My sister knows someone whose son is a big league pitching prospect. He was called up to the majors today and could make his debut in tonight’s game. How cool is that?
I think that by extension this actually brings me one step closer to playing 3rd base and hitting clean up for the Boston Red Sox. Don’t ask how, just take my word for it. I totally did the math on this one.
The guitar is ready for practice. I’m not, but it is.
They were in third place in the division with three games left. In those three games they scored a grand total of four goals over those three games and went 0-3 with only one loser point. That loser point was earned after they were eliminated from the playoffs.
Had they won out they would have made the playoffs. Had they gone 1-1-1 they would have made the playoffs. They were pretty awful against Washington. They looked like a team that had already clinched the Stanley Cup and were just coasting along and they got their asses kicked. In Florida they came out on fire but when they hadn’t won after 10 minutes or so they looked as though they stopped caring. Prior to yesterday’s game they needed to beat Tampa Bay and they needed either Ottawa or Pittsburgh to lose. Ottawa beat Philly in the afternoon. That removed one opportunity to get into the post season. Pittsburgh’s game started 30 minutes before theirs so they got to scoreboard watch as the Penguins started scoring in the second period. They watched their season go down the toilet while still being unable to produce any offense at all.
When did the collapse really start though? It started over the first few days of free agency when they failed to sign Jarome Iginla. They let their top scorer from last year go and did nothing to replace him. Then they traded a top four defenseman and never replaced him. What did they expect? The team had no offense to speak of and the defense had no depth. Then injuries came along and no player will ever use that as an excuse, but they lost their top defenseman to an injury and he was never the same again. They lost one of their top centers and he was never the same again. When they finally found a bit of a spark with a line made up of two rookies and a Lucic the coach broke up the line with three games remaining in the season when wins were desperately needed.
The general manager needs to go. I just checked headlines on NHL.com and I was stunned that he hasn’t been fired yet. The coach needs to go. A select group of high profile players who grossly underperformed need to go. A select group of lower profile players who also grossly underperformed need to go, but no one on Earth will take them.
Blow it up. This is unacceptable. I am really glad I didn’t go to any games this year or buy any merchandise and give the team any of my money. This whole season was garbage from even before the start of the first game. Everyone responsible needs to be fired.
Yesterday I posted that I might go to the beach for some sunrise pics. Right now you’re all desperately waiting for said pictures.
I didn’t go. I have developed a mathematical expression to describe exactly why I did not go.
(Sleeping in on a Sunday morning) > (Getting up before dawn on Sunday morning)
I hope that explains things for everyone.
The weather and the timing are appearing to line up tomorrow… might there be a sunrise photo shoot up at Hampton Beach? I haven’t shot a sunrise since November. I’m due.
Here’s the history.
In February of 2014 my wife and I joined Weight Watchers after a particularly junk food filled Christmas and New Years. I don’t think either of us were really that motivated and we let it fizzle out after four or five weeks.
Next came Labor Day weekend. My wife and I had a pretty difficult conversation regarding the state of our health. We both felt sick all the time and were concerned that we weren’t going to be around much longer if we didn’t start making changes. We talked about going veggie. We talked about going juice veggie. In the end we stepped back from the ledge a bit and decided to give Weight Watchers another try.
From Labor Day weekend through mid-December I lost about 37 pounds. Then the Christmas temptations got in the way. I went to one weigh in in late January and I had gained a few pounds back. That was it. The mountains of snow that came after that sucked any desire I had to do anything right. I told my wife that I would choose a date in early Spring and make that the back on the wagon day. The date changed a couple of times, but it’s finally arrived.
During the snowpocalypse of this winter I had an issue with my debit card. I slid it into an ATM and it was gone forever, never to be seen again. When the new card was sent to me I tried to update my weight watchers account but for some reason I could not get it done online. Eventually my account was cancelled. I was sad. Not really, I just knew I’d have to re-up. I didn’t know if I would have to start a new account or if I would be able to reactivate the Labor Day account.
The back on the wagon day arrived today. I ended up with a brand new account that is not tied to my Fall numbers at all. I still know what those Fall numbers were, of course, and todays weigh in was ugly. Not, however, as ugly as I had feared. I’m still around 15 pounds under my Labor Day weigh in. I was pretty surprised with that. I felt as though I had put every ounce of lost weight back into my gut. That does not matter though. I’m starting with a clean slate. This week is week zero and my weight loss count sits at 0.0 pounds.
Jen and I went food shopping this morning and bought all the things that we were eating while having success last year. I’m going to have fish for dinner tonight. 12 months ago that would have grossed me out to no end. Today? I can handle it and I know it’s for a good cause… my health.
Wish us luck.
Patches knifed the shit outa me while I slept last night.
Today is the day kids. Today is the day we get back on that mean ol’ Weight Watchers Wagon. Skinny, here we come! I’m ready to get back down to my weight from this picture:
(I’m the skinny dude on the right, with all those freckles.)
But seriously folks, the goal is to lose weight, be a little healthier, feel better, and not die of a heart attack before I turn 50. Last time I lost more weight and stuck with the program longer than I ever had before. I just need to replicate and then improve on those results. I need to make real changes in my life in order to be healthy, and it starts today.
Goose did a better job parking than most humans. 
Here is a rare political post from me. Enjoy. Or hate. I don’t care. This is not meant for debate.
Hilary Clinton is expected to announce her candidacy for the Presidency of the United States on Sunday. I will say the same thing today that I said when I voted for her in the Massachusetts primary election in 2008:
She’s not liberal enough for me.
Again, if no one better comes along I’ll support her, but she’s just not liberal enough. Where is Dennis Kucinich when we need him?
