I got a big surprise this morning - *just* as I was headed out the door to get myself a new health card the phone rang I was told that I had been accepted in to stage two of a youth entrepreneurship program that I applied to for help marketing Bear Town over the next year. This stage of the application process for the program or the program is sort of like a entreurneal version of Survivor - forty five people do a week of workshop and are eliminated until only fifteen are left on the island. So I'll spend much of this week attending five days of seminars, which began today (Monday). Over the course of the week I have to complete a feasibility study and present it in an interview on Friday. By the Easter weekend I'll know if I've make it to the final round of the program.

When I got home from the first secession more good news was waiting for me. Two major publications are interested in doing stories on Bear Town! Now this is very exciting (especially since the series hasn't even started yet) but it also just rachets up the pressure on me to get everything done and done well.

I spent most of tonight working on the new design for the website, which I'll begin rolling out in about two weeks. I'm redoing the site in PHP (via Mambo Open Source) and the new animated menu will use Flash instead of Java which should solve a few problems people have been experiencing. I'm also in the final stages of testing the new BT Community Forum and I expect to have it back up and running again about the same time as the new site goes online.

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