Well, i also forgot to mention that the 2nd place we won is the highest finish for any nevada team in any sport at the NCAA championships, and unless basketball does really well i figure that might just stick for a little longer, but Dr. Snyder was quick to point out that since basketball or rifle haven't beat Michigan (not Michigan State, the diminutive younger sibling to the greatest school in the world) it really doesn't mean anything.
I can't believe i didn't mention how we did at nationals. We came in 2nd place overall, 3rd air rifle, and 4th place smallbore. We should have been 3rd overall, but Marta (at navy, mary's friend from highschool, shot for mcqueen) messed up her arm before smallbore and dropped 20 points and gave us the win. Really they are a better team than us, and they know it, but this time it just worked out in our favor. Just like the basketball stuff, kentucky may still be a better team than UAB, but when it comes down to just one game, it doesn't really matter. I shot the same score i have been shooting all season, 1144, which isn't bad but i can shoot a lot better and i should have shot better, but it is too late to fix that. Also, conviently that is (technically) my personal best, as well as mary's. We just choose to forget that time i shot an 1143 but then it got changed to an 1147 for some unexplainable reason (something about the grader using the wrong plug, but i don't buy that).
Ryan shot really well, 1178 on team day, and the highest standing smallbore of the match. Matt choked on individual day but found it on team day and really helped out. Everybody else shot pretty average, so that team is pretty strong for next year, since i am the only person leaving and i think ryan's brother can fill my spot pretty well. Kentucky was actually pretty nice this year, it didn't rain or anything.
Also, everyone is now a basketball fan here at UNR (oh wait, we aren't UNR anymore, we are the University of Nevada. they keep making a point of that, whatever) but i don't remember seeing many of these people at the games i went to. It is still really cool they made the sweet sixteen, i think they could beat georgia tech, not for sure, but it could happen, they are a good enough team. And if basketball does good, then all the sports benefit, so best of luck to them. Also, i guess we should root for Alabama, since that is where pete's sister is at (i think), so roll tide, and beat whoever it is you are playing. And i really need Duke to win it all to salvage any hope i have of winning my bracket here in the office. Lastly, Stanford and Kentucky, i hate you.
Okay, so shooting is over, so i have a little more free time, but school is a lot of work, mainly two classes. Fluids is the most awesome class i have ever taken but it is also the hardest i have ever taken, which means it is probably my favorite class i have ever taken, it is just way beyond my level of understanding, kind of makes me not want to pursue aeronautical engineering or grad school in general. The other class is my senior design class. We have a working prototype of our automatic garage door opener for motorcycles and the response has been really positive, the school is helping us pursue getting a patent on the idea and maybe something will come of it, but maybe not. mainly it is sucking up the time i was going to use for running and climbing.
The weather here has been awesome but i think the plants are in for a suprise in a week or two, there are only two or three trees that i have seen that aren't starting to bloom, i think they know what is coming. I am really happy though because i have been able to go running now that the weather is decent (yes i admit it, i am only a fair weather runner). Hopefully i will be in decent enough shape to run a race or two and go train with TR and his long distance track team at Damonte Ranch High School.
No new news on the job, but i don't know if i should call and ask about it, i kind of figure that if it happens it happens, and if it doesn't well i had better find something else before too late. I will try to think of all the cool stories i was going to write about.
Oh yeah, i crashed on my bike today, and i am getting pretty sick of it, because of the last three or four times i have crashed, i have nothign to show for it, no blood, no bruises, no scrapes, the only thing that hurts is my pride. And then i have to wait a few minutes for everyone who saw me go down to cycle through so that i can get back on my way. It is getting so bad people don't even ask if i am okay because i think that they know of course he is physically okay, he just looks like an idiot, and i don't want to be seen asking an idiot if he is okay.
So i am not sure where that last part came from, but oh well.