Evacuate the premises

Today was an interesting day first hour. We had about 20 minutes left of study hall when the fire alarm went off. We walked to the grassy area past our parking lot where we sometimes go (other times it's only to half of the parking lot), but then they made us walk all the way to Lampert's. We stood inside their storage garages for a good 10 minutes before we went back to the school. It was really random, and I could just imagine what it was like for drivers on the road watching 300+ kids walk across at the same time.

I have nothing better to do now than post another week of BEA Fantasy Football. Here goes:

Week 3 -- Blue Earth Area Buccaneers at Jackson County Central Huskies

Game Winner: Jackson (39-12)

Fantasy Winner: Jackson (69-20)

QB
L. Becker (3)
M. Brandt (6)

WR
C. Sukalski (6)
F. Passer (0)
T. Sonnicksen (0)
J. Grages (9)
M. Haeffner (0)
T. Hendrickson (0)

RB
B. Hanevik (0)
G. Mensing (1)
T. Stewart (9)
C. Lines (14)

TE
G. Holmseth (0)
J. Lewis (6)

K
F. Groeger (0)
?. ??? (1)

DEF
BEA (10)
JCC (24)

**Quick note: Logan threw 7 interceptions in this game. It was bad....and we play these guys on Friday to go on to state, where we would play either Plainview or Rochester Lourdes at home in the first round....

Section Finals!!

The Bucs are officially moving on to the Section Finals! We beat Maple River tonight (ranked #1 in the state because of their weak schedule), and we'll be playing Jackson on Friday. We lost to Jackson in the regular season, and they annihilated Fairmont tonight (last I heard was 43-8), but we're one of those underdog kinds of teams. Garrett got sent to Mankato tonight to get x-rays after he was taken off the field, so hopefully he's alright. I think it was all just precautionary. All in all, Friday should be an interesting night! Buc Pride! And now I'll post another week of BEA Fantasy Football.

Week 2 -- Blue Earth Area Buccaneers at Fairmont Cardinals

Game Winner: Blue Earth (20-19)

Fantasy Winner: Fairmont (42-37)

QB
L. Becker (14)
E. Hugoson (10)

WR
C. Sukalski (3)
F. Passer (0)
T. Sonnicksen (1)
M. Klutz (7)
J. Peymann (6)
?. ??? (0)

RB
B. Hanevik (8)
G. Mensing (0)
P. Mallory (10)
B. Lubenow (0)

TE
G. Holmseth (6)
M. Berhow (3)

K
F. Groeger (0)
M. Klutz (1)

DEF
BEA (5)
Fair. (5)


Just a quick little something that is going in my history books: Tonight marks my first comment ever from Ben Hoogland on Myspace. I think I may have shed a tear or 2 of joy when I read it. I'm also glad he is now "random-cuz-I'm-random Ben" and not "crabby-cuz-I'm-sleepless Ben."

Buccaneer Dream Team

I decided last week to get all of the football stats from my chemistry teacher and do something with them. My idea was to see what kind of fantasy points my school's team would rack up each week. So now whenever I have nothing better to blog about, I'll be posting a week's worth of fantasy play for my school.

Week 1 -- New Ulm Eagles at Blue Earth Area Buccaneers

Game Winner: Blue Earth (22-0)

Fantasy Winner: Blue Earth (58-13)

QB
L. Becker (20)

N. Van Roekel (-2)

WR

C. Sukalski (10)

F. Passer (9)
T. Sonnicksen (1)

Z. Geistfeld (3)

D. Runck (0)

W. French (0)

RB

B. Hanevik (3)

G. Mensing (1)

D. Otis (3)

J. Carda (1)

TE
G. Holmseth (1)

J. Suess (1)

K

F. Groeger (0)
?. ??? (0)

DEF

BEA (13)

NU (7)

Sorry about the crappy format. My table I made with HTML earlier on wasn't formatting on here the way I wanted. Either way, I'm sure you'll see more of these than you think because I, like Nate, have had nothing too special to blog about lately.

Thursday, Bloody Thursday

Today (much like Ben) was kind of a big deal. At least in my eyes it was. Today marked my first time giving blood. I didn't have any big worries about it because I personally like getting shots and the like, so I didn't figure I'd have any issues at all giving blood. I think my only issue was how I felt like I had eaten to much for lunch before I gave blood. That turned out to not be a big deal. I actually had to go eat pizza and bananas at the canteen when I got done because I was so blasted hungry.

The guy that took me in to get all my information and have me answer all the questions looked really familiar. Turns out he kind of knew me too. He's my friend Tim's dad, but I've really only seen him once before today. It was pretty interesting talking to him about Social Security Numbers. The students that were helping out at the blood drive were cracking jokes about squirting blood all over myself. Turns out Amanda (my next-door-locker neighbor from the last 2 years) had nothing better to do than watch the last 2 minutes of my blood draining and walk me to the canteen.

Good day today. I'll definitely give blood again. At play practice Emily and I were talking about how we were "heroes" along with everyone else who gave blood. I was singing on the inside. Singing Enrique Iglesias....

01-22-73

Yesterday was a national day of silent solidarity for pro-life. I was one of two people who participated at my school. It was definitely a tough day, and I can honestly say I slipped up a couple times and my smart comments got the best of me. Other than that, it was a great day. A lot of people asked about why Melissa Fenske and I were being silent. It sounded like many of them thought it was interesting too. Hopefully next time we can get more people involved at my school.

Big props to others that I know participated:
Mariah
Melissa J.
Lillie
Kyree
I'm not sure who else I knew personally, but there were many all across the country participating also.

Jerk Chapter 1

I'm not a cat person. I mean I'm really not a cat person. I wouldn't go so far as to say I'd kill cats for fun or anything, but I just dislike them. Even my brother's cat here at my house irritates me. Yet, I have compassion for animals that get hurt and such. Which brings up another reason why I don't get along with my mom's boyfriend.

About 20 minutes ago, the cat shut itself in the bathroom upstairs. Every 5 minutes or so, it would paw at the door a little bit. No meowing, no extremely loud noises. Just a little bit of pawing at the door. What does my mom's boyfriend end up doing? Throwing it down the stairs. By "throw" I don't mean a big toss just to get it back downstairs. I mean he literally whipped the cat to the bottom of the stairs. The sound of the cat hitting the landing was louder than any noise the cat made while it was shut in the bathroom. The first thing that came to mind was "Well, that was a little extreme." Then the cat walked past me at the computer, and I noticed it was noticeably limping. Now, I'm not one to swear much, but the thought that came into my mind when I saw that was, "Wow, he really is an [expletitive]." I would've thrown the cat down the stairs too, but not to that extent. It would've been more of a toss just to make a statement, not 90 mph fastball to pound that statement into its head.


Question of the Day: Do you like cats? Why or why not?

The moon is shining bright, the mood is feeling right....

I just got back from a walk that was intended to accomplish two tasks:
1) Get a pop from the store's pop machine
2) Think a little and pray a lot

I completed both of those, but I also just made some observations.

- I love this weather. Right now. Exactly how it is. It's absolutely perfect for my taste in weather.
- The moonlight and cloud formations made it look like there was a light coming from the ground that was casting shadows of the trees on the clouds. It was quite beautiful.
- I'm a strange person, but that just means I fit in with a lot of this town. An older lady was out walking her dog as I was walking around.
- Ben brought this up at the team meeting, but I thought about it some more tonight: Tim truly does look like Nick Punto.

Hi! My name is Nick Punto. I play baseball for the Minnesota Twins. I enjoy parties, foosball, carrot cake, and the occasional jazz concert. I've heard rumors that I have a twin (that's a pun) somewhere out there. His name is Jim or something like that. Someday I should probably go out and meet him. Maybe after I win the World Series. Yeah...that works...my people will call his people.

Why, hello there! My name is Tim Parrott. I play Ultimate Frisbee for TBA, and watch out because this Parrott can definitely fly. We rock the Adidas logo like no other. I enjoy football, playing guitar without knowing how, and the occasional scone with my wife. Mmm...scones... In closing, I look a lot like Nick Punto, except rumor has it his "man-pretty" status is only higher because of his mad third-base skills. If Ultimate was shown on FSN, I'd have him beat. Eat that, Nicky my boy!

Question of the Day: How do you take your weather? Hot? Cold? Medium-rare?