No score after one period.  Many Bruins shots.  Not so many from the Blues, but some good scoring chances.  One power play for each team.

It’s pretty even so far.

Anytime the Bruins want to go into slaughter mode… fine with me.

Game five.  Tonight.  Zdeno Chara broke his face.  Will he play?  Will the Bruins suck the way they did in game four?  Will the Blues suck the way they did in game three?

So many questions.  I’m afraid of the answers.  The path was so clear after game three.  The Bruins were dominate, the Blues were garbage, give us the cup.  Then game four reversed all of it.  The upside, and with Zdeno Chara’s broken face making his availability for tonight questionable who knows if this still applies, is that the Bruins were bad in game two and only lost by one goal in overtime.  They were worse in game four and only trailed by one goal when St Louis scored in an empty net late in the third.  Games one and three, we won with relative ease.

So Bruins good = dominate win.  Bruins bad = close game.  Maybe if they have another bad night they can steal a win.  I don’t know.  I’d much rather tonight and Sunday being convincing wins, maybe scoring 8-10 goals in the first period.  I’m tired of this stress crap.  I want it over now.

Speaking of Sunday, band practice.  I’m going to do some pedal board surgery… twice.

First, replace my beloved Keeley D&M Drive with the Klon KTR and the Fulltone OCD.  Halfway through practice I’ll swap the Klon KTR for the Wampler Tumnus.  I’ll record the whole practice, listen back the next day, and decide once and for all if the KTR is better than the Tumnus or the other way around.  Then what do I do with the stay at home board?  Do I put the D&M Drive on it straight away or do I try something different?  Maybe the loser of the KTR/Tumnus sweepstakes paired with the Keeley Super Phat Mod?  I just can’t bring myself to give up on that one yet.  Maybe pair it with the Tube Screamer Mini?  I just read a reddit post where folks were singing the praises of Klon/Tube Screamer pairs.  I don’t know.

Really… all this gear talk is just distracting me from my hockey panic.  Please, Bruins.  Get your shit together.  Please, Zdeno Chara, let your broken face not be too broken to play.  We need our shut down D-man on the penalty kill.

Go Bruins!

It was supposed to happen two months ago, but it looks like I am going to be getting one of those CPAP machines that help with sleep apnea symptoms.  It’s probably going to take a couple of weeks, but if all goes well maybe I won’t spontaneously stop breathing every few minutes every night.

That would be nice, don’t ya think?  I’m going to have to put a face mask thing that’s going to make me feel like the guy in Alien who had the egg laid in his stomach… but at least the Alien and I will get better sleep.

Just killing time, waiting on the Doc. Just checking in. Maybe I’ll get some CPAP news, who knows.

Game Four of the Stanley Cup Finals.  The Blues lead 3-2 with about seven minutes left.

I don’t want to be depressed tomorrow.  I really need the Bruins to come back and take this one. Let’s get it done, Boston.

 

Today’s the day. Yup. At last, today’s the day I’m going to start listening to the audio book of JRR Tolkien’s “The Silmarillion”. Yup. I’m gonna do it.

Six minutes later.

Huh. Maybe I’ll try again in a few days.

We were in Southern Connecticut yesterday and decided to take the long way home.  We hugged the coast for a while, crossing into Rhode Island, and went searching for the ocean.  We found it in Westerly, RI.

I had been there once before, about 15 years ago, visiting a friend. It’s gorgeous there. Just beachy perfection. Yesterday’s visit hammered that fact home to both me and my wife. If we need a weekend getaway to the ocean this summer, we’re going to look for places to stay down there.

We also found the house we want to buy.

The current owners seem to have the same sort of sit-and-stare-at-the-ocean interests that I have. We could tell when we rolled the car forward a few feet.

That’s our future, right there. Sitting on the adirondack chairs, watching the waves roll by.

Heaven.

Stanley Cup Finals Emotional States Post Games:

Game one: hockey bliss.

Game two: crippling hockey depression.

Game three: hockey bliss again.

The Bruins destroyed the Blues in game three. The final score was 7-2, but it was over after the first period when the Bruins went up 3-0.

After the stressful nature of game two, my heart really needed a blow out. It was so nice. I didn’t need the defibrillator once!

Game four is Monday night in St Louis. Here”s hoping the Blues fail to show up to that game too.

Go Bruins!