As reported by the Los Angeles Times, Manny Ramirez will be suspended 50 games for positive drug test.

This makes me both happy and sad. Happy because, as a fanatic Red Sox supporter, I can laugh my fat pasty white ass off at him for being dumb enough to get caught doing any kind of drugs in this steroid hunting baseball culture. (note, the article does not say he was using steroids. The test information is expected to be released at a later time.) Manny you are a doucher in extremis. Thanks for giving us another reason to be glad your dumb ass is out of Boston.

I am also sad though. Why? Because Jen and I have tickets to a game at Dodgers Stadium during the California swing of our “Tripping Around the Country 2009 Honeymoon!” (all rights reserved) and now I won’t be able to booo the shite out of the twit each and every time he runs into the outfield. We have bleacher seats too so we would have been close to him… I think… or were our seats in Center field. Can’t remember now. Anyway, we won’t get to heckle him because he’ll still be under suspension.

Thanks for the laughs Manny, you moron.

The Bruins sucked mightily last night. I mean colossally. Sure they went to overtime, but they had zero business even being in the game at all. There was no doubt who was winning that game at all. From the start of the second period until the game winner in OT the Whalers played perfectly and the Bruins were terrible. Absolutely terrible.

Friday is my birthday and Jenny My Love scored us tickets to see an IMAX showing of Star Trek. I am 100% excited to see this movie and to spend my 38th with the love of my life. The Bruins/Whalers game 4 is the same night. I was going to DVR the game and try to watch it a little at a time prior to game 5, but frankly after last night’s suckfest I don’t want to anymore. If we get home in time to watch game 5 Sunday I will watch it, but I’m not going out of my way. They were so bad I may have fallen off the wagon, and it’s going to take a couple of convincing wins in a row to bring me back.

Every single player on the ice was slower then the slowest Whaler. Every single player on the ice magically forgot how to clear the puck out of the defensive zone without turning it over. Many Bruins players some how managed to forget how to stay on their feet. If not for Tim Thomas the Whale might have taken that game by 10 goals.

Suckfest indeed.

Last night we met with the Priest who will conduct our wedding ceremony. Everything is all set there.

Tonight we’re hoping to catch a certain almost-eight year old’s softball game prior to watching a certain number one seed in the Eastern Conference try to get off the schnide. Unfortunately the weather looks like crap today so the softball game will probably be rained out.

I now have a Flickr account that will eventually store all of my digital photos. No more multiple picasa accounts for me. Everything I post will be public with the exception of any images that include people who are under 18. Meaning no soon-to-be-step-kid pics, no neices, nephews, children of friends, or children of cousins. In picasa I had any album that included a picture of one of the above mentioned folks set to private and viewable by invitation. On flickr the individual images will be viewable by friends and family while everything else in those albums will be public. If you are a friend or a family get a flickr account and add me. I’ll add the link to the sidebar hear after I finish moving and labeling everything.

The Bruins… oh the Bruins. Tonight is the night they put Carolina back in their place. Win game three guys, don’t suck the way you did in game two. My heart can’t take it!

Go Bruins!

William Shatner (aka THE Captain Kirk) meets Chris Pine (aka the NEW Captain Kirk) for the first time.

Somehow underwhelming, but it does nothing to diminish my insane need to SEE THE NEW STAR TREK MOVIE!!!

Star Trek celebrates my 38th birthday by giving me a new flick. Thanks Star Trek!

I think I might be making a change in my photo hosting choice. I think I might be going from a bunch of free Picasa accounts to one paid Flickr account. I’m tired of not having everything in one place, and with the wedding and the honeymoon on the horizon there are sure to be a billion more pictures coming.

Also, I just found out by accident that Flickr not only lets you set privacy settings based on pictures sets (what we old timers called albums) but you can set the privacy for individual images within a set. The pro account is $25 a year, and I didn’t want to spend money on image hosting… but it is sounding more and more like a deal I am ready to make.

I have a free account, and this image is stored there:

Maybe I’ll sleep on it.

A couple of weeks ago I decided I’d had it. There was one intersection on my evening commute that backed up for a mile and caused me to wait at a stop light for upwards of 10 minutes. I didn’t want to do that any more.

So I was sitting at the previous stop light looking at the traffic already backed up at the next light which was over a mile away and I took my iPhone, accessed the maps app, searched for my current location, and found a way around the traffic.

Last night I was on my alternate route and saw a street sign I recognized from much further along. I took the iPhone, accessed the maps app, searched for my current location, and figured out that taking the new street puts me further along on my regular route without so many twists, turns, and narrow passes. I took it. It sped things up nicely.

The bad intersection isn’t nearly as bad in the morning, but I took the tweeked alternate route for the first time today. I think it added a few minutes, but it may be worth it. In the evening it’s definitely worth it, in the mornings… maybe.

I love my iPhone. I love the maps app. I love the GPS. I just love them all.

The cake situation mentioned earlier is a little clearer but we’re still unsure of a plan of action. They are not closed, they are actually opening yet another storefront… I think. So they are expanding but their phone was shut off. hmmmm. Jen got in touch with the owner via email yesterday (some one paid a bill maybe?) and she appologized for being so crazy busy and wants to have the final meeting on Saturday.

Do we do it? Do we lose our deposit and just go some where else? I’m not sure. Jen had set up a tasting at another bakery for Saturday morning. I think maybe we should consider both meetings. Meet with baker #2, then meet with bakery #1 and say we’re ready to bolt, convince us not to.

Just a thought.

Jen and I are meeting with the priest tonight to give him our final choices for readings and ceremony plans. One more thing to check off the list. 25 days to go.

I tried to watch the Red Sox vs Yankees game last night but they were in a rain delay so I switched over to the Penguins vs Capitals game.

Wow.

What a game!

I basically watched the second period, and what a fantastic period it was. Crosby and Ovetchkin both score, the pace was lightening fast, both goalies standing on their heads. What a game.

I just looked at the box score. Washington won 4-3. Crosby scored all three Pittsburgh goals. Ovetchkin scored three of Washington’s goals including the game winner 15:22 into the third. The two best players on Earth both had hat tricks in the same game. Is that awesome or what?

Washington takes a 2-0 series lead. I don’t see Pittsburgh coming back from that, but let’s hope they can at least push it to seven games so we can see more and more of this matchup.

Bruins tomorrow on the road against Carolina. Figures after the first post season loss they get an extra day off. Hopefully they use the time to get seriously pissed off and they come out like mad men (like the Caps or Pens maybe?) and light up the South with an unbeatable display of hockey ass kicking.

One can hope.

Go Bruins!

Jen wanted to call the cupcake boutique today to order a birthday cake for a certain someone’s 8th birthday in a couple of weeks.

The phone was disconnected.

She sent an email to the boss. The email bounced back.

She sent an email to the boss’ personal address. The email bounced back.

The cupcake boutique is contracted to make our wedding cake. Our wedding is in 26 days.

To quote Will Ferrel in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,

Fuck beans.

Yesterday was Jen’s bridal shower. It took place at my parent’s house. She had a great time and was giddy with we’re-gettin’-married happiness all night. Humongous thanks to everyone involved, Mary, Mom, Dad, Lisa, Charlotte, Aunt Nancy, Erin, Abigail, Nawal, Tammy, Cecilia, Yash, Martha, Jamie, Carolyn, Marisa, and… and… that’s everyone other than those whom I live with… being Jen and the kids of course… did I miss anyone? I’m going to be pissed if I did. Like a moron I forgot my camera so I don’t have documentation of everyone there.

Thank to Mary for planning, thanks to my folks for hosting, thanks to everyone for coming, and thanks to everyone for everything. We had fun.

Mary posted pictures, I stole two. (I feel so evil! muahahahaha!)

Now we are down to the final 26 days. While we are still enjoying the planning and the prep work we are reaching the point where we just want the damn day to be here. I wanna get married, I wanna say I do, I wanna go on our honeymoon. I’m ready.

Of course there was another event last night. One that turned out to be much less enjoyable. The Bruins lost game two of the series to the Hurricanes. The Bruins sucked worse in the second period than I’ve seen them suck all year. Hurricanes goalie (former Lowell Lock Monster) Cam Ward was fantastic from start to finish. The series is tied 1-1. Am I worried? Hell yeah, but then again I was worried in game four of the Montreal series too. I’m always worried.

Go Bruins!

Today is Jen’s bridal shower. At 1:00 or so. The Bruins play at 7:30…

How long do bridal showers last? Should I bring my (so far) lucky Bruins jersey and Red Sox hat to the shower? hehehe

Happy Shower day Jenny the love of my life.

Go Bruins!

WOOOOHOOOO

Tee ball game is supposed to start at 8:30. It is 8:47 and we only
have 8 players and no coaches.

Dedication, eh?