Scooter Chronicles

So since my parents have done so much for Marcia and I, and especially for the most recent generosity of shower gifts, we took them out to dinner last night to the William Penn Inn.

The food was excellent. Marcia and I had the seafood combination plates which included swordfish with mango, onion, and tomato, a crabcake, a crab stuff shrimp (which was more like a shrimp cover in crab stuffing), some scallops with a dark, zesty sauce, and lobster tail. We also got vegetable and our choice of potato. I went with the garlic mashed potatoes, which were somewhere between mashed and a creamy soup. I prefer them to stick to the fork, but these you could still eat with a fork. More importantly...

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…… and it’s junior hockey.

After the back and forth of having teams and then not having teams. After new owners came along and bought the league, hoping to get it off the ground. After another owner change, the league finally has started, but as a “super” Junior A league here in the States. Actually, Florida.

What a joke this all became. I have never seen so much hub-bub over something that never made it off the ground. I really feel sorry for Bobby Hull who got involved in this only to have it collapse under him.

The WEB SITE still has the same URL. Oh yeah, almost forgot. It’s now a publicly trade company. Ticker: WHKY

Yesterday afternoon, my parents, Marcia, and I went to see “Proof”, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anthony Hopkins, and Hope Davis. This is a film adaptation of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play.

The basis of the story is this (thanks to IMDB):

Catherine Llewellyn (Paltrow), daughter of the brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician Robert Llewellyn (Hopkins), recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father’s ex-students, Hal Dobbs (Gyllenhaal), who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister...

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