First communion

So, my daughter made her first communion yesterday..special Mass on a Saturday. As far I'm concerned, that counts as going this weekend! Nobody ever does anything for the 2nd communion though. I gave her a message to kids from the pope (JP2, not the new one), and a dictionary. Not sure what's appropriate as a present. I got, for mine, a history of lots of saints, from the nuns at the church. It helped out in Catholic school if we needed an odd biography looked up. I think I still have it somewhere.

My brackets are shot. I have 8 out of 16, but have lost Wisconsin and Louisville from my final four. My only hope is Kansas over UNC. Any game I don't have in between must be won by some random team, to prevent others from getting ponts I can't.

11 inches of snow. I shoveled the first 9 myself on Friday, only to find 2 inches of freezing rain the next morning, which takes more work than the first nine. Grrr.... Oh well, beats going to work. I got tendonitis in my right arm. It felt like I was throwing a baseball as hard as I could for half an hour, over and over. But with my opposite hand.

My Sunday morning hoops team won our "NIT" bracket championship this morning, rather convincingly. What a difference it was having all 7 guys show up during the playoffs. We play 4 on 4 on sideways courts. No worries about getting tired. My job morphed into being the defensive specialist on guards....even got a DJ-poke steal in the open court, but missed the putback on a rebound after the first shot by a teammate rolled off. One of our big guys owes me though, he blew 3 bunnies on great passes this morning.