For future reference, here is a video discussing the rules of curling. I haven’t watched it yet so hopefully it’s not a spoof. Or maybe I should be hopeful that it is a spoof.

This is a great game. I hope you’re watching it.

5:54 left in the second period and we’re tied at two goals a piece. The pace is frantic and the level of intensity is through the roof. Canada is controlling the play for the most part, but USA is getting better as the game goes on.

I remember sitting at home watching games during the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and thinking that I had never seen hockey that good. That’s how I feel about this game. This is hockey at its finest.

As a Bruins fan I have to say (with no disrespect to Tim Thomas or Tukka Rask) that it is really nice to be rooting for Ryan Miller. He’s been keeping us in this one.

Go USA!

ADDENDUM:
Five seconds after posting this the USA took a 3-2 lead!

A win tonight for team USA gives them a by in the medal round. I am feeling it. Canada is the best team in the world, but they had some trouble in their last game. The USA has more or less breezed through their two games. (apart from that third period in the first game, but they held on to win)

I am feeling it.

I am feeling it almost like we felt this…

The big USA vs Canada game starts in about an hour. Time for the big (fanboy) guns…

Is there anything better than a lazy Sunday at home with the one you love? I don’t think so. Today our plans are to do some more work on our little homespun development project (an account look up screen!), watch the USA vs Canada game tonight at 7:30 (I think), and just relax and hang out and enjoy a lazy day at home together.

Sounds perfect to me!

Does this work?

Sleep late? Check
Go out to breakfast? check
take care of the food shopping? check
do the dishes? check
put away the laundry? check

Still to come

Massive amounts of C# and SQL coolness.
Awesome Indian food for dinner.
Hanging out and being together.

Sounds like a good day to me.

Date night at a casino. We’re both ahead. Jenny is much more ahead.

John Mayer is playing here tonight. The place is crawling with 13 year old girls dressed like $20 hookers. Do they know it’s John Mayer and not Tiger Woods?

We are up early today so we can get the kids to their father’s before school. Jen also has an appointment to go to today. Outside of that? We are commitment free for the next three days.

>insert sigh of relief here<

We’re on a long weekend/mini vacation and it feels so good.

Today is Thursday. Thursday February 18, 2010 to be exact. (can you believe it’s really 2010? I can’t!)

But it is not actually Thursday, it is really Friday. At least it is for my lovely wife and I. We both have tomorrow off of work. Vacation days!

We had planned on a weekend in New York as a slightly belated Valentine’s gift to ourselves, but later scrapped the plans in favor of staying home and spending the money more wisely. (BAH!) We didn’t cancel the plans until after we had put in for the vacation time, so the result is my babie and I staying home together on a Friday.

I need all of you who read this to take a moment to send massive amounts of feel-good, positive vibes to my sweet, lovely, amazing wife Jennifer. She has something going on at work today and I want her to go into it full to the brim with confidence.

As for the day off tomorrow, it’s just the tip of the ice berg for Robbie. I also took Monday and Tuesday of next week off. I had planned on using those two days for songwriting/recording/RPM Challenge purposes. I still plan to, but I’ve sort of run out of steam on the project this year. I’m still sitting on 5 unfinished songs and I haven’t done any work since the weekend, despite having a day off this past Monday. I’ll get there though. My beautiful, talented wife did some writing this week so the least I can do is push through some more music. Besides, my alonetone account has had just over 950 song hits. Posting a batch of new tunes might be enough to sucker folks into pushing me over 1000!

After writing up the bit on Jeff Beck that I posted yesterday evening I have been in a British Blues Guitar Holy Trinity mood. By Holy Trinity I, obviously, mean Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. I put together a play list on my iPod with my favorite Clapton records (Cream’s Disreali Gears and the studio half of Wheels of Fire, and Derek and the Domino’s Layla as well as a few other single songs from other various places), my favorite Beck albums (Truth, Rough and Ready, Blow By Blow, and Who Else, again along with a few extra cuts here and there), and my favorite Led Zeppelin records (II, IV, Houses of the Holy, and the requisite random other songs), and then a small smattering of Yardbirds songs featuring all three of them. Turn on the shuffle by songs function, hit play, regress back to my 17 year old self trying to figure out what the hell they were doing on my old (long ago stolen) Gibson Les Paul Deluxe.

Jeff Beck is indeed coming to Boston in April. He’s playing at the venue formerly known as Harborlights but it’s a Thursday night. Thursdays are kid nights. I won’t be seeing him this time. Someday, if it’s meant to be… but not this tour. Sorry Jeff.

And now for yet another whiplash inducing subject change: Team USA is playing Norway today at 3:00. I set the DVR before I left the house this morning so please, please, please don’t tell me what happens. Okay? I appreciate that. I want to watch it tonight and pretend it’s live. Thanks again.

USA
USA
USA!