I feel I owe the Kings an apology.  Yes, I picked them to win the Stanley Cup Finals.  Sure, I have picked them to win every series they’ve played this post season, and so far I have been right each time.  Statistics show that, given the current state of the Finals, I will be right a fourth time too.

But still… I short changed them.  I gave them less credit than they deserved, and I feel I need to make amends for it in some teeny, tiny, internety way.

In the first round, the Kings beat Vancouver in each of the first three games to take an all but insurmountable (I’m a Bruins fan, note I did not make any guarantees there) 3-0 lead in the series.  In the second round, they beat St. Louis in each of the first three games to again take the same all but insurmountable lead.  In the third round they did exactly the same thing against Phoenix.  Three games in, three games to none lead.

Here is where I let them down though.  When I posted my Stanley Cup Finals predictions I picked them to win the series and the Cup, but I also predicted that New Jersey would put up a fight.  How could I not, after the way they fought against the Rangers in the third round?  If memory serves, I specifically said that the Devils would not allow the Kings to take their fourth three games to none series lead.  I do believe I said if not exactly that, then something very similar.

Well, don’t I look stupid now.  Last night was game three of the Stanley Cup Finals, and last night the Kings won the game to take their fourth three games to none lead this post season.  Boy was I a fool.  Egg all over my face. 

Sorry about that, Los Angeles Kings.  I should have had more faith in you.

Go Kings

Date: June 5, 2012
Temp: 51 degrees
Weather: raining… again

If memory serves, the start of summer is two weeks and one day away. Nice of all the worst parts of Spring to be so forceful and persistent, isn’t it?

(unrelated note: the new Rush record, Clockwork Angels, will be released one week from today. I’m thinking of buying it from iTunes as soon as I get out of bed (if it’s available, of course) so I can listen through it all on the way to work, but then stopping to get a physical copy at Target in Framingham before work starts so that I can listen to it sans compression in the car on the way home. That’s the thought at least, although I hear rumor that the full album was leaked onto the ‘net yesterday. To peek ahead or not to peek ahead… That is the question.)

This is an opinion poll. Please respond in the comments. Thanks.

Star Trek Fans: there have been four spin off series. We can all agree that The Next Generation squashes all others like grapes. We can also all agree that Enterprise was a pile of cow dung compared to the others.

That leaves Deep Space 9 and Voyager. My poll question tonight is:

Which Star Trek spin off series was better, Deep Space 9 or Voyager?

Comment away, people!

Long weekends are glorious things.  The short weeks that follow long weekends are not glorious things, but they are much better than the normal five day work week.

There is a price to be paid for those wonders though.  That price comes due today.  Today marks the Monday beginning the first full length work week following a short work week that followed a long weekend.

Crud.

Oh yeah, and it is looking like we’ll be getting seven straight days of pouring rain.  Today is day three.

Crud, again.

My step son made these. I helped with Mars and Jupiter, but he did the rest all by himself. He did a fantastic job!

We are the masters of the Solar System. We have created the planet Mars!

How much is that kitty in the window, meow meow?