Labor Day

I hope everyone has a wonderful Labor  Day weekend. 

I had fully expected that my weekend in Gatineau  would leave me with thousands of stories to share with you all.  WRONG!  I just know read about the whole Meszaros mess.  Congrats to the Lightening.  I think they’re going to be the biggest, overpaid, posers of 2009.  (Read: Senators 2008)

Here’s my Labor day 2008 story.  Pat Burns is staying in my hotel, at least according to my waiter.  I did see him walking towards the golf course this morning while I sat waiting for the buffet.   Err…that’s it.  I thought he looked familiar but didn’t realize it was him until the waiter wet himself.

A$$holes

Dear Yahoo:

I have visited your site 3 times a day, every day for the last two weeks in anticipation of when I could register my fantasy hockey league.  Through yesterday, your website said “Join us in late August when registration begins.”  I was going to post some wise-ass comment about regarding T-3 days until the end of August.  Problem?  Today, I visit the page and it says “Join us in early September when registration begins.”  Seriously?  You need to get your shit together.

Sincerely,

Pissed off league commissioner

Don't piss me off

Lost: Pommer

Pommer is young and calm, but subject to periodic bursts of energy.  He has matured over the last few years and is fully house-trained.  He loves playing on and around ice, but can spend hours playing with Jacques.  He likes to end his days snuggling on the couch.  He’s 6′0″ and 186.  He’ll respond to Pommer or Jason.  He loves bacon.  Please help find our beloved Pommer. 

Reward: 5 yr contract for $25 mil

Have you seen me? I want bacon.

Jacques misses you

When Katebits originally brought this up, I completely agreed with Heather B’s comment.  Labor Day is a good time to commence worrying about the status of Pommers contract.  Maybe it’s PMS, I DON’T KNOW, but effective last night I’ve begun the official ”Where the fuck is Pommerdoodle” campaign.  (Although to MJ’s credit, she may have started it a little earlier then last night, but I’m now jumping on the bandwagon picking up the torch.)  I’ve searched high and low to no avail.  There’s just this one teeny, tiny little blog post by Pommer in an otherwise WAY too long summer.  I’m afraid Pommer may be lost to even himself.

Where am I?

I’m starting to think that we’re going to have a repeat of last year except without excessive sweating commercials and all this “it’s killing me as much as it’s killing you talk”.  Pommerdoodle has too MUCH class for that kind of behavior.

Private to Pommer

Pommer,

You are too valuable to my fantasy hockey team the Sabres both on and off the ice.  You are revered in the Buffalo community.  Don’t let us down like the excessively sweating tomato that made his way to Chicago.  Granted, you don’t have to worry about accidentally ending up in the pizza sauce…  Please come back.  I promise I’ll work with Wegman’s to get you a contracts worth of Bacon and Pet Smart for a supply of Jacques.  Buffalo t’aime.

Merci,

Chaz

Thank You!

Damn, I’m good.

Happy Dance!!!!!

Could it be?

Joe Sakic is going to speak to the public on Thursday before his golf outing.  Now, I’m sure Super Joe could stand there and regale the reasons Batman is better than Iron Man, but let’s face facts…thats like 100 words more than Joe usually says.

That leaves me with the impression that Joe will announce that he is NOT retiring.  I mean, really, could you imagine Joe standing there and telling everyone he was retiring before hitting the links.  Holy uncomfortable, Batman. 

Not to be out done, Sundin will announce that he is returning as well.  I don’t know, nor do I care, which team he picks.

 

Welcome Back Joe, welcome back.

Quit yur bitchin’

This past week, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition has been in Geneva. To say I love EMHE is BEYOND an understatement. Not only do they do good, but they give me a reason to cry once a week. AND as we’ve already learned, I love me a good cry.

Ever since I learned they would be coming to UNY, I’ve been reading the local papers and watching the local news to see what people had to say. Honestly, I’ve been very disappointed with my fellow UNYer’s.

First, there was the complaining that Geneva is Western NY, not Central NY. Hmm, let’s examine the evidence. They have a 14 zipcode, so they’re Western, but they have a 315 area code so they’re Central. WHO cares, for once a television show has come to the best, inmyopinion, part of the state. The terminally forgotten Upstate New York. I wonder if we can all agree that Geneva is Upstate?

Next, there was complaining that they only help one family. Oh, but wait, all leftover materials AND some items from the original house have been donated to the Ontario county Habitat for Humanity. More people complained that they still haven’t helped enough people. Hmm, last I knew, one family is better than none and they’re helping at a minimum 2.

Then, there was the one guy that kept saying the family would, in the following year, be bankrupt and selling the house for cash. I can’t say this hasn’t happened, because we know it has happened very recently. They are advised to seek a financial manager to help them manage the new costs. Every day when pictures were updated, he would comment that these are the real estate pictures that will be used to help sell the house. Well Captain Killjoy, I hope you enjoy your glass half empty world. I’m sorry that you feel that you or someone you know deserved the house they built. Maybe you should take a long, hard look in the mirror…

Lastly, I think Tim Mahoney and the team at Mahoney Design and Build deserve kudos. The team and all of the volunteers pulled together a house that is not only functional for the family, but keeps in true style of the surrounding neighborhood. You all exemplified the old adage “Do unto others as you would have done unto you.” From the thousands of people, that I know agree with me, thank you. We all know how great Upstate New York is, now the rest of the country can know too.