You're the Shouter!

I bought a twenty-five cent glass of Kool-aid from these two kids on my way home from work today. They were both busy getting my Kool-aid (don't worry, I didn't drink it) when another person got pretty close to the stand. The one little boy said to the other one, "Thomas, hurray! Remember, I'm the pourer and you're the shouter!". Thomas was a good shouter: "Kool-aid, iced tea, twenty-five cents a glass!"

Bozeman

This weekend I joined Team Fun Matrix (and Bronco Ultimate) and headed to Bozeman, Montana for a tournament. I had a really good time, which seriously says something. It was raining cats and dogs all day on Saturday, and about 6 degrees. It wasn't quite as bad as Flowerbowl 2007, but not far off.

The trip down was about 8 hours, which could have been pretty painful after the stressful day I had a work. Team Fun Matrix pulled through though. We had so much fun with our car games that the trip flew by. I was staying in a different hotel room than the rest of my car, and after dropping my bags in my room, I headed to the other room so that we could finish our last car game. In case you were wondering, the game was psychiatrist. One person is the psychiatrist, and they have to diagnose the problems of the three other people. The three people pick some sort of theme that links them. The psychiatrist figures out the problems and the theme with yes or no question. Funsies. We've been using a new expression after playing: "think outside the beer fridge". I figured out that Mark was barley, then painfully that Lindsay was beer. (The final questions went something like this: Do you come in cans and bottles? yes. Do you have a yellow colour? yes. Are you are carbonated? yes. And you're related to barley? yes. Are you Sprite?) Anyway, Mark was barley, Lindsay was beer, and I worked out that Jeff was often white in colour and about the size of a bread box. I just decided he was a beer fridge and couldn't get passed it. Even when I narrowed down that he was found in nature and had long ears, I still thought he was a beer fridge.

We went 2-2 in pool play in the extreme rain. I enjoyed all of the games, although I really wanted to win the 2 that we didn't. Catching more frisbees would have helped a lot in that department.

Team dinner Saturday night was a off-field highlight. We got free Jager shots just because someones steak was late. It ended up being a two hour dinner (which can be painful), but it was good times.

Sunday left something to be desired. The first game was supposed to be at 11:15, but started really late. It was like pulling teeth getting the game going, which isn't cool when you have an 8 hour ride home. (Jeff did excellent) The team we were playing was super casual about start time (basically refusing to play on time) - they were from Bozeman! Long commute. Once we got going, I really enjoyed the game. It was a good hard one, plus it wasn't raining! We lost 13-8 - boo urns.

Another game would have been great, but it was 2ish at that point, so we got changed, had a quick shower-on-a-stick, and hit the road. All in all, a really fun tournament.

Bozeman

I'm off to Bozeman tomorrow. Right now it's blog or pack. I'm going to pack.

Madonna - Hard Candy

If you are looking for some solid new tunes (and who isn't really?) check out Madonna's new album Hard Candy. It's incredible. I would recommend the deluxe version, because it comes with a couple of sweet remixes of 4 minutes, plus a sweet mix of Dance 2night by Paul Oakenfold that make the extra two bucks totally worth it. If you are borderline on whether to buy it, just promise to try it. You won't be sorry.

Bronco Practice

Bronco practice was a lot of fun tonight. There weren't tonnes of folks out tonight, this being a long weekend and all. I know it was a fun practice, because I enjoyed myself despite an ass tweak and a dropping a pull. If you were wondering if there was a lot of running, check out the picture. Gross, you say? Agreed - sorry. I also got to start breaking in my new speed TDs this practice. Too bad there wasn't more grass.

100 Posts, Beckham

I can hardly believe the gap it's been since I've last posted. I got absolutely buried in frisbee emails. I think it's under control. When I finally had time to log in and post again, blogspot filled me in that this is my 100th post. Apparently I am hard to shut up once I get going.

One major highlight in my blog gap was getting to go see David Beckham play. A group of us headed up to Edmonton for the L.A. Galaxy vs. Vancouver Whitecaps. It was a lot of fun. The Whitecaps won the game 2-1. Beckham got an assist, and played all of the game but about 5 minutes. My favorite picture is the one with Murray and teeny-tiny Bechham on his shoulder.

Yesterday I got my first trail ride of the season in with the Sills. I'm stoked for the riding season now, and I can't wait to go back to Moab in October. The riding was great, but really, Willow stole the show. Willow is Jeff & Lindsay's new kitten, whom I got to meet before the ride. She is SO cute. It was really hard to leave the house and go on the ride. I just wanted to stay and play with her. In other happy kitty news, my favorite plaid kitty is sitting behind me while I type this. I don't think he was mad at me for petting a kitten. He's such a nice kitty.

Drowning in Frisbee Emails

Hence no posts, sorry.

Kelowna Sunflicker

This past weekend was the Sunflicker tournament in Kelowna. What a great place to be this time of year. They have grass! Actually green grass. It was gorgeous weather both days, warm enough that a lot of people burned on the Sunday.

The team I was playing with this weekend was using Sunflicker as a tryout tournament, so we were split into two teams, Bronco and Ocnorb. Ocnorb quickly became cobnorb, ork-knob and my personal favorite, dorknob. Each team had a great weekend and ended up with a 5 and 2 record. We both lost to Lawn Party to be eliminated from the tournament, Ocnorb (my team) in a quarter and Bronco in the semi. Everyone played great! If you think that's lip service, you didn't talk to me about last Flowerbowl.

I brought my camera this weekend and meant to use it. I never take enough pictures at tourneys. I forgot my big card, but I had the card that comes with the camera. I think it holds four pictures. I took one. I'll work my way up over the season. By Nationals I'll fill that tiny card!

Steve and Weaze set me up with a free place to stay this weekend and took good care of me. Dylan even gave me my new hippy name, Flower.

Unfortunately, the darn day job meant not staying for any of the final. I really would have liked to have hung out and watched. Even leaving right after, I still had to have a nap on my lunch break. When I was growing up, never did I think, "one day, I will have an office with a view all to myself, and in it I will fall asleep on my jacket and drool until in wakes me up." The highlight of the drive home was stopping at the Dutchman Dairy for ice cream. You know, the one with the animals, in Sicamous. Good times.

Note from May 4th: Happy Birthday Mauri!

Phyllis 2008

This is Phyllis 2008, with less than a week with dirt and light. Note the staple tweezers for scale.