We won all the matches we were supposed to win. It's a good start.

We had a couple of bad breaks. If we don't have those, I think we're right on target.

Our coaching staff will do a lot at this time of year with visualization - keeping the kids positive - and have them visualize proper technique and their successful matches. At this time of year, you can see some upsets because kids get too tight.

This is certainly one part of their dream. It's great that they were able to achieve it. They deserve a lot of credit for being able to bounce back from (the loss to) Mosinee. I was very proud of how they reacted and came out and played.

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.