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Dallas Stars versus Washington Capitals

Hopefully the Dallas Stars will kick it into gear tonight against the Washington Capitals. I doubt it though. The Capitals have the current overall points lead right now and Dallas has given up 17 goals while only scoring 5 in their last three games since the Olympic break. That's a huge skid! It's sad. They have so much potential but the skill just isn't quite there yet.

And the skill that is there isn't being fully used. Modano is still a great player but it looks like he's taking this season in stride and not pushing himself too hard. He still has mad puck-handling skills and break-away speed. It just seems like he's riding the finality of his career and is happy with just going through the motions. I can feel for him and see his side but come on man, go out like a champ!

Then there is Ribeiro. He had a really good, fanciful season a few ago. People have his number now. He hasn't reinvented himself nor does he have the overall grit, moves, style and skill to do so like an Ovechkin and Crosby or Jagr and Forsberg of all. He likes to hog the puck too much and too long in my opinion. Defenders are not chasing him like they used to because they know he's not going to pass or he's not got that new, fancy shot. I guess I've never liked him too much because I thought he was too much of a showboat. He had that one season where we became aware of him after a few seasons of "who is this guy" but now he's been back to so-so. It happens but this is a team sport and let's play like a winning team.

I'll suffer with them to the end of the season but I don't have high hopes for post-season play. They are 11^th in the Western Conference standings vying for to take over the 8^the spot along with the Flames, Blues, Ducks and Wild who are all pretty close to each other in points. Anything can happen but I don't see the grit it takes from the Stars right now not to mention I don't see the play tremendously falling off from the other teams listed.

GO STARS!

P90X - The Proof, The "Restart"

I don't know how long it's been since I stopped (due to injury) but I believe that I am going to start the P90X-perience again this weekend. The problem is that I am still sort of injured and got a new injury to boot.

My ankle is still tender and occasionally stiff. I still play tennis and roller hockey but after the tennis my ankle is usually sore and the bottom of my foot feels like it's cramping. I have to stretch the muscle many times a day even after just sitting while watching television or being on my computer.

My newest injury is my right wrist. I play tennis and I put a lot of spin on my ground strokes with rotating or flicking my wrist. A few many times over the past few years I have mishit a ball and it vibrates the racquet or jams my wrist to a point of a twinge of pain and jarring. I tough through the pain and keep playing as much as I can. Sometimes, more than often, it passes, Other times, it doesn't but I keep playing. I'm male. It's what we do. I'm not saying it is smart. I'm just saying it's just what we do. Anyway, I might have to go get the wrist x-rayed. It's got a little bump between the socket of my thumb and index finger kind of near the middle backside of my hand. The wife thinks it might be a cyst. Some friends think it might be a displace metacarpal. Either way, I'm sure it would be best to get it looked at so I know for sure before they have to just cut it off. :-) My point of mentioning this injury is it makes it difficult to do push-ups because I cannot put too much pressure on it and it doesn't quite have the flexibility to bend like it should without some "enjoyable" pain.

I don't want to wait any longer though. I did enjoy the P90X workouts although I found it kind of difficult to fit in my schedule with having to deal with the wife and kids' schedules as well. I have a goal set in my mind to lose some weight and tone up the muscles before we hit the beach again this summer. It's not that I want to impress anybody else. I just want to feel good about knowing I look fit...for my wife, for my kids as well as for me.

Motivation has been lacking due to the cold but now that the weather is getting somewhat warmer it won't be as demotivating to do the routines in my garage again. It is damn cold in there when the weather is damn cold!

My plan is to start either Saturday night so my 7th day is on a Friday or start Sunday so it is on a Saturday. Either way, it helps to know the 7th day falls on a possible tennis/roller hockey day so I can either Stretch X or Rela-X.

We'll see how it goes. The wife express interest to do it with me. She's good at her weight watchers but wants to tone up and also build stamina and get her heart pumping strong. The problem is she is completely non-athletic. Not that it's a horrible thing but weight watchers doesn't really require any strenuous physical activity (for her anyway, I would be beating myself up sticking to the portion control and such because I lack good discipline).

Anyway, we'll see how motivate we both are this weekend.

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Alice in Wonderland (2010) (the version by Tim Burton). I haven't seen the movie yet. I'm sure I won't until it comes out on DVD like just about all the movies I've seen. I just can't justify paying $10 at a movie theater when I can get it on my Blockbuster queue in a couple of months for almost free.

Anyway, I was just reminded about something I noticed back when the promos for this film first started running and they showed Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.

He looks like Elijah Wood.

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Email humor 03/05/2010

What to do when you are bored at work:

1. Kill a few Flies

2. Put them in the sun to dry for one hour

3. Once they are dry, pick a pencil and paper... Let your imagination flow.

 

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Now You Know And Knowing Is Half The Battle!

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Spring Break Travelers Should Avoid Mexico

This email came across the office wire just moments ago. Apparently, Mexico is NOT the place to be this Spring Break season!

Ninja (2009)

Watched Ninja (2009) tonight. I must say I expected more.

I didn't expect greatness but did expect something a little better. I almost want to say that I'd get as much if not more excitement out of watching American Ninja (1985) again. Some of the action was pretty good while other action was kind of lame.

The premise of the movie is that there is a dojo in Japan where they still train ninjas. Just like American Ninja there is a Japanese ninja who is trained by rite and there is the American ninja who is trained because he has something about him.

Same story, different players. It had some good slicing and dicing here and there but it fell short on the whole ninja-powers.

I don't know. I won't go into it other than saying I just expected something a little more. It's worth watching but only if you can get a friend to pay the rental.

Better trained staff

The kids and I went to On The Border last night. We sat in an older woman's section. Her name was Suzi, I think. She was nice but a little odd.

All started out normal. She approached, bringing us chips and four ramikens of salsa (there were three of us).

She asked what we'd like to drink and we gave our orders. She asked if we'd like some queso and I said, "A cup, please." She said, "Okay," and went on her way.

When she came back and asked if we were ready to order I asked, "Do you have ribs here?" I figured not but thought I'd ask since the kids asked me.

Suzi said, "No, but if you want ribs there is a Chili's down the street that serves ribs."

I told her, "No. They wanted 'The Border' but just had a quick thought of ribs."

I don't know if I'd want my employees promoting another business as a manager. They need to train their people...no matter what business...some helpful cookie-cutter responses.

Suzi should have said something like, "No, we don't serve ribs but our brisket tacos are a good alternative."

I almost was tempted to walk out and telling the manager-on-duty exactly why..."I'm not unhappy. I'm just taking my server's advice to go to Chili's...your competitor!"

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Artifacts (2007)

A friend and coworker of mine came into the office today with some movies she had put on and received from her online Blockbuster queue and wanted to know if I would like to watch them. I'll get to the other one once I watch it but the first one I watched is called Artifacts (2007) (Blockbuster spells it this way but IMDB spells it Artefacts).

Anyway, the previews should have been an indication for what was to come. The previews were pretty much "under $30k" movies (if not, they spent too much money) except for one or two (one I remember off the top of my head was Bangkok Dangerous). The other previews look like they'll be fairly lame movies but with the addition of the hot, lead female role getting occasionally (frequently would be better) naked they could be acceptable to suffer through. :-P

Unfortunately, this movie did not provide that added interest of female nudity. In fact, it didn't even really explain what the hell the story was or how it came about. But as the guy at the end says, "We'll meet again. I promise." He lied. If this movie was released in 2007 and it is now 2010. I really don't think we are going to meet again.

It's sad really that they didn't share the bareness of the lead female or even one or two of the supporting female roles. The lead was very attractive and had a good figure. Female victims 1 and 2 weren't too bad either and neither of them glorified us with so much as a cleavage shot.

In my book, if your story line and plot suck or is fairly non-existent, you supplement it with gratuitous female nudity (for the male viewers as the female viewers wouldn't even have picked the movie off the shelf) and a male could overlook the short-sighted writing skills.

Yes, I labored through the movie. Yes, I watched it from 00:00:01 to 01:30:00 or however long it was. I held on for the hope that I'd get a boob shot or something but alas, I was left surfing Facebook while the movie progressed into nothingness.

I would have never seen this movie had it not been for my coworker. In fact, she had no idea why she put it in her queue and she didn't even watch it. See, women are smarter than men.

iPod Classic 160GB

I am so freakin' tempted to buy the 160GB iPod Classic. I don't really need it but 160GB is a whole lot of space for all my ripped albums, photos, and more. It's not badly priced these days either. I should probably get one before it jumps in price because they'll no longer be made and will become a rarity.

I also hate the fact that I'm stuck with using iTunes for this device. Not that I hate it, I just don't use it that often but I have started to try and be more familiar just in case I take the step into iPod-land.

Hmm...must ponder this decision but not for too long.

Popeye "I Yam What I Yam"

Oh geez, I was reading something that talked about the movie Popeye with Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall. I remember seeing this movie as a kid and thought it was very good. It wasn't true to the cartoon (Popeye hated spinach in the movie until he was force-fed by Bluto and found that it made him stronger) but it was still a very good rendition.

Robin Williams was the perfect Popeye and Shelly Duvall was born to play Olive Oyl. The dancing and singing was pretty well done too.

Anyway, enjoy the clip.

iPod Touch 8GB

I'm looking to find a really good deal on an 8GB iPod Touch for my oldest kid.

I did a Google this morning and one of the top links is here. I'm very, very skeptical about it. I've read the description and it all seems like it references an actual 8GB iPod Touch. I'm just leery about the price. $49.99 for a 3rd generation 8GB iPod Touch??

Questionable but it does make you wonder how legit it is.