Things are going pretty good.

It didn't change a lot of things. It didn't change friends or my relationship with my now-wife, or family.

It was my first (Olympics). I was real excited about that. I skated real well the year before, but then the clap skates came out, so, I was anything but relaxed, because I knew I was a long shot, at best. Yet, a lot of people were expecting great things out of me, because they read about the season before.

As of yesterday, I wasn't sure if I would skate it. I've been sick.

For starters, it allowed me to find Wausau Insurance and Taco Bell. They allowed me to skate four more years. That was a huge way that it changed my life.

It's fun to watch guys like that. You can't do that just by showing up a couple days a week and being real recreational about it. You got to train, especially at that age. You've got to prepare and be around the rink a lot of hours. I give them a lot of credit.