081422 • Concords vs Citiwide Banks

This, my third game in a row, was called with five minutes left as I was suffering from severe dehydration and couldn’t continue, ending up in the ER for a few hours. I’ll be drinking a lot more in preparation for games from now on.

081422 • Evergreens vs Fury

Second of three games in a row. I started to have a serious bout of dehydration in the second period.

081422 • Tornados vs Ice Monkeys

First of three games in a row!

My Kidnappers Returning Me

Reading In The Car

After work, I tend to read in the car for a bit as the traffic dies down so I can have an easier ride home. When I’m caught in traffic, I keep thinking how that time could be better used for reading, so now I just read for a while and relax, which makes the drive home far less stressful and I get a lot of reading done. And I have this position where I stick my feet out the window that is really comfortable, believe it or not. A great way to end a work day.

Look At All The White Vehicles

Seacrest Inline Hockey Rink

This is the rink where I started playing hockey, along with USA on Wheels (Now part of Skate City). It was pretty easy to go over the boards here. There also wasn’t that big fence at the end, so if you shot too high, you were spending time in the grass looking for your $7 puck. The concrete was smooth, but it would wear a stick down faster than ice does. Sometimes the weather was wonderful to play in, sometimes you just played despite the weather. But at least there were no real limits on rink time, or zambonis to wait on. Just show up and play.

Thunderbird In The Shade

Vince Flynn Collectors Editions

My Vince Flynn Collectors Editions. I have the twelve Brad Thor Collectors Editions, too, but I recently finished re-reading these and have since gone through six or seven of the post-Collectors Editions books, close to finishing the Vince Flynn books and starting the Brad Thor books in my big re-reading project.

Smashed Volkswagen

This was in our parking lot at work. It’s awful, yet a testament to car safety as the cabin wasn’t crushed and I’d assume the driver is relatively okay. In a car from decades previous, this probably would have looked a lot worse for the driver.