Chris's Musings

As the college football season finishes off, and Cam Newton wills Auburn back to life once again and Boise State ruins the hopes of all of the "non-AQ" fans that want a party crasher to the BCS championship game. As long as Auburn and Oregon keep winning, there should be no beloved controversy to bring debate back to killing the BCS, but if the Beavers or the Gamecocks get lucky next weekend, let chaos ensue: Because your options are: - TCU, they are undefeated BUT they played a schedule of cupcakes all season, including a 5-5 Oregon State team. - Wisconsin, Ohio State, and Michigan State - Three one-loss Big Ten teams in the top 10 of the BCS standings.  This may be the best "top three" of any conference in the nation, and none are, currently, ranked in the top 6 in the country. - LSU, who won't even win it's division of it's conference, but only has one loss, to Auburn - Oklahoma State, a one-loss team assuming they beat OU in Bedlam and Nebra...

I have just got home from a work trip to Boulder, and am still awake.  My brain hasn't shut down, and I imagine that my tying on this blog isn't helping matters any. This was an incredibly busy week work-wise, so there wasn't much margin to go out and have fun.  However, it was the opening week for a lot of ski mountains out in Colorado and with my knee being healthy for the first time in 2 ski seasons (I was getting ready for, and recovering from miniscus surgery last season, so no trips) the talk around the office about skiing got my engine running.  I want to go back, badly. It also got me thinking, now, about a "40 things I want to do before 40" list that is in my head but not on paper.  Ambition does that, it makes you think about "what's next" and gives you something to shoot for.  Ambition can be a bad thing, if it's all about boosting ego, but ambition itself isn't a bad thing... it's what propelled Paul to go out and reach the...

Tonight, I did something a little crazy. I missed fusion (the singles gatherings that my church holds for community)...  a fusion group that I really enjoy the people at... and attended a small group leaders' training event at my church.  Okay, that's not quite crazy but what was crazy was this was the session designated for the MARRIED group leaders.  There's a good reason for this, and it's because when they were holding the sessions a couple of weeks ago for me and my fellow singles group leaders, I was out in L.A. running some crazy race (one that I'm very happy about running in case you missed any of the medal pictures :-) ), and this weekend was the only one available for me to pick from. And I was the ONLY single person in the room. Actually, that was a great thing for me tonight.  First off, being newly unattached after dating a really good girl for five months, being in an environment where no one was even remotely working the room was neat and relaxi...