Saturday, January 31, 2009
THE END TIMES ARE HERE!
GOOGLE IS BROKEN!
Or becoming self-aware. Either way, we're all screwed.
EDIT: All fixed. Panic averted. Barely.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Henrik Zetterberg: 12 years, 6M cap hit per year.
I'll be damned. They actually got a contract hammered out. Wow. If all goes well, Zata's a Wing for life.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Newspaper thwap.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Does anyone care about the NHL All-Star game anymore?
I know I'm not disappointed that I'm missing it today, nor am I miffed that I missed the skills competition yesterday. Is it because there are no Red Wings attending? Nope. If I was to watch, I'd want to see guys like Alex Ovechkin, Mike Green, etc. Although, after seeing a clip of Ovechkin on his fourth attempt during the breakaway challenge, I'm kind of disappointed I missed that. See it here:
(this was clearly someone videotaping their TV, but oddly enough, it's the clearest vid I've found on YouTube of Ovechkin thus far)
But otherwise, I've just lost interesting the NHL's All-Star weekend. Does it help that Gary Bettman decided to suspend Nick Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk for one game for failing to appear in Montreal for the festivities (even though they're resting some injuries, tendonitis and a hip pointer injury, respectively?). Most definitely. Bettman's bad for the game and he proved it once again. But I don't even remember watching the last All-Star game either. Meh.
One neat thing, however, was what NHL Home Ice was airing today - the 1996 All-Star game. Wasn't a particularly fascinating listen, except I was hearing names that made me nostalgic - MacInnis, Lindros, Potvin, Gretzky, etc. I even had to think when I heard Brendan Shanahan and Chris Chelios' names in the play-by-play - Shanny was still with Hartford at that point and didn't sign with the Wings until the 1996-97 season and Chelios, of course, was still with the Blackhawks and didn't sign with the Wings until 1999. Dominik Hasek was in net for the Eastern Conference as well, still with Buffalo and six years away from his first Stanley Cup. Just a neat snapshot in time, if anything.
Friday, January 23, 2009
*looks at last night's post*
Thursday, January 22, 2009
I don't normally blog when intoxiacated.
Which is wy i"lll do it now. Mesage boards usually see the results of this, but i don't ofen blog in this state.
I actuallt feel all loose and carefree right now, whidh is a chageg from ny usual state,. I feel free. It would be nbice to feel like this all the time.
Music on now? "Let It Burn: by The Dreaming.
Lemme finish this glass of Sauv Blanc and then go to the bathoom and then bed.
Yeah, it's been thast kind of day for my brain chemistry,. Now u know.
Just plain sad.
It's really depressing that the sole highlight of my day today is a skinny hazelnut latte from Starbucks. Extremely depressing.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Don't ask me why this is funny.
I just know it is for some bizarre reason.
marriedtothesea.com
And relating to yesterday's emo entry, doc doubled the dose of my meds, but not before he started questioning whether I was bipolar. Hmph. Clearly I'm not, because I definitely don't have the euphoria-laden highs at all, just the uber-downtrodden lows. But, he's the doctor (not to be confused with The Doctor), so whatever makes him happy, I guess. In any case, I still need to find a shrink near my job, particularly one that takes my insurance.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
I still haven't shaved.
I think this is probably the longest I've gone with a beard, maybe even longer than the Wings' run to the Stanley Cup last season (though not nearly as uncomfortable, since the weather is cold instead of warm). I keep considering shaving, then I ultimately end up deciding there's really no point.
The doctor put me on some meds a couple weeks ago to address my long-standing anxiety/depression issues and initially, I thought there was a marginal improvement (because, according to what I've read, these meds are of the faster-acting variety). But it was marginal...and ultimately temporary. For the past three days, it feels like I'm relapsing back into the way I felt before I started taking the pills - irritable, disinterested, lethargic, anxious and, for lack of better words, just plain sad and pathetic. My anxiety, in particular, is through the roof. And when I think about it, it gets worse. Wonderful. As much as I try and just "snap out of it", it just makes me feel even worse when I can't.
Odd segue from the shaving thing, I know, but I think the two are connected in a weird way. I don't care enough to really shave because of the way I'm feeling. I suppose at this point I should be comforted by the fact that I still shower and brush my teeth daily.
Sorry for the emo blog entry, just needed to type something, somewhere, even if no one bothers to read it. Slightly cathartic.
At least my chiropractor seems to be fixing my back problems. The last disc in my back is pretty well compressed, but the pain shooting down my leg as a result of it isn't nearly as intense as it was before, so something's working. The fish oil supplements (natural anti-inflammatory, I believe) I've started taking can't be hurting either. When I get paid next, I'm going to try and pick up some Glucosamine Chondroiton to try and further repair some of the damage to the disc. So at least I've got that going for me. I guess.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Shanny's a Devil.
Well, figured it would happen eventually. Gives me some real good motivation to see a Devils game before the end of the season. Mind you, there's no set date on when he's joining the team (he's signed in principle, technically), so it gives me some time to squirrel away from cash for tickets.
I'm wondering if I should wear my Rangers Shanny jersey for maximum "piss off the Devils fans" effect. But of course, with Shanny suiting up for them, I'll have to...to...actually CHEER for them for a change!
Friday, January 09, 2009
It's pretty much true.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Holy crap, I almost died. Twice.
Okay, it's not quite that dramatic, but it did leave me a bit shook up.
We had an ice storm last night, which basically turned our driveway into an ice rink - an ice rink with a steep incline that runs right into Route 46. You see, we have what could be best described as a two-tiered driveway. You have the driveway proper that can either immediately lead to an enclave just off the road that fits one car, framed on two sides by a retaining wall, or you can drive up a little further for two more spots. That "little further" is where the incline really is.
Well, I slid over to my car and started clearing ice off. All was going well until I started walking around the front of my car to get ice off the other side...and then I started sliding away from my car. And I couldn't walk back to it. And I just kept sliding further and further away. Now, there's a lightpost at the top edge of one of the framing retaining walls for the lower enclave and I figured that was the only thing to stop me from sliding right down the driveway and into the traffic of Route 46. So I dropped to my knees to slow my descent and try to steer myself toward the lightpost - success. Got to my feet, but then began to wonder still how I was going to make it back to my car. Thankfully, there was enough frozen grass at the top of that retaining wall for me to be able to walk on until I got back to level ground and subsequently back to my car. So that was "almost died" number one.
The next thing really shook me up. I was pulling my car out of my spot and started down the driveway, very slowly and very deliberately. All seemed to be going fine until near the end when I started to slide...right into Route 46...with oncoming traffic. I leaned on my horn to basically try and let other drivers know, "Hey, I ain't stopping, so get the hell out of the way!" Worse yet, I had to make a left turn out of the driveway, so I was dealing with four lanes of traffic instead of two. The first vehicle to pass by, thankfully, was in the far lane on my side of the road (or he may have changed lanes when he saw me, it's kind of a blur) and I miraculously had enough time to maneuver my way onto Route 46 safely before the car in the close lane passed and with enough room in front of the vehicles coming on the other side of the road.
So I didn't really almost die, but if it wasn't for my quick reaction time in both case, I could have encountered some major problems. In retrospect, I should have just called in to work today the moment I saw all that ice, but for those of you that know me well, you know that I'm not one to call in to work.
Here's hoping everything's melted and run off into the street by the time I get home.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
The result of the 2009 Winter Classic?
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