Break Even?

(note: the bruins/whalers game seven is tied at two after three. we’re in the pre-overtime intermission. i am very close to having total heart failure and trying to do something to slightly distract myself. go bruins! please win it please win it please win it)

My father sent me an email today while I was at work. My fellow Break Even guitar playing alumn Steve Wyka called looking for me. Dad took his number and emailed it to me. I was planning on calling him tonight during the Bruins game.

Jen and I decided that I should try and get refitted for my wedding tux. Supposedly I have lost a little weight and the tux I was measured for might be a little big on me now. We decided to go to MW Tux at the Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem, NH to see if my gut had shrunk at all.

We walk in the door and turn the corner into MW Tux and I hear, “Rob?”

It was Steve Wyka. What are the chances of that? I haven’t talked to him since June of 2007. Almost two years. He called my old house looking for me today and then randomly ran into me tonight. Kinda freaky when you think of it.

He asked me what I was doing on July 11, 2009.

He’s having a party that night.

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What could he have possibly wanted? I wonder.

Go Bruins!


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What a dolt I am. I could have sworn tonight’s game started at 7:00pm. I thought I was going to miss the first period.

Nope, it starts at 8:00pm.

Go Bruins!

Please win easily so I don’t have a heart attack. Thanks for that guys!

WOOHOOO!

Flickr Again

All of my Picasa photos are now on the new Flickr page. I still need to tag most of them, and try and copy and paste all of the captions I added to many of the 4,000 plus shots. That’ll take a while.

I checked my Flickr stats page again and saw that I’ve got a couple of hundred pictures that have been viewed so far. Thanks Flickr community! However, this one is the one that’s been viewed the most…

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Huh? At least it doesn’t show up as “interesting.” By the way, how does one mark an image as interesting?

Go Bruins!

Game Seven Fan-Boy Jitters

I forgot a picasa account. I thought I had all of my picasa online pictures moved to flickr, but I forgot the pro sports account. I started moving it over yesterday. Today some one marked one of my shots as a favorite. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

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Tonight is game seven for the Bruins and Whalers. I am nervous. I want the Bruins to run away in a laughable blow out, but I know that won’t happen. The Whale is too good and we’ve been too bad recently.

We’re going to the tux store to get me refitted tonight. I know what you’re thinking, “but it’s game seven, what are you doing it tonight for?” The answer is simple, tonight is the only night with no other appointments. So I will miss a big chunk of the game. Hopefully that will reduce my stress level. If the Bruins love me they will have a 10 goal lead by the time I get to a television.

I really want another game. I don’t want the season to end tonight. The Penguins have already proved me wrong on one Eastern Conference 2nd Round Prediction. The Bruins have to keep me at 50%.

Please Bruins, hang on and win tonight. We need this magical season to continue. Please give us another game. Please. Pretty please?

Go Bruins!

This week is dragging. 17 days until the wedding it is to be expected, but if this week drags like this what is next week going to feel like? Torture, that’s what. The following week includes Memorial Day on Monday and Jen and I both have vacation days for that Friday too, so the third week is a three day week… and that will probably be the longest of the bunch.

Bruins Hockey. After game five’s dominating win I felt really good. Almost confident about game six. After game six… I don’t feel confident anymore. The Hurricanes controlled way too much of that game. I didn’t see game four but I saw game three and long stretches of play last night looked a lot like game three.

Here are the highlights from NHL.com

The worry I feel does not stem from the Marc Savard injury, although it probably should. Claude Julien has already said he will play game seven. The worry I feel stems from their inability to get the puck out of their defensive zone for seemingly hours at a time.

Still. Game Seven. Anything can happen. I wanted one more game and I got it. Now they have to win it because I want one more series. Please.

I am going to be in full Bostonian mode for the next two days just to try and give the Boston Bruins any bit of good luck I can. Only Boston music from now through the end of game Seven.

Go Bruins