March Madness

Last entry i said that I hoped to be heading to las vegas to see the Cougars play.  Well as I'm sure you saw that didn't happen, what a great disappointment!  I also hoped this was the year we'd finally see our BYU cougars advance past the first round, but instead they got obliterated by Texas A&M, and I found myself being talked down from the Kimball Tower.  Its almost as if they don't even try when they get to the big dance.  How many more years will I have to endure this?  At least the rest of the tournament has been fun to watch. My bracket has not been completely busted yet.

     March Madness is kind of like a mullet, you know business in front party in back.  School is like the business up front, unfortunately March is crunch time in school and a bunch of lame projects and papers begin to show their ugly faces.  Fortunately we have the NCAA basketball tournament to take our minds off of these terrible upcoming events.  It is comforting to know that a break is close at hand, but it sure would be nice to get some kind of spring break...Come on Cecil!  

     Oh well I doubt I will ever be that lucky during my BYU career. 

     

Vegas!

Well its about here...the big dance.  But, first theBYU basketball team must face the unfair MWC conference tournament held on UNLV's home court.  Seriously this is absolutely ridiculous to have the tourney each year in vegas. It should either rotate and be held at the #1 seed's home court or be played at a neutral site.  Let's take money out of the issue and uphold the integrity of the game.  No one from any other school besides UNLV wants to have to be heckled by those classless fans.  I personally don't care to hear F*** BYU all day long, and see fellow BYU fans being called out to fight.  Nevertheless its time to roll the dice in Vegas.  Let's hope for victory in a potential second round battle in the tourney.  Me and my friends attended last year, but unfortunately I won't make the whole thing this year.   But, if BYU Makes it to the final game (potentially against Utah) my friend Dave and I made a pact to drive down saturday morning to attend.  Hopefully next week I'll have a blog post about a Vegas adventure...

Life...

On this topic of life this past week was a bit crazy for my friends the Ellis'.  Last year around this time I was helping them move out here from Detroit.  We had some interesting experiences along the way, but we eventually arrived.  This year they had even more hectic times as their son Andrew was born with comlications with a virus known as CMV.  When he was born it was unsure if he would even survive.  I feel honored that they named their child after me saying that he needed a "fighter" name to pull through.  I say complications must be expected if you name your child after the most accident prone person I know.  But, he is fighting through and things are looking way better than they were.  At this point it appears that he is going to pull through this challenge.  The level of complication that he may face later in life is unsure, but I think he'll pull through.  He continues to do better each day.  Jerry and Kira-Fire Ellis are doing great in handling this challenge.  Andrew is in good hands.