From The Branches

Well I had a really cool idea for this FTB last night, but I knew it would take some effort to put together.  I brainstormed, made notes, and was excited to write it.  And then, we went for dinner at our friend's place, and played a bunch of

This day is usually the one Friday in Lent I remember not to eat meat. Most of the other Fridays I will try my best and remember once I am through my second or third bite. By then, the cat's already out of the bag so I finish.

Well last week, when I initially figured out how to work DOS Box, I featured one of the best games ever, from 1993 - Scorched Earth.  This week, being sick, afforded me the opportunity to find and play one of my personal favourite games - Mega Lo Mania.  I was only about

Will all due respect to Bloge Salming and general borschevsky, this is the best spoof of the Stanley Cup Playoff commercials yet: History Will Be Made - Gordon Bombay (via amorebettersn) Now some of you may not know it, but this winter I coached a squirt hockey team from New Canaan,

So there seems to be something that's changed about the Leafs since the trade deadline. No, not the amazing play of our top line (although I do find it to be soothing to my soul that Phil Kessel hit the 30 goal mark, the first time since Sundin

If you didn't see the fantastic ending last night, then you really missed out on something special. No, I'm not talking about the Leafs game; I'm talking about Wrestlemania XXVI and the epic rematch between the Heart Break Kid Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker.

Here are you links for a sleepy Sunday morning: Price tag going up for Gustavsson, Kulemin - James Mirtle Two young Leafs, both set to be restricted free agents this summer, have earned bigger paydays lately just your usual general borschevsky: Mikhail "Difference Maker" Grabovski The General likes Grabovski.

No words, just links Dion Phaneuf hits a lot. Jason Blake gets hit a lot. Mikhail Grabovski plays in a non-checking league. Looking at hitting stats at [Behind the Net] Former Leaf and Marlie, Tim Stapleton, has been recalled to the big club in Atlanta. I link this because

So Wednesday at work I got asked to go kayaking down this little stream/river by our work that leads to the Long Island Sound. Hell yeah I said! Kayaking is sweet. So yesterday I put on a wetsuit, climbed into a kayak, set off down the river......and soon

So yesterday was a rather slow day at work, so I got to know the guy who sits next to me better.  We discussed our software, the limits of doing things in 3D, and then started reminiscing about old versions of AutoCAD... which somehow led to the video games we

Last night's loss to the Florida Panthers can only be described as a God damn catastrophe for the upcoming 2010 Stanley Cup Champions. Grrrrrrrrrrr. David Booth, he sucks and I want to rip his head off, scored two goals and some shitty backup goalie named Scott Clemmensen nearly

Rather than dive into an overly drawn out diatribe about this past weekend in Toronto, I thought I'd take you all on a chronological tour of my inner monologue throughout the trip. Enjoy. Why am I up so early?  Scranton, PA smells like ass.  Did you go to

Well it's back to the routine of everyday life for everyone today.  For some, that'll be really sucky, as it seems everyone who managed to make it to Toronto for the big meetup was very reluctant to leave (note: more pictures are required.  I'm

Well last night was a great game for the PPPers to meetup and attend.  Jared's drunken posts were remarkably similar to his sober ones (typos and all) and BTD supplied us with this awesome picture of Kessticle, who appears to be Phil Kessel's long lost twin

Yesterday was an absolutely gorgeous day in Vancouver.  The kind of day that makes you realize spring really is here, and summer is just around the corner.  It seems the NHL was on the same wavelength as me - releasing new NHL bikinis on the NHL.com store!  It's

Well, with Chemmy and Skinnyfish heading to Toronto today, you guys are stuck with me for the next few days.  My posting the FTB for three consecutive days comes at an interesting time - just as Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail touched off a storm about bloggers "all&

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most of you reading this are suffering from hangovers. That's why I'm not going to give you much to read today, just some links to click on. Phil Kessel is awesome [BoO] Looking

I had hoped the Orr-Carkner V would go down last night so I could have posted the fight video here, but alas, no fisticuffs last night. I guess I'll just have to drown the sorrow I have from not seeing a fight with some green beer and

This season has been like a long, painful car ride where your parents changed the destination once they got you all excited and into the car. Yup, this summer we were all a-flutter with great defensive signings, the promise of youth, and a new, hot goalie and the promise

* Well strangely, I totally forgot that the Leafs existed this weekend.  Well, not totally.  Saturday afternoon I went to a spice party (and spent way too much money) and the hubby was coming over after the party, so he apparently  watched the Leafs game for me, and informed me of

This is the worst morning of the year. We all lose one hour of sleep but that's not even the worst part. The next two days will feature forgotten appointments, dangerously sleepy people using dangerous machinery (including cars), and messed up PVRs. That last one is the worst.

Sometimes you decide to watch more TV Friday nights and you forget that SkinnyFish told you that he would be coaching some degenerates on the weekend. I also think he took their King, Chemmy, so this might be the preview too. Basically, two terrible teams that their fans hope have

Why seven? Because 10 is too much for me to think of at 11 o'clock at night, and 5 would make it seem like I were lazy. 1) Nikolai Kulemin is no longer a 3rd line plugger; he's a legitimate 2nd line scoring threat. In the

So this week has been pretty hectic for me at work. We're on a deadline with what was supposed to be a "simple" building. Only, on Tuesday when we were supposed to be done, the structural engineer decided to make a whole bunch of last minute

That's right; a shrimp taco. Not just any shrimp taco, a Taco Bell shrimp taco. I don't know when it began, but apparently in America you can now buy of of these at your local Taco Bell.  Who in the Taco Bell hierarchy thought this was