Aug 17
So our season finished up this Sunday. I mentioned in a POST a couple of weeks ago that we had a play-in game. We won that 5-1. We looked really good in the game, and shut out the league’s leading goal scorer. So this past Sunday was the two semi-finals games, with the championship game to follow 45 minutes or so after.
We were up against the team that finished in first. They beat us twice during the season 13-1 and 6-0. There was a big difference between the two games. We were only down 2-0 in the second game after two periods, having done a great job in shutting down this high scoring team. And two of there total six goals came in the last few minutes...
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Aug 16
Patrick Rothfuss, author of “The Name of the Wind”, and well respected fantasy novel, is interviewed in the latest edition of Locus Magazine. There were some excerpts on the magazine’s web site. This one really stood out to me.
“A couple of hundred years ago, literary fiction realized, ‘To write tragedy, we don’t need a king!’ Fantasy is just now starting to make that same realization, because we’re a newer genre. We don’t need a goblin army. We don’t need The End of the World. Not that those things are bad. I’ve seen them done well, but unless they’re handled with skill, they...
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Aug 14
This past weekend I read all three books in the “Soul Stealer” trilogy by Michael Easton and Christopher Shy. These are graphic novels.
I...
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Aug 13
I recently finished reading “The Ninth Circle”, the debut novel by Alex Bell.
From Amazon.Com, here is their product description:
A man comes to on the floor of a shabby apartment in the middle of Budapest. His head is glued to the floorboards with his own blood. There’s a fortune in cash on the kitchen table. And he has no idea where, or who, he is. He can do extraordinary things—speak any number of languages fluently, go three days without food or sleep, and fight with extraordinary prowess. But without...
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Aug 12
Been a long time since I posted any pictures of Ian. Here are a couple from a few weeks ago when my parents were in town.
Then a few while standing up in the Pak-N-Play with Nigel standing by.
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Aug 11
It took me a few months to watch 12 episodes, but that’s just the way it is.
This was the short lived series on Sci-Fi (before it was SyFy). It was based on the book series by the same name written by Jim Butcher. Only one of the episodes is based on an actual book plot. Beyond that, it was on it’s own for stories. There are three main characters (though four are showed above). Starting from the left, there is Harry Dresden (Paul Blackthorne) who is a wizard living...
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Aug 09
It’s not one that is really enjoyed, but it’s a milestone regardless. I turn 40 years old today.
I don’t feel that I am mature enough to be 40. That’s not a way of saying that I shouldn’t be turning 40. I’ve made 40 trips around the sun (Sol), so it’s valid. But what I mean is that I always figured that I would have some vast amount of wisdom and decorum by the time I reached this age. But I don’t...
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Aug 08
I was getting ready to search for a book on Amazon’s site and scrolled down just to see what was showing up. They usually have some suggestions, though they are to be taken with a grain of salt. Poor Mark Rayner, author of “Marvellous Hairy”. I looked at the latest edition of the book that was just released on Amazon and others were looking at it, too. When that happens, Amazon spits out these other items with idea that if you looked at the first item, you might like the others.
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Aug 07
I know he’s past his prime, but I am rather geeked about the Wings signing Modano. I think playing in front of his hometown will do him a world of good. And I think the Wings’ style of play and putting him on the third line with Hudler and Cleary will lead to good things.
For those that don’t know, or haven’t heard the stats, Modano is the highest scoring American in NHL history. He has amassed 1,359 points, 557 of those goals. He certainly...
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Aug 06
I mentioned before that I joined a dek hockey team here in the area. It’s actually run by Shawn, the guy that sits next to me at work. I originally was the team’s goalie, but have been playing defenseman the last two games. We have a play-in game for the playoffs this Sunday.
(Somebody took pictures one weekend …… we didn’t know until they showed up on the league’s Facebook page.)
While I enjoyed playing goalie and always have, I have...
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