Exciting times and life is good...

Quick update for those of you interested.

I've had a fantastic last few weeks.

First of all, my dad's basketball team (and my former school's basketball team...and many of my closest friends' basketball team) is now in the Sweet Sixteen of the Division II NCAA Tournament. This is the first time Augustana College has done this since 1978-79.

We got into the 2nd Round courtesy of a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from my dear Montanian friend, Dave Foster. The court-storming and madly screaming celebration was a blast. And here's the video to prove it...



Then, we beat (technically "upset") the defending National Champion Winona State Warriors in another intense and completely awesome game. This is unbelievable and I'm very happy for myself, my friends, and my dad.

I also got to spend a bunch of time hanging out with my former roommate, and that's always a blast. Especially when his brother and his brother's friends are with us. It was random and funny and full of all kinds of delicious goodness.

I also saw Watchmen last week. I enjoyed it. I have a great many thoughts on it, but not being a movie reviewer, I'll refrain from sharing them. If you really would like to hear them, e-mail me and I'd be happy to share my thoughts in detail (bear in mind that I have read the book).

Also, we won the championship for our Adult Volleyball League two weekends ago. That was really fun too. And, in general, I had a great weekend with great friends the last two weekends in a row.

Finally, work is going very, very well right now. We're doing a ton of fun things and I'm really enjoying my duties as a writer and occassional project manager for Deep Bench. It's good working with my boss and enjoying what I do.

The bottom line is that life is good. I genuinely hope yours is too. And it it's not, come hang out with me and Hugh for a day. We'll up the happiness level in your life by a substantial amount, guaranteed.

Anyway, I'll be in Marshall on Tuesday to (hopefully) watch Augie make it to the Elite Eight and come out of this season with an unpredicted Regional Championship. And if it doesn't happen, I'll still have a great week anyway.

Why? Because I say I will. Take that, negativity!

Feelin' good, feelin' great...feelin' great, feelin' good, how are you?