OT this has been a great game. Now we go to the shootout

Damn it I love hockey! Too bad Lowell is down 4-3 to the Portland
Pirates after two periods.

I do so hate the Portland Pirates.

More Hockey!!!

Please don’t let the bubble burst. Please??

They’ve lost four in a row. I am panicking. PANICKING I TELL YOU!!!

Please don’t let them come unglued the way Ottawa did last year. Anything but that. Anything but that. Please let them be good enough to win a playoff round. Please? Please?

Slightly related note: We’re going to our second Lowell Devils game in the last week. They play Portland tonight. I hate Portland. A win today coupled with a Worcester regulation loss puts us back into a playoff spot. It’s almost impossible to imagine, but it’s true.

Even better, some one just suggested that we go to the Border Cafe for lunch. That pretty much makes this a perfect day.

Last night we spent Valentine’s Day visiting the Geyer’s. We thought we were cool when we took the first game of 45’s. Then Mike and Tammy taught us the true meaning of betting free card games when they pasted us twice. It was a lot of fun. I hope we do it again soon.

That’s it for now. Expect hundreds of mobile posts today.

Bye for now.

We just won a game of 45's.

The clouds part and there is Venus saying hello. Note there is still
a little light in the sky.

200 years ago today in a one room log cabin in Kentucky Abraham Lincoln was born. 51 years later he would be elected as the 16th President of the United States of America. He did a few other things too… he won the Civil War (not personally of course, but he was Commander in Chief of all US armed forces), restored the Union, and put an end to the darkest chapter in the history of our nation by ending slavery. Sadly he was also the first President assassinated. Some believe that had he lived to finish his second term in office the reintegration of the Southern states into the union may not have turned into the painful experience we call reconstruction, but who knows.

I am a bit of a fan of Civil War ear photography, and Lincoln is always a good subject. There are portraits of him that we’re all familiar with, like this one…

…but have you seen this one or a much younger Abe?

Portraits are nice and all, but I prefer the candid shots. Have you ever seen this one?

Proof that he really did dig those tall hats. (another reason I am a Lincoln fan is he was almost as tall as I am. A bit less than two inches shorter, but still the tallest President yet.) Here’s another one, but I am not 100% sure that this is a photograph. It looks a little like a painting in spots.

Two more pictures, this time of The President in action. This is a photo of Lincoln’s first inauguration, in 1861. I have seen other pictures of this day that show just how unfinished the Capital building was. They were still putting on the dome. This one is closer to the podium than any other I could find with a quick google images search, although you can’t make out the President at all.

For the final picture, my favorite of all Lincoln or Civil War shots that I’ve ever seen. This is Lincoln’s second inauguration. I love this shot because when you blow it up you can clearly see John Wilkes Booth standing on the balcony to Lincoln’s left. This image isn’t a high enough resolution to make it out, but I think I can remember where he was.

On a totally unrelated note, Jen said she was going to be busy at work today and I haven’t seen her on google talk at all. I miss her terribly.

I love you Jenny sweetie.

I hope these things don’t autoplay. I can’t tell, I have a firefox extension blocking flash so I have to click on them to play them… maybe you do too?

If you’re at work, make sure you have headphones on. Otherwise definitely Not Safe for Work.

This is one of those Random Crap type posts that will mean nothing to anyone other than me. Kind of like every other post I’ve ever posted.

The Bruins lost to the San Jose Sharks last night. I watched parts of the first period and all of the second period. We were having dinner at my parent’s house and we left after the second. I had the beginning of the third period on the radio. It was 2-1 Boston when I got in the car and 3-2 San Jose when I got out of it.

Up until that point it was a great game. The second period was high energy, fast skating, awesome passing plays, and out of this world goal tending. The final score was 5-2 Sharks, which is why I am not posting highlights.

My gut has been telling me all year that San Jose is the better team. I am still expecting to see either San Jose or Detroit winning the cup this year. But still… the Bruins have been so over the top good I am, despite last night’s game, starting to see them at least taking the East. I don’t know if I’m getting too excited though. They will probably tank in the first round again, just like San Jose will probably tank in the second round. Dallas could be the winner for all I know.

Speaking of Hockey… it’s uber-nerd time for Robbie. I have a fantasy hockey team in one of the free yahoo sports leagues. My team, which I named “Neely is God,” is in first place for the second week in a row. I’m far enough ahead that I am guaranteed to be in first next week too no matter what happens in this weeks games.

I had the second pick in the draft, which means I have Sidney Crosby, which means that I am almost guaranteed to win the assist stat each week. My goal tending has been stealing points left and right. Tim Thomas is definitely the man.

I can see you oozing with jealousy over that lineup. I just hope Steve Mason gets over Mono quick so that I can move Tomas Holmstrom to the IR and pick up another right winger. I told you this would be uber-nerdish.

I haven’t written the obligatory RPM update in a few days. I left off on Thursday with three songs started. I didn’t work over the weekend (as expected) but I got back into it yesterday and today. I am now up to five songs started. One of them uses multiple time signatures as part of FAWM’s challenge of the week. The song itself sucks though, as expected.

I still have a cold. It’s getting better though. I thought I was over it on Monday morning but it came roaring back on me. Stupid cold. Stupid, stupid cold.

That’s it. Maybe more later.

This has got to be the lamest little drive-home-time-waster I’ve come up with yet. Taking pictures of big empty rocks in space while stopped at stoplights. Or occasionally while stopped for other reasons, but mostly stoplights.

Last night was a full moon and it looked pretty cool to me. I took a few on the way home, and then took out the real camera to take one from our icy driveway (see the previous post). I slipped taking that one and fell flat on my fat ass, and I think I may have damaged the camera too. It was in the padded bag when I fell, but it acted a little strange.

Anyway, here are last evening’s stoplight astrophotographs…

Moon over Liberty Street in Concord, MA

Moon over Maple Street in Carlisle, MA

Moon over Bearse Ave in Methuen, MA