Month: February 2003

Hockey Sunday, Valentines Day, and Laptop Speakers

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Ah, damn, lost another game. Yup, got shutout again. Only this time it was only 2-0. I only got a -1 in the whole game, lucky me. However, moO came to the game and I STILL didn’t score. I had about 3 would-be scoring chances but something went amiss and couldn’t convert it. The first one was a light shot through a lot of traffic and it amazingly went through everyone’s legs, but hit the goalie’s stick. The second was a dump and chase into the right corner and I got to it first cut a tight left to the goal and ended up cutting to close to the goalie and he stopped it easily. The third try at a goal I was on the right side of the ice again had a small breakaway and was hooked down and drew a penalty. Damn, I don’t want a penalty, I want a goal. I drew 2 penalties that game. The actual first penalty was when I was pushed in our end, then I did a cool scissor take down with my legs, LOL nice to use what I learned in TKD in hockey. I didn’t get a penalty for that. =) Somewhere in the first period I was at the other team’s blue line and in front of an opposing team player. He tried to cleat the puck from his end, and I put out my hand to block it. Yeah, I blocked it, but it hit my wrist. Now, I have a small bruise where the puck hit me. It was a cool turnover though… I was a little disappointed with the team, I noticed most of us weren’t really in the game and kinda glided around the ice. Instead of skating hard to the puck, we’d watch it come to us only to find it getting taken away. I’m sure we could have done much better. We WERE missing a few people that game, but that’s no excuse, the other team only had 2 subs!

This weekend I’ll be gone from Friday until Tuesday. I’ll be up north in Washington. I up there to watch my brother’s ice hockey tournament. So, I won’t be able to see what happened in my own games, but I wish them luck. Man I gotta find a way to workout a lot this week and next week to make up for not playing hockey this week…

So, finally I got off my butt and ordered replacement internal speakers for my laptop. I just put ’em in and it sounds SOOOOOO much better than those damn blown speakers I had in them. I accidentally put in a BASS competition CD in and played it causing my speakers to blow. Mental note: NO MORE BASS MP3s IN LAPTOP. Now it sounds GREAT again. Now, is there anything I can do about repairing my USB and/or PS2 ports…

Cold House

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So, THAT’S why it’s so friggin’ cold in my damn house. The heater in the house was broken. I found it odd that I had to wear a sweatshirt and sweatpants to sleep. I thought my parents were just cheap and got pissed at the electricity bill again… Well, maybe that too… But, we aren’t getting central air yet, šŸ™

All-Stars and Hockey Sunday

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Wow, the NHL All-Star game was pretty cool, it was pretty even throughout the whole game, score ending regulation at 5 a piece. Viewers witnessed the first overtime shoot-out in an All-Star game. In that same game, a last year rookie, Dany Heatley, broke an all-time NHL record of youngest player to score a hat trick (he beat Gretzky by, I think, a day.), and tied the record for most goals in one game (that being 4 goals). Because of an NHL ruling, Heatley JUST missed tying Mario Lemieux’s All-Star record of six points in a game. He scored 4 goals and 1 assist for the five points, and the 6th point would have been in the overtime shoot-out, but League Officials ruled the final score to be 6-5 in favor of NHL WEST, instead of the shoot-out goal score of 8-6. Oddly, Heatley scored the only goal for the East in the overtime shoot-out. Ah, good times. Now we know who’s the bestest coast! Another oddly, I thought it’d be the East…

On to more local Hockey news… Thus, ends our NON-losing streak as we took on the undefeated team in our league. We ended the game with a humiliating score of 6-0. I managed to stay even in my +/- until like the last few minutes of the game then they scored a goal making it a -1. Blarg =P <^> I managed to keep my wind for most of the game. I even was a starter right winger! I stayed on a few seconds longer than I should have on many shifts ’cause I couldn’t find a good opportunity to get off the ice when my shift was over. LOL, I did manage to draw 2 penalties, one was an interference call, when I had a good sight at a shot on goal when I was tripped/pushed from behind, and the other was when I was at my blue line when a guy basically skated through me and slashed me. YAY ME. I had a few scoring chances this game despite our failure. I few stupid wussy shots. One REALLY mean slapshot. Obviously, nothing but goalie. I had a really good play where I skated up the puck alone and one defenseman, got stuck in the corner passed it to the other winger who had a good shot on goal but got goalie pads. I REALLY thought he was going to score, and my stupidity told me to stay where I was instead of following up his shot. Of course Murphy’s law is NOT my friend. After my winger’s shot the puck was inches from his far post waiting to be poked in. Where was I? No where near the goal. I just gave up an easy goal. I gotta remember for next time, follow up, damnit. It’s not like it’s a new thing to me. I’ve been told this for YEARS for EVERY sport I’ve played; be it soccer, baseball, bowling, and even martial arts. FOLLOW THROUGH!!! BAH, damnit. Next game I’ll score, but, I need a bigger audience than my parents. But, it’s nice that they come watch.