Holy Crap! They Won!

When I went to bed during the second intermission, the score was 0-0 and the Maple Leafs were outplaying the Bruins. If it wasn't for Swayman, the Maple Leafs would have had at least 2 or 3 goals because the Bruins just couldn't keep the Maple Leafs out of the Bruins end of the rink.

The Bruins passes were sloppy, their positioning was a mess and they just looked like a bunch of little kids trying to play hockey.

In the third period, after I had already turned my TV off, the Maple Leafs scored the first goal of the game. Fortunately, the Bruins were able to answer before the period ended, tying the game 1-1 and sending it into overtime where the Bruins scored the winning goal and moved on to round two of the Stanley Cup.

Their opponent in round two will be the well-rested Panthers, who will be the home team.

They head to Florida today and the series starts tomorrow. Puck drops at 8:00 and I hope the Bruins remember how to play like a professional hockey team before then...

In case you are interested, here is the schedule for the Bruins/Panthers series:

I suspect that the majority of those "TBD" times will be changed to 8:00pm. We'll have to wait and see what the TV schedulers come up with.

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Ricky Gervais is the front man for a vodka called "Dutch Barn" and he has the best advertisements for it on Twitter:

He is a very funny guy.

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My email reader is continuing it's learning and so far, it's doing a pretty good job.

This is what got dumped into my junk mail folder today:

There are 3 others from Trump's cult in my inbox that I had to manually mark as junk but 13 out of 16 isn't bad.

It will get better as I tag more messages as junk. Pretty soon, it'll just start dumping everything into junk and I'll be happy.

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The Red Sox and the Twins game started at 2:10 this afternoon and there was another new guy on the field.

Some guy named Zak Short was playing third base and Devers was the DH. I'm not entirely sure why Devers was DHing but I will say that the SHort guy wasn't hitting the ball very well. Maybe he was nervous to be playing his first game with the Red Sox or...

...maybe there's a reason the Met's traded him to the Red Sox.

Anyways, The Red Sox broke the Twins winning streak at 12 games, beating them 9-2 this afternoon. They are off tomorrow while they head down to Atlanta where on Tuesday they will start a two-game series against the Braves.

On Wednesday, they will face Chris Sale so that should be an interesting game to watch.

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Time for some dinner followed by some R&R. This staying up until all hours watching ⅔ of a hockey game is taking it's toll.

Here are some interesting links:

• I've worked with cows and I can assure you, the last thing they want is to be cuddled.



• Imagine how wonderful a nice glass of orange juice will taste mixed in with your leftover toothpaste.



• This does not seem like an intelligent thing to do.



• Key line in this story: "...up to 150 males gather twice a year to impress females with loud honks."

Big night in Boston

The Red Sox lost 5-2 last night and then they lost 3-1 this afternoon. Granted, the Twins are on a 12 game winning streak right now and no one can beat them but I was hoping the Red Sox would win this series.

Now I'm just hoping they don't get swept.

The final game in the series is tomorrow. First pitch is at 2:10.

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It's do or die for the Bruins and the Maple Leafs tonight. One of those two teams will move on to the second round and the other team will go on vacation.

Based on last year, I'm not hopeful that the Bruins will be moving on to round two. As Pat said, "I'll be keeping my fingers crossed tonight for the Bruins. Hopefully they finish different from last year."

I'll find out what happened tomorrow morning because the puck drops at 8:00 tonight and the game is on ABC so there will be a lot of commercial breaks. I'll be happy to make it through two periods before I end up nodding off.

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No, I don't care about the Kentucky Derby.

No, I didn't place any bets on the horses.

No, I'm not wearing any funny hats and I'm certainly not drinking any mint juleps. Hell, I'm not even drinking any beer.

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I think I might have finally gotten everything off my old laptop and moved over to my new machine. I'll go through it one more time tomorrow and make sure but as soon as I am comfortable that everything has been moved, I'll reset the old machine back to its factory setting.

That will effectively remove all data and applications and install a pristine copy of the operating system.

Then I will take the machine to the Apple store and they will take as a trade-in on the machine I bought the other day.

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Here are some links:

• This sounds like a great idea.



• I'm not sure if this is good or bad.



• I used to drink Miller. I can assure you this is no great loss.



• Japan: It's not like where we live.



• Only in Florida.

Shades of last season

The Bruins / Maple Leafs series is now tied 3-3 because the damned Bruins seem to love tossing away a 3-1 lead.

This is exactly what happened last season when they were up 3-1 over the Panthers and managed to get themselves eliminated in round one when the Panthers came back and won 3 straight, giving them a 4-3 series victory.

The final game of the series is tomorrow. Once again, puck drops at 8:00 so I probably won't make it through all three periods. But gaddamnit, if the Bruins throw away their playoff chances again this season, I'm gonna be pissed.

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I have a new computer, which is nice, but there is one problem - I have to reteach the email reader what is junk and what isn't junk.

As a result, my inbox is being filled with crap from "renewal by anderson", my best friend "Don Trump" looking for money, "FBI agents" with bad english skills threatening me with arrest unless I send them an apple gift card, etc...

Unfortunately, a notice from my financial guy ended up in junk and I inadvertantly deleted it.

On the upside, I once again have a machine that is powerful enough to run the software I want it to run.

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The heck with Aaron Judge and Mike Trout. MLB needs to make Shota Imanaga the face of baseball

He gives honest, clear answers to every question he is asked, he can pitch better than almost everyone else in the league and he should have been a Red Sox but ownership was too cheap to make him a decent offer.

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I picked up a new garden trailer for my lawn tractor because there will be a lot of mulch delivered to my house in the near future and I don't feel like distributing it with a wheelbarrow.

I used to have a trailer but the body rusted out and I had to get rid of it several years ago. The new one has a poly body that should last longer than I will be alive.

At 10 cubic feet, I should be able to move mulch all over the place without messing up my back.

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The Red Sox are in Minneapolis where they will start a three game series against the Twins. Tonights game will played at 8:00 but Saturday and Sunday games will be at 2:00 in the afternoon.

While I'm waiting for the Boston Red Sox game to start, I'm watching Bobby Dalbec and Enmanual Valdez play baseball with the Worcester Red Sox on NESN+

Enjoy these links:

• Key phrase in this story: "Despite being named the worst drivers in 2023, Jacksonville motorists have not been sufficiently shamed into driving more responsibly. Their driving has actually gotten worse.



• Horned Viper and the Migrating Venomous Snakes would be a fantastic name for a 1970's lounge band.



• I'm betting Trump has something to do with this.



• As a society of laws, I can tell you we need more judges like Judge Raymond P. Moore.



• Japan: It's not like where we live.



• Might be time to drop the iPhone and switch over to Android.

Sorry, no post.

Many errands followed by computer stuff that didn't involve the internet. Plus the Red Sox had an afternoon game and I got wrpped up in watching that.

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Speaking of the Red Sox, they lost today. They won the series but couldn't pull off the sweep.

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The Bruins are just getting ready to start playing and if they don't win today, I probably won't know until tomorrow morning.

I'll have links tomorrow.

They couldn't pull it off.

The Bruins could not get the puck into the goal last night. The Maple Leafs scored five minutes into the first period and eight minutes later, the Bruins scored. This made the score 1-1 and it stayed that way for the remainder of regulation play.

Then they went into overtime and if history is any indication, the Bruins don't do well in overtime.

That held true once again when two minutes into the sudden-death overtime period, the Maple Leafs slipped the puck past Swayman and won game five. The series is now 3-2 in favor of the Bruins

They will play game six tomorrow up in Toronto. Puck drops at 8:00.

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My son got to see the Fenway light show last night when the Red Sox beat the Giants 4-0.

Criswell pitched pretty damned good, going five innings, facing 16 batters, giving up two hits, zero runs, struck out four and walked one.

The new guy, Cooper, played first and manged to get 3 plate apperances before getting hit on the wrist by a 94mph fast ball. That took him out of the game but it looks like it isn't damaged. The lineups aren't out as I type this so I don't know if he'll be in the game today.

Thirty games into the season and it looks like the Red Sox are holding their own:

Let's hope they don't have too many more injuries...

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Once again, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System made an announcement and the stock market dropped like a brick.

The DJIA managed to close up but just barely. The S&P and the NASDAQ both closed down.

That guy is killing my retirement account...

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I'm going to watch some baseball.

Here are some links:

• If your child ever complains about "monsters" in their room, maybe you should check it out.



• I'm beginning to think that maybe, just maybe, Binance was a government scam designed to gather information on enemies of the United States.



• Yes, alcohol was involved.



• Flathead: A boiling cauldron of criminal activity.



• I don't care about cars but I like Shaquille O'Neal.



• Key entry from our favorite police log which is also in Flathead: 2:41 a.m. Several cows wandered out of their pasture.