Bits: The Conference Finals Begin (And Links)

I was fumbling for a way to call that video up. Well done.

I didn’t include that in the write up! Great moves by him to get himself free. Bergeron is skating, do you think Seguin’s back to the pressbox if he’s ready to go?

With my girlfriend im lucky if i can watch the Islanders , let alone some other team
she just doesnt grasp the concept of how awesome the playoffs are

“It’s games 7 dear”

I had a funny conversation about event attendance as well.

GF: I invite you to things all the time..
KQ interjection: Exactly, ALL the time..
GF finishing: but you don’t invite me to things
KQ: well, I don’t even want to go to things…and if [unremembered fictional future-tense horrible obligatory occasion] came up and you had [random opportunity for lady fun adventure] I would much rather you go do that. And I would cover it in an unquestionalbe way.
GF: Your friends/family wouldn’t ask where I was?
KQ: only in a logistical sense, not in an aspersions casting relational judgement capacity, no. Some things we make, some things we miss, no biggie.
GF: Well what would they say if [see previous lady event].
KQ: Oh, cool.
GF: Men are stupid
KQ: I try not to be…

The “something” definition is something to tread cautiously on though because as this went on, I realized I wasn’t making headway, and the game can not be won. For you see, I do not even have enough events to become burdensome. I trudge forth, hoping there is beer and a TV and at least one other curmudgeon to pass time with. Thank you iPhone, you are salvation actualized.

12/27/1997…I remember it like it was yesterday…
“Are you ready yet”
“Yeah…I’m ready…but this is a playoff game…”
“Come on, The Giants play every week…”
“WHAT…are you kidding…. THIS IS A PLAYOFF GAME!”
“But this is important….let’s go”
“Come on… at least give me ‘til halftime… It’s not like we’re getting MARRIED IN A CHURCH!”

Bergeron was on the ice for Seguin’s highlight goal — coincidence?

:)

Email me if you’d like to trade more thoughts.

Off the top of my head, Berlin vs. Budapest depends on what you’re after. (I’d choose Budapest.) If you want to fit Amsterdam in then Berlin would likely be a more convenient leg. But Budapest is beautiful and retains a whole lot of its history. (Berlin has history, but for obvious reasons much of it had to be rebuilt and modernized.) So I think Budapest gives you more of that traditional old Euro architecture, as does Prague, while Berlin has more contemporary stuff. But there is tons to see in both locales.

There are castles galore between Czech Republic and Germany — depends on where you’re going/what route, and then you’d want to look up the history. (Some castles look more like what you think of when you picture a castle, others are just really nice estates/extravagant hunting lodges that have been in a rich dude’s family for 600 years.)

With Amsterdam or any other one-off city, trains are good, but there are lots of discount intra-Europe flights that are worth checking out and could save you key time. (I’m not sure what they are between Amsterdam and Prague, but it’s a very short flight.) With 1st trip to Europe it’s tempting to see as much as possible, but with 7 days I’d say three cities plus local/regional sites is the max. You can get a good feel of Prague in 1.5 days (it’s a pretty compact city), but the still-cheap and tasty beer and great pedestrian-friendly walking would tempt me to stay for longer.

Feel free to bounce more off me. Hopefully others will chime in here with their experiences.

its hard to feel happy about a season were your team finished 27th in the league, regardless of the reasons why
he did say that he felt if we were healthy and had streit, we could have easily been in the playoffs

I’m too many fingers into a Belgian (a beer…you pervert) to totally follow along, but reading the political and righteous-Catholic-parsing commentary of the NIFA director doesn’t change my suspicion that NIFA is apt to be as political as the next body.

Not that such undermines his points…but I’m on guard.