The Bruins won last night.  They trailed Ottawa 3-1 in the second period and came back to win it in the third.  The winning goal?  It came on a Dennis Seidenberg shot from the red line.  Center ice.  Oh how embarrassing that must be for Ottawa goalie Craig Anderson.  I’m guessing he’s going to have a rough day at practice today.

Here are the highlights…

Moving on to the Patriots.  As usual I preface football comments by saying that I don’t follow football.  There.  I’m hearing a lot of talk about revenge.  The Giants spoiled the Patriots perfect season in 2007 by beating them in the Super Bowl.  Now people are talking about how a win on Sunday would be revenge.

Would it?

Think about it.  As a Bruins fan, do you feel that beating Philly in the second round of the playoffs in 2011 was adequate payback for Philly humiliating us in the second round in 2010?  I sure as hell don’t.  Even winning the Stanley Cup last year did not dull the pain.  What did dull the pain was time.  It’s not the freshest memory anymore, but beating Philadelphia and winning the cup doesn’t make me feel better about the most embarrassing defeat in post season history.

Do Red Sox fans feel that beating the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS was revenge for losing in heartbreaking fashion in the same series in 2003?  Do they feel that it was payback for the crushing loss in 1978?  I don’t.  If it did I would have stopped saying *bleeping* when ever I say the names Aaron *bleeping* Boone or Bucky *bleeping* Dent.  I don’t feel that we got even with them, even though we did hand them the most embarrassing loss in baseball history.  I see the three playoffs as completely separate events.

The Patriots beating the Giants in the Super Bowl on Sunday is not going to make up for blowing a perfect season on the last day.  Nothing will ever bring that perfect season back.  Not even successfully completing a new perfect season.  The loss is there forever, no matter what happens now.  I don’t see how any thing could be revenge for losing painfully.

Maybe it’s just the concept of revenge that I don’t get.

The RPM Challenge is underway for 2012 and I slept right through the start. I sense that this will be the start of a trend.

Oh well.

Just under two hours left until February 1st and the start of another RPM Challenge. I don’t feel very optimistic. I need to take care of the riff writing in the morning before work, and I just don’t feel like I have the energy to get up that early. Maybe after getting that first idea rolling I might feel better about things.

On an unrelated note, did you know that double tapping the shift button on an iPhone virtual keyboard activates a CAPS LOCK FUNCTION?

Neither did I!

Oh happy day.  Today is the last business day of January and for everyone who works at the same company I do, that means it’s bonus day.

Jen got to work before I did today and she checked our account and sure enough, there was a nice bonus there.  How nice?  Nice enough to go to California for a week, how’s that?

Sounds nice to me!

Happy Bonus Day!

AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

The Ferris Bueller teaser video is not for a movie, it’s for a Honda commercial!

AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

Urge to kill rising, Rising, RISING,

RISING!!!!!!!!

I don’t remember how we got onto the subject yesterday, but we had a great conversation with the kids about physics… of all things.

Between the two of us Jen and I remember almost nothing, but we did manage to get the basics of free fall across to the kids.  My step son was fascinated by the thought that if you drop something there is a tiny amount of time when the item you drop is not moving.  He had to go over that a couple of times before really getting it (and he was really interested in how long that tiny amount of time is), but he totally got the idea that when you throw something the rules are different and there is not a moment when the object you throw is not moving.  We also talked about vectors and how when you throw a ball there is a force acting in the direction you aimed for, but there is also another force acting on the object that pulls it toward the ground.  That force is called gravity and its the reason why the ball doesn’t travel at the same height you threw it at forever.

It was so much fun, and they both got so much of each idea.  We were in the car for most of this discussion and when we got home it sustained itself for a couple of minutes.  I was just about to show them how you can use d = rt to figure out about a million things when they decided they would rather play video games.  I would have gotten all algebraic up in their faces and blown their little minds, but I’m thrilled with what we did talk about.  Hell, we were talking high school stuff with kids who are 10.5 and 9 years old.  How awesome is that?

Smart kids RULE!

Yeah, that’s my step son playing in full season mode.

For the foreseeable future, playing the roll of coca~cola will be bottled water.