What I've been dealing with the past week

Just wanted to drop in a little note regarding the going's on in the little town of Bozeman. I was at the crime scene for about six hours the day the body was found. While I wasn't able to apply my few CSI skills, I was a runner for the event and was able to stay in the know about what was going on and it was interesting to be involved. Hopefully this kind of thing doesn't happen again for a long time.

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Two former Montana State University athletes were arrested and charged with murder Thursday in the shooting death of a suspected cocaine dealer whose body was found last week at the school's agronomy farm.
Former basketball player Branden Miller and former football player John LeBrum, both 22, were arrested and charged in the death of Jason Cody Wright. Both men also are accused of kidnapping Wright and destroying evidence in his murder.
Miller was held on $1 million bail after appearing in court on a murder charge. LeBrum is expected to appear in court Friday, also on a murder charge.
Attempts to reach Miller's lawyer, deputy public defender Eric Brewer, for comment Thursday night were unsuccessful. Brewer does not have a listed home phone number.
Miller withdrew from Montana State in April, while LeBrum is currently not a student at the university, according to a statement released Thursday from the school.
Prosecutors, in court documents, said that Miller told detectives that he gave LeBrum a ride to a restaurant where Wright was dining early on June 23. The two waited for Wright to come outside, then attacked him. Wright fell down, and Lebrum threw him into the back of Wright's sport utility vehicle and drove away.
Miller told authorities he drove off in a different direction in his own car.
Wright's body was found in a field on the university's Arthur Post Agronomy Farm last Friday. The 26-year-old man died of gunshot wounds, the Gallatin County coroner said. Investigators found several .40-caliber shell casings near his body.
Investigators searched Wright's apartment Sunday and found "pays and owes" sheets related to drug dealing, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported. Police said they believe Wright had been dealing cocaine.
A prosecutor's affidavit said investigators found Wright's identification and several personal items in a garbage container outside Miller's residence.
The Belgrade News reported that Miller told detectives Monday that he helped LeBrum wipe down Wright's vehicle with bleach and that they left it in Belgrade, where sheriff's deputies found it Tuesday.
The affidavit says James Clark, a former assistant basketball coach at the school, alerted detectives about a locker at the school's arena containing a bag with handguns. Clark told detectives the bag had been in Miller's possession.
One of the handguns found in the locker was the same caliber as the shell casings found near Wright's body, Gallatin County Sheriff James Cashell said Thursday during a news conference.
Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert said the investigation is ongoing, and additional people might be charged.
Montana State president Geoffrey Gamble said the university "will do everything we can" to help with the investigation.
"My thoughts continue to be with the victim's family," Gamble said in a statement. "Today, I'm even more distressed to learn that a former student has been arrested in connection with the crime."
Miller, from Milwaukee, started 27 of 28 games for the basketball team in 2004-05, his first year at the school. He was the team's third-leading scorer at 10.8 points a game when he became academically ineligible and was dismissed Dec. 6.
LeBrum, from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was a freshman football player in the fall of 2003. He redshirted during that season and was dismissed from the team on Aug. 30, 2004, for disciplinary reasons, school sports information director Bill Lamberty said.
In October 2005, LeBrum broke a man's jaw in a fight during a pickup basketball game on campus, and eventually was convicted of felony criminal endangerment.

Ten years?

Has it really been ten years since I walked across that stage and out of their lives? That's the question I've been asking myself lately. I recently made my presence known to the organizers of my ten year high school reunion and now the question before me is should I go to this event or not. I'm really torn on this, on the one hand, I haven't seen any of these people in ten years, so why is it so important to try and resurrect the relationship, while on the other, I am quite curious about them and where they've ended up in their lives. The only person from my graduating class that I'm still in contact with is the amazing and talented M. I feel fairly confident that she will not be appearing at this little shindig, but I'm sure would be interested in some of the gossip I could bring back.

Something to remember: When I walked across that stage and got my diploma, my car was already packed and I was only a few hours from beginning the adventure that has become my life. I went to a post-graduation party and when I left, I said good-bye. A couple of people at that party realized I meant good-bye versus I'll see you later and wished me luck on my travels. I think that part of me just wants to reconnect with a past that I walked away from so very long ago and see if I can look at it with a little less jaded viewpoint. I'm sure that part of it is just me wanting to do the whole "prodigal son returns" thing and be able to show off how successful I've been in my time since I've left. I've got such a great life, a beautiful amazing wife, a good job with better prospects on the horizon, an amazing town I call home, and most of all, wonderful friends that I love very much. I'm not sure where I've been going with this post, but I guess I just want some feedback from the people that I trust the most and see if some sort of consensus can be reached on what to do.

Yoga is hard!

So my beautiful wife just started a yoga class last week and suggested that I try it as it might help me with my flexibility and core strength. So Thursday I went to my first yoga session. The instructor was very nice and supportive and I had a pretty good time once I stopped being self-conscious and just went with it. It turns out I'm not horribly unflexible, but at the same time, I've got a long way to go until I'll really get to where I should be. I really need to work on my core strength alot and am looking at taking a Pilates class in addition to my yoga. I know what your thinking, how very metrosexual of me. While that may be true, I'll pretty much do whatever I can to put myself back together and getting back into shape. As I've said before, it's a whole lot easier to get out of shape than it is to get back into it.

So the bunkbed is finished and the girls loved it. Luckily, so did the parents and it was a nice feeling to have the project accomplished. My wife was a huge help and did all of the painting and a good bit of the sanding, so a lot of the credit should go to her. The bunkbed didn't quite turn out as beautiful as I had pictured it, but it looks great and I definitely learned a few things so that next time it will turn out even better.