Archive for the ‘ice hockey’ Category

playing back and hard work

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

БогородицаBubs, Abbe, and I took Titan over to Freedom Park for a nice romp with a bunch of doggies. We dropped our pup off at home and then headed to the rink for his game. Bubs did a really good job, he decided he wanted to play a little more defense this game and he responded well. He still needs to keep his skates moving when an opposing player gets by him, but he did seem very comfortable with playing back. Some of us are good scorers and do better forcing the issue, and some of us are better protectors. Bubs has lots of years of playing ice hockey in his future, but for now, this really suits his personality.

On top of Bubs having a great game this weekend, he also very well may be on the edge of getting his second consecutive straight A’s report card. He has an 86 in math, his only B and if he gets a high enough A on his Divisibility Rules Chart project, the boy could pull it off!

And it’s up to me to make sure Bubs not only enjoys this time where he is not only handling the schedule of being an ice hockey player and doing well in school, I want him to understand the satisfaction of working hard.

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credit music, black lab stick handling drills, and singin’ in the rain

Friday, January 27th, 2012

This is pretty cool. A group of IT guys (ITidiots) post video podcasts and they happen to use one of my tracks (title – So Funky It Stinks) as their theme music (it’s in the beginning of the videos). I wrote this song nearly 10 years ago, they moved the videos to a YouTube channel and wanted my permission to continue using the track. No money involved, but hey I never made much playing/writing music anyway!

Here’s Titan helping Bubs with some stick handling drills…

And this was pretty sweet, the reminder note on Viv’s bedside table reads, “finish watching Singin’ in the Rain with Abbe”. So glad Abbe introduced Viv to that musical last night. Hearing Viv and Abbe laugh so hard during “Make ‘Em Laugh” should be bottled. No one would ever be sad ever.

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon – if you spend a fuckton on a movie, no matter how shitty the script, no matter how unlikeable every single character in the film may be, no matter if you regurgitate the same script up on the screen – people will line up like cattle to watch it. Moo.

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the evil clown will teach you math now…

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Well, we got some bad news last night, pig stomach night has been postponed (hopefully for next weekend). So Viv is already pretty bummed, but I am glad that I will get to see Bubs play ice hockey this weekend and also get a lot of work done on a project with a very rapidly approaching deadline.

Bubs really did a great job on his Divisibility Rules Chart project for math last night. He had to stay up late finishing it off, but it looks pretty good and I love seeing him show some of his creativity… (check out those evil clowns)…

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Apollo 18 - although I do like both found footage (Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity) and sci-fi drama films (Moon), this movie was a pretty solid miss.

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lucky bounces and smiling when they don’t happen

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Well, Bubs played pretty well in the first and second periods, but appeared to be gassed in the third. He came very close to netting his first goal, but a quick whistle sounded right before he lifted the puck over a sprawled out goalie. What I was very happy to see was that despite another loss, he came off the ice all smiles and in a great mood. Like myself when I was his age (and now), he hates losing. And his team has done a lot of that. But Bubs had fun out there despite the team coming up short and that is honestly, a great thing to see. I know he loves this game, I just don’t want him to lose interest because of his team’s record. This season has been a good lesson in sportsmanship, being a good teammate, and lots of hockey too.

And that right there is one of the greatest reasons to have your children involved in sports – learning to appreciate the game even when the score doesn’t come out in your favor. A lot like life for a lot of us. Every day, we don’t score goals and those lucky bounces don’t go our way. The truly successful people in this world can smile on those days too. And THAT is what I want for my children.

Bubs is on left wing in white (orange socks)…

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The doctor has put me on “couch-rest” for the day. And by doctor, I mean me.

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

Today, I am going to do my best to not work. I already failed by installing phpMyAdmin on a client server, but that didn’t take long and I need that to do work this week. But that’s it. The doctor has put me on “couch-rest” for the day. And by doctor, I mean me. Bubs has an ice hockey game at 1:15 this afternoon and then I plan on just enjoying the conference championship games on TV for the rest of the day. Dotcor’s My orders.

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