Friday, 17 November 2006:

After hibernating until mid-morning, I just vegged on the couch drinking coffee, reading the Tampa Tribune, and watching some tube. I began working on this blog a little, ate a little lunch, and unloaded the bike and brought in just a few things, like my meds! As I actually am writing this on Sunday the 19^th, and as I have long-term short-term memory loss from my wasted youth, I cannot really remember most of what I did the rest of the day, except that it was pretty much nothing. At any rate, in the evening my sis and bro-in-law came home and we departed about 19:00 for the Tampa Times Tribune Forum, AKA the hockey rink where the Tampa Bay Lightning play. If you never have been to a hockey game, I highly recommend it. Especially if you are given Club Level seats. The team played like they were on fire for the first five minutes, opening up a 2-0 lead over the visiting New York Islanders, then they went flat for the rest of the game. I'm not exactly a hockey connoisseur, but even I could see how they had gotten conservative and lapsed into a prevent defense. When you play like that on defense, it carries over to offense, and they were pathetically lackluster for the rest of the game. They were lucky to win the game after a scoreless overtime in the 7^th round of the shootout. The goalie was definitely the MVP of the game.

That's it - went to bed after we got back home.

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