Some things.
1. Someecards.com needs to add the option to send cards for a later date. Instead of boring calendar reminders for myself, I sometimes like to set up an e-card so I'll get it with a reminder of whatever I need to do. (In this case, sending the second half of the SR rep posters on 1/14, so exciting.) ANYWAY, this one would have been so perfect to give myself a little laugh next week, but they only let you send instantly.
2. Today I walked into Dunkin Donuts and saw a sign that said, "The Dunkaccino is back!" I don't think you can understand how excited I was. !!!!!!!!!! So I ordered a medium, and a pumpkin muffin (OMG, my two favorite things are available at the same time!), and then I got even MORE excited when the total came to $4.14. It's like they did this just for me.
The timing, however, is suspect. Since the Dunkaccino disappeared, I've gone through different phases with my morning beverage. Just last week, I bought a bunch of cocoa mix and started buying just a plain coffee, since it's so much cheaper than any of the fancy combos, and adding some cocoa mix here in the office for a sort of lo-fi imitation. It's good, but not as good as the Dunkaccino, OF COURSE.
So now I'll be paying more again for the Dunkaccinos, and all this cocoa mix will just sit here. ha.
3. I was finally able to see some footage from the insanity I mentioned in the Penguins game on Saturday. Here's a post with the relevant videos.
The first one's not all that notable, until they zoom in around 1:10 and show the guys "discussing" the fight, and how Campbell is laughing about it and "Talbot's not smiling." I enjoyed that.
The part that I can't stop laughing about is Crosby's fight. I don't even know why, but I find it SO FUNNY. There's been a lot of discussion on the hockey blogs about whether Sidney was taking cheap shots at a guy who didn't want to fight, or whether they agreed to fight earlier (as Sid claims), and then McLean either didn't take him seriously or purposely didn't fight back to draw bigger penalties on the opposing superstar. But I'm not thinking about any of that. All I can think when I watch it is an almost-patronizing, "Oh, widdle Sidney is fighting that big bad man!" Which is ridiculous; he is a professional athlete, one of the very best, and there's no reason - aside from his age, maybe - for me to think of him as someone's little brother pretending to be a hockey player. And yet, I do. Sorry, Sid. It's really really funny. (Your 20 minutes in the penalty box, however, are not so funny.)(Neither are your team's massive losses lately.) (Get on that.)
Watched them blow another game last night, and now I'll trudge home after work, as if to the gallows, to "watch" the stats online as they play again tonight. After I made such a commitment to really keep up with the team this year, watching or "watching" nearly every game, subscribing to the aforementioned blogs to follow team news, etc, this is how they repay me. With 3-4 nights a week of agony.
Jeez, Pens.
2. Today I walked into Dunkin Donuts and saw a sign that said, "The Dunkaccino is back!" I don't think you can understand how excited I was. !!!!!!!!!! So I ordered a medium, and a pumpkin muffin (OMG, my two favorite things are available at the same time!), and then I got even MORE excited when the total came to $4.14. It's like they did this just for me.
The timing, however, is suspect. Since the Dunkaccino disappeared, I've gone through different phases with my morning beverage. Just last week, I bought a bunch of cocoa mix and started buying just a plain coffee, since it's so much cheaper than any of the fancy combos, and adding some cocoa mix here in the office for a sort of lo-fi imitation. It's good, but not as good as the Dunkaccino, OF COURSE.
So now I'll be paying more again for the Dunkaccinos, and all this cocoa mix will just sit here. ha.
3. I was finally able to see some footage from the insanity I mentioned in the Penguins game on Saturday. Here's a post with the relevant videos.
The first one's not all that notable, until they zoom in around 1:10 and show the guys "discussing" the fight, and how Campbell is laughing about it and "Talbot's not smiling." I enjoyed that.
The part that I can't stop laughing about is Crosby's fight. I don't even know why, but I find it SO FUNNY. There's been a lot of discussion on the hockey blogs about whether Sidney was taking cheap shots at a guy who didn't want to fight, or whether they agreed to fight earlier (as Sid claims), and then McLean either didn't take him seriously or purposely didn't fight back to draw bigger penalties on the opposing superstar. But I'm not thinking about any of that. All I can think when I watch it is an almost-patronizing, "Oh, widdle Sidney is fighting that big bad man!" Which is ridiculous; he is a professional athlete, one of the very best, and there's no reason - aside from his age, maybe - for me to think of him as someone's little brother pretending to be a hockey player. And yet, I do. Sorry, Sid. It's really really funny. (Your 20 minutes in the penalty box, however, are not so funny.)(Neither are your team's massive losses lately.) (Get on that.)
Watched them blow another game last night, and now I'll trudge home after work, as if to the gallows, to "watch" the stats online as they play again tonight. After I made such a commitment to really keep up with the team this year, watching or "watching" nearly every game, subscribing to the aforementioned blogs to follow team news, etc, this is how they repay me. With 3-4 nights a week of agony.
Jeez, Pens.