So as we all (or most of us at least) know, daylight savings time came to an end last night.  We gained an extra hour of sleep overnight as the clocks shifted back to Eastern Standard Time.

As I look at it now, I don’t understand.  For some one who got a whole extra hour of sleep last night, I sure am one tired fat guy.  Can I have an extra hour or two tonight as well?

I have finally seen The Avengers. It totally lived up to the hype!

Thanks to my family for humoring me and sitting through it.

I love you guys!

We are having a discussion with the kids about the actors who played James Bond.  I am hammering it home that Sean Connery is the best.  The reason for that is because Sean Connery is the best James Bond actor.  I want them to be sure of that should the topic ever come up on the school yard.

Connery
Craig
Moore
Brosnan
Dalton
Lazenby

That’s my personal list from favorite to least favorite, but even my least favorite was friggin’ awesome.  Come on, I mean… George Lazenby and Telly Sevalis beating the crap out of each other while hurtling down a bob sled track?  Friggin’ Awesome!  Timothy Dalton breaking the defector out from behind the iron curtain using the oil pipeline?  Friggin’ superspy!  Let’s face it, they are all awesome.

I’m looking forward to Skyfall.

We did our whole street, we did the street across the main street, we did the road down street to our left, we did the street to our right.

The candy haul was EPIC!

This is just an idea we were kicking around.  Bare with me on this one…

Our city has moved trick or treat from Halloween to tonight, due to hurricane Sandy clean up.

My wife and the kids and I were just thinking… now that it’s November and Halloween is past…

We should give Thanksgiving turkeys instead of Halloween candy!  Wouldn’t that be awesome?  Think of all the happy parents!  Think of all the kids who wouldn’t be able to lift their Halloween swag bags!

What a fantastic (bankruptcy inducing) idea!

We should totally do it!

This absolutely needs to be reported.  It could be comedy’s high water mark…

Bat Fight

Monty Python Holy Grail Ale?

This might be enough to make me start drinking!

Holy crap, this was a long time ago.

I think I was at this show… wasn’t I?

The word on twitter is that the NHL has cancelled this year’s winter classic.  Fans and reporters alike are all in a tizzy over the axing of the league’s signature regular season event.

My feelings?

GOOD!

Before the lock out  began there were many people in the press who believed that the league would shut down until the end of November, just in time for the HBO documentary on the winter classic to start filming.  To me, that would be the single most insulting thing imaginable.  That would make the situation infinitely worse.  The thought of the league shutting down normal operations only to magically come back just in time for it’s main PR ball washing event and cash cow would be hard proof of how little the league cares about hockey.  The regular season can go to hell, just so long as we don’t skip the event that rakes in the dough, while at the same time making us look really good.  That kind of screw you hockey attitude makes me want to throw up my lunch, and I am stunned that there are people who claim to care about professional hockey who think otherwise.  Do you really want hockey back, or do you want the glitz? 

Why not cancel the whole season, then play the winter classic, followed the next day by a coin toss between the Rangers and the Leafs (the two biggest markets) to decide who gets to hoist the Stanley Cup, and then immediately proceed to Las Vegas for the NHL awards ceremony?  And after that, wait a year and do the same thing all over again.  If the PR machine and the big money parties are all you really care about, then why even bother with the games at all?

Cancel the damn winter classic, and then cancel the regular season, and then cancel the playoffs and just get it over with and put us out of our misery.

Two events took place tonight that are noteworthy.  One dumb and pointless, the other pretty awesome.

First, I stitched together a cheesy bass/drums thing as the start of my nasoalmo project.  We are underway again.

Second, there is a little boy in the house who just had a visit from a very fat tooth fairy who was terrified of making noise.

That second one is pretty awesome, still.