spring has sprung

a thousand things have happened between now and my last post.

i caught the Flyers last Saturday for the game where they won with 2.1 seconds left on the clock, after they were down to the division leding blackhawks with under 2 minutes to go. saw it from up top in a luxury suite, one section over from Paul Holmgren, their GM. it ruled!

the Big Red (Cornell) won their March Madness game. that’s fantastic news, but i’m still not a big basketball fan. more importantly they play in 20 minutes in the ECAC hockey finals. and it’s on the NHL network. that, i’m commandeering the TV for. final words on the Big Red, the suicide rate is back up at school. although it’s no higher than the national average, the campus is littered with deep gorges with, of course, running water below. there are several bridges that have sides that are easily scaled, and it provides an easy jumping point to certain death. much more dramatic than on OD as well.

the B.C. thing was a summer session between junior and senior year of high school. i did my 4 year at Cornell. at that time suicides were common. for a couple of years recently the school was suicide free. it just reminds me that college isn’t all “texts from last night” tales. it can be a meat grinder.

i made it out barefoot for the first time this spring. did the first grilling last night. got some yardwork in. now, i’m ready to make good on a resolution to master my machines. i’m going to learn small engine repair. by the end of it i want to be able to clean a carburator and gap spark plugs, balance cutting blades, all the usual nonsense – On The Spot, so i don’t have to take anything to the shop anymore. i have enough of the stuff (chainsaws to leaf blowers, mowers, snow blowers, etc.), so it’d be a Very worthwhile skill.

well, i’m off to peck away at taxes and catch a hockey game. tomorrow night is a gig, and i might catch a buddy’s band tonight, if the ride situation works out.

March 19, 2010 Posted in: Uncategorized