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My first post covers the baseball bat attack on three BU hockey players.
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Here’s hoping everyone had a happy and fruitful holiday. I certainly did.
Highlights:
- My darling mother got me a solar powered atomic watch, so not only does it never need its battery changed, it never needs to be set either. This is timekeeping heaven for me. Now I just need to read the manual to figure out how to use its other functions. And of course, I need to get it sized waaay down for my girlish wrists.
- The moms made out well: Mine got a cobalt blue Kitchen Aid mixer (she’d been eyeballing ours lately) and The Wife’s got an iPod Nano (which is ridiculously small).
- I got The Wife a Bella Umbrella. Without her realizing it, I noticed that she’d been talking about getting a parasol for the past year or so, so this was a home run for me.
- I also got my better half a Mac Mini, as her old iBook was having a hard time keeping up. That means I get to play with the iBook: So far I’ve reinstalled OS X 3 times and I plan to install Ubuntu as well (the third round with OS X was to get a partition for the linux).
- As for me, I got some woodworking and home improvement accessories, some DVDs (namely two big time personal faves: Pete & Pete and The Greatest American Hero, and a CBC history of hockey that looks awesome) and lots of other stuff.
So yeah, materialistically, we all did pretty well. Better yet, though, we had some nice time off at home thanks to the blizzard, and yet we were mobile in time to make it down to my mom’s house on Christmas Eve.
God bless us, every one, eh?
Thanks to Brozo and his dad, I had the extreme pleasure of taking in the Colorado Avalanche vs. the Dallas Stars on the NHL’s opening night from the Xcel Energy suite in the Pepsi Center last night. (Avs lost 2-3 in OT. They owned the first two periods - up 2-0 in the second intermission, and then Dallas took it all away in the 3rd and the extra frame.)
Freakin’ good times, yo.
Love the Bucket
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
Highlights:
- Matty’s dad, Dennis asked “What happened with Leopold?” (the new Avalanche defenseman we got in trade for Alex Tanguay, who is starting the season on the Injured Reserve) Matt’s cousin Nels answered, “He broke his pussy!”
- The suite steward came in occasionally to make sure our free (to us) beer and nacho/fajita feast was well stocked. At one point he came up behind me as I sat in one of the plush leather chairs with a bucket filled with ice and beer: “Here, why don’t you just put this down by your feet.” I love that guy.
- There was a dude a couple rows in front of us who would occasionally stand up with arms raised and holler “AVS… RULE!!” We found this hilarious. He was obviously trying to start a chant, but instead he got catcalls and Macho Man-styled echoes from Matt’s buddy Aaron. One of the guys in the suite next to us was amused enough by our taunts that he suggested maybe “Beer… RULES!” would be more appropriate.
- That suite next to us belonged to ClearChannel and featured a veritable rainbow of alternate lifestyles and hipsters. At one point a gal joined the other weirdos and exclaimed, “How did all the freaks end up in the suite tonight?” Matty and I aggreed that her sentiment also applied in our suite.
Thanks again, Men of the Brozovich Clan. I had a hell of a time.
The NY Islanders have signed goalie Rick DiPietro to a 15-year, $67.5 million contract. One NHL GM calls the deal “Crazy. Just (expletive deleted) crazy.”
I have to agree. Rick (for whom I actually have a bit of fondness, since he played at BU) has yet to really prove himself in the NHL, and the protection a contract like this offers the team (against the growing salary of a star player) isn’t worth the risk of the player being a flop.
Just (expletive deleted) silly.
I confess I was cheering for the Edmonton Oilers, but the Carolina Hurricanes had a hell of a playoff run. This Stanley Cup final series was great hockey all the way around — especially Conn Smythe winner Cam Ward.
With my old Boston Bruins loyalties, it was certainly overjoying to see Glen Wesley get his first championship after 18 years in the league.
Nice job, boys!
Rode the Bonnie Black into work today. All went well. (Yippee!)
[BTW: The Wife thinks the bike's name is "Betty" -- as in "Black Betty", the badass Leadbelly song. I mostly know the version by a band called Ram Jam, which took over Boston Bruins broadcasts in the 90s thanks to Cam Neely naming it as his favorite song.]
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