the mad sports man

how do lose 60 pounds in minutes? just shave a sheep. right about now im getting a "what the hell is he talking about" look. well, in new zealand thats what happened. apparantly, as the story goes, a sheep was avoiding getting its annual wooly shearing for 6 yrs. it finally came off and the wool is being put up for auction on ebay. which begs the question who needs wool? i dont know. interesting story, dontcha think?

i think i found my happy outlet. while playing on the pogo website a few weeks back, i ended up striking a conversation with someone in a chat room. her and i became very good friends in the short time that weve known each other. despite our age difference, we like to talk - alot. she like to bug me too. courtney is truly a good friend. hopefully well meet face to face. until then well talk like the wind. laterz

geez, what a windstorm! we had gusts of 100km/hour around 8pm today. the wind took off a couple of roofs from a couple townhouses. even the almost 100 yr old christmas in leduc got toppled over. the tree was in a middle of a move to telford place and had just been planted and held up with cables when one of the cables snapped during the windstorm. the tree was moved to make room for a strip mall on the property from which the tree once stood. a lady living there has a sentimental value to it because her grandfather planted it in 1905 and prevented it from getting it chopped down. hopefully the 80 ft tree survives the move. well see.

hmmm no hockey tonite. a little break. i have a basketball playoff game on. baseball on tap too. a nice day today when itoday off and its payday for me. hmmm, what should i order tonite? who knows.

2 playoff nhl games tonite. both games are game 7. montreal beat boston earlier and advanced. calgary and vancouver are paying now. scoreless so far. gotta love playoff hockey and game 7. one more game 7 tomorrow - that being toronto vs ottawa. getting exciting for sure.

another saturday night. lots of hockey, lots of baseball, and the beginning of the nba playoffs. more sports and more games than i count on my fingers and toes combined. hmmm. geez thats alot of games. just need pizza and pop, and maybe hot wings. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

friday night hockey. we have ottawa at toronto. at 6 the yankees and the redsox renew their rivalry tonite for the first time since game 7 of the alcs last year. should be a good game. ill be flipping back and forth between these games. its gonna get good. more to come

geez did edmonton get slammed with snow yesterday. i dont know how much, but it felt like a lot. the worst thing is shoveling the snow. wet, sticky and heavy. ouch. fun for hucking snowballs though. more hockey playoffs than one can shake a stick at. plus prairie pickin' and survivor. fun, fun, fun.

good thing the trappers started their season in yuma, arizona, instead of here. edmonton got theier april snowfall today, and by the looks of the forecast, the snow wont go away until friday when it supposed to warm up. im still looking forward to the 24, when the trappers come home. gotta have my baseball kicks before they leave. we did get a northern league team to start in 2005. so we wons suffer without baseball after the trappers leave for round rock after this season.

barry bonds has passed his godfather for career home runs. barry hit his 661st career hr, putting him in third on the career home run list. willie mays sits with 660. 2nd on the hr list is george herman "babe" ruth with 714. leading the list is hank aaron with 755. way to go, barry bonds.

happy easter. all the chocolate people can eat. mmmmmmmmmm chocolate. watchin baseball. san francisco at san diego. 6-3 sf going to bottom of 9. more to come

night 4 of the nhl playoffs. some pretty good games so far. 2 of them went into overtime. nhl record for playoff overtimes is 28. its the easter long weekend here. long weekend? pfft, whatever! gotta work all weekend. misery loves company. well almost true there. i wont let anybody near me - ha ha ha. just joking of course.

the nhl playoffs have begun. 4 games tonite - montreal vs boston, calgary vs vancouver, nashville va detroit and dallas vs colorado. tomorrow has st.louis vs san jose, nyislanders vs tampa bay, new jersey vs philadelphia and ottawa vs toronto. i got all the m&ms i need. hmmm maybe i should order a pizza. hmm maybe....

baseball is in full swing today. finally! i have been waiting for this day for the last month. 5 games this afternoon and 3 tonight.looking forward for whats to come this basemall season. more to come.

its gotta be friday when..... i watch "while you were out." what's that you ask? w.y.w.o. has gotta be the awesomest home reno show ever. its when a person sends their loved one (spouse) or roomate out for two days while their room or bedroom or whatever gets totally transformed and remoddeled. quite the show. most of the time it comes down to the wire. andrew dan-jumbo - an awesome carpenter. jason cameron is a close second. leslie segrete - a very cool seamstress and sometimes helps andrew or jason with the carpentry. ali barone is pretty good too. john bruce is a very funky designer. his room designs is always an experiment in progress. chayse dacota - cool as a cucumber designer, yet a perfectionist. steven st. onge is a designer who brings a part of the world to the room being designed (italian or old world) evan farmer is a fun and witty host. i still miss teresa strasser. witty, gets her hands dirty, and very cute. very fun show.

april fools day today. fun for me. torment my roomates hee hee! survivor, prairie pickin' and hockey. not necessarily in that order. just another thursday. just need the baseball regular season to start. the trappers pcl baseball team begins its (sob) last season here before moving to round rock, texas. hall of fame pitcher nolan ryan bought the team and moved the team there. the team name in round rock - the express. theres a chance edmonton may have a nothern league team in 2005. the northern league has been around awhile. its an independant league so no worries about call ups. we will see though. more to come.