Everything sounds so much better if you make it sound like a strategic management decision. Item:

• After a heated internal decision making process, John selected Chick-fil-A as his preferred vendor of choice for lunchtime hunger fulfillment.
• In a remarkable decision that must have derived all the way from the top of the organization, the urinal cakes at work were recently replaced.

Things also sound pretty cool if you throw a historical slant on them. Witness:

• On this day in history, John made perhaps one of the toughest lunchtime decisions known to man.
• On this day in history, the very direction of urinal technology at one company was pushed in a new direction.

It was a heck of football weekend for my teams, both of whom pulled off amazing victories. On Saturday I got to watch Notre Dame come back from 19 points down to beat Washington State 29-26 in OT. I watched the last minutes of the game with my best friend (and newly married) Rusty on the phone. A great win. Then Sunday I got to watch the Carolina Panthers come back from 17 points down to beat Jacksonville 24-23 in what was honestly the best pro game I have seen in a long time (maybe since Buffalo came back from 32 down to beat Houston). And the comeback was courtesy of Jake Delhomme, a backup quarterback from Louisiana, who won the starting job with his play. Even Erin got into the game at the end when the Panthers had the momentum when she said "I don't even like football and my heart's pounding!" It's going to be tough to beat that weekend for football excitement. There's something genuinely pure about seeing a sports team refuse to acknowledge that they are defeated and to find a way to win. I think that is the essence of sports. As fans, we live to see that. As athletes, they play to experience that. And even if you're not a fan, there's no denying the fact that you're witnessing something amazing happening, as evidenced by the high fives between me and my fiancee going on after the Panthers' victory.

We went to the Yiasou Greek Festival this past weekend, which was fun, despite the fact that I never saw the guy with the Windex. The Greek Festival is touted as one of Charlotte's best festivals of the year, year in and year out, by the readers of the Charlotte Observer. All I have to say about that is they've never been to Shreveport. Or New Orleans.