Just Plain Chips

After a crappy day of football leading in to a bit of drinking Steph called and said she wanted to watch a movie, as has been chronicled here.

So what movie should we get? Well, we had both wanted to see Super Size Me ever since we heard about it though we didn’t see it in the theaters. So we decided that would be the one to get. Even my roommate Eric, who has seen approximately 6 movie in his life, was excited to see this one. For those of you who don’t know it is a look at obesity in America highlighted by an experiment by the producer/director/star who goes on the McDonald’s Diet. He eats nothing but McDonald’s food morning, noon, and night for 30 days straight.

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So last Friday was a good day.

When I woke up on Saturday I was excited for the weekend and to watch the Gophers on TV again. They had let the game escape from their grasp against Michigan the week before but they would come back and run the table starting today.

As Steve and I have discussed many times before, the lower your expectations are about certain things, the more likely you will either be happily surprised or at least not too disappointed. I didn’t realize that I was setting myself up for a fall.

The first discouraging thing of the morning was the broadcast crew for the game, it was Andre Ware and some other dude who I don’t remember. They had done the game against Northwestern a couple weeks earlier and I didn’t really like them. The next discouraging thing was a stat that they put on the screen that I hadn’t heard before. The previous 11 times that the Gophers had played (and lost to) the Wolverines of Michigan they lost the next game, no matter who it was or where they played. Hmmm, that’s not good. But hey, now is a good of time as any to break that streak.

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Here are some of the pictures that I took at Yellowstone Park.

The first is of Morning Glory Pool, which is way more spectacular in person than it is in this picture.

Here is Castle Geyser going off.

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My weekend started out on an up note…on Friday. My friends Eric and Sean were heading down to Yellowstone National Park. They just wanted to go to drive around and take pictures. Both of them are avid amatuer photographers. One thing that they didn’t have, was a National Parks Pass. Guess who does? That’s right, me.

So Eric asked if I had any interest in going down. Though I’m sure he asked me not because of the pass, but because they enjoy my company and thought that I might want to come. The problem lay in the fact that I had work on Friday. This was easily remedied by deciding to take a “mental health day” (my time card says sick leave) and head down to the Park with my friends and take some pictures.

On our way out of town it was pouring, we were hopeful that the rain would abate by the time we were an hour and a half south of Bozeman. For the first hour (down the Gallatin Canyon) our hopes were not realized. Luckily Sean (and indeed Eric and I as well) had driven the canyon 100s of times and was not nervous driving the twisty route on a rain slicked road. By about the time we reached West Yellowstone, the rain had subsided, which made the outlook on the day much brighter (though not literally, the sky was still pretty overcast).

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