And We're Off...well, almost.

So the voyage out to Colorado begins tonight. After work, Liz and I will get the rest of our things together and then we're going to head over to Mankato to rendevouz with Little Red. We'll spend the night in Mankato and, tomorrow, we'll begin the trek across the nation.

We spent the bulk of last night getting ready for the trip. We packed our suitcases, cleaned the house (well, sort of), paid the bills, etc. Truly a joyous night, let me tell you. :-/

I don't really know what we'll be doing out there, but it won't involve work, so that's a good start.

Sports are giving a little excitement back to my life recently. It's time for college playoffs so there's a little more to cheer about these days than the fact that the NHLPA and the NHL will meet for the 1st time in a billion weeks or whatever it is now.

The Badgers basketball team will make the NCAA tourney for sure, but the Big Ten tournament got underway yesterday and the Badgers will get their first shot at that tourney against Ohio State tonight.

The men's hockey team is set to start the WCHA playoffs tonight against Anchorage. They'll play a 3-game set this weekend with the winner advancing. The hockey team sure slumped at the end of the season, going 1-5-3 in their final 9 games and dropping into 4th place in the WCHA. The good news? Dropping to 4th place set them up against Anchorage in the first round, who they went 4-0-0 against this season. Hopefully, those guys can get their act together for the playoffs.

The Packers seem to have begun a complete dismantling of their team. Starting guards Mike Wahle and and Marco Rivera have up and moved on to Carolina and Dallas. And, now, after being unable to convince Darren Sharper to take a 60% paycut from what he was supposed to earn this year, the Packers have cut Mr. Sharper for salary cap reasons. Well, guys, you got a lot of rebuilding to do and you've finally got a little cap room to do it with. Get going. I sure hope the Pack has plans for the draft because they sure haven't made any noise during free agency.

In entirely unrelated news, I got a rather odd e-mail earlier this week. Apparently, someone at Google spotted some of the work I'd done for JavaRanch and sent me an e-mail to see if I'd be interested in working for them. I have to say that I was really quite amazed that Google would be interested in me. I doubt much will come of it, but I sent him my resume and he asked me to give him a ring after I got back from vacation. We'll see, I guess.

So, let's see...any other exciting news? I can't really think of any. Take care, everyone. See y'all in a week or so.