OH MY GOD I Want One

BEST. LEGO. SET. EVER. I seriously just about pissed my pants when I saw it.

Speaking of spending lots of money, I ordered myself an mp3 player over the weekend, a Creative Zen Vision:M. It will be here in about 3 days, and I shall be happy.

Also over the weekend: Skate With The Gophers! Even though I spent 2 hours handing out posters, I got:
-- my MB hat autographed by the one and only Don Lucia
-- team poster signed by every player but Okposo and Flynn, plus Lucia and the Wooger. I'm totally framing this one.
-- Picture taken with the McNaughton Cup and the 2002 and 2003 Championship Trophies
-- Also got to skate around on the ice at Mariucci for a bit with Okposo and Goligoski (and 100 other people, mostly kids), which was pretty sweet.

More Stuff

After thinking for a little bit more, I guess I can put down a few more highlights of the last 5 months, in no particular order:

I have become increasingly obsessed with Gopher Hockey. If you make me miss a game, you better have a damn good reason for it. I went to Madison for the Friday game over there (our first loss since the first game of the season, boo), which decreased my road record to 0-1-1. My ultimate goal is to go to a Gopher game at all 10 arenas in the WCHA (currently, I have 3). While in Madison, we "broke" in to Camp Randall and I got my picture taken on the 50-yard line, and saw the slab of bacon (the predecessor to the axe, for you uninformed people).

Solar Car will probably begin/continue to take over my life, especially later this semester and during the summer.

My little brother (now a senior in HS) got his Eagle Scout award, I am very proud of him. He is probably going to Iowa State for college, I don't really mind where he goes unless it's wisky, iowa, or nodak (fortunately, he never considered any of said schools).

I stumbled across quite possibly the most wonderful webcomic ever: http://www.xkcd.com. Some of the stuff is absolutely ridiculous, and others are straight up nerdy, but it's always halarious.

I'm hunting for internships and housing right now (i have an internship interview in an hour and a half). Both are something I've never really had experience with before, it's a little unsettling how much of a bearing on my future this stuff has.

Concerts

Yeah, It's been a while. I've had stuff to write about (sports games, trips, etc.) but I'm just too lazy to actually sit down and write stuff.

Anywho, I was reading The Onion this morning and found an article about the Minnesota Orchestra's 2007-2008 lineup. Two concerts that I DEFINITELY want to attend:

"To Boldly Go...", a space-themed concert (Feb 1-2 2008)
* Narrated By the one and only Lenoard Nemoy
* Selections from Star Trek, The Planets Suite, and John Williams

"The Vegas Years" with P.D.Q. Bach (May 24 2008)

Also on the Docket are the upcoming Blue Man Group show "How to Be a Megastar Tour 2.0" (March 30, 2007) and next year's Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert.