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Proud of Myself

I’m feeling a little proud of myself, I’m not going to lie.

My beloved wife is on a short overnight business trip and I’m here with the kids.  I cooked dinner tonight without having Jen here to be my culinary security blanket and somehow I didn’t make the kids sick.  It’s been three hours since we finished dinner and they aren’t sick at all.  They are feeling fine and I’m feeling pretty good.  I actually did something right.

How about that?!

Red Sox Shuffle

Let’s all dance the Red Sox Shuffle!  You know how it goes, right?

Take the lead
blow the lead
Take the lead
blow the lead
Take the lead
blow the lead
you lose!

woohoo! One more time!

Take the lead
blow the lead
Take the lead
blow the lead
Take the lead
blow the lead
you lose!

NHL First Round Predictions

I don’t want to do a playoff picks post. No. Screw you, NHL and your little post-season too.

But… the law states that I have to do it, so I will (it’s a Federal law, not just a State thing)… but I swear I won’t enjoy it. You suck, Bruins-free-NHL.

Eastern Conference.
Who cares, the Bruins are out of it in horrific collapsing fashion for the second year in a row.

Florida Panthers vs New York Islanders. I pick the Boychuck Islanders over the Luongo Panthers, even though Luongo used to be a Lowell Lock Monster.

Tampa Bay Lightning vs Detroit Red Wings. The Wings suck. Good lord, do the Red Wings suck. Tampa Bay is without three of their best players though. They are a shadow of their former selves. Both teams should lose. Really. Go Refs! Crap, I gotta pick one… How about Tampa Bay. I pick Tampa Bay.

Washington Capitals vs Philadelphia Flyers. Yeah, have fun Philly. See you on the golf course. Washington in a cake walk. As one of the headline readers on 98.5 the Sports Hub has taken to saying, the Caps win a four game sweep in three games.

Pittsburgh Penguins vs New York Rangers. Argh! I hate you both, you pricks! I’m picking Pittsburgh, but only because I want to see another Crosby vs Ovetchkin series, with Ovi finally winning one.

Western Conference.
Who gives a shit.

Dallas Stars vs Minnesota Wild. Is Tyler Seguin still hurt? I thought I read somewhere recently that he’s hurt. If he’s not, then Dallas wins easily. If he is still hurt then Dallas wins easily.

St Louis Blues vs Chicago Blackhawks. I want to say Chicago in three (gonna use that stupid line all Spring, you know that, right?), but they’ve been in a slide lately, so I will say Chicago in four. Sorry St Louis, but you guys are choke kings. Much like the Boston Bruins.

Anaheim Ducks vs Nashville Predators. Nice knowing you, Preds. The games haven’t even started yet and the Rubber Duckies have already beaten you. Sorry.

Los Angeles Kings vs San Jose Sharks. I swore on all that I held sacred that I would never again pick the Sharks in a playoff series. You know what though? This season is already a Bruins Collapse disaster so screw it, I’m picking the Sharks. You hear me, Joe Thornton? This is your year! This is the year that Jumbo Joe drinks from Lord Stanley’s Cup! You heard it here first! Or should I say, you heard it here first which guarantees that Joe will be surfing before April ends.

There you go kids. My playoff predictions. On a final note to fans of all 16 playoff teams… suck it.

Fear the Walking Dead

Season two of the Walking Dead spin off, Fear the Walking Dead premiers tonight.  I’ll see it tomorrow, either on the AMC app or on Hulu.  I’m hoping I don’t have to go the iTunes route anymore, but I will if the two apps fail me.

I watched most of the first season today.  It gave me a laugh out loud moment.  I think it was episode three, technically 103, when our heroes were escaping a riot somewhere in Los Angeles.  As they are running away you can hear one of the rioters yell, “ghetto Christmas!”  Sorry, but I found that funny.  I hope it was an ad lib by an extra, and I hope said extra got a bonus.  Brilliant.

Here’s hoping season two is a good one.  Many people bashed the first season, but I liked it… Except for the bit where the soldiers in 106 couldn’t shoot through a chain link fence.  That was just idiotic, and the little cgi bits of bullets hitting the links was beyond stupid.  Other than that, I liked the show a lot.  Looking forward to some high sea zombie adventures this year.

Sucks to be a Bruins Fan

Well it used to be cool to root for the Boston Bruins. Not anymore. Now it’s just painful.

Two years in a row without a playoff spot thanks to two absolutely pathetic late season collapses. Last year it was the end of the world because we thought we had a really good team and they just choked it all away. This year is worse because we knew we had a mediocre team and yet they still managed to have a 10+ point lead in the standings, first place in the division and I think 11 points ahead of the lowest playoff seed, with just a few weeks left and then they puked it all away and were eliminated from the playoffs on their last day.

I can honestly say that right now it completely sucks to be a Boston Bruins fan.

The Red Sox, however, are 3-1 to start the season. We can all agree that the early success will not last for very long, but we can enjoy it while we have it. Go Red Sox!

Stone Age

  
I’m at my parents house tonight.  After Joe Kelly gave up a six run inning I went to my old bedroom to once again search for the elusive band practice cassette recording from 1988 (it’s in there somewhere, I can feel it).

There was an old desktop computer in my old room.  It’s a Compaq Presario 2266.  It has a floppy drive and a CD burner (which is nice seeing as it only had 4 gigs of memory… I have mp3 files for home demos that are too big to fit on the hard drive) and USB ports?  What are those?

If memory serves, I bought it when I was going to Middlesex Community College, and replaced it after I transitioned to UMass Lowell.  I started thinking… I wonder if it would boot up?  Challenge accepted!

10 minutes later, challenge failed.  It got far enough to start loading Windows 98 (!) but it crashed to DOS.  I can only remember two DOS commands.  One of them is ping, which even if Windows 98 has it, it won’t do anything because this computer pre-dates machines that came with networking capabilities.  No Internet for this guy.  The other command I know is dir, which lists the contents of the current directory.  The crash took me to C: so I tried it out.  There were a bunch of files that looked like system files.  I only saw one that would have been mine.  It was called RESUME and the date on it was 2001.

Oh well… No Windows 98 box for me.  I guess I’ll have to settle for my 128 gig telephone.  HAHA!  I love living in the future!!!!