- My Colorado Avalanche managed to make it through the first round of the NHL playoffs. Now they have the pleasure of playing the possibly unstoppable Detroit Red Wings in the second round. In truth the Wings have looked fairly human this season, especially in the playoffs. We shall see.
- The Wife and I are suddenly both able to jog something like 2.5 miles continuously. This is a big jump from where we were. I definitely believe a course change is the prime contributor to the improvement.
- Since September of 2007, I’ve manage to whittle myself from around 220lbs to 190-ish. I only have this to say: It’s a lot of friggin’ work.
- I cannot tell you how excited I am about GTA IV. The multiplayer action looks like a flat out hoot. Email me if you want my Xbox Live gamer tag.
- Meanwhile, The Wife is all about the Karaoke Revolution on the 360. They’ve been all over adding downloadable songs to it. It’s really pretty impressive so far. Not to mention tons of fun.
- I’m really sick of the Democratic primary garbage. I’m still backing the liberal black man, though.
- My Ma has a fancy new deck on her house. It’s totally sweet.
- I really need to sand & stain my deck this year (just like I have for the past couple years). Boo.
- Went to a DeRailed (the Denver Rails user group) meeting last night. They covered interesting material, but I ended up leaving early anyway. It was definitely what you’d expect, demographically.
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There hasn’t been a lot to cheer for as far as the Boston University men’s ice hockey team goes this year.
It doesn’t matter now, though, because it’s Beanpot time. You just never bet against Jack Parker’s boys when they play in the Beanpot.
Well, really there’s not much to report.
The drive to Vegas went quickly and easily. We literally did nothing in Vegas — In fact, we we most excited by the fact that the Luxor has two Starbucks. Party animals we are not.
The second leg of the drive into Los Feliz also went without a hitch. From then on it was just the usual sort of “hang out with Chris, Kate, and Chowda” sort of scene. Highlights as I remember them:
- Best of all, we got lots of quality time with Scot & Matt. We love those kids. You might recognize Scot. Thanks to both him and Kate, I have a Bacon Number of 3!
- Casa Bianca has the best sausage pizza I have ever consumed. I am curious as to whether it’s the sausage or the pizza. I cheese pie trial needs to happen someday.
- The Museum of Jurassic Technology is supremely weird. A must see if you’re in LA (and like weirdness).
- Friday poker: In spite of playing like an idiot (and in doing so, pissing Scot off a bit when I rivered and ace to beat his pocket kings), I managed to finish in second place. I had a chance to do better than that, but Matt’s crazy enough that I shouldn’t have tried to scare him out of a pot by going all-in with ace-high.
- Saturday was Chris’ birthday cookout/party in which Chris ended up doing all the cooking… *shrug* Staggering amounts of Guinness were consumed, and I got to see some of my favorite people.
- The Wife and I hiked up to Griffith Observatory a couple times. It’s a steep little hill, let me tell you!
- Lots of dining out, but not as disastrous as usual. Though, we totally had to hit Tito’s Tacos.
The drive back was fairly ordinary except for a crazy huge moon we saw rising over the Utah desert.
Today, when I came back into work, I found a strange Japanese swan phallus thingy on my desk. Thanks to Miracle Ed, I now get the reference, but nobody here has owned up to actually putting it on my desk…
Random, unrelated crap follows … Continue reading ‘Trip Report and Other Junk’
The last weekend featured a lot of interaction with real, live human beings, which is a bit odd, to be honest.
On Friday, I had poker with the boys. The games have been extremely rare lately, and I missed the last one, so this was exciting. Of course, I lost my pants, but that’s not the point.
Saturday was my darling mother’s birthday celebration. (Her actual birthday was Sunday.) The Wife and I drove down to enjoy Hockey Night in Canada with Mom and her pack of “adopted” kids (plus three Great Danes, two other dogs, and two cats). Beer, hockey, and good-natured smack talk made it a super fun evening. If nothing else, I demonstrated the obviousness of the fact that I am my mother’s son. The only bummer is that we missed the opening bout of the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls‘ new season, which happened to be on the same night.
Sunday wasn’t as public, but we managed to not sit on the couch all day.
And I didn’t even touch WoW for the whole weekend.
Never bet against Boston University in the Beanpot.
After falling behind early, Boston College took control of Monday’s championship game halfway through the second period and outshot Boston University 26-10 through the last 40 minutes of regulation.
“We looked like we were waiting to lose,” Terrier coach Jack Parker said.
But in overtime — after playing relatively little through the last two periods following an injury to Eric Thomassian — junior Brian McGuirk picked an opportune time to score his first goal of the season, burying a high wrister glove-side off a faceoff at 5:06 of overtime to give BU a 2-1 win and yet another Beanpot championship.
Sweet! (I’m bummed that I forgot to listen to the game, but it’ll be OK.)
Man, I keep wanting to do a conherent post one of these days, but whatever…
- Brozo turned me on to the Amy Winehouse, and holy shit is she good! (She uses the lyric “What kind of fuckery is this?” How genius is that?) She may also be a train wreck, which adds some flavor. Lots of vids on teh YouTubes.
- The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls have announced their 2007 schedule. Good times for cheap, right there.
- Rod and I still swap snarky emails about the 24, but it’s just not the same as our old Tuesday IRC chats. I still think I need to set up a BBS or something. I miss my boys (and my Boo).
- That football games was crazy, eh? Good for Peyton. He can stop whining now. The commercials sucked eggs, generally, though I give the win to CareerBuilder. And Prince doing Hendrix doing Dylan for the halftime show… Surreal.
- My BU Ice Dogs are in the Beanpot final again. They shut out Northeastern yesterday and will meet arch-rivals, BC, next Monday.
- Check out this Desperate Astronauts soap opera. The details of it are awesome.
- Ryan O’Neal has quite a soap opera going on in his family, too. The money quote: “He hit his own girlfriend in the head.”
- Hang on… The name of Turner Broadcasting’s ad agency is “Interference, Inc.”?! No wonder they dig on the guerilla marketing!
- As far as iPod cases go, these little honeys are super hip.
There’s probably more in the buffer, but that’s all I can be bothered with for now.
Hugs & kisses.
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