Scooter Chronicles

Late this afternoon I finished “The Chess Garden” by Brooks Hansen. The hardcover edition of the book was subtitled “The Twilight Letter of Gustav Uyterhoeven”.

Here is a quick description to help me from Amazon.Com and Publishers Weekly.

… set in 19th-century Dayton, Ohio, in Europe and South Africa during the Boer War and on an imaginary island, the Antipodes. During his journey to the heart of the war, where he has volunteered to serve in a British-run concentration camp for forcibly displaced Boers, Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven sends 12 letters to his wife, Sonja, in Dayton. The letters, fabulist...

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Movies? What Are Those?
Due to the hockey season starting and our NHL Center Ice Package, Marcia and I have not been watching any movies or other DVD’s lately. We rented the second season of “The Kids in the Hall” about a month and a half ago and haven’t watched it. I finally sent them back this morning. (We have Netflix …… no late fees.) I am not sure we are going to get a lot of time to watch any in the near future with Nigel’s arrival, but we are going to try. Don’t want to keep wasting our Netflix membership. Plus there are a few things coming out recently that we have wanted to see and have added them to our queue. We also have three movies from David and...

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It is pretty amazing. The Wings looked totally flat, yet still found a way to score 5 goals. They were UP by two goals starting the third, and with 7 minutes left in the third they were DOWN by two goals. Then they scored two with minutes of each other to send it to OT. Damn lucky. Osgood looked pretty good despite giving up 6 goals. The defense was really dogging it sometimes.

Oilers’ Jarret Stoll (left) and Steve Staios celebrate the game winning goal in overtime.

You can read my RECAP at DetroitHockey.Net.

A few other observations:

It...

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