Well,  we have been back in Marquette for quite awhile, but I cannot say that the time has gone really well for me.  Since returning from Placid I have been fighting yet another sinus infection.  It seems that whenever I get sick these days it always turns into a sinus infection.  There is good news though.  I am just about over my sickness and was able to train with the NMU crew this past Sunday.  The highlight of the OD was definitely afterward when Marquette resident, and NMU freshman, Tommy McFadden invited the team, and obviously alumni, to a great breakfast at his parent’s house.  The food was amazing thanks to his mother, and Tommy enjoyed his first cup of coffee ever, thanks to a little bit of encouragement by myself.  I think he enjoyed himself as well.

More good news would have to be the fact that Gus is back in town and swimming like a champion.  The surgery went really well for him and he has been hitting the pool and gym just about every day.  I do not think he will take up swimming professionally, but from what I hear he has been swimming really fast with almost perfect technique.  I also think his swimming was good therapy for him after the Red Sox let him down this year.  I felt the same about the Brewers losing, but I am more used to it than him.

Lastly, snow has finally dropped here in Marquette and tomorrow might be the first ski of the year for us.  You will have to check back and see how it went, or if it went.

The new coffee drinker Tommy McFadden.