The Fights

So my dad tells me on Wednesday that his wife won tickets to the Thursday Night Fights at the Babcock Theater, and if i wanted the tickets. I say yes and my good buddy Nord and i go to the fights. Well i have a banquet in can form at his place first and then we go.


First stop at the fight is beer. The guy there says we need a bracelet to drink so second stop is bracelet dude. We flash him our IDs and thirst(i meant to type third but my finger slipped and it kinda works(and i thought it would be better to explain this rather then fix my error)) stop is beer.

This place is packed, well general admission is. I guess no one wants to pay more then $15 for this. We find a pair of seats up front and this is what we are welcomed by:

A fine Mullet. And the lady to his left is sporting a good one as well.

They introduce the ring girls and inform us the are working for tips only. The fights begin and in between each round one of the girls goes in and shakes it (as well as they can) and the meatbags who have table seating are throwing balled up dollars. Hopefully the girls can invest on some rap videos to improve their moves.

The MMA fights were the high point for me. One of the guys from AFMA fought and Alan the Muskrat was defeated by ref stoppage due to punches. The other MMA bout was a choke out due to a gator roll head and arm choke. And not a tap due to choke, this guy went out. More boxing, more ring girls but now all 4 of them are dancing trying to get more tips. Hey i guess you need to start that stripper resume somewhere.

After the fights we head to hooligans where power hour has started. Drink a couple and then go to The Rail Yard where i run into Terrell. We chat a little and make fun of Kevin.

I then make my way home to pass out and wake up with a hangover.

Employee Recognition.

So i get back from lunch and this is on my desk. This is how much my company values me and everyone around me. Now being the internet fool that i am i did some research. There are just under 100 people in this building, and these bad boys sell for $2 a piece. Not to mention the $45 for printing per order and who knows how much shipping is. $300 to give everyone here a pen that does not fall down but sucks to try and write with. But has the company name on it so we can all remember who loves us.

Change is not always good.

So the Billings Bulls have started a new season and we have lost our free ticket in. $8 per person later we are in the door and i start off very confused. As i walk towards the stands i have my hand on my wallet looking to buy an orange foam puck to toss onto the ice during the second intermission. There was no table. I chalked it up to them not being ready for this season. There is always an announcement about it so i will grab that later i guess.

We get to our seats near the beer garden and Nord goes to grab some cold ones. Hmm looks like they are serving Amber Bach this night is looking good. We watch a couple of the regulars start the drinking process going past empty handed and then going by again with 2 in hand. God i love Hockey.

They got a new sound system, and by new i mean old and shitty. The only speakers they are using seem to be the ones across the ice in the center. You cannot hear the announcer, you cannot hear the music. So no more guess the artist. It has become more of a game of "What the hell is that song"

The mystery of the missing chuck a puck was revealed midway through the first period. They put safety netting around this whole side of the ice. No pucks will hit the audience, no chuck-a-pucks will be thrown, and no lawyers will be making money off of the Bulls. Ok, damn, damn.

The entertainment for the second intermission was a shoot-off. They announced seat numbers and then staff went and grabbed these people(because no one could hear the announcer). They placed a board in front of the goal that had a cutout the size of a puck. IF you nailed this shot from center ice you won $10,000 or Jesus. Your choice because no one in the building could hit that shot players included. One of the people chosen to shoot this was the old lady that reads and crochets during intermissions. (Kevin you remember the one, sat in front of and to the left of us during last season.)

Bulls ended up winning the game 5-3 (i think)

What to put here..........??

Another update you say?

Damn, my last post was the 20th!?! My life has been that busy, really, no guys i am telling the truth.

2 real world weekends and 1 of my weekends, i ought to be able to come up with something.

Watched the season premiers of Family Guy and my new favorite show Heroes. Family guy was funny but lazy at the same time. It was Star Wars Episode 4 (or the first one to those of you who ignore the fact that they made 2.5 shitty Star Wars movies in the last 10 years(no really, phantom menace was in '99, man i loved the pod racer game for the N64)). The Family Guy did do a good job of matching up their characters to the Star Wars staff but there really wasn't anything revolutionary. At the end of the show Chris (voiced by Seth Green) got into an argument about the Robot Chicken Star Wars Show (written by Seth Green). Nice plug, it got me to download it.

Heroes answered a lot of questions I had at the end of the first season and is looking to be pretty good.


Jiu-Jitsu lately has been interesting. We have had quite a few new guys there. Which means they don't have uniforms, which means we have been no-gi 4 times in a row. Terrell was gone on Thursday working the MMA bouts at the Thursday Night Fights.



Kevin was in town this last real weekend. And we hung out downtown Friday night. We met Nord at the brewfest that was at trax(or whatever it is called now). We entered and they told us that they were serving for 30 more min and if anyone could down their samples in a half hour it would be us. I don't remember if i was wearing a butte shirt that night. We went up to Nord's roof and drank (you might ask if we through bottles at the trains, but if you have to ask then you have never been on the roof).

Saturday night Mary and I started the Halo 2 campaign co-op(ha to everyone who said video games would lead to me being a lonely geek) while waiting for the guys to make it up to the heights. After they arrived we played Wii, drank, smoked, no one was poisoned.