Only the soul-sucking snorefest that is the Sabres' current season apparently has the power to bring me back to lj. To gripe. You've been warned ( Read more... )

Starting to get pre-season hockey jitters, maybe worse than usual because there seems to be a lot at stake. We made waves over the summer for once so everybody's lined up waiting for us to fall on our faces and embarrass the new ownership whose been back-handedly called new money so far. We'll see. Big speculation over comments from the front ( Read more... )

I decide about a day ago the one of the cats' mousies had gotten gross beyond repair (mainly because Carl likes to dunk him in their water bowl), so I threw him out. I figured Carl would find something else to play with.

I'm sitting on the couch last night watching Kill Bill (vol. 1) with half an eye on Irene in regards to my coastally-located ( Read more... )

Just finished reading Elizabeth Gaskell's original Charlotte Bronte biography, and overall it was good, as long as you're willing to patiently bend back the literal text every time Charlotte does something that makes Mrs. Gaskell reach for the smelling salts. Like when she claims that Charlotte and Madame Heger's relationship suffered a break ( Read more... )

Ugh, it was so hot at work today thanks to malfunctioning A/C. I would have probably dealt better if our candidates had taken our apologies and best efforts under the circumstances with higher grace. Instead of treating me and my boss like we clearly had some secret stash of conditioned air somewhere that we were just not sharing with them. Oh ( Read more... )

Firstly, just so no one accuses me of being a spoilsport, Tim Thomas played VERY well is year and deserves his Cup, the Conn Smythe, and the Vezina. Mea culpa. I said one good season and a Vezina don't not a great goalie make, but there is a little more of a trend here. I'm still not prepared to call him an all-time great goaltender, but only a ( Read more... )

Some girl I went to high school with loves to post New Age platitudes as her Facebook statices and I can tell today's is going to go right in the scrapbook:

Cancer is caused by people not dealing with their true inner feelings. When you cut yourself off from parts of yourself, you create cancer. All feeling are you. They all come back to you. To ( Read more... )

Almost a month without updating, how embarrassing. I've been reasonably busy with this and that, just not with terribly interesting things. Or at least things that are terribly interesting to read about. I've been working intermittently and that at least will start to finally pick up a little soon. Earning some money is good - particularly ( Read more... )

I just want to say, no matter what the outcome of the game tonight, that the Flyers will continue to struggle as an organization/win by tooth and nail in the playoffs until they start showing some confidence in their goaltenders. Boucher should have played every game in this series and the mere fact he hasn't is beyond stupid. I don't know if ( Read more... )

I'd say I'm currently reading Wendy McClure's The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie, but I am rapidly approaching the past tense of that statement. It's a quick read type of situational memoir and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the Little House books. I'm still not sure that my level of ( Read more... )