Yeah!!! I’m so happy to be back. I never realized how hard it would be to not have the time, or means, to watch hockey. Holy smokes have I become addicted. I’ll save you an indepth recap of the last two weeks in hockey as I haven’t really seen any.
Here’s a few quick hits -
It was very weird to update the Timmy Ho count and all all 6 games to the “Played” category instead of “Missed.” This is truly mind-boggling. I have this strange fear, Darcy will be lulled into “Timmy will never get hurt again” and decide not to trade him at the deadline. We all know he’s going to have 3 fingers amputated on 3/5 and never play again. I think I may drive to Buffalo and steal Darcy’s rose colored glasses. Hopefully that would be enough.
Dear MSG and Buffalo Sabres,
You created a press release AND sent me an email stating all 4 games on this road trip would be televised. It would have been REALLY nice if you would have kept your word, OR stated that it was only true for those people within X distance of Buffalo and NOT the entire blackout area. I kept flipping between the two MSG channels on Tuesday with no luck. That was until the Rangers game ended. Once that game ended I was given an in progress Sabres game. They were already up 3-0. Wednesday night? No such luck. I kept flipping to see when the Rangers/Pens and Knicks/Hawks game would end hoping for a repeat of Tuesday night. No such luck. No televised game. I had already tried NHL Gamecenter since I had to pay for it, but I’m in the blackout area so there was no legal visual. Thankfully, I’ve discovered another venue where I can watch games regardless of blackout areas. My very long winded point here is this, you said you would show the f’n game, so show the f’n game. I’m 5 hours from NYC and 2 from Buffalo, what do you think I want to watch? (Hint: It does not rhyme with Blangers.) Hopefully, you’ll pull your head out of your ass and we’ll have the right games on Saturday.
Sincerely,
Chaz
I love how Staffy did the Sabres interview with the pigeon on his shoulder but was all coy on the TSN interview about the meaning of the pigeon. It’s a private thing, ya’know? I sat here watching it and laughing. HELLO, go to buffalonews.com, there’s a WHOLE article on the pigeon.
Some of you may have noticed one of my previous posts has disappeared. Apparently, 4 months after it was originally written, there are many angry people who have found it. So, it’s been taken down. I politely request everyone that has written me lots of very not nice things, stop. It’s gone now, OK. You are on the verge of becoming exactly what you have been calling me. And that’s all I have to say about that.
Now onto what has been consuming a whole heck of a lot of my time over the last few weeks.
A house!!
(I was going to post a picture of the outside, but realized I haven’t taken one and I really don’t want the people in paragraph above to figure out where I live. I have no doubt I would come home to find my home burned to the ground.)
So, instead you’ll get a few snap shots and general comments on my new abode.
::happy dance::
Let’s start on the first floor –
There are three bedrooms. While none are huge, they’ll work for me. The previous owners also have a thing for wood.
This is the smallest of the bedrooms.
That’s real wood in the panelling. Amazing, I know.
Next, is my favorite. The Salmon colored bathroom! Woo-hoo!!!
Now, I don’t really have any good pictures of the bathroom because there are all these weird walls separating it into “spaces.” This is on my redo list for next year.
The sink and vanity. Behind it is a storage cabinet with the original 1950's countertop.
Here's the storage set up in the bathroom. Check out the countertop!
Check out my Dad in the background measuring the bathroom!
Unlike the rest of the bathroom, the shower is brand new. There was an elderly lady living here, so they have removed the bathtub. I’m a bath type of person, that will need to return.
Why is it you lose half the room when you try to take a picture of the whole thing?
Here’s the living room. I wish I had openned the blinds, because there’s a huge bay window there.
Lengthwise view of the kitchen
It doesn’t really look it from this angle, but the kitchen is actually really big. One of my first projects is going to be taking down the wall on the right. It encloses the stair well to the cellar and really makes the kitchen look much small. After that…those cabinets!
Here is the rest of the kitchen that was hidden behind the stairwell wall.
Don’t ask what’s up with that cabinet…we haven’t been able to figure it out. It will be going away!
Right next to the stairs is the entrance to my sun porch and deck.
The house sits at an angle, so there is a huge side and back yard off the deck and not so much next to the porch.
AND the other reason the wall in the kitchen is coming down. This is what the stairwell looks like. Ouch!
The bottom of the stairs opens to this - A BAR! Ok, so they closed the bar off, but I'll be ripping that puppy down.
Here's the other half of the finished cellar. The wood stove is going. In it's place, a gas fireplace.
This brings me to my FAVORITE room. We call it the torture room. Why?
Meet the torture machine! (Or grape press)
So, that’s my new abode!
The Sabres are welcome at any time. Although, the bad ones may find themselves strapped to the machine above….
