The Tub Hath Overflowed

I'm back!

With much excitement, I am happy to say that the Longshots had their first game of the 2009 season last night and won 12-11!! The is significant because this is the first time that our season opener hasn't been rained out, first time we won our first game and the first time ever we have a winning record! I won't write about all the details here; but you can check out my buddy Ed's blog here: http://www.ralphthesquirrel.com/ We flooded the tub in a big way!!

I have a half day of work here today because Amber and I are heading up to Minneapolis this afternoon to visit some friends and my sister. Tonight we'll head to Shawn's house, grab some dinner, meet Baxter and Bacon and try some delicious homemade ginger ale; just basically experience the gloriousness of Eden Prairie. Them on Saturday we'll head over to visit Katie in St. Louis Park. I think we'll maybe head to the mall of America to pick up a gift for my mom for Mother's Day. We will stay at her place on Saturday night and then Sunday we'll visit some of Amber's good friends in Minneapolis that just bought a house. Then we hope to drive back to Madison to make it back for the 6:00pm service at B-Hawk. Tonight, one of the worship leaders from B-Hawk has a CD release party for his new album and is playing a show at the Brink Lounge. I know a lot of people that are going and wish I was too, should be a great time!

Last weekend was Love Madison. And it went very well!! I was nervous about coordinating a ton of people but it went off without a hitch pretty much. My group divided into about 8 groups of 11 adults or so and picked up trash all over the Isthmus. I handed out different maps to each group so they knew their territories to cover. Overall, there were over 2500 people from B-Hawk serving out in the community in 100 different ways. Some groups were working with the elderly, some planted flowers, pulled weeds, painted walls, built walls for Habitat for Humanity, etc. This Sunday is Celebration Sunday where we celebrate Love Madison. There were a few videographers and photographers around the city and they got some footage of our group working so maybe we'll be in the video that they show. I'm just really excited that our church did something like this; we need to do more of this!!

I already have two races under my belt in 2009. I did the Crazy Legs 8k on April 25th with a time of 34:03 and the PDC Half Marathon with Shawn on May 2nd in 1:41. Overall I was pretty happy with the results. Both PRs, but I wished I could have hung with Shawn for the last 4 miles! We started running 7:20 pace which I held for like 8 or 9 miles and then I just couldn't do it anymore so I slowed up. Guess I'll work on that for next year. The race was much more organized and efficient. They had really cool shirts too; a cool blue color with a neat logo. I don't have anything in particular planned for the rest of the summer but I hope to do some 5ks and more biking. Perhaps a tri or two.

Amber and I have decided to go to Seattle in June instead of Aspen. After talking with some friends that recently went, they got us excited about it. We will check out the space needle, go to Pike's Place Market, go to Mt. Rainer National Park, the first Starbucks, some cool restaurants, visit some sights from the Twin Peaks TV show.

Man, and how about those Brewers, huh?? They are doing pretty darn good. Wednesday nights game vs. Cinncinatti was awesome. 9 runs in the 2nd inning before there was even an out. Ryan Braun Pimp Walk. Looking forward to a few more games this summer!

Stay tuned, I'll have some music for you soon...I hope.