In the past week:

1) I Witnessed BonnevilleClub.com‘s busiest day ever. The site, which I created, just had its forum pass the 30,000-post mark, with almost 800 members. Even better, about a dozen of the members organized a Minnesota Bonneville meet, scheduled for the end of April. Who would have thought that there would be so many devout Bonneville enthusiasts?

2) The Gophers Men’s Hockey team recently celebrated the WCHA championship. For the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Hockey field, the Gophers are seeded number 1 in the west. On the professional side of the world’s greatest sport, the Wild clinched a playoff berth tonight by shutting out the Wings (a.k.a. the Yankees of Hockey) 4-0. Fun to watch, especially with Minufo in the room (Minufo, of course, is a big Wings fan).

3) Strobel and I worked on our Fraternity’s two fire trucks over the past weekend. The newer of the two, a 1964 GMC 5500-frame pumper truck, has a broken clutch master cylinder. Yup, it’s a hydraulic clutch, and the plunger in the cylinder simply broke, preventing the clutch from disengaging. Fortunately, when this happened, we discovered that the starter motor in the truck is powerful enough to start the truck with the truck in gear! Unfortunately, the replacement part to fix the clutch is proving exceedingly difficult to track down.

4) I found out on Friday that there will be not one, but two Minnesota Pikes working as interns for Medtronic this summer. Who’s the other? None other than my little Brother, Vince.

5) Speaking of which, I went to a Tridentine mass today with Minufo and Vince. The Tridentine Mass is the Old Rite Catholic mass, meaning it’s done almost entirely in Latin. I considered it a step to satisfy my curiosity along my quest for theological and spiritual contentment (ask me about this sometime). I had never been to a Latin mass before, so I found it quite intriguing. If nothing else, it allowed me to see first-hand the changes that Vatican II made.

6) I enjoyed the nice weather (70 degrees and sunny) by washing and waxing my car. Truly, there are few things as satisfying as a clean, shiny automobile.