Holy, F*CK!!!! Mr. Rogers died today! Damn, that sucks hard core. Anyone remember watching him as a child… or a bored saturday morning last weekend? I remember thinking with Shia (You remember him? He’s gone now, not dead, just out of the f’kin country in Asiaish land), where the hell is he? Did he still do shows? “The finale episode of Mister Rogers was taped in December 2000 and aired on PBS in August 2001” His “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood” will live on forever. Especially the time where he threw up his shoe to catch it with the other hand only to have it land on his head, and said to the kids something like, “This is why we don’t throw stuff up in the air.”

OMG!!!! I SO wanna be a Shark For A Day. Anyone have $1750 I can borrow?

Sorry, I just HAD to share this with everyone. How would you like this guy at the office? DL it before it goes away, it’s hella funny.

That is, if it keeps raining the way it is now. I already hate Mondays. I don’t like going outside to bring in the garbage cans from outside. I put it off until the last minute. Only, today, it was the wrong minute.

I wasn’t outside for more than a minute, and in that minute my big black Nike parka (which I thought was waterproof, pretty strong tho) and my jeans were completely drenched. I wish a simple picture could truely portray what I experience standing in the rain like a retard. For me, I think the rain is calming. That is, as long as I don’t have to sleep to the sound of it. But, just standing in it is just oddly soothing to me. Call it nostalgia of some sort. I used to do the same stupid thing when I was younger, stand in the middle of a huge storm and play. Maybe it was ’cause I liked the rain, maybe it was to get sick so I didn’t have to go to school the next day. Whatever the reason, I liked playing in the rain.

Holy crap. Patrick Marleau (You know, he’s on the Sharks) was drafted from the Seattle Thunderbirds in ’98.

Not a bad part time job, oh well.

So, my brother, Phillip, is fine, nothing out of the ordinary. But, he didn’t get to play his last tournament game. He had to watch from the bench. Oddly, they managed to beat the West Vancouver team. The Canadian team was already in the finals, so, I’m guessing that their game together didn’t matter and didn’t play to their full potential. Hell, even if I had a game that didn’t matter, why not play to win. I wouldn’t want a loss on my tournament record. F them, the Blackhawks (My brother’s team) wouldn’t let the game go and played their hardest and came out on top.

Today seemed like a long day. The team woke up to eat at IHOP at like 9am. That’s damn early for me, but this weekend I’ve been up at about 8am every day, so it’s ok. I musta scarffed down a ton of food, ’cause I didn’t feel too well after that. I ate some pigs-in-a-blanket, hash browns, ham, and sausages. Everything. I seldom eat too. Must’a been hungry.

After, we stopped over at the ice rink to check out the finals between the two Canadian teams. Being the ass I am, I yelled out ”GO CANADA,” knowing that both teams were from Canada. One of the mom’s from our team (lol, like it’s my team, whatever) looked at me funny. It was a pretty even and good-to-watch/interesting game. All even after the 3rd period it went into sudden-death overtime. Both teams fought hard, but the Canada team came up on top. Sorry, if that wasn’t funny… to make things easier, the team that beat our team 6-0 took the championship. Bah, everyone was rooting for the team we beat 2-1. I din’t really care, LOL. I just like watching hockey. It be a better game if it were some USA vs. Canada team at least. Whatteva!

After that we went over to Downtown Seattle to check it out. I have only a few things to say about Washington. Have enough Starsucks and Subways here? I know Starsucks came from here, I didn’t know if Subway did. I don’t even like Subway, them and their jankie 4 slices of meat and cheese. Support your local Togo’s today. We went through the Pikes Place, some outside market thingamajig. We got to see the famous fish throwing place. Sorry, I’m not too good with names. So, there… At the market they had tiles paved into the ground where you can have your name engraved into it. I thought that was a pretty cool idea, hardly the thing I’d spend my money on, but neat none the less. After wandering about, we sat down to eat at the local Quizno’s whilst the ‘rents ate at some oyster place, I think it was Brooklyn Seafood. I dun eat oysters, so toasted ‘wiches sounded good. After eating at Quizno’s, the ‘rents weren’t finished dining at their snot-in-a-shell restaurant, so we sat outside in the rain. It was ok because we entertained ourselves with the fountains outside a Metro. I forget what that place was called, maybe some ”remembrance stone” or something. We spent time tossing coins into the fountains trying to skip it into a lower fountain then onto passing cars. Then some how got to the point where one of us would hold a Quizno’s cup and pretend to be homeless while one person would knock over the homeless person and steal his money, ala Jackass style. As we were setting this up the ‘rents came out of the restaurant. Bah. That’s how it always is.

After which, we hung out at the airport to see off a big part of the team. While there we saw a bunch of news crews roaming around looking for people who were stuck there because of that big storm on the east coast. I decided it would be funny if the reporters came up to me I’d say, ”Yes, I’m going to the east coast. I’m flying to Hawaii. now, I’m stuck.” Lucky for me AND them, I was never asked. There was a guy napping with a baby on his shoulder close to us and he got filmed for a few secs. Later my parents saw him on TV. Man, I was so close. While checking in one teammate, there was a camera aimed toward our direction (maybe we WERE on TV after all!), I so wanted to scream out the annoying ”Bill Cosby” impersonation we’ve heard all day. Heh, I didn’t, but it would have been pretty funny to see on the news!

Tomorrow, we leave for home. It couldn’t come any sooner. Getting out of the city is cool (I never really get out of the city, let alone state), but home is better, despite the ever so comfortable hotel room beds (I sleep on a futon). We were gonna go drive to Canada but we didn’t have birth certs or passports and didn’t wanna risk not being able to come back, I kept saying, ”Bah, let’s just go. It ain’t friggin’ Mexico…” LOL. Bah, maybe next time. I really wanted to go to Canada. YOU’RE gonna bring me next time, eH? Time to watch the replay of the Sharks game on ESPN before I go to sleep. Everyone wish me a safe flight home and I’ll talk to you then.

Sorry, I just HAD to share this with everyone in my portal on the wired. It’s ”Bill Cosby” on the Simpsons when he talks to a child about Pok

If you read the last post first you’d probably be wondering, ”Hospital, why is Adam at the hospital?” If you haven’t read it, read it. We had to go to the hospital after the game to have my brother checked out for any injuries, just in case. In the second period he was checked twice in a row, the second one was checked into the boards crippling him to his knees. The guy got a boarding 5 minute major penalty for that. Needless to say, he was both tired and pissed off. During this game with the Canadian team, they got their asses handed to them 6-0. In the game was a bunch of penalties and retaliation penalties from both teams. When the score was 5-0 one of the Canadian players blatently wraps his arm around one of our players and wrenches him down to the ice. The both got penalties, one for holding, the other for (I think) unsportsmanlike conduct. I’ll let your imagination go with that one… After this game I’m sure they’re out of the running for the championship game on Monday, which leaves only one game left tonight, but it doesn’t really matter anymore. So, we pretty much have 2 free days in Washington. Any ideas of what I should go see?

Bah, I’m using dial-up just to write this… I found an odd phone in the Bellvue Hospital. It’s a web browser/high speed access/pay phone. Ok, so it may be old and I’ve just never seen one, but that’s just it; I’ve never seen one. I thought it was the coolest thing, I even tried it out. Or, at least tried to try it out. Costing only fifrty cents for the first two minutes and a quarter every additional minutes seemed like a good price for a quick blog. However, for some reason it wasn’t working correctly. I couldn’t log into my blog, nor could I even see my index. Oh well, I got some cool pictures of it.