Tag Archives: irksome
Reset
So that season is over. I don’t know that I have come to any particular conclusion about hockey or my compulsion to watch it and talk about it, but I feel like I have to mark the end of one … Continue reading
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Tamburlaine Victorious
Oh for heaven’s sakes, all this looking up astrology stuff and I finally read what the silly website has to say about my own Chinese birth year: They are prone to changeable mood surges that leave them either extremely happy … Continue reading
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Eye for an Eye and other wrong feelings
Some San Jose Sharks fans have expressed a desire to see the Blackhawks win because this will somehow vindicate the Sharks’ defeat, because it is better to say you were beaten by the Stanley Cup winners than by the runner-up. … Continue reading
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Making Them Work
Tired of Byfuglien. Tired of being cranky with Byfuglien. Blew off so much steam I can’t even see, through the fog, why I was so cranky. I am a fickle foe, or just memory challenged. Maybe it will flair up … Continue reading
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Conflicting Reports
So very quiet here on the western front. Regardless of what I said in my earlier post, Chicago is not in the west, it is way east of true west, somewhere in the middle muddle of the continent. It’s west … Continue reading
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Let The Stars Be Your Guide, or Not
Prompted by the Sharks message board, I spent some time trying to figure out who would be a good Captain for the Sharks, if Blake retires. I’m not entirely clear on what the Captain’s duties are, though obviously facing the … Continue reading
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Back Up Drive
“You have a problem,” someone said to me today when I explained that I didn’t feel like eating because I was too wound up about the game. Maybe. Then again, that sounds a little like the stuff I heard 12 … Continue reading
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