We're in the finals!

Mark (of manasseworld.com fame) and I have made it to the finals of the Yahoo! IM Live competition (reference the "We could so win this thing" blog of the past). We're like the Lakers. Of course, the Lakers are only in the Western Conference finals. We are in the FINAL finals. So we're even better than the Lakers - plus neither of us is on trial for anything, which is an extra bonus.

We beat out who knows how many hundreds/thousands of entrants and have made it to the final 7. Sunday night, Yahoo! is putting us up in a hotel in Sunnyvale (a $139 a night value) and on Monday, we get our pictures taken, participate in a video shoot, and get "trained." How does one train for an IM competition? I'll let you know.