Good news tonight. The world may be looking pretty bleak across the board, but the Boston Bruins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6-2 tonight.
Also, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew ended and it was excellent! (No spoilers though)
Also, the cats watched Friends again and it’s crazy how they can’t look away.
Good news all over the place! WOOHOO!
On a day where I have been in a shitty the-world-is-about-to-end mood, how about a touch of good news?
My Boston Bruins had lost six games in a row before squeaking out an overtime win on Saturday. Tonight (and this is the good news) they are kicking the crap out of the Tampa Bay Lightning and it is glorious. Well… it’s not really that glorious, it’s just that after losing six in a row having a nice lead over anyone is pretty cool. It’s 4-1 with five minutes left in the second. There is still plenty of time for the Bruins to blow it. For now though, let’s enjoy the lead.
Look at me doing all that looking on the bright side shit and stuff.
The Boston Bruins just snapped a six game losing streak by snatching victory from the jaws of defeat with 1.2 seconds left in overtime. Sigh of relief.
Let’s celebrate the win with some random pictures of cats taken at various points across this fine snowy Saturday.
Last night in Columbus, the Columbus Blue Jackets kicked the shit out of my Boston Bruins. It was ugly.
Tonight the two teams have a rematch in Boston. At the start of the third period, the Bruins are up 3-0.
Doesn’t that feel better? Isn’t it more fun to be in the lead?
What do you say we hang on to this lead, Bruins? M.kay?
The Bruins and Blue Jackets were tied at one a piece after one period. It’s the first game back after the holiday break. Finally, hockey returns.
I missed the start of the second period because I was helping my wife with something in her office. When I got back to the game it was 3-1 Blue Jackets. Crud.
Three seconds after I first checked the score Columbus scored again to make it 4-1. Double crud!
I got a couple of Boston Bruins coasters for xmas. They are glass and look like hockey pucks and they are seriously cool.
The first thing I put on the new coaster? Why it was a Boston Bruins water bottle filled with grape juice, of course.
The Bruins are finally back home after a tough road trip. They have a 1-0 lead over Buffalo late in the first period but the Sabers are going on the power play. We’ll see how it goes. I’m listening to the game on the radio. I am using the NHL app on my iPhone and I am running the app using the iPhone Mirroring app on my MacBook. Ain’t technology cool?
I was going to write something else… what was that… I don’t recall…
Oh yeah, xmas is four days away and I am starting to feel sick.
Figures. HoHoFuckingHo.
I feel this almost overwhelming need to write something today, but I don’t have anything to write about. Usually I when the drive gets annoyingly persistent I can come up with something to prattle on about, but today I am drawing a blank.
The Bruins won. That’s two wins in a row on a road trip that started out awful. I think the last game of the trip is in Edmonton tomorrow night. Can they beat the Oilers? I would say probably not, but I didn’t expect them to beat Calgary last night either so what do I know.
I keep seeing the Boston Red Sox mentioned as potential destinations for big name free agent players. Unfortunately I heard the same thing over and over again during last year’s off season and we landed exactly zero big name free agents. We’ve made a big trade to get a potential ace starting pitcher. Will that be a sign of better things to come this winter? Who knows.
Harry is coming to stay with us this weekend. He was supposed to be coming over on Friday at some point but now he’s coming on Thursday! For those of you reading this at some future date allow me to clarify by stating that Thursday is tomorrow! Nice! I am working in the office tomorrow so I have to move some of my stuff out of his room before he comes over. When he’s home his room is… ya know… his room. When he’s not home, his room is my office. The only thing I need to move is a backpack and some camera stuff that is sitting on the day bed, and a table I have been using as a gift wrapping station. All of that needs to move down cellar to the space I use as an office when he’s home.
What else… what else… anything else? I don’t know. My lunch break is over. I have a meeting in about half an hour. I think I need to wrap this one up. Will it scratch today’s weird “write something, you dope” itch?
Probably not.
Duck and cover kids, it’s not just xmas season, it’s Friday the Freaking 13th! The horror. The horror. The horror.
Here we were, Bruins fans, thinking maybe the coaching change had the desired effect on our favorite hockey team. Then the other night Winnipeg absolutely humiliated them by a score of 8-1. Was that a bad night or were they reverting to their pre-coaching change selves. Last night they lost to Seattle 5-1. Yeah… we suck. We suck bad.
Was last night just a harbinger of painful things to come on Friday the 13th? Or was it just a demonstration of how deep down… the Bruins just suck.
It’s probably just that we suck.
Hashtag sadface.
It’s Wednesday afternoon. My lunch break is coming to an end. If I were to sneak a post in before getting back to work, what would I write about?
I have no idea. My mind is a blank! So I guess we stream of consciousness this sucker? Ready… Go!
The Bruins beat the Red Wings last night. They play the Blackhawks tonight. Two teams that aren’t very good. Theoretically we should beat them both pretty easily. Last night they needed overtime to squeak out a win. Tonight? I’m almost afraid to watch.
If I could watch, that is. The NESN app is being a jerk. Well, I don’t know if it’s NESN or FiOS. I think it’s FiOS. It tells me I’m signed in, but when I try to watch something it tells me I’m not signed in and then won’t let me sign in. Maybe during tonight’s game I’ll pop in a single air pod and listen to the radio broadcast. I’m following each game but I am not listening to the goings on and I am starting to feel very much out of touch. I feel like I am too old and easily distracted to really give my full energy to a team that isn’t very good… lately they have been better but… yeah. They are currently in third place in the division so they are higher than a wild card seed for the playoffs. That’s good. Let’s keep it up, folks.
Current television binge watching projects:
Seriously, does anyone really believe that Juan Soto is going to sign with the Red Sox? Seriously?
We are going to Vermont this weekend. I want to bring my new/ancient film camera but I can’t really see a time or place where I could use it. Maybe. We’ll see. I did order my first roll of 120 color film yesterday. It won’t be delivered until after we get back though. Oh well.
I have to buy a gift for our work yankee swap. It’s Tuesday. Holy crap that came up fast. Yikes.
Okay. Back to work, Robert.
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