What I Resist Persists
Some quick hits on what's going on right now:
- My computer is still down. I physically have possession of the computer, presumably with a new, fixed hard drive, but I'm waiting on receiving the recovery disk from the manufacturer. Stupid slow UPS Ground.
- The Cornell men's ice hockey team had a somewhat strong showing the last two days as the Big Red managed to pull off a four-point weekend against Hahvahd (sucks) and Dartmouth, winning 2-1 and 3-1, respectively. Despite the scores, the wins were actually fairly convincing based on how all three teams played. Cornell's record (both conference and overall) is now 4-0-2, good for a tie for second place in the ECAC (and being in sole possession of second place by win percentage). Granted, this is only six games, but there are a lot of good notes about these games. Cornell is 3-0-1 against the top five teams in the conference. Additionally, Cornell goalie Ben Scrivens currently has a 0.81 goals against average and a .971 save percentage, both good for best in the country. Admittedly, some of this can be attributed to Cornell's usually excellent defense (which is also first in the counrty in both scoring defense and penalty kill at the moment). Nevertheless, Scrivens continues Cornell's fine tradition with his superior goaltending. (Now, if Scrivens could solve his "wandering goalie" problem--which accounted for Hahvahd's lone goal of the game--I would elevate that rating from "superior" to "outstanding".) Scrivens and the rest of the team will have a real challenge this coming weekend, though, when they travel to North Dakota to play the Fighting Sioux for a pair of nonconference games.
- I am, yet I'm not, looking forward to Thanksgiving. I'm looking forward to the time off from work, but I'm not looking forward to the hassle of traveling. It's not that far, but still, it's far enough to be something of a bother.
- Due to the aforementioned computer downtime, I'm way behind on my TV watching. This is starting to bother me. On the bright side, though, I'm doing better with catching up on my comics reading.
- Earlier today, I was at Uncle Joe's, a sports bar here in Ithaca. I went there mainly to hang out with a friend to watch the Bills game, but I also ended up running into two other groups of people I knew. One group I knew from work (including my company's president), and the other group I knew as friends of a friend. Both of these groups were watching the Jets game, and were part of the somewhat obnoxious-sounding Jets fans present. I can't blame them too much, though, since their team was winning and they had plenty of support present. Fortunately, the Bills also won, so really, everyone present was happy.