This game is brutal.  The Blues are 100% dominate.  They are skating circles around us and making us look bad.

Despite that, we’re up 1-0 mid way through the second period.

I was going to bring some pedals to practice tonight and swap stuff off the board. I didn’t. I was also going to bring the band board home so I could tweak it before the next practice. I didn’t. I did have new strings on my SG. I did not have calluses on my finger tips because I haven’t been playing enough. My finger tips hurt. A lot. Ouch.

Another critter walks over without realizing I was here. He didn’t come close though.

I mowed the front lawn. I’m going to mow the back lawn, but I’m taking a breather, sitting on the patio aka possibly my current favorite place on Earth.

Bugs Bunny here hopped onto the patio before he knew I was here. He exited… slowly.

The Mighty Spicket River says that I lost two pounds since my last weigh in. The mighty Spicket is mighty indeed. We’ve had some serious rain storms over the last few days and the river is high.

On an unrelated note, entering robertjames1971.wordpress.com seems to automatically forward you to robertjames1971.blog. Nice.

The new site address is robertjames1971.blog.  I suppose I should have looked into whether or not the old address would still work before I went through with this, but what can you do.

WordPress.com said service might be spotty for a while until they get everything finalized on their end.

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I woke up earlier than I planned so I’m killing a little time before leaving for weight watchers.  Last week was the first week since I got back into this that I missed a check in.  We were away on our 10th anniversary mini-getaway so I couldn’t make it.  Due to being less than good food-wise (only a little bit) on said mini-getaway, I expect to be up a little today.  I could be wrong, but we’ll see.

WordPress.com just sent me a reminder letter about something I wasn’t going to do and now I might do it because what the hell.  A few weeks ago I ran out of free storage.  Bummer.  They do offer multiple tiers of paid services which include storage space.  I promised myself I would never buy in, but then I went ahead and signed on to the cheapest plan.  It includes one year of free domain name with a .blog extension.  I didn’t care about that.  I wasn’t going to use it.  Then this morning they sent me a reminder that I had a credit for one year of free domain.  Ugh, now I want it.  Jerks.

I watched the whole game last night.  At least I had the NBCSN stream on my computer all night and I was in the room while it was playing.  At some point during the second intermission my step son decided he was going to have a political discussion and I was totally up for it.  We went deep into our broken system.  We disagreed on some things, and agreed on others.  It was enlightening and fun and I’m really glad we did it.

It did mean that I couldn’t hear the commentary going on during the Bruins game though.  In the third period, I saw a Bruins player go down injured, and on the same play the Blues scored what turned out to be the game winner.

I didn’t see a trip.  Looking at replays today, holy shit did I see a trip.  Blatant and obvious and really insulting that the incompetent officials failed to call it.  Regardless of whether it lead to the game winning goal or not.

Here’s the thing though.  While it was definitely the most evenly matched game of the series so far… I kinda think the better team won.  I kinda think the Blues were going to win even if the shit officials had made that call.  In other words, I don’t think that awful call changed anything.

The Bruins were good, but the Blues were better.

Enough with the overskating the puck.  Enough with the dumbass cross-ice passes.  Enough with the inability to clear the puck out of the D zone.  Enough giving them seemingly endless stretches of offensive zone time so that when you finally do clear it you have to dump it in and change lines.

The bad non-calls are not the reason we lost that game.  We had better show up for game six on Sunday.

 

The Bruins are losing 1-0 after two periods. It’s not looking so even any more. The Blues are taking it to us. We are spending a huge amount of time in our defensive end. When we do get control of the puck everyone is exhausted so they dump it in and head to the bench.

Oh yeah, and just before the period ended, David Krejci was our goalie. Crud.