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by Greg

Bowman Cup 2007

Speaking of hockey… we spent a good chunk of yesterday traveling to the HSBC Arena in Buffalo. No, we didn’t get to take in a Sabres playoff game… we watched Rochester high-school all-stars take on their counterparts from Buffalo, both juniors and seniors. FOR FREE! Free admission, Free parking. We sat about 5 rows up, down near one of the goals… it was great! All the kids loved it, including cousin Dylan who came along with Grandma, and met us there.

It was tons of fun, and we’re already looking forward to next year! 🙂

I couldn’t find any news articles about it, but here’s one from the Buffalo News, from before the event.

by Greg

Mr. Deity

Mr. Deity
I found this show as a recommended video podcast on iTunes, and thought the description was interesting enough to check out. (And it wasn’t labeled “Explicit”, which you have to watch for on iTunes video podcasts…) I downloaded one show, and then decided to get them all! They’re short little sketches taking a pretty funny (often incorrect, but humorous) look at God and the things he does. 🙂 The cast is Mr. Deity, Jesus, Larry (I think he’s playing the role of Holy Spirit…) and Lucy. (Lucifer is a woman.) If you’re offended by such things, don’t watch. But if you’re not, we think it’s pretty funny.

(I thought the Super Bowl press conference one was pretty funny…) 🙂

Click the photo above to visit their site, or click here to go straight to their iTunes download page.

by Greg

Various Things

  • Kirsten joined us for reading the Bible today (usually it’s just Dad & the boys…) and in today’s story, Jesus was going to have dinner with one of the Pharisee’s named Simon. Well, we had just been talking about how we’d like to go to Wendy’s for dinner, so I said, “Maybe they went to Wendy’s!” The kids all thought that was cool, but the next line said, “So they went to his house for dinner.” I said, “Oh, I guess not Wendy’s. They went to his house. So, they probably had Skyline.” Kirstie replied, “Like us!!!” 🙂 (Which, though I’m 100% certain they did not have Skyline, got across the point that they were peoples just like us.) 🙂
  • Jen wants to make resurrection rolls. That’s awesome. 🙂
  • The Buffalo Bills schedule comes out today (along with the rest of the NFL). It will be announced at 4pm on the NFL Network (which we DO NOT get!!!) and around the same time on the Buffalo Bills website.
  • The Buffalo Sabres have three games to go, and are 1 point behind the Detroit Red Wings for the best overall record in the NHL. Detroit only has 2 games left, so the Sabres are definitely in the driver’s seat. And with games against Boston, Washington, and Philadelphia, they stand a very good chance of winning all of those. Tonight’s game is against Boston, whome the Sabres have a 5-0-2 record against this season! Go Sabres! We could have home ice through the whole playoffs!
  • My wife loves to give gifts. Today I opened my drawers to get my clothes for the day and found an Almond Joy (one of my favorites) on top of my shirts and some travel cups for hot drinks that I enjoy on top of my socks. A fun surprise to begin the day.
  • Mac sales of late have been going at a pretty good clip. At least interest has increased. I am getting calls/emails from folks I don’t even know 🙂 Pretty fun. I love hooking people up with Macs! And the bonus is, now I also get paid by Apple to do it! It’s not a lot, but it’s definitely a nice bonus! Lemme know if you need one… 🙂
  • We are Bills season ticket holders once again! It’s a pretty expensive endeavor for us to go to Bills games (tack on another $50 to even $100 on game day for gas, tolls, parking, food, etc.) so a friend reminded us of the wonder of StubHub. It’s a site where you can buy (and sell!) tickets of all sorts. He’s pretty sure we can cover the cost of our tickets to a game or two we want to go to, by selling the games we don’t want to (or, can’t as it were) go to. SO… we have four seats in the Family section, 225 I believe. See ya there! 🙂 (Guess we’ll find out today WHEN we’ll be going to these games!!!)
  • Jen also surprised me by getting a baby sitter and “taking me” to El Pacifico for dinner last night. It’s our new favorite place. She and I can eat for $15-20 and it’s AWESOME, authentic, Mexican food. Great stuff!
by Greg

I’m STILL Full

I'm STILL FullMan, yesterday was all about the food. And the friends. But lots of food. 🙂

For lunch, we made our first visit to the India House buffet in Victor with our friends the Velasquezes, and a couple of their relatives… it was a big, fun party, with lots of good food (gotta love a buffet!) and I left there quite sure I wouldn’t need food for quite some time.

BUT WAIT. More friends were coming for a visit that evening… the Muscarellas were coming for a Skyline Chili meal! Now, if you’ve had Skyline with us, you know that it’s an all-you-can-eat affair… and indeed… it was. I had three chili spaghettis (2 4-ways and a 3-way) AND a nice big chilito!

AND THEN…

We went to Chill & Grill for the 5th time in the 5 days since it opened!!! HA!!!

I’m still full.

So, going to play basketball now and hopefully burn some calories. I feel… heavy. 🙂

It was a great day of food and friends though. Perhaps we should have just spread it out a bit?

By the way… that is me in the photo to the right, but… I don’t really look like that. 🙂 It’s Photo Booth magic. 🙂

by Greg

Opening Day!

Opening Day!

Some folks look forward to spring time because it means Opening Day. We are some of those folks… but it’s a different sort of Opening Day. We’re not talking baseball… we’re talkin’

CHILL & GRILL!!!!

We have a little slideshow for you of a few photos from our Opening Day experience. 🙂 Yes, that is a ONE POUND hamburger, and I DID finish it! 🙂

We had a blast, and are hoping to cap off opening day with a little ice cream for a bedtime treat. They close at 10… hope we can make it before that!

If you missed the link above, and want to see the slideshow… click here.

🙂

by Greg

More Look-Alikes

Greg looks like Tia CarrereWell, we have been playing with the look-alike site a bit more this weekend, and I was again today (it’s sort of addictive or something?) And I must say that it’s interesting accurate, and hilariously funny…

Except perhaps these results????

I used a photo of me and Alex today, and all TEN results came back FEMALE! Ha! Pretty funny.

Greg looks like Sidney CrosbyI tried it again, just to be sure, and the second time ONE guy did come up. Guess I also look like Sidney Crosby. The boys will like that. 🙂 (Although… Sidney is the name of my sister’s DAUGHTER…..)

Anyway… click a couple more links and let me know if you agree… do I really look like a GIRL? 🙂

First Results
Second Results