the glory days

Well since I lost that amazing video of Jonny dressed as a pirate, beating up a ninja and replacing it with a ninja bear in Elise's classroom... this video from college will have to suffice. It is officially my first video ever on the online diary for the masses. We'll see how it goes, there could very well be more to come in the future.

You will probably want to turn the volume down on the ol' machine (it was a windy day). Finally, thanks to Jerod Brazeal, my beautiful freshman year roommate who has never seen this blog, for filming.

ahh... the days of old

Before I get going on this entry, I think it's only fair to inform you of the thought process that got us to this point. I had to dress up today at school for a presentation. I thought about posting a picture of myself from earlier today, all dressed up, but no such picture exists. I then decided to settle for an older picture of me dressed up because a) all pictures of me dressed up are going to be older because it hasn't happened in a long time and b) because I figured people other than my fellow MGMT 372 classmates and Claire Borne might enjoy seeing D.O. with his shirt tucked in. As I was looking through older pictures to share with the masses, I found this one, and I thought I ought to share it.

This is a picture of me at Regionals (maybe Districts... either way) my senior year of high school. This would be my last year to ever compete in the best sport on the planet, gymnastics. I went on to compete in State that year, and finished somewhere in the very slightly above average range. My wonderful father took this picture, and while I'm on the parental subject, let it be known that my parents might have missed one of my meets though all my 4 years of competing in high school. They're tight.

I could go on and on about gymnastics, but I'm sure that a very small percentage of readers would find it worth their time, so I'll spare the majority. I have reason to believe that the online diary for the masses will be seeing some new traffic now that I've got links on both facebook and the Six Chicks blog, and when you become more famous, you've gotta cater to the needs of your constituents... or something. Ok, anyway, say all that to say, gymnastics is, in my opinion, the best sport man has ever created, and I'm looking forward to getting a copy of Bryan High's gymnastics schedule so I can actually have plans on Friday nights.