Some people are like slinkies...

they're not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

Yeehaw!

Well, there you have it... The canes made it....Twas a decent series, good game, enjoyable final. I'm glad Detroit and Ottawa didn't make it... that makes me really happy.

Brind'amour did great, Cam Ward was unbelievable, Frank Kaberle was solid... I hope the Leafs can take a page from the canes and maybe construct their team a little better... Awards on Thursday and Free Agency in 2 weeks... countdown to new season in 3 1/2 months!

Big game tonight

Here we are, game 7 of the stanley cup playoffs... doesn't get much bigger than this. Time for Kevyn Adams to get his first Stanley Cup of the playoffs... I predict Carolina to win 3-1, crushing the surgeing Oil... nice try though...

It's pretty much my favourite animal...

New House, New Haircut... Half the time I think she's the perfect Liger, but the other half I think she looks like a fat furry iguana...You make the call.

There is a place in this world for diet pop...

The youth at our church tried this with success last week... adding mentos to diet pop to make it shoot way up in the air... I was looking for videos and found this variation... sweet

Fresh off a stay on exile island...

He's back folks... the former nhl coach of the year, Ted Nolan is back in the NHL this year with the Islanders. It was puzzling why Nolan hadn't been thrown a bone after a great couple seasons in Buffalo about 8 years ago. The Islanders desperately need someone good to turn their crappy team around, so Nolan could be good. Nolan coached the Moncton Wildcats in the QMJHL (The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League or LHJMQ in francais) to the Memorial Cup Final, unfortunately defeated by the Quebec Ramparts (Coached by Patrick Roy himself). Best of luck Mr Nolan, you'll probably need it.

You really think the Quebecois could think of some better name for the league than inverting and translating the english version... League du Hockey Junior Major du Quebec...

Carolina in 7...

I'd love to go for the underdogs again and pick the oil for the cup, but I have to go with the ol' heart and root for the wonderdog, Kevyn Adams, to hoist the cup! Kevyn leads the Hurricanes in faceoff win % at a little over 60% success... Although, he hasn't had a point yet in this playoff, I think he'll come up with some clutch shot blocks this series to help the Canes defeat the Oilers in 7 games...

I can't purely make my decision on the Canadian team vs the American team... it's a flawed argument as most of the players, who make up the team, are Canadian on either side, with a bunch of Euros and the odd American (ie Adams) mixed in. With the same reasoning, if it were Ottawa vs Carolina in the finals, I could never pick the Sens to win, regardless of whether they're Canadian or not...

I expect a lot of good battles with more grit from Brind'amour and Adams, and expect to see Stillman keep rolling along on another stellar playoff... It'll be fun to watch Pronger wallpaper more people and Ryan Smith grind his share of goals in, but I think the victory will ultimately go to the Canes. Keep on trucking...

mIND sUCCESSFULLY bLOWN...

for the second year in a row... Man, the creators of LOST know what they're doing... I'm more hooked... Did you see it? What do you think? If you haven't seen it, watch the finale... Crazy.

Wow... this is funny

I couldn't help but watch this video multiple times... not sure what they were arguing about... but funny.

click HERE

oh, then watch this... not the other way around...

right HERE

Then, confronted with new evidence... try a bit of this...

HERE

Three for Four aint bad...

Apart from my oversight in the Colorado/Anaheim series, I picked 'em all right. It was fun watching Edmonton turn it on to overcome the 2-0 and win the series in 6. It was more fun to watch the demise of the Ottawa Senators and hear the yearly "We're not going to make any major changes to our team this offseason..." Glad to hear it. Carolina rolled over probably the hottest team in the NHL... cudos.

Here they are folks, ROUND 3 Predictions...

Carolina (2) vs Buffalo (4)

Well, carolina's my team this year, so here they go to the Cup finals by beating the Sabres in 6 games... it'll be a tough one, but the Wonderdog will light the lamp this series...


Anaheim (6) vs Edmonton (8)

Aside from being the only Canadian team left, they have some good work ethic, an insane Home crowd and some pretty hot players (meow...) They're facing the hottest current team in the playoffs, but they're still the Mighty Ducks. Even if they pull out the flying V and the knucklepuck, I dont think they'll manage to change their fate of losing to Edmonton in 7 games. Sure, the ducks are flying, but the Oilers are greasing... go oil!

3 minutes... later

I've been listening to the official LOST podcast on my iPod lately, which is giving me some bits of information to keep me rabid for the show... for instance, tonight's episode is entitled "3 minutes" and is supposedly about wha' happen'd to Michael in the woods the last while. I'm getting pretty ramped for next weeks 2 hour finale with Desmond returning into the mix... gotta love those back-stories filling in those bits of info we all love and crave.

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Closest I've ever gotten...

Finally, I have picked someone who's done well in Survivor... Danielle got 2nd place... I picked her and Dan to do well, and neither got voted off first. Booyah.. Congratuations Aras, your ok in my books. Too bad for terry, he's cool. One more thing... faking always is the hardest instument slowly portrayed really exactly greatly not always nicely there.

LOST tonight...

can YOU dig it?

Playoff Predictions

Well, the leafs are gone with the wind, so I figured I'd try my hand at predicting the outcome of other teams... I've decided to root for Carolina because they have Kevyn "the wonderdog" Adams on their team... Anyways, here's my predictions for the 2nd round.

Sanjose(5) vs Edmonton (8)

Edmonton in 6 games... I like edmonton this year, and Chris Pronger has been huge this playoff... they'll have trouble with Cheechoo and Marleau, but squeak it out in 6 games.

Anaheim (6) vs Colorado (7)

Colorado in 5... for no other reason than the fact that my Church league hockey team is the Avalanche...

Ottawa (1) vs Buffalo (4)

Ottawa sucks... so does buffalo... Nobody wins this series, they'll all have season ending injuries when their planes crash head on... Buffalo in 6

Carolina (2) vs New Jersey (3)

Carolina of course... the leadership of Adams is too much for the Devils... they lament not signing Satan in the off season and they pay for it now...
Carolina in 5

Winding Down.... and up...

So, LOST is finally back to a new episode... I don't know about you, but I look forward to my Wednesday night LOST experience and am thrown off a bit whence it is cancelled or re-runned. There's probably 4 episodes left, in which they'll probably fill in some of the storyline to tie off some loose ends, while at the same time, showing us enough of the big picture to keep us hopelessly hooked until september, When they'll give us a bunch of information, then slow-play us until next May...

I wish I were patient enough to wait a couple years and get the dvd sets to get all the answers. Or I could just re-invent the time machine...

Here's our new baby...

This is our new cat, Moggy... she's real small and cute and she doesn't really like me yet... It's kinda like we cloned Amerylis, but over cooked the clone cause she's got a darker face. She's pretty funny when she wants to be. This picture is of her reading by association and preparing for next christmas... she'll also know everything there is to know about our new house. I wanted to name her Chewbakka, but Faith thought she was too attractive for that. We almost compromised by naming her Mongo, but figured that'd be in poor taste... Good luck Moggy, hopefully Jooje won't hate you forever.

Boy, were you way off...

the new thing in the house is a new CAT!!! what were you thinking... silly people.

and then there were three...

so there's something different at the Grace homestead... the balance has been thrown off and there is something new in the home. I can't tell you exactly what it is, but it does have something to do with chocolate. I like chocolate... Jooje hasn't given her comment yet, but she isn't too sure about it either.

That's all I can say right now... I think they're listening... the others... watch LOST on wednesday... it's getting freakin good.

My name is Henry Gale, I'm from Minnesota

wow, I'm glad they finally gave us some information to chew on this week on LOST. I was searching google to find out what the black light brings out on the blast door in the hatch, and found a site with some interpretation and magnification of the images. check it out... can't wait to see what they do with Henry and if Hurley's gonna plummet... what ever happened to Michael? Good show...

So, we bought a house...

I'd like to say that we've been too busy buying a house to post anything for the past few weeks, but I'm just too lazy. We bought a house in Kitchener. I wanted to wait to post a picture of the sold sign, but now I'm the opposite of lazy. It's really exciting. Everything will be sorted out by the end of the week, by which time I will be poorer than I've ever been. So long as the inspection on Friday doesn't go horribly wrong, this beauty will be ours... so there.