Our friend Joe has gotten himself a little traveling gig. He’s representing the Hampton Inn hotels as a “Bed Head”. 🙂 Pretty interesting. He’s the one pictured above. There are no movies of Joe’s BedHeadedness on the site yet, but I imagine there will be eventually. You can also enter to win a $5000 visa card giveaway or something. Fun stuff. 🙂
It’s your link for today…
PALMYRA, NY – It was an exciting evening for residents of the Southwest 100 block of Canandaigua and Jackson streets in the village of Palmyra. A rabid racoon was terrorizing the neighborhood for a few hours this Sunday afternoon.
“I saw him come across our neighbor’s yard,” explains local tax payer, Greg Campbell, “and kinda meander his way down the side of our house. I peeked out my side door to see him up close and boy was he a sight! All snarled and crooked, and he was growling and sorta, hissing, as he ambled by. He even tried to come in the door! I shut it of course…”
Reports began circulating of the wild animal’s antics. A few dogs were attacked by the creature, and neighbors began warning one another of the danger to their pets.
“Our neighbor told us that some dogs had been attacked,” said tax payer Amy Tones “so we were a bit concerned about our own dog. Sick racoons stay in the same general location, so I wasn’t sure what we were going to do when we had to let her out later tonight!”
But worries subsided when two shotgun blasts rang out shortly after 6pm. The local sheriff department sent a man down to a house on Jackson street where the animal had been cornered in a tree. The first shot knocked the critter out of the tree, and they had to fire a second round to finish him.
“Tough little critter,” commented one resident.
Life has returned to normal for this quiet neighborhood, after quite an exciting series of events instigated by one tough (but sick) little critter.
The 2005-2006 Buffalo Sabres season is over. They gave an extraordinarily valiant effort tonight in Raleigh, NC, but left the ice in defeat, 4-2. (Surprisingly, the score I predicted in a previous entry today…)
But I would like to say, this is the best I have ever felt about a playoff defeat of any Buffalo team. This team was simply incredible. We had 4 out of 6 defensemen out of the game. One of the replacement guys had only put SEVEN SHOTS EVER on any goalie before tonight, and ended up scoring the first game tying goal. His first NHL goal. The defensive subs played great. The rest of the team did not complain, they just picked up the slack and took it to the Hurricanes all night. The pucks would not go in the net as much as they would like, but the tenacity was incredible. There was no quit in this team.
And so, though we lost the game, and the series, they certainly have nothing at all to be ashamed of.
Great season, guys! Looking forward to next year! This is a young team with lots and lots of potential. Look out NHL… here come the Sabres!
I know, I know… it seems all I talk about these days is hockey. Well, it’s a lot of what we’re doing. Until the Western Conference Finals ended early, we were watching some hockey almost every night! Yippee!! It’s been great. And tonight, the Sabres are in game seven of the ECF. It’s down in Carolina, but so far, the Sabres have eliminated their first two opponents on their home ice. That is a good trend for tonight’s game!
A week or two ago, my boys and I created the entire 2005-2006 Sabres squad in an old Sega Gensis game. (NHL 98) So I have been playing through a season with the boys in black and red. Last night I was on a game against the Hurricanes! I thought, this is perfect. This will be the outcome of tomorrow’s game.
The scoring began with Carolina. And they scored two more! 3-0 late in the second. Mike Grier scored to make it 3-1. Third period, Carolina scores – 4-1. The game ended 4-2. Unfortunately, that might be how it goes! 🙁 BUT, not enjoying losing, I continued until the next Carolina game, this one was in Carolina… and the Sabres (on a Maxim Afinogenov goal) pulled out a tenacious 1-0 victory on foreign ice. Awesome!
So, tonight will either be 4-2 Carolina, or a thrilling 1-0 win by the Sabres.
Probably.
🙂
I’m sure I’ll post a report here, win or lose.
One more thing to pass along here. We subscribe to a podcast called Vintage Toon Cast that offers free, public domain cartoons via the iTunes Music Store (or their website). The kids loved the old Superman series from the 40s.
Well, I just saw the one from the 50s called Duck and Cover. An educational video teaching kids to “duck and cover” when an atom bomb explodes. 🙂 It’s crazy. If you grew up in that generation (Mom & Dad…) maybe it’s not as crazy, but really… would a newspaper over your head help prevent injury from an atomic bomb??? Pretty crazy stuff.
Watch here on YouTube.
I don’t know if this is for real or not, but I saw it on a news post from CNET.com today (I think). Someone put together a little 10 question quiz that is somehow related to the US Citizenship Test? It was only 10 questions, so I thought I’d try. I got em all right! Crazy. I must be an ultra-citizen. Uber-citizen. Super-Ultra-Mega-Uber-Citizen.
🙂
If you have a minute, and the interest, click the link below and see how you do. 🙂
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Daniel Briere, the short, shifty little French Canadian with the soft hands got a wrist shot to flip up over Carolina goalie Cam Ward and just barely cross the goal line a few minutes into overtime on Tuesday night, and the Sabres are headed to Carolina for Game Seven on Thursday night! The Sabres are definitely not going down quietly.
The game was constantly in doubt, despite the Sabres decided shot advantage after one period. Out-shooting the Hurricanes 14-5, they only posted a one-goal lead at the end of 20 minutes. And it stayed that way after the next twenty. Throughout the third period it felt like the Sabres were connecting on points one and two, but not three. They were just not finishing. Good stuff was happening, but it felt like Buffalo was just waiting for Carolina to score.
Score they did. A perfect shot over the left shoulder of Ryan Miller, who had a fantastic game! He’s been amazing, to be sure.
But now, the Sabes head back to North Carolina, where they’ll face the Hurricanes – and their fans – in game seven. With a beaten up and weary team (that will not quit!) look for the Hurricanes to outlast the Sabres on their home ice, and advance (likely by even just one goal) to the Stanley Cup Finals. It has been an amazing season, but it looks like it will probably come to an end on Thursday night.
Of course, that said… I’m still a Sabres’ fan, so… maybe I’m totally wrong and we’re looking at a big 4-0 shut out victory for Buffalo in Game Seven! They’ve been a fantastic road team, and we’re due to put some points on the board…
You never know. 🙂
See ya on OLN (or your channel of choice…) Thursday night at 7:30pm EDT!
No, actually, that title is probably not what you think it is. It’s not the regular human body temperature (give or take 0.6ºF…) nor was it the high temp today on a sweltering, muggy, nasty Memorial Day in Buffalo. (Though perhaps it felt like it.)
Ninety-Eight degrees was the temperature in my office when we returned home from a couple days away. 98. That’s a lot of degrees for one office.
God blessed humanity with the person who invented the electric air conditioner. 🙂
Today is Memorial Day, and we are here in Clarence at Grandma & Grandpa’s house, getting ready for a parade this morning! We had a Memorial Day Eve party with our friends the Drakes last night. That was fun! There was a giant new swingset in the back yard that kept all the kids entertained for literally hours! 🙂
Today we’ll be doing the cook out thing (I think) with Jen’s brother’s family too. Holidays are fun family get-together times. 🙂 The only thing I am not looking forward to today is the weather report! Looks like it will be sunny and up towards 90 today! Argh. That’s definitely not good.
Well, have a happy Memorial Day. It’s a great day to remember that the freedom we have is at least in part a gift to us from people who were willing to even give their own lives so that we could live in that freedom. I post a link here every Memorial Day, so I might as well again. Click the song title below to listen to (and read the lyrics from) my song called:
BUFFALO, NY – The Buffalo Sabres leave RBC Arena in Raleigh a tired, and almost spent team. Every time it seems they have the upper hand, a goalie change seems to completely stymie their scoring. It happened in game three of the Eastern Conference Finals, and it happened again tonight in game five.
Buffalo now finds themselves trailing 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. They are heading home, but after taking a serious beating in the previous two contests. Carolina has seemed mostly in control in both the game four 4-0 shut out and tonight’s 4-3 decision in overtime. The Sabres have certainly had their chances, but have not generally been able to capitalize.
Things looked to be turning around for the Buffalo club early in the second period of game five. Derek Roy’s goal put them up 3-1 on the road against a Carolina team that had been playing solidly all night. But their painful lack of depth on defense proved (perhaps) too much for them in the end. A few players out of position, a penalty taken, and the score was evened up at 3-3.
After a scoreless third period, which saw numerous opportunities for Sabres’ players to score on breakaways, the overtime seemed to be going well for this offensively-minded squad. Afinogenov had several chances tonight to put the game away, but could not finish. Grier likewise. The Sabres were definitely putting the pressure on, but substitute goalie, Cam Ward, was up to the task. He stopped every shot he faced coming in midway through the second period.
In the end, the Sabres will likely go down fighting. Look for a wild contest Tuesday night at HSBC Arena in Buffalo. Perhaps Buffalo will even prevail on that night. But I think Carolina, a fine team, will prove too much for this young hockey club. Carolina has experience and depth to add to the tenacity and offensive firepower with which the Sabres match them.
I think if the stakes were even, if Buffalo had not lost three of their top defensemen, we’d be seeing the Buffalo Sabres hoisting the Prince of Wales Cup at the end of this series. But the injuries will prove too much, and Carolina will win this series in seven.
On a super positive note, if Carolina advances it will be the first time (I believe) that Kevyn Adams will appear in the Stanley Cup Finals. Kevyn is from Clarence, NY where Jen & I went to high school. He was in Chorale with us way back when. I remember our chorale teacher pointing Kevyn out as someone who had a goal, and was going to accomplish it. He said, “You’re going to see Kevyn playing in the NHL someday…” Well, the someday is here, and it would be grand if he could have his name inscribed on Lord Stanley’s Cup. That would be a definitely bright spot in the end of the Sabres’ season.
But since we’re not totally dead yet…
Hopefully Kevyn will get to try again next season. 🙂
