Go Mavs (My head makes it’s national TV debut…)

Wow. How can it be two months since I’ve blogged anything? As America once said,
“I’ve been one poor correspondent.” And this is even with some of you writing me to tell me how much you like them….ah well, life gets in the way. For the past several years, I’ve made the vow to put real-life ahead of digital life. That means I just don’t find myself in front of the keyboard that much….
So, lot’s to catch up on. And I will not try to do it in one post. I still hope to blog about my trip to El Salvador in April. I think that was really the time my blogging fell off…just never got back in the habit afterwards.

I also want to tell yall about the great NDSM Benefit Show from back in April, and the great time I had at Northaven’s “Feast of Friendship.”

Of course, it’s also time to get pumped about Kerrville again. And, hopefully, sometime during the next week, I’ll post a little about that too. (For now, let me give you the url for what I wrote last year. At least two of you have written to ask if it’s still available somewhere. And it is. Just click here.

I also want to talk about the new Star Wars movie, which Dennise and I went to see yesterday afternoon. Yes, we’re geeks. I’ve seen every movie since the second one on the day it opened.
So has Dennise. Geeks attract, I suppose….

The movie was GREAT. Dennise and I both agree that it’s one of our favorites of all six….
certainly MUCH better than either Episode One, or Episode Two. But, as I said, more on this later.

What I REALLY wanted to blog about today is the Dallas Mavericks. Somehow, this season, we got reintroduced to basketball in a big way. Our friend from church, Joy Nelson, invited us to sit with her for one game about mid-season. As you might imagine, she can get GREAT seats, and we found ourselves right behind the Mavs bench. I kid you not. I wish I had video to prove it.

Then, Dennise found that our friends, Charles and Mary, ALSO have killer tickets…on the other side of the floor, on the fourth row. So, they invited us to the Mavs/Heat game about midseason.

Again, a KILLER game. Shaq called out Damp…Damp made Shaq look foolish. Shaq’s been mad ever since. Again, they were awesome seats. And, had I been thinking, I would have TIVOed the game so I’d have the video evidence for you…at least you would have been able to see the bald spot on the back of my head.

BUT, low and behold, the Mavs make the playoffs. And so, Charles and Mary invite us out once again for game three, last Friday at the AAC. Dennise and I were 2-0 in Mavs games to that point. But, alas, the Suns ran away with it. HOWEVER, I am happy to say that there IS one thing different about this third set of incredible seats that we had: I have the video evidence.