Bruins are back in the Stanley Cup Finals.
I must say that growing up, as big of a baseball fan as I was, I was probably an even bigger hockey fan during the late 70's and early 80's. Let's face it, growing up in New England, hating the cold and the snow; something needed to sustain me. And those Bruins teams of Terry O'Reilly, Brad Park, Ray Bourque, Jean Ratelle, and Rick Middleton were just it.
So now, it's going to be an Original Six Cup Final against Chicago. They seemed to be the team to beat all year. Of course, how thoroughly we manhandled Pittsburgh in the Conference Final gives me some confidence.
Enjoying The Reluctant Communist by Charles Robert Jenkins. He survived 40 years in North Korea, and lived to escape and tell about it.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Friday, June 7, 2013
Pre-Shabbat
Bruins are 12 minutes away from heading back to the Cup final.
Today, I got sanctioned by Facebook for posting the following comment: "Free Palestine=Kill the Jews".
Happy Birthday, Your Royal Purpleness. Thanks for the memories and the soundtrack to much of my adolescence.
Have started Charles Robert Jenkins's book on his 40-year sojourn into North Korea. If I am thankful for anything, it is to have not been born there.
Cleaned the bathroom and swept up/mopped up the kitchen.
+.4 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers
Shabbat Shalom!
Today, I got sanctioned by Facebook for posting the following comment: "Free Palestine=Kill the Jews".
Happy Birthday, Your Royal Purpleness. Thanks for the memories and the soundtrack to much of my adolescence.
Have started Charles Robert Jenkins's book on his 40-year sojourn into North Korea. If I am thankful for anything, it is to have not been born there.
Cleaned the bathroom and swept up/mopped up the kitchen.
+.4 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers
Shabbat Shalom!
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Day 3
Just about ready to crawl into bed, and I realized I hadn't blogged anything yet today. Long interview today.
Looks like it is going to be the Bruins and the Black Hawks in the Stanley Cup Finals.
Went to another nice shiur this evening given by Rabbi Stern at LINK.
Ace Atkins seems to have picked up well where Robert Parker left off. His second Spenser novel I feel tends to drag a little more than the first. But he has successfully captured Parker's voice. 28 years since having read my first Spenser book, and still a fan.
Everything seemed to come together nicely for me today.
Finished The Go-Giver today.
Going to get a haircut tomorrow.
This is not exactly a smooth-flowing entry today, is it?
Good night. Talk to you all next week --
OH
Looks like it is going to be the Bruins and the Black Hawks in the Stanley Cup Finals.
Went to another nice shiur this evening given by Rabbi Stern at LINK.
Ace Atkins seems to have picked up well where Robert Parker left off. His second Spenser novel I feel tends to drag a little more than the first. But he has successfully captured Parker's voice. 28 years since having read my first Spenser book, and still a fan.
Everything seemed to come together nicely for me today.
Finished The Go-Giver today.
Going to get a haircut tomorrow.
This is not exactly a smooth-flowing entry today, is it?
Good night. Talk to you all next week --
OH
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Day 2 of My True Blog
OK, so what's the saying, it's not the first time you try something that's hard, it's the second? Well here we go, Day 2 of my True Blog. Reading The Go-Giver by Bob Burg -- much better in my opinion than The One Minute Manager.
Well, I really do enjoy living in LA/Southern California. I've lived in enough places, but I'm very, very happy here. Only took me the first 43 years of my life to finally get settled...
Meeting a friend this afternoon for lunch -- do not usually like to wait this long to eat -- have been trying to keep myself full on fruits -- apple and orange have been consumed, a banana looms on the horizon.
Barry Bonds was never anyone's role model, but let me tell you this -- in the 35+ years I have been following baseball (and had regular access to a TV), there are just two players I can name that, if I was doing something and just had the game on in the background, when they came to bat, I stopped whatever it was I was doing to watch them hit. The first was Jim Rice. Second, Bonds.
Well, I really do enjoy living in LA/Southern California. I've lived in enough places, but I'm very, very happy here. Only took me the first 43 years of my life to finally get settled...
Meeting a friend this afternoon for lunch -- do not usually like to wait this long to eat -- have been trying to keep myself full on fruits -- apple and orange have been consumed, a banana looms on the horizon.
Barry Bonds was never anyone's role model, but let me tell you this -- in the 35+ years I have been following baseball (and had regular access to a TV), there are just two players I can name that, if I was doing something and just had the game on in the background, when they came to bat, I stopped whatever it was I was doing to watch them hit. The first was Jim Rice. Second, Bonds.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Start of My True Blog
OK, after several years of posting mostly other people's quotes as my blog, I have decided to start truly blogging. Going to discipline myself, and go for at least 5 minutes/day of straight typing. I imagine much of this will be stream of consciousness, but that's OK.
As it goes right now, I seem to get an average of about 20 hits a day on my blog (glad you all like the quotes I am posting), and it will be interesting to see how many hits/responses I start to get from an actual blog.
Despite having spent ample time as an executive/director in the dot.com high tech world, I've always contended that I've got an Amish streak in me. I do not own (nor want to) a television, I have no internet connectivity on my phone, and am therefore still very much a stranger to the world of Twitter (though you can still follow me at #sabraredsoxfan).
I am a lifelong sports fan (grew up in Boston), and am thrilled to see my Bruins getting closer and closer to getting back to the Stanley Cup Finals after a year hiatus. Living in LA, I did wish for a Kings-Bruins final (if for nothing else than to perhaps have a chance to cheer on the B's at Staples Center), but the Kings do not appear to be holding up their end of the deal.
OK, c'est tout pour au jour d'hui. Comments/questions/suggestions welcome -- only took me about 8 years since someone first suggested I started blogging -- as I like to say...I may have been born the day before yesterday, but I definitely was not born yesterday --
Kol tuv,
Ovadia
As it goes right now, I seem to get an average of about 20 hits a day on my blog (glad you all like the quotes I am posting), and it will be interesting to see how many hits/responses I start to get from an actual blog.
Despite having spent ample time as an executive/director in the dot.com high tech world, I've always contended that I've got an Amish streak in me. I do not own (nor want to) a television, I have no internet connectivity on my phone, and am therefore still very much a stranger to the world of Twitter (though you can still follow me at #sabraredsoxfan).
I am a lifelong sports fan (grew up in Boston), and am thrilled to see my Bruins getting closer and closer to getting back to the Stanley Cup Finals after a year hiatus. Living in LA, I did wish for a Kings-Bruins final (if for nothing else than to perhaps have a chance to cheer on the B's at Staples Center), but the Kings do not appear to be holding up their end of the deal.
OK, c'est tout pour au jour d'hui. Comments/questions/suggestions welcome -- only took me about 8 years since someone first suggested I started blogging -- as I like to say...I may have been born the day before yesterday, but I definitely was not born yesterday --
Kol tuv,
Ovadia
Quote of the Day
"[Definition of] discipline: doing something even when there's no payoff." -- Hugh Culver
Monday, June 3, 2013
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