We’ve been sort of hilariously insistent that summer is over for the last few weeks. It’s been cool and rainy here at stately IPB Manor, with predictions of the weather continuing on mildly this way for the foreseeable future, and we’ve got a pumpkin on one of our garden fenceposts, and the earliest leaves are starting to turn. It’s been lovely, especially now that there’s tennis on TV every night for us to get back into the whole “watching sports” thing instead of our summertime “watching Star Trek” routine. Hockey anticipation was building right along with the season shift… until this afternoon, when we read Gulitti’s report that Travis’s leg fell off and he’s out for, like, ever. The season hasn’t even started yet and it already sucks! We started to slip into a spiral of depression and gloom, until we remembered one important thing:
It’s not not summer yet! We don’t have to worry about Travis’s Achilles tendon, or the fact that no significant Devils injury has healed on the projected timetable that Lou tried to assure fans of in the last few years, or, as Boomer said, lament that at this rate we’ll never find out what the Travis/Zach/Kovalchuk line can do. No, we don’t need to spare any of that a second thought for a few more weeks yet, because it’s still August.
So we spent our evening toasting marshmallows and watching the bats wheeling overhead in the twilit sky. And that’s all this Devils blog has to say about hockey tonight.
Really, all that’s happened is that when reporters ask Lou about the injury and Zach’s chnases of signing an extension, he just needs to give one answer, “Status quo”.
Oh, well. You have people proclaiming it’s the end of the season before it’s started and wanting to signed Drury or Madden as a replacement. Yuck. Please. Not older than dirt or the dullest man in the NHL. Besides, I heard Drury might retire and I was wondering who would replace him as the dullest man in the NHL. It’s kind of difficult to be that dull.
and wanting to signed Drury or Madden as a replacement.
Ew! That’s insane! And stupid! And honestly, it’s not like either one of those guys could replace Travis. I mean, surely there are low-scoring, slow, ineffectual players in the Devils system who could fill in during Travis’s absence far more cheaply than Madden or Drury could. Finding bad alternatives to Travis should be easy! Heh.
(I’m actually pretty chill about the whole thing. Sure, it totally sucks to be Travis-less for however long it’ll actually be [based on recent injury history in NJ, I'm guessing no less than six months... :P], but we still have our little army of baby Swedes. And they’re gonna be AWESOME! Right?)
It’s definitely still summer and too early to worry about this stuff. Temperatures are in the upper 90s or low 100s all next week. Elias will become a center again for a while and life will go on, they definitely don’t need to sign anyone. My big season concern is that Hedberg better get 20 starts or I will be forced to continue my years long tirade about Brodeur playing too much. Oops I forgot for a second that it’s too hot to worry about this stuff yet.
Drury did retire today, so at least we only have to worry that Lou might have an uncontrolled moment of stupidity/belief that it’s 2003 and sign Madden.
Drury can bore his wife and kids in retirement. But, his collected interviews should be available to watch as a sleep aid.
Found out today that we are living in between a Habs fan and a Leafs fan and across the street from a Red Wings fan.
This could get interesting.
Last night, we had our fourth major storm since moving here and lost the tree right in front of the house. It landed on the garage but not hard enough to damage anything. Funny thing was it was just below our bedroom window and we never heard a thing. Almost every house on the cul-de-sac lost a tree. Anyway, the cool thing was that all the neighbor men went door to door and helped each other cut up and remove their fallen trees. I felt like I needed to put on an apron and make a big spread for the barn raising. It was pretty awesome to see them all helping each other out. I think we picked a good street to live on.
I guess I should have a least made lemonade.
Oh and the Leafs fan went to middle school with Steve Ott. My Steve Ott. And he reminds me of Matt Niskanen. I may have to invite him and his wife over for pot roast. :P
And that is my story….
Myra, that is so cool that your neighborhood is so neighborhoodly! I’m so sorry about the tree, though. Losing a big tree completely sucks. (We had one in our backyard get struck by lightning last night, but it remains to be seen what’s going to become of it.) I love that you’re living in barn-raising central! Next time (and I hope it’s not a next time for one of your trees, of course) you definitely need to make lemonade. :D
Found out today that we are living in between a Habs fan and a Leafs fan and across the street from a Red Wings fan.
This could get interesting.
Just stay out of the crossfire! (And you totally need to butter up the guy who knows Ott. This could be your in!)
We actually lucked out on the tree. It was the one tree that we were thinking of removing. It sat right in front of the dining room bay window and blocked the view from the house and of the house from the street. We still have 3 more trees out front and 3 huge trees in the back. But I am sick for our Habs neighbors. They have lost two big maples and part of another in the front yard and may lose another in their back. The cul-de-sac has a lot of trees but they have been dropping like flies this summer.
We actually lucked out on the tree. It was the one tree that we were thinking of removing.
Oh, well, in that case, good work, storm! That’s SUCH a bummer for your Habs fans neighbors, though. There’s been a pretty high tree attrition rate in our neighborhood in the last year or two, and it’s just so depressing. There’s really nothing to be done to help a mature tree that’s giving up the ghost, and it’s so hard knowing that you’re about thirty years away from fully replacing it. :(
They have lost two big maples and part of another in the front yard and may lose another in their back.
Well, that certainly doesn’t sound like a message to the Leafs fan. No siree. Nope.
Also, I hate you right now in Stately IPB Manor. All that rain you’ve been getting has been failing to get up to me, despite the weatherman’s promises, so I’ve spent the last week or so walking to work with a useless umbrella like a berk. Stop stealing the rain!
Someone should call Holik and see if he wants to pivot for a few years until Zajac re-attaches his leg.
Someone should call Holik and see if he wants to pivot for a few years until Zajac re-attaches his leg.
AIEEEEEEEEEEEEE! No! I’d rather the Devils just forfeit! :P
And normally I’d be pretty greedy about the rain and be unwilling to share any with anyone, but we’ve definitely had enough (::glances out the window at the Noah’s Ark rain pounding the front yard right now::) — it can move along now if it wants. It has my permission.
Found out today that we are living in between a Habs fan and a Leafs fan and across the street from a Red Wings fan.
What’s your street’s name? Ottawa?
Thanks to Amy, I have found the glory that is Roy9ner on Twitter. But apparently Roy-z learned nothing from the Habs fan who wrote “Trai8or” on the sign for Komisarek. When replacing a number for part of a word, make sure you completely remove all the letters the number compensates for. Roy9er? Cool. Roy Nine-ner? :::shakes head::: Anyone who has ever abbreviated on sparkly assed pants would know this.
Roy Nine-ner? :::shakes head::: Anyone who has ever abbreviated on sparkly assed pants would know this.
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What’s your street’s name? Ottawa?
Heh heh. I was wondering the same thing. The Myras have moved into quite the hockey hotbed — I honestly don’t think we’ve had that many hockey-fan neighbors if you added up every person who’s ever been a neighbor of ours.
Hey! Maybe the 9 is supposed to replace the “-Z” of “Roy-Z”?
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“Trai8or”
Trai-eight-or?
Tr8or.
Trogdor.
Totally calling him Roy-ziner now
That makes him sound like a piece of furniture! “Honey, if you sit any longer in the Roy-ziner, you will be leaving an imprint of your arse behind!”
What’s your street’s name? Ottawa?
I know, who knew? I like the way our French Canadian neighbor refer to our other Canadian neighbors as “English Canadians”. I’d never heard that before.
It should be fun and thank goodness none of them are Boston fans. Whew.
“Honey, if you sit any longer in the Roy-ziner, you will be leaving an imprint of your arse behind!”
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Myra, I think it would be hilarious if you got stuck living next to a Boston fan!
“Honey, if you sit any longer in the Roy-ziner, you will be leaving an imprint of your arse behind!”
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It should be fun and thank goodness none of them are Boston fans.
I would hope that the real estate agent would have warned you of that!!
“Honey, if you sit any longer in the Roy-ziner, you will be leaving an imprint of your arse behind!”
Plus the glitter from the Bedazzling is impossible to get off once it’s smushed in.
Myra, I think it would be hilarious if you got stuck living next to a Boston fan!
No. No it wouldn’t.
My Roy-ziner looks good and everything, but whenever I want to sit on it, it passes me off to my Vanek-er.
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Hey, did anyone else here in and around NJ and DC feel the earthquake?! I thought earthquakes were supposed to feel kinda like standing over a subway grate, but that felt waaaay freakier.
did anyone else here in and around NJ and DC feel the earthquake?
People up here in WNY felt it, and I have a friend in the Philly burbs that felt it. I guess the epicenter was right around the Richmond, VA area.
That earthquake shit is crazy, yo! (That was my first time feeling one. Last time there was a discernible one in NJ, I was oblivious. Heh.)
My company just announced that it’s safe for all of us to return to work, as the building was not damaged in the quake. Which would be great, if they’d told us to not be working at some point. Do I get an hour off now to make up for the time between the earthquake and when I was told to get working again, but during which I was working the whole time? Or do I get hazard pay?
Which would be great, if they’d told us to not be working at some point.
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I felt nothing. Or maybe I did and assumed my neighbors were having relations again.
Earthquake on the East Coast? That is insane?!? I hope none of y’all find any damage when you get home this evening. Take care!
Schnookie, you should totally get hazard pay, working thru an earthquake. Insane, I tells ya! Insane!
It’s a good day to be in Idaho (and you thought there was no such thing)
It’s a good day to be in Idaho (and you thought there was no such thing)
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Or maybe I did and assumed my neighbors were having relations again.
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Myra, I’m going to direct my employer to you when I need someone to back up my claim for hazard pay.
It’s a good day to be in Idaho (and you thought there was no such thing)
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Myra, I think it would be hilarious if you got stuck living next to a Boston fan!
That would be the worst thing ever. For anyone.
Whenever I see the Roy9ner thing I imagine Roy-z rattling everything off in cop-speak. Which is pretty amusing, actually.
Myra, I think it would be hilarious if you got stuck living next to a Boston fan!
BLEGHH! I wouldn’t wish that on anyone!
Congrats on the earthquake, guys! You’re in the club now!
I saw this and laughed my face off…
http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/2011/08/twitter-reacts-hilariously-to-the-great-east-coast-earthquake-of-2011/#page/1
I saw this and laughed my face off…
I love the one about the guy on the stairmaster!
It’s sad that in the three earthquakes I’ve lived through, not once did I realize it was an earthquake until 3 hours later when I saw a news report about it. It also gives you a glimpse into the fine establishments I’ve lived in for the past decade that when the floor vibrates, I blame building renovations before I think nature.
andrew, those were great! I loved the “text ‘you spilled your latte;” one. One of my friends sent me this, which cracked my shit up:
http://jmckinley.posterous.com/dc-earthquake-devastation
I blame building renovations before I think nature.
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