I’ve got two hockey games today… One at noon and another at 9pm. The sun’s shining and the temperature is heading to 80 degrees for the first time of the year. (I’m guessing the ice is going to be awful today.) I’d like to drag my lawnmower out of the shed and give it its annual oil-change and tune up and get the yard cut.
Unfortunately, I’ve got a paper to finish up for Tuesday. It seems likely that I’ll be staying up all night Monday into Tuesday working on it.
I sure like mowing the lawn, though. Might have to wait for Tuesday after work.
Post First Game: We got our asses handed to us by a team much better than we are. We’re now 1-1-1 and need to win the game tonight to avoid facing the noon team in the first round of the playoffs. I talked to one of the players on the other team afterwards and was somewhat glad to hear that we didn’t suffer the worst beating at their hands so far this season.
Update 2: The lawn’s mowed. The oil looked good in the mower and with some fresh gas, it fired up and ran beautifully. Not annual tune-up needed. Nice! I also put down some grass seed in the scars left in my lawn from the great Urbana Sidewalk Renovation of 2007. Watered it in and gave the plants in the front flowerbed a little love (in the form of water.) I’m gonna be silly busy for the next week, but will try to sneak a few hours one morning to pick up some peppers and other eatin’ plants for the back yard and a Japanese Silver Grass and some kind of shade plant for the beds in the front yard.
Update 3: I played like crap in the third game. The first period was great, I was skating the puck pretty well, defending the point well, and making decent passes. In the second period, I just didn’t have it. Up 6-0 and I started making stupid mental mistakes, and didn’t have the motor going. I got beat three times in one shift by the other team’s forwards and all three times we were scored upon. It didn’t get much better the rest of the way. The other team, who had only six skaters(!), took a 7-6 lead in the third period. We tied it up and then it looked like we scored the go-ahead goal with 10 seconds remaining, but apparently the goal had come off its moorings. One of our centers took a penalty in the OT for grabbing another player’s stick (that’s what I saw, at least) and we failed to score. With the OT winding down, I got beat again, badly, but our goaltender made a great save to preserve the tie.
We’re 1-1-2 for the regular season. It’s rumored that’s good enough for a three-way tie for second-place, with the tie-breaker decided by scoring differential. I’m guessing that would put us third.
