Boston Marathon

This is some seriously scary shit. All of the news is flying in faster than anyone can keep up, and I have no idea what is real and what is rumor and speculation.

Apparently two explosions went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, by the Lenox Hotel on Boylston Street.

Most of the Boston news websites are slowing to a crawl, twitter is hyper active, I have a police scanner app that I downloaded during Hurricane Sandy and I’m trying to follow the situation there.  From what I can tell, no one really knows anything.

I just heard a voice on the scanner report that officers should be wary of trash cans.  I also hear them talking about hearing more explosions, but that it is probably the police doing it.

What a mess.  My thoughts go out to everyone there.  Seriously scary.

Date Day

So The Book of Mormon didn’t actually happen.  We got to the Opera House, found our seats, sat down and began feeling miserable.  There was a feeling of claustrophobia combined with an upset stomach combined with being extremely tall and sitting in a seat designed for someone who is not even a little bit tall.  It was just a bad feeling from the word go.  We ended up getting up and going to the lobby just before the show started and then we left after the first song.  Maybe we’ll try again another time if we can guarantee an aisle seat.  We shall see.

The Boston Opera house is beautiful, if not tall person friendly.

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How’s this for the bathroom lobby?
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I didn’t buy a souvenir, but if I had I would have had a tough time choosing between the stuffed magical aids frog, and the Hasadeega Eebowai shirt.
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We ended up heading toward home. When we got close Jen, my amazing wife whom I love with all my heart and all my soul, asked if maybe we could extend the Date Day by aimlessly driving toward the ocean. That works for me!

We got to the ocean at Salisbury Beach in Salisbury, MA and then headed North. When we got to Hampton Beach in Hampton Beach, NH we had our first really clear view of the Atlantic. It was furious. I’ve never seen waves even close to as huge and angry as I saw today. It almost looked like the Pacific. Just North of the public beach the waves were crashing into the rocks and splashing up over the retaining wall onto the road. We stopped to admire the view. I took a few pictures using Hipstamatic. I took a few short videos too. Those will be posted later.

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We weren’t the only ones watching the waves. Just about everyone who drove by stopped for a look.
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And obviously, this is my favorite of all pictures.
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We went up North as far as Portsmouth, NH and then turned around. We ended up going to dinner at a new Indian restaurant in Andover, MA. Turns out the manager on duty was actually from our usual favorite Indian restaurant, Kashmir in Salem, NH. We might have an alternate go-to place now.

So we didn’t do what we had initially set out to do, but we still had a date day that was wonderful for the simple fact that the love of my life and I spent the day together. I am so insanely in love with her.

The Jagr Era Begins!

Jaromir Jagr made his debut as a Bruin last night.  How’d he do?  Not bad.  He scored the only goal in a 1-0 Bruins win over the Devils.  Just a game winning goal in his first game, that’s all.  Just 15,000 Boston fans chanting his name as if he were the second coming of Phil Esposito.  That’s all.

May it be the first of many.

Go Bruins!

Red Sox Domination

You have to understand Red Sox fans. We are a hyper manic depressive lot. When the Sox win a game, any game, we are on top of the world. When they lose a game, any game, we are lining up to jump off the Tobin Bridge.

When they follow up a last place finish by opening the new season at Yankee Stadium, we as a collective group spent most of March sharpening our razor blades.

But then…

The Red Sox have won the first two games of the season handily against the Evil Empire! There is dancing in the streets in Boston. There are people wandering around in a daze, randomly hugging people and screaming, “Sox rule!”

Two games down, 160 to go, and it’s a great time to be a Red Sox fan!

(Let us have this… We need it after the last two seasons’ fiascos. Just let us have this while we can)

VICTORY!

That’s right kids, your Boston Red Sox are now in first place in the American League East division!  Oh Yeah!  We are #1, babie!  #1 all the way!

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(yes, I know it’s only one game and I know there are still 161 more to go, and I know that the Sox/Yankees game that just ended is the only final score the division has had yet. I know all of that. I don’t care. Don’t ruin this for me, you jerks. It has been a long, long time)

Is Iginla Coming to Boston Tonight?

Word on the street is that Calgary has scratched Jarome Iginla tonight, and that the Providence Bruins have also scratched a couple of players.

Is Jarome coming to Boston as soon as tonight?

That would be SO FREAKIN’ AWESOME!

Of course we trail Montreal 2-1 right now.