A day to remember.

As the morning rolls around I struggle to get out of bed only five hours after I went there. But I managed and got myself ready for a big day of sports.

I drove to Seattle to find myself a spot to park for free or cheap. Unfortunately I got off later than I wanted. I got to Seattle and there were a lot of people there. All the nearby free spots were long gone. So I went to my back up spot. It was reserved for a Kappa Sigma party. I ended up paying through the nose to park across the street from the North parking lot at Seahawk Stadium.

I called Jim H. and let him know I was coming down. He told me where to find him. I walked to where he explained he would be which was the second row of cars near the stadium. There were a lot of people. Lots of food. I brought some cookies and put them where people could get to them.

I saw Jim and Tom. I said hi to them. Jim got me something to drink. I hung out and talked to TJ. He was telling about being at WSU and his classes. He is a nice guy and a ten-six-seven. He went to the same high school I did.

As game time came I made my way to my seat. It was on the West side of the stadium at about the forty yard like. It was in the three hundred level about thirty-five rows up. Before the game they had a huge American Flag. They talked about the attacks on September eleventh in ought-one. They Cougar marching band play the Star Spangled Banner. As always my eyes got watery, but today it was more than normal. It was very moving.

Speaking of the band it was neat to see how large the band is this year. There is about two hundred-twenty-five members. It is the biggest band ever. And it shows. It is much easier to hear. In fact is was easy to hear. It was so cool.

Sadly the Cougar offense had problems. Early on Swogger was right on the mark. The receivers were dropping the ball left and right. After a while Swogger was missing the receivers. The kicking game was horrible. This is the worst I have ever seen on a Cougar team. We missed two field goals. We had a bad snap on one. The punting was bad. Abnormally bad. Our punter is good. He had a bad day. He had a blocked punt that was recovered for a touchdown for Colorado.

Brink went in at QB. He did not do much better at first, but he started to get on fire. He did telegraph one of passes, a Freshman mistake, it was run back for a touchdown. The bad punt and the bad pass cost us the game. Well, so did the missed field goal opportunities.

On the bright side we had the defense. They were great. They had tons of three and outs. They have forced fumbles. They held Colorado to one-hundred-seventeen yards total offense. That is how good the defense was. The WSU offense had four-hundred-sixteen total yards of offense and could not muster up a win.

After the game I went back to the tailgate party. I talked to Jim H. I said what can you say about that game? They have something to work on this week. I was going to meet up with Peter and we were going to go the Mariner's game.

He called me and he said he was on his way to Safeco Field. I walked that way and met him there. We walked up to our seats. We were there early. We talked for a while. Then the game started. The Mariners took the field and quickly the Boston Red Sox took a lead and spread that lead through out the night ending it with a nine to nothing win. There were so many Boston fans it sounded like that it was a Boston home game.

Peter and I talked about some politics. I was telling him about some of the fun I have had on G-Shack debating with a communist and a left-ist democrat.

So after a day where the Cougs and the Mariners lost I was going to go home. I am tired and ready to go to bed, but I cannot get myself to go to bed before midnight. So I stayed online and I chatted with Kale and Jephren for a bit. It was mainly small talk nothing in depth. It is hard to get in a deep conversation with Kale because he seems to be a popular man. He is always getting hit up for conversations.

I finally decided it was time for me to get to bed. I signed off the conversations. I let Amber out to go to the bathroom. She saw one of the wild rabbits and went chasing it. So I had to go out and find her because she was having fun.