ran 6 miles outside in the Minnesota heat wave – 44 and sunny
I think the HSRA server is dying a slow, painful death
Picked Jay’s Cafe for lunch – mmm, Romeo’s Turkey and black cherry soda
need some square mounting screws for a telecom rack – will stop at the hardware store on Raymond after lunch with Studio Phil
building a new “lite” eMac image; creating DMGs for iLife and iWork; fixing printer access and getting ready to build new Xserves – busy!
weekly visit to the tropics (Wise swim school) over – back to the -2 freezer
flat iron frites at Barbette might just be my perfect meal
dropped off graphics iMac at First Tech for repair, then had lunch with Bob at Barbette
watching these WWDC iPhone development movies is like trying to learn a foreign language – major geek out time
iWork ’09 also just arrived, along with my copies of OS X Server for the donated equipment
iLife ’09 install DVD in the house
Cold McDonald’s french fries are nasty. Pretty much all cold french fries are nasty, but it’s just so sad to throw away the clown’s artwork
Is the short line-to-35E connection the worst road surface in the Twin Cities? Especially southbound…
Thanks to a last minute invite, I got to head down to the X to watch the Wild play a rare game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. We met some nice Leafs fans last week in Vegas, and as they bluntly told us, “our team sucks.”
This was the type of game the Wild is suppose to win (and usually don’t). I still hold the theory that if the Wild get in to the playoffs as the number 8 seed, they will win the cup. They can beat the best teams in the west and have dominated almost every eastern team they have played this year.
The Maple Leafs are struggling right now, but I don’t imagine that will last too long. Check back in a year or two and see what Mr. Burke can accomplish in the fish bowl that is Canadian professional hockey.
Thankfully, the Wild took advantage of poor Justin Pogge. The minor league goaltender was up for only his second NHL start and knew he was going to be sent back down tomorrow. Stats in this game were misleading: Toronto had more shots on goal (28-21) and dominated face-offs (60/40), but poor Justin let in six goals and was serenaded with the sieve chant by the team of 18,000.
A few other notes:
- Fans received boxes of Hot Tamales on the way out that had a donation request for the Salvation Army’s HeatShare program. Text “Army” to 90999 to donate $5 to the program.
- There were a ton of empty seats (and lots of ads on Craigslist today with very low prices). I’m beginning to think that the Wild are buying seats to keep the sell-out streak alive (just like other teams are doing to earn their league revenue sharing money).
- Boogaard just couldn’t get Brad May to dance tonight, despite multiple invitations. Probably a smart move, Brad, but wow do you look bad when you run away.
- Clutterbuck is starting to become our own little mini-Ovechkin: skates all over with passion, hits everything in sight and now is displaying a nice scoring touch. Nine hits tonight.
- Johnsson was a +4. When was the last time we had anyone be a +4 in a game? Nice job, Kimmy! Can you teach some of those skills to Skoula before you get traded?
- The Bethel women’s hockey team was selling game programs tonight and several of their players sat next to us after the first period. Nice kids.
- New singer tonight for both of the national anthems – I believe her name was Lauren Redpath. This blog says she auditioned to be the singer in 2007, but I’m not 100% sure this is the same person. Her last name was Redpath, but she looked different to me.
- Congrats to Andrew “Iron Man” Brunette today on his 500th consecutive game. After running into him at The Nook a few years ago and seeing him crash knees first into the boards four games ago, I would have never guessed he’d make it to this milestone intact. Too bad the Wild didn’t make a bigger deal out of it tonight.
The Wild’s next game is at Edmonton on Friday night (8PM on FS North, no HD), followed by another away game the next night in Vancouver (9PM on FS North, also no HD). That will be followed by a four game home stretch against the Ducks, Preds, Oilers and Avs. We’ll be there for two of those four, so stay tuned for more full Hockey in Minnesota blog entries.
I’d also like to thank all of the new people following us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/hockeymn). I really enjoy getting other people’s quick hockey updates via Twitter and hope you like our little contributions to the online Minnesota hockey community too.
heading for the X to watch the Wild play Toronto
lunch at Davanni’s with Phil – the new pasta with Alfredo sauce and chicken is thumbs up
building a new Security Spy machine for HSRA
Minnesota freeways – now with even more slow drivers in the left hand lane
getting a jump start on spring cleaning – won’t make it come any sooner, but maybe it will help with my never-ending cough
Poker Night at the Thornburghs
Haven’t got to the contract part yet, but it seems that Apple takes care of all of the local tax issues for iPhone app sales, eh? Sweeeet
Marisa Tomei is just so damn cute, I can’t stand it (must go see The Wrestler now)
Cleaning the house for Colleen’s party while watching Linkin Park Road to Revolution DVD
I can’t believe how much crap I took out of the HSRA server room and the old tech office – it’s going to cost a fortune for recycling
Lunch at Cecil’s with Mikey Boom-Boom