Updates

The kiga has "a bad back". It cost me almost 500 bucks for the vet to tell me that. That dog is lucky I like her. Apparently she has a ruptured disk, and its causing her a great deal of pain. She's not allowed to walk up and down stairs and she needs to take medication. I hope she feels better soon.

My diet is going pretty good this week. I've started my food log again so I can make adjustments where needed. For example, I can't keep eating 4 eggs a night...that's too much fat. My calorie intake is spot on though, just need to make some minor adjustments to the types of calories that I'm taking in. I'm trying to maintain 2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches a day, so I pretty much have to cut fat out of every single other meal.

The pens are tied for first place in their division with the rangers, and they've clinched their first playoff spot in 6 years. Its exciting.

What doesn't kill you

My hip hurts from where I fell and hit the concrete.
My back hurts from being crouched over for a long period of time.
My ankles and feet hurt from skating.
I'm exhausted.

People say that when you get older, things start to get achy. I'm not older, so I'm no expert on the subject. I keep telling the 40+ crowd that they're full of shit, I'm going to live forever, and as long as I keep myself in shape, being over 40 won't matter. I think being over 40 is an excuse for a lot of people...heck I think it starts around 30. They look at the little aches and pains and they think that its "because they're getting older", and then they use that as an excuse to not push themselves harder. Its BS.

All those pains that I mention...I would have said the same thing after a night of hockey when I was 20, and honestly, there's no way I'd rather feel. Every ache reminds you that you pushed yourself to the limit.

My skills aren't where they were when I was 20, but I haven't been on skates in 6 years, and I haven't handled a puck in at least 4. By the end of the night, a lot of my skills were coming back, in a couple weeks I should be back up to game speed which is good cause that's when the league starts.

The NEPA area increased in personal popularity by about 4 bazillion percent now that there will be steady hockey games twice a week.

Its ON!

Step 1 of doing anything is "make sure you don't look gay doing it"...unless you are actually gay, in which case its perfectly acceptable to look gay whilst doing something. Its just us straight guys that have the "don't look gay" limitation imposed.

I got my hockey gear tonight and since I'm playing tonight I decided to try it on to make sure that I don't look gay. The world may rest well, I don't look gay.

Not really a point to this blog, I'm just really pumped to puck around tonight, and don't have anything to do until 8:30 but blog, eat and try on hockey gear.

I lost 3 lbs last week!

The bad part of that is that its because I had the flu.

I'm pretty sure that I'm single again. Damn my belief that relationships aren't supposed to be hard work. Everyone keeps telling me I'm wrong, which can only lead to 2 possible outcomes:

1) I die old and alone, but have lived a relatively stress free life MY WAY.
2) I find someone great and say HA-HA! I was right you were wrong!

Neither one seems too bad.

Pens/Rangers on VS tonight. Should be bombdigity.

I've decided that I'm going to be a whitewater rafting guide this year, and I'm joining a roller hockey league in april.

Now I'm going to go lift weights, cut my hair, shave, and watch some hockey.

Thought of the day: How can you become as awesome as you are and still feel like a looser? Jeffrey Lewis.

I had a dream last night that I knocked a hole in a wall and saw a hologram of the virgin mary, but she wasn't the virgin mary, she was a spooky green ghost face. Anywho, I took the sight of mary as a divine sign that I needed to accept christ as my savior and be born again(i know, mary is a catholic thing), and had the plumber(don't know where he came from) save me right there in the bathtub.

My dreams are so screwy...

More snow.

NEPA natives are a strange breed. If they hear that there is going to be more than 4 inches of snow, everybody runs to the grocery store and buys bread and milk. This is a true story. Its not an exaggeration. Yesterday, I stopped at the grocery store to get a jar of jelly...something i do twice a week on my way to work. Normally, I'm in and out in 3 minutes flat. I walked in, and there were lines to the back of the store. It hadn't even started snowing yet, and now, I have to not get my jar of jelly because I can't wait in a long line on my way to work.

Now, what I don't understand, even in the face of dire emergency, when you were certain to be locked in your house for 3 weeks, why in the name of god would you go to the store and buy bread and milk? Bread and milk are the two most perishable food items that you can possibly buy.

Oh, and hey people, even if you can't possibly leave your house, even if you're stuck inside with no food, you can call the chinese people and they will deliver you food, or the pizza guy if you prefer. Those chinese people ALWAYS open their shop.

30 more years of Penguins hockey.

The penguins finally reached a deal that will secure their stay in Pittsburgh for 30 more years. Was there ever any doubt? With Mario Lemieux at the helm, I found it hard to believe that he was even remotely considering a move to Kansas City. This most likely means that he was using the team as a barganing chip to get a sweeter deal. A part of me was saying "Take your team and shove it up your ass!"....but then there's the hockey fan in me, and he's damn happy that the deal got done.

This brings us to another point. In 1991, there was perhaps the greatest collection of talent ever assembled on a hockey rink. Mario Lemieux, Jamir Jagr, Tom Barasso, Keven Stevens, a couple of defensemen named samuelson, and those were just the noteworthy's. That team steamrolled its way to back-to-back stanley cup championships. Those were exciting times in Pittsburgh. A couple years later, the steelers would go on to loose a superbowl. Who cares, I was a hockey fan.

Watching the Penguins defeat the buffalo sabres last night(the #1 team in the league), and then knowing that they beat the devils tonight(the #1 team in our conference), they have secured the #4(out of 8) playoff seed entering the playoffs. The Pens haven't been in the playoffs in quite some time.

The point is, back in 1991, we didn't have a feeling. We knew the pens were good, but we wouldn't know how good until 2 years later. I believe that the team that is on the ice right now, just might be better than the 1991 penguins. Sidney Crosby is freaking sick. He's got skills coming out his ass. He's better than lemieux, better than gretsky, and he's only freaking 19 years old. There is so much talent on this Pens team, that I wouldn't be surprised to see a stanley cup within the next 2 years.

300

I've waited for the 300 for a while now. I went to see it today. Caught the DLP show, which in my opinion is the only way to see a movie anymore. 300 may be the best movie that I've ever seen. Sure, there was lots of blood and decapitation and limbs flying around, but there was a deep plot that involved...uh nevermind, there was blood and limbs and decapitations and a whole bunch of cheesy lines like "then we'll fight in the shade!".

3 things,

1: tears of the sun no longer holds the mantle as the best movie about being outmanned, and out gunned and facing impossible odds.
2: The wolf from the neverending story is no longer the scariest wolf to ever grace a movie screen.
3: Bruce Willis, and Sean Connery, would both soil their pants if Gerard Butler looked at them the wrong way.

I'm a robot!

Or at least I'm in the process of transitioning towards robotism. I've failed about 3 turing tests this week. A turing test is a test that a human is supposed to be able to complete, but a robot would be unable to. Those letter-verification images are examples of turing tests. The idea is that you can distort the letters enough that a computer would be unable to determine what they mean, but a human would still be able to discern their meaning. So, i'm either a robot, or I need to start wearing my glasses more.

Addictive personalities suck.

I guess there are worse things to be addicted to than world of warcraft, but I play that game too much.

Its a nice day in the WB, and the kiga is going to get a nice long walk which will probably end up in something getting muddy.

Every once in a while, I get the cashier at the grocery store checkout line who feels that it is her sworn duty to inform me that I am in no need of the low calorie popcorn, sugar free energy drink, healthy choice turkey, low sodium salsa, weight watchers bread, etc, etc. Lady(yes, its always a lady, guys mind their bidness) there's a reason that I don't "need" to buy the stuff, and that reason is that I DO buy the stuff and maintain a healthy lifestyle through diet and physical activity. Maybe you should try it? I just smile and nod and say "I know, I'm going to waste away to nothing if I keep eating this junk!".

Cheers! I'm off to the park.