Its the Eagles fault...

They are scheduled to play at the HP Center Friday and Saturday, so the Wings had to start there with little rest while the Sharks had almost a week rest. San Jose 4 Detroit 3.... San Jose up 1 game to zip.... Things will get better.... I hope.

DETROIT 6 PHOENIX 1

HUZZAH!!!!

DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO  SAN JOSE?

Bill's Big Day

Watched Bill make his first holy communion today.... very nice ceremony at church.... then good food at Eric's .... he even made some Khruschiki.... Couldn't stop eating....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TERRY...

"Now, on which side of the dock should I put that boat hoist?" And now, 42 years later, he has decided... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOOIE KUHN!

Daddy Daughter Dance

And so my littlest princess is very excited about her first social event. Thank goodness it is with me ;> Heaven knows what she will be like when she gets older. She is a social butterfly.

Tonight I figure I will be left standing alone with the other dads as Nicole and her posse' take control of the dance floor. She has at least 5 firends coming....maybe it is more of a gang than posse'. Yo Yo, what up my pips?

More to come when we return.

Thanks, you've been great.

TTS

Wings 3 Coyotes 0

Series now tied up 2 - 2... It turns into a best 2 out of 3.

Congratulations, Kevoosh....

All that training and running finally paid off.... To me just finishing the 26 miles would be an accomplishment, but to do it in excellent time... you must have had a good trainer, Kev.



"MANDELBAUM.... MANDELBAUM.... MANDELBAUM..."

Coyotes 4 Red Wings 2

Sigh! It is so sad.... They have diluted the talent among all these teams with their salary cap.... Forced Detroit to get rid of a lot of talent from last year.... I really think Gary Beckman has ruined the game. And now, with their depleted roster, Detroit  only has 3 NHL type defensemen in Rafalski, Lidstrom and Stuart. The other big bozos just can't cut it. They get beat all the time. Sorta makes you want to cry knowing that old time hockey is gone forever. At least the Tigers won.

Avez-vous du fromage?

After a quiet but enjoyable run to Trader Joe's with my eldest, I returned with some new wines and a couple of new cheeses. Not to put on any airs, but I hoped to enjoy my purchases as much as the man who spent 10 times what I did on the same amount of supplies. Once the chillun gots to bed, and all was quieted down, I uncorked my current bottle of imbibements, a 2007 FIFE Petite Sirah, and pulled out my cheeses. I feel I captured three cheeses with three different tastes and textures, yet all to my liking; id est, no Stilton, Roquefort, Limburger, etc....

The first cheese I cut into was an small wedge of Brie. Now, I have heard of brie, and had a sample of it from Kirsten's offerings a couple of Christmases ago, but decided to revisit it with some wine and crackers. Although my cracker choice could have been a tad less salty, the Brie was definitely up to the task of inviting something. I had heard Brie was creamy, rich and light in flavour; with all of these I agree. In fact, the flavour is so mild, it's almost invisible. A harsher wine may have covered it up all together. Luckily, my unassuming wine cleansed the palate as it comingled with said cheese nicely, though they did sort of blend together a bit too much. My second cheese I dove into was a 18mo-2yr aged Gouda. Now, if you have yet to sample a Gouda of this age, I might ask you if you like Parmesan. This cheese was hard, with a slight candied crisp where it met the wax, but could have passed as a close relative to Parmesan had I not known it for what it was. Tasty, but could have used a more full bodied wine, like a good Cabernet, or Zinfandel to complement it accordingly. The third cheese was a one year old aged Gouda. This was firm, but not hard, rich, but not pasty, flavourful, but not overpowering. It posed a slight contrast to my wine without getting lost in it. This, of course, was my favourite, but I will let mother make her own judgements when I offer them up to her today...along with some wine I bought for her. Wish you all could join us, but in the heart is just as well. Love to all.

Detroit 7 Phoenix 4

Series is now tied 1-1. Nice hat trick, Henrik.

What a difference a year makes!

Thought you all would get a kick out of how much hair grows in a year's time. The "sparse" pictures were taken 6 weeks after chemo ended; the other pics were taken last night, one year (and one day) later.

Phoenix 3 Detroit 2

Phoenix leads the series 1 zip. I stayed up for 2 periods and the score was 2 to 2. I guess I wan't there to hold them.

If you want to track me during the Boston Marathon (Monday, 4/19/2010)

Three are actually several options from SMS messages to eMails to online.

Here are the details if you're interested.

My bib number is: 10631

I go off in Wave 1 at 10am EDT (given the crowd I expect it will be 2-8 minutes before I actually get across the start line itself.

http://registration.baa.org/2010/cf/RegAthleteAlert/pg_AthleteAlert.cfm?mode=preentry&snap=59420536

Go Tigers!!!

Just in case they need a good pitcher, Addy's ready to play!!

PLAY BALL!!!!

Go, Tigers! Go, Boys of Summer! Here's to a great season!!

Happy Easter to all.

"Hey, if all you guys want to be in the picture, you've got to scrunch in on this side of the table."

Happy Easter to Sheens Everywhere (except Charlie)!!

Just wanted to wish a Happy Easter to my beloved family; wish we could all be together for the Big Meal and giving thanks (wait...wrong holiday) but know that I am thinking of all of you today (as I do every day).

I got a little ham and asked Brendan to make it for us...this morning he asked if I wanted eggs for breakfast and I said "well yes, but I want them with the ham and the scalloped potatoes" (for some reason, scalloped potatoes have become a "thing" for me at Easter with the ham and eggs...no idea why, but they're yummy). He said "you want the ham and potatoes for breakfast with the eggs?" I replied "yes, that is what Easter breakfast is for me." When he started to argue that this might be "odd", I pointed out he is Jewish so he isn't allowed to judge my Easter traditions. That settled that pretty quickly.

So the little ham is now in the oven and I am enjoying my McDonald's iced coffee, which I had given up for Lent. Will look forward to stopping at Starbucks this week too (something else I gave up for Lent). Assuming Meems has been drunk out of her mind since yesterday afternoon, her official ending of Lent?

Love you all!!!