Well the Buckeyes are off to the New Orleans! Congratulations to Coach Tressel and the Buckeyes! It’s great to see them get the chance to play for all the marbles, and deservedly so. I feel good for the players and for Coach Tressel. Bring home the crystal!

At the same time, last night it was hard and weird to know who to root for. You see Jenny and I are big gardeners and I grow over 30 rose bushes and tons of flowers. We have always wanted to go to the Rose Bowl and to the parade to see the floats, but never had the chance. Between OSU having not been there for 10 years or so, and putting two kids through Ohio State, it has just never been in the cards. This year however, things were lining up and we felt we could afford to take our one dream trip and go. (It’s not in the cards for a schoolteacher and civil servant to do that every year). So all the while, we were cheering passionately for the Panthers, and then screaming for the Sooners, we knew our own dream was slipping away so the Buckeyes could pursue theirs. But cheer for them we did and it was winning and losing, and losing and winning, all at the same time. Weird, it was just plain weird. In any case Go Bucks!