGInTown
not sure what was up with his camera, but you can tell I was in Hollywood, which is cool.

Next Blog button

I will never use the next blog button again. Because my eyes were scarred, so shall yours be when you click here. (sorry, I erased the link. I mean gay is okay, but I really don't want to see it. It's just frightening to see a blog with someones family pictures, then click the next one and see guys blowing each other. Fuck.

If you don't want to click, I understand. I wouldn't if I knew what waited there...

Apparently Blogger is like Myspace and says no graphic material, but doesn't actually enforce it...

Happy B-Day Gogo!

My good friend Margaux turns the big 2-7 today! Have a wonderful Berfday rockstar!

How Badly Do You Want A Beer?

Dicko would be drinking straight from the tap on this one....

Craziness I say!

Check this shit out right here.... WOW!

"Get that ballerina a drink!"

So a couple of years ago I went camping up in the San Juan Islands with my good friends Garrett and Chris. It was one of the best vacations I have ever been on and I had an incredibly good time. There's a couple of very funny stories from that trip and I'm gonna share one right here.
We were drinking in a little bar in Friday Harbor, on one of the first nights, for a couple of hours and we were all feeling pretty good. It all started going downhill when some hippie chick, wearing a sleeveless sun dress, walked in. She raised her right arm, revealing a huge, hairy armpit as she pointed to a couple of people sitting at the bar and asked, "What man here will buy a lady a drink?"
Well the place when completely quiet as everybody in the place tried to ignore her. But my buddy Chris was extremely wasted by this point and out of nowhere he slammed his hand down on the counter and yelled, "Get that ballerina a drink!"
The bartender poured the drink and the hippie chick chugged it down with the quickness. She turned to back to my buddy Chris and pointed at him, revealing the same hairy armpit, and once again asked, "Will you buy a lady a drink?"
Once again, Chris slapped his money down on the bar and said, "Give the ballerina another drink!" The bartender gave her another drink and she wandered over to the other side of the bar enjoying her second drink.
Garrett and I weren't really surprised at Chris buying drinks, it was just he kept calling her ballerina. "Hey Chris" Garrett asked "why do you keep calling that hippie a ballerina?"
Without missing a beat Chris replied, "Any woman who can lift her leg that high has got to be a ballerina".....

Way to go Steve!

My mom just forwarded me this story about my buddy Steve that I grew up with. Steve moved away to Hawaii at the end of last year to get out of the Longview/Kelso area. At work he heard an injured dog out in the jungle up on the hill behind his restaurant. Well there had been people searching for the dog for a while now, and Steve ended up finding it and rescuing it. What a great story, check it out.

Post # 500 is about Wiffleball

So yesterday was the kickoff of our wiffleball league. As the defending league champ I had to defend our title. So I went out and threw the first no-hitter of my career. The Salem Blazers didn't know what hit 'em. We ended up winning 9-0 in game one.
Eddie B pitched game two and we won that one as well 14-9. We are now in first place in the Southern Division with a chance to make some noise this season. What a good time.
Erik was at a volleyball tourney so he couldn't join us this weekend. He plans on making it down next weekend though. I'm thinking we will be 4-0 come next Monday.

Oh yeah, this also happens to be the 500th NOSE post. Great Success!

new dilbert

I borrowed this from my daily Dilbert and Scott Adams. Best comic he has posted in awhile. Man I love dilbert.

Deaf Plan Silent Protest

TALLAHASSEE – Advocates for the state’s 3 million residents with hearing loss rally at the Capitol today to push for state benefits.
The Florida Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing plans to flood the Capitol entrance at 9:30 a.m. and hold a “silent protest” in the rotunda outside of the House and Senate chambers at 10 a.m.
Advocates are pushing for state licensure of interpreters, improved educational services, better access to emergency preparedness plans, increased use of captioning for films and television broadcasts and increased funding for direct services, according to a written release.
Other event organizers include the Florida Association for the Deaf, the Hearing Loss Association of Florida, the Florida Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, the Florida Deaf Service Center Association and the Florida Coordinating Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

...this was too good to pass up

Famous Bowls and Beer Fest

Last night after getting home and cleaning house a little bit I decided to head over to KFC for a Famous Bowl and then go home and watch BeerFest. Before I get into my review of Beerfest I must first talk about the KFC Famous Bowl and give it the proper respect that it so rightly deserves. This thing is one of the most wonderful meals of all time. Mashed potatoes, corn and chicken topped with gravy and cheese is so good that I cannot think of words to describe how happy it makes me feel. I'll admit that I was a little skeptical at first but once I tried it, I was in heaven. Take my word on this and go try a Famous Bowl. You'll be thanking me later.
Okay, now to Beer Fest. I've got a couple of thoughts on this so hear goes. First off, I say we start playing a drinking game to this movie. Everytime somebody in the movie drinks, you drink. After about thirty minutes you would be hammered. I especially enjoyed all of the beer games and the insane amounts of beer being consumed. And Jay Chandasakhar (sp?) was hilarious like always. Now on to something I didn't like...
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Okay, so when Landslide dies in the huge vat of beer, what the fuck is up with his twin brother showing up out of nowhere? I mean come on, he wasn't even at his twin brother's funeral? Give me a break. And how convenient that he just so happen to teach Landslide everything he knew about beer drinking. Oh, and he wants to be called Landslide too, in his brother's memory. Oh, and he's banging the original Landslide's widow. WTF? So basically they decided to kill of one of the main characters and then just have him come back from the dead but call him his "twin". What a crock of shit. I really enjoyed everything about this movie except for that.

Go Cougs

http://www.washington.edu/alumni/survey/index.htmlVote for who has the best alumni, Cougs or Huskies. The voting is on the Husky site, so it will be even funnier when we beat them at this too.

not dead

Sorry it seems a little dead around NOSE, but that is cause drinking is occupying our every thought(s). So please head to 365beers if you come here and find nothing new. There is always a new post there, and still the occasional one here.

A big deal for us geeks, Grand Theft Auto 4 is supposed to have a trailer released end of March by Rockstar games, and has a countdown on this page, so that's exciting.

and for your viewing pleasure, a movie line. Do you know the movie?

"Ladies, Ladies... I think I might be able to work out a deal where one, mabye both, of you could be pregnant by the holidays. What do you say?"

Things you see while commuting...

Stark Naked Pizza

Shortly after I moved to Portland, my roommate informed me of a nice little pizza shop that's just around the corner from our apartment. And it's not Ken's Artisan Pizza a.k.a. Yuppie Pizza that doesn't even serve a pepperoni pizza. No this place is called Stark Naked Pizza and they serve a somewhat New York style of pizza. The thing about this place that I love (besides being a three minute walk away) is that they also sell pizza by the slice and they have a small but decent beer selection. They'll usually have a cheese pizza, pepperoni, something vegetarian and a special pizza that you can buy single slices of. The specials change daily and have all kinds of crazy stuff on them. My favorite so far is their Leaning Tower of Pizza which has pepperoni, Canadian bacon, all kinds of veggies and some other shit I can't remember right now. Their pepperoni is also very good and that's what I usually go with. Two slices usually will run me about five bones and easily fill me up. On tap they have PBR (which you can find at any bar in PDX), Boont Amber Ale (pretty damn good) and Bridgeport. In their cooler they have a couple beers that I can't remember and the dreaded Hoegaarden (Yuck!). If you check it out I suggest you go with a slice of the Leaning Tower and a Boont and maybe a game of Dr. No on their sit down arcade game. You won't be disappointed.

Commuting (I can't drive 75?)

Since I am living in Portland now, but for some reason still working in Longview I have been commuting. And it is so awesome that I wanted to share a little story with you.
It all starts about a year and a half ago when I decided that it would be a good idea to be a "salary" guy at work. That's when the 50 hour work week started. Monday through Friday, ten hours a day. To get out of there by five, I had to be there at seven in the morning. After I think two days of working straight tens I decided that I needed to take a lunch during my day or I would go crazy. So begins the six in the morning start time. (Or six bells as S.A. says)
Now after I moved down to Portland I realized that I would still be working somewhat the same schedule. That meant getting up at 4:30 in the fookin morning. I would get on the road by 5 and be at work by 6.
This was all good and dandy until I started hitting the snooze button. For the last week and a half or so I have been leaving my house a little after 5 and then just set the cruise control to about 80. Good times.
Today I'm cruising along and I'm passing Woodland (pretty much halfway) when I notice that I just passed a police cruiser on the left hand side. He pulls in behind me, I lower the cruise control and he proceeds to follow me all the way to town. He quit following me about five minutes before I arrived at work (late by the way). About the time I'm rolling into my work's parking lot my heart started beating again. What a shitty way to start the morning.
Fast forward to 5 PM today. I'm cruising home and just about to Woodland again. When outoffuckingnowhere a police cruiser appears, lights ablazin. He goes from the right side of the freeway, across three lanes into my lane, slowing the whole time. I'm not going to lie but I pissed in my pants a little bit. I thought he was pulling me over for speeding. Instead he kept going through a little path in the highway median (how the f did he know that was there?) and turned North bound to follow somebody who was obviously going waaaay faster than me. Thank you that guy. I hope you got away.

OOPS

Biggest OOPS I have seen online in a long time.

Pork Tornado

It looks like Dusty from Pork Tornado has started posting again. If you get a chance to read this you should, I highly recommend it. This guy is fucking hilarious.
Gus, you're gonna have to throw this back on to the links.

wine tasting

Earl who works for an Italian wine importer in Portland serving up the 2nd of the reds on the list.

Cathy, Sandy, Abby, Barb and Ken (abbys parents)

Joni (mom), Mike, Gene (dad), Earl, Ashley (works at PNE who hosted the auction for Habitat for Humanity that our wine tasting purchase benefited)

Amy and Greg too.

I am behind the camera, so all you see is my wine. Lots of it.

and Mike M. (creator of the nickname Gus) sent in an old school link I thought I would share.
http://www.garbagepailkidsworld.com/





And here are a few pics from the wine tasting Abby and I hosted Saturday night. We almost emptied a case. Yipppeee!