D'ya'll hear "That was a rusty skate boot to the testicles for Dallas."?

No. I think Liese and I were watching it on VS, and I'm sure it's blacked out in your area so the local carrier can make its money.

Are you not going to watch any more games?

Liese, hee! I'm impressed you can type.

I dunno. I might,.

Mavericks are doing fairly well, and I like basketball. But I do like the physicality of hockey. I think I mostly just miss football.

But yeah, if there's another game on some night, I'll watch with y'all.

Before I go to bed

1) My last drink tasted like a childrens' asprin.

2) I'm easy when it comes to bloody sports.

Yay! I enjoyed the watch and post with the both of you.

Hockey's it for me. I'm not a pro basketball fan, I tolerate baseball, and I'll actively watch football, but any level of hockey is first in my heart. The rest of them are just time-fillers until the preseason.

Now, I am going to try and sneak into bed without waking DH. 'Night, all.

Me too! Night!

t Do I still remember how this is done?

Um, so, it's a post-and-run, and it's too late for one and too early for another, but that's the only computer time I'm going to have from now to Sunday, so. Anyway, the Buffista Calendar tells me that I've missed Cashmere's Owen birthday by a day (it was yesterday), and am too early to PMM's Lillian birthday by a day (it's tomorrow). But they and their mommies definitely deserve all the possible wishes, and time should not stop me from doing that, so there!

t /Oh, yeah, I still remember how it's done. Now, if anybody invents a time machine to deal with the birthdays schedules, can you squeeze in some posting-time for me, as well? I miss that

Nilly, I've missed reading your fonts. How was your holiday?

Daisy, Liese, and Maria, I loved reading your hockey talk. I remember when Boston used to have a hockey team.

Heya, Nilly!

Crazy hockey watch-n-posters.

The first few weeks at a new job are the absolute worst. I hate that feeling of, "I suck and they were just blind to it and they'll find out I suck and fire me and then everything goes to shit and and and..."

So true. Ugh.

It is almost impossible to express how much I don't want to go to work today. Bleh.

Yeah, we nearly gave it up at the strike ourselves.

The strike killed almost all my enthusiasm for the sport on a national level. I'm used to the corporate suits being motivated mainly by greed and arrogance, but the players outdid them and were so publicly puffed up about the intrinsic value of their talents without realizing that they're only valuable if being used to entertain fans by playing the damn game. Every bit of pampered whining I heard, coupled with many moving to the AHL and displacing veteran Crash Davis-type minor league players who actually needed those jobs to support their families... grrr, I start seeing red all over again more than a year later.

It doesn't help that P.J. Axelsson is the only remnant of MY Bruins left. The rest of the team is a wash of bland unremarkable no-names with Zdeno Chara towering over them all.

It limits some pretty, pretty plays, and penalizes goalies who are good puck-handlers. Ron Hextall wouldn't have been half the 'tender he was if he had to follow these rules.

True. Though if stifled by the current rules, I see Hexy giving up puck handling and saving his penalty minutes for clocking opposing players in the helmet.