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March Payday

I get paid once a month.  It’s not so bad usually, but for some reason the March payday is painful.

In December you blow all of your money on Christmas but we get paid at the end of the month, so it’s almost like emergency medical care… the paycheck comes right when you need it most.  It goes fast though as you have more bills to pay in January due to Christmas-on-Credit, but when January’s paycheck comes it is accompanied by my company’s annual bonus, so January’s paycheck takes care of pretty much all of the Christmas troubles.  Following that, February’s paycheck comes seemingly immediately because February is a short month.  Granted, it’s not that much shorter, but somehow it always seems like the paycheck comes fast.

Then there’s March.

31 days.  It seems like the longest month of the year.  It seems like 100 years goes by between getting paid in February and getting paid in March.  It’s only 2-3 days longer, but it seems like a lifetime.  It seems like the entire family economy… hell, the entire economy of the United States of America hangs in the balance, waiting for the end of March to arrive.

Perception is a bitch, you know?

Today is payday.

>insert sigh of relief here<

An App of an Evening

I was listening to the Bruins game on the NHL iPad app and reading World War Z on the iBooks app when Washington broke the 0-0 tie in the third period. My wife and step daughter have been hounding me to read The Hunger Games for a few days now, but I have put it off until I finished World War Z. I only had 50 pages or so left so with the game seemingly blown I turned off the NHL app and turned on the iPod app. I picked a Genius Mix (60’s Psychedelic Rock seemed like a good choice at the time) and buckled down on the book.

As the Genius Mix fed me a steady diet of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Traffic, Jefferson Airplane, and Paul Kantner/Grace Slick music I finished the book. I then opened up the Kindle app and started reading my wife’s copy of The Hunger Games. After four chapters I needed a break so I jumped onto the Twitter app and learned that the Bruins did indeed lose, but that they tied the game at two before losing in the shoot out. So they did not clinch their playoff spot, but they did move one point closer.

I think I’m done reading for the night so I thought I would open up the Blogger app and write a little blurb about all of the apps I’ve used tonight.

Now as the Genius Mix brings up Pink Floyd’s High Hopes, maybe I’ll open up the Netflix app and watch some South Park or something.

Night everyone!

Magic Number

I knew this day had to be coming soon, but I was not aware it was here already.

A win by the Bruins tonight against Washington will clinch a playoff spot.  That’s all well and good, but I want the division.  I don’t want them to settle for just making it into the post season, I want that #2 seed.

Go Bruins!

Why Oh Why

Why oh why is today Thursday and not Friday? It’s already feeling like one of those days and it’s not even Friday yet.

I just saw a squirrel out in the back yard. How will I go about having a bird feeder this year with out those damn dirty squirrels eating all of the food?

Spring is here.

Nada

There isn’t much going on today.

The Bruins won last night.
Our van is in the shop getting its air conditioner fixed.
As far as I know we have no plans this weekend.  That’s really weird.
Major League Baseball’s regular season opened in Japan today with a game that wasn’t aired on television in the United States.  The real opening game is Boston at Detroit next week.
I folded all of our laundry on Sunday.  It’s still sitting in the living room waiting to be put away.  Urgh.
Very exciting, huh?
I have this urge to scrap my current music project in favor of writing and recording an ep or so using nothing by Garageband on my iPhone.  Basically, the same thing I did for RPM last month only with a much smaller touch screen.
I want to go away for a week to San Diego.
I want to go away for a week to a lake in Maine.
I’m crazy about my wife.
I get to see my step kids today.
Life is good, even if there isn’t much happening today.

Seven Games Left

When the Bruins ran up a huge lead in the division back in November and December one of the positive things for us the fans was that if the lead was as insurmountable as it appeared then the rest of the regular season would be more or less stress free.

Nope.

Seven games left.  The Bruins have a three point lead in the division over Ottawa.  We have two games in hand, but I never consider that as a positive.  Sure there are four potential points for the Bruins that do not exist for the Senators, but whenever you start banking on games in hand the team always tends to lose those games.  I focus on what has happened instead of what might happen.  I guess.  As it stands now, if Ottawa catches us we would drop from second in the conference all the way down to sixth which is terrible, but last week it would have been seventh.  Sixth sounds a whole lot better than seventh.

In the conference we are in second place, 10 points out of first so we can forget about that.  Florida is four points back.  It’s close, but frankly I am a whole ton more worried about Ottawa than Florida.  I want to win the division.  I don’t care if we’re second or third seed.  Second seed guarantees us two rounds of home ice, but they have been so frustrating over the past couple of months that I am only caring about the first round.

They play Tampa Bay tonight.  Tampa embarrassed the Bruins a couple of weeks ago.  May Boston’s finest right that particular wrong.

Go Bruins!