Wisconsin will never be the same...

...and neither, I expect, will I. And that's a very happy thing.

Many of my family and friends are already in the know, but it's high time I stopped hinting on the blog and just came out and said it - I've met an absolutely wonderful woman, and just got back yesterday from a head-over-heels weekend in Wisconsin getting to know her. =)

Gretchen is a Ph.D. student at a major university (unfortunately, one that's not quite close to ND). We've been "together" for over two months now, although it's hard to quantify those things the old-fashioned way when so much of the romance has been conducted via electrons and TCP/IP packets. We're an eHarmony couple - listen to those commercials, I'm tellin' ya! - and this weekend was our first time meeting in person. I'm very happy to tell you that at long last I'm trading in "single" status for "happily taken - and how!"

You can check out pictures of my weekend with the lovely Gretchen at my Flickr photo page.

Time for me to get back to being giddy. ;) Turn your back, please, while I do some cartwheels...