A couple of videos from the Rush Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary premier this past weekend.

I find this to be very funny. Check out how embarrassed Geddy Lee looks.

I was going to embed another one. This one, in fact, but the user disabled the embed function. Oh well.

I think I am going to wait to read up on this movie until I get the chance to see it for myself. The DVD/Blu Ray release will be June 29, and the film maker’s website says there will be a one day only release in select theaters. Wherever they may be. I am hoping the Brattle in Cambridge will step up. I like that place. Either that or the Loop in Methuen. I like that place more. It’s less than 10 minutes from my house. Yeah, that one gets my vote.

I’m looking forward to seeing this.

I didn’t watch any hockey this weekend. Not a single second. Vancouver clinched against Los Angeles. That makes me 0-2 on predictions so far.

It’ll be worth it if the Bruins can win their series. Game six is tonight. They are up three games to two. They could have won it on Friday if they had bothered showing up to rink. They were flat and looked bored. It was the Bruins team that lost 10 games in a row earlier in the year, not the team that won three straight over the favored Sabers. Hopefully the games two through five team will show up tonight, not the game six team.

After a long day of shopping for Florida supplies on Saturday we went to Mike and Tammy’s house to play on their daughter’s new swing set yesterday. It was a good time. Mike and Jen and I got up to speed on the upcoming Rush tour/documentary/album, and possible pre-album release of a song or two… that’s just a rumor, but it was started by the band so maybe it’ll be true.

I went to the gym on Saturday and really wore myself out. I didn’t over do it, but I did give more than the usual push. I went back on Sunday and couldn’t quite repeat Saturday’s performance. I was just too dead by the end of the hellish elliptical machine that I couldn’t push it for another couple of minutes. We’re going back tonight. I think I’ll just try to redo Sunday’s workout and not try and push ahead any. We’ll see how I feel when I get there.

Until then…

Go Bruins!

My phone just rang. I didn’t recognize the number. It was from area code 805 in Carmarillo, CA. They left a voicemail. It was almost five minutes long. It was a pocket dial and the message was two guys and their grandmother talking about some game some where. It was a little on the fascinatingly voyeuristic side.

Ain’t cell phones cool?

I had my first cell phone back in 1995… I think? It looked like this:

Subject change…

Nearly two years ago I popped the question to the love of my life. She said yes. She also bought me a little tiny pocket sized 10 megapixel camera. We took it to a bunch of places, including a couple of Rush concerts, and had some fun with it. Unfortunately the battery charger vanished. We tried to find a replacement but couldn’t.

Last weekend, magically, the charger reappeared. I charged it and it’s now back in action. It’s been totally trumped by the awesomeness of the awesome Nikon D90 Awesomest awesomeawcity. But it’s still pocket sized and can go with us anywhere.

I used it to get a picture of my Jenny on a swing.

I also got a picture of this cryptic message… but what does it mean?

I also got this awesome shot of the 2nd most awesome ice cream shoppe in the universe. This is the Kimball’s store in Carlisle, MA. The awesomest ice cream shoppe of course is the Kimball’s in Westford, MA.

…and in closing, Phineas and Ferb is currently the best cartoon in this and any other universe.

…and in closing, again…

Go Bruins!

I went to the gym this morning at a little after 7:00. We have the kids this weekend so Jen and I are going separately.

Oh.
My.
God.

My legs are killing me. I pushed the treadmill much harder than usual and I’m totally feeling it. I did a few minutes on the hellish elliptical what-ever-the-hell-it’s-called and then I was toast. I was considering a couple of minutes on a bike too, but after the hell machine I could barely move.

Isn’t this fun?

Notice how I haven’t mentioned the pain that is the Bruins losing game five last night? If Jack Frickin’ Edwards mentions 2004 one more time I am going to stick a fork in his eye. Shut up Jack!

Go Bruins!

Someone posted this on twitter a few minutes ago. I have no idea where it comes from, but it is the best picture ever… maybe. Sure enough it’s a great summation of the current Bruins/Sabers playoff series.

Here is the url, I think it might be boston.com?
http://boston.3432.voxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/bruins2-480×440.jpg

Sometimes I feel like I get all of my news from Mashable. Of course we know that’s not tr… well… maybe it is true.

They posted an article today saying that Google is going to make turn by turn GPS directions available on the maps app on the iPhone. How freakin’ awesome would it be if they shipped that out prior to our drive to Florida? We have a GPS unit that we got prior to the honeymoon last year, but if we could just go with our iPhones that would be easier and better and cooler and more Google/Apple fanboyish. I think it would be cool.

I was getting the feeling that Google was going to stop dealing with Apple, but if this happens it would make me happy.

Especially since the Tom Tom app for the iPhone cost an insane amount of money. Free is my favorite price, kids. Never forget that.

Here is the trailer for the documentary, Rush Beyond the Lighted Stage.

First: The trailer for the Rush documentary, which debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, can be found here. http://music.msn.com/video/music/?g=42fbdc32-f1f2-4e81-b504-7e760a21f0e1

There, now that you’ve watched that and can’t wait to see it and can’t wait for the tour, and can’t wait for the expected new song or two to be released… somehow, and can’t wait for the new album, we can move on.

So what was it that got me stuck in about 40 minutes of traffic on route 93 South this morning? Oh, a pothole? Yeah, that makes sense.

A POT HOLE????

I had a rough night sleeping last night. At a little before midnight Jen woke me up to try and get my to stop snoring. Yeah, I snore. Some nights it’s worse than others, but it’s always bad. Last night was really bad, I guess. At first she asked me to sleep on the couch… that’s how bad it was last night… but then decided to let me just sleep on the other side of the bed. That seemed to work. She didn’t wake me up again.

Karma bit me on the ass though. My step son had a nearly unbroken string of nightmares last night. Twice he came into our room scared. After switching sides with Jen, I was the one closest to the door. >insert smile here< If Jen was having trouble sleeping because of me, then the little man was going to even the score for her and wake me up too. Justice for Jenny!

Just kidding.

I am more than happy to help out with the late night frights. Don’t let my smart assedness about my snoring lead you to doubt that. Having been a regular recipient of nightmares when I was his age I will make it a priority to help him through his scares.

Still… sometimes his nightmares (and his sister’s too) are just so damn funny. At around 3:00 this morning he knocked on the door and came in and hugged me saying he had a really bad dream. I asked him what the dream was about and he said, still sounding really scared, that a giant pepper with eyes had killed him.

I laughed. I couldn’t help it. A giant pepper with eyes? What might his seven year old subconscious be trying to tell him with this? Stop eating salad? By morning he was laughing about it too, but at that time he was really scared so I felt pretty bad for chuckling. I gave him a hug and asked him what he would like to dream about when he went back to bed. The Easter Bunny was his answer. Not a bad idea. He’s a smart kid.

At about quarter after four he was knocking on the door again. Poor little man! He said that every time he fell asleep he had another nightmare. He could remember five of them. Five nightmares in one night. That would have ruined me when I was his age. I tried to calm him down again and gave him another hug and then he went back to bed.

This morning when I got up he followed me down the stairs. He didn’t want to sleep anymore. He said that after the last nightmare he had not gone back to sleep. He says stuff like that often, and usually you can tell that he was really asleep the whole time, but I asked him if he heard his mom wake up earlier and he said yes. He looked really tired and had huge bags under his eyes. I think this time he really did stay awake. From 4:20am-ish to about 6:30am he must have been laying in bed afraid to go back to sleep. I think he’s going to be in for a rough day today. Maybe he’ll be willing to go to bed a little early tonight… probably not though… would you have been willing to go to bed early on a Friday when you were seven? Nope, me neither.

This leads me to our plans for tonight. On Wednesday, the last time the Bruins played, we took a short walk to the park hear our house and hung out on the jungle gym equipment. The Bruins won that game… so maybe the park was the source of the good luck. Maybe if we don’t go back to the park tonight they’ll lose. So, back to the park it is! (assuming the weather continues to cooperate) After that hopefully we’ll be able to catch the game. If the rest of the family really doesn’t want to watch then I will hang out with them in the living room, listening to headphones. Or at least with an auto-updating scoreboard running somewhere.

I need the Bruins to win tonight. They simply aren’t good enough to let Buffalo back into the series with a win. They have to put the hammer down now while they have the chance. If this series stretches on I am going to be very nervous about the outcome. Win tonight please!

I should probably make a quick update on the rest of the league… there is a rest of the league after all.

Philly ousted New Jersey last night which means I got at least one pick wrong. I didn’t think the Flyers had it in them. Show’s ya what I knows.

Pittsburgh had a chance to eliminate Ottawa last night and failed. They now lead the series three games to two. I still think the Penguins win this one.

Chicago and Nashville are tied at two games a piece, as are Colorado and San Jose. Still hoping for another San Jose choke.

Los Angeles and Vancouver, and Detroit and Phoenix are also tied at two games each. I think the Kings and the Coyotes are both going to pull off upsets.

That leaves the Capitals and the Canadiens. I hate the Canadiens almost as much as I hate the Yankees. Washington hasn’t been the monstrously dominate team I thought they’d be, but they are up three games to one. Hopefully they will also close out their series tonight.

Go Bruins!

From David Letterman,

“Top 10 Excuses of the Guy Who Lost the iPhone Prototype”

Are you a Bruins fan?

If you are, then let me just say… Wow.

I didn’t see the first period. There is a park near our house and the four of us took a walk there so the kids could show of their prodigious monkey bars skill. It was a nice little change of pace and we managed to get back home before it got too cold.

The first period was just about over when we got in but we all sat in front of the tube to watch the second. The kids stayed up about 30 minutes later than normal because none of us were paying any attention to the clock.

It was one to nothing Buffalo after one. It was two to nothing Buffalo after two. It looked pretty bad. After the kids went to bed Krejci scores to make it a one goal game. Not long after Patrice Bergeron scored yet another huge goal for the Bruins to tie it. Jen wanted to go to bed but was sweet enough to stay up with me until the end of the third. It was two to two after three. Overtime babie!

From the sports fan’s point of view, there is nothing more stressful than over time during playoff hockey. Overtime in Football is a joke. Overtime in basketball is fun, but they always play a full period so the only possibility of heart attacks is at the end of the OT period. Baseball, like everything else in sports, is it’s own animal. The pace is slower, and you know the home team will get it’s last chance. It’s very exciting, but it’s just different. Hockey however… sudden death. It can all end at any moment. It’s edge of your seat from the start of the period right until the end of the game. I went to a playoff game between Boston and Washington once, back in… 1995 was it? Something like that. The game went to double overtime. It was hands down the most exciting sporting event I have ever been to. Nothing else comes close. The Bruins lost that game and it was devastating, but I will never forget it.

Last night… double overtime. Tuukka Rask and Ryan Miller both played like super heroes. I had the game on the radio (on my iPhone, thanks Apple app store and AOL) and was trying not to scream while Jenny slept. I think I did all right… mostly.

The Bruins lead the series three games to one. I never saw this coming. I really believed that the way they played post Olympics they were going to get blown out. Somehow though, they have saved their best play for the post season and have really looked fantastic. Buffalo too. I can’t knock how they’ve played. They’ve been unable to hold the lead in the third and frankly I am thankful for that, but they have played some great hockey too. This has been a really fun series to watch.

Still… Bruins in five would make me happy. Please don’t try and be cute and wait to win it in game six at home. Just go to Buffalo on Friday and do what you’ve done the last three games and get it over with.

Please, my heart can’t take it. I’ve had to change the batteries on my defibrillator twice this week!

Go Bruins!