the mad sports man

Was a good weekend. Nice way to cap off May. Today I finished off sanding off the wood flooring in the living room next door. Watched dad put a coat of verathane on that floor. As it dried up, dad and I put up a shower curtain rod, then mowed two lawns, came back to see dad put on a second coat of verathane. This after yesterday I stained the last of the fence and gaps, mowed two lawns (one was mine), put down wood chips and did my laundry. I think next door is very close to finished being renovated. Good bye May.

Hockey will be back. In a 29-2 vote, the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs will be starting in July. Training camps start no earlier than July 1. Two "hub cities" will be chosen at some point. Some firm of sanity is coming back. Slowly but surely. Thanks to Devin Heroux for the updates.

On this day in 1980 in Tokyo, location testing for a game began and got positive reviews. This game was released in Japan that July and North America that December. That game - Pac-Man. The ghost munching dot eating yellow head is 40 years old. Billy Mitchell was credited and claimed to have been the first to achieve a perfect score (3,333,360 points). 7 players have since gotten said perfect score. Happy birthday Pac-Man.

Had a pretty good thunder storm last night and it sounds like more now (my radio is crackling and I looked outside a few minutes ago and saw dark clouds). Good thing I went for a good long walk. 26k later. Walked the entire rotary trail. Now I'm doing as little as possible.

Jeremy Hazin will be going to Tokyo. He will be serving up some table tennis on the mens side. Yay.

Three more added to the Olympic team. Evan Dunfee in the 50k walk, Dayna Pidhoresky in women's marathon and Trevor Hofbauer in mens marathon. Tokyo Olympics are next summer.

Of course it snowed today. Because it's May. Not sure how much we got here because half of it already melted. I suppose the moisture is needed. Keeps the grass, trees and gardens fed and cleans the roads a bit. Spring in Canada - what else do you expect.

Cooler day today. Didn't do too much. Just finished watching the last episode of season 1 of Magnum P.I. I have the whole series. 7 more seasons and 141 episodes to go lol. Still waiting for season 9 of Bonanza to show up so I can watch that and season 10 of that series. Gonna be fun.

Wow end of April already. April flew by. Compared that with March where it felt like it took 3 years to get through. Last couple of days were real nice. Spent the last day and a half painting base boards. Got a bit red on my right arm yet my left one wasn't as red. I think the back of my neck is red, can't tell. Feels like it though. We'll see how May ends up.

13c and it's 12:30 pm. Most of the snow is gone. Most of the raking is done. Just got to wait for the snow in the back yard to disappear so I can rake that. Pumpkin patch is cleaned out. Won't be long before the lawnmower is brought out. There is still some ice on the river. (Had a peek at it). Good bye snow.

Oh boy spring is here. Last couple of days the snow has been melting. Got to 9c yesterday. On Saturday a city crew ended up uncovering a drain I didn't know was there. (My dad didn't know either). The lake of a puddle did drain after a couple of hours. Yesterday another one formed. Not sure if drain is plugged again. (I assume so). The piles of snow that was here last week isn't so big now. Almost time to pull the rake out and rake the yard out. At least after the snow has disappeared and the ground has dried up.

It's finally been warming up the last few days. Got to 8c today. Snow is finally melting. Back alley has a swimming pool sized puddle. Could use hip waiters to walk through puddle. It's also been good walking weather. We're all sick of winter.

Happy Easter weekend to everyone. I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend despite the bull that's going on. And loads of chocolate 😁.

Was supposed to be the first night of the NHL playoffs. Tonight was supposed to be the start of the two month marathon to the Stanley Cup final. Who knows if this season will resume. The Ontario league, the Quebec league and the Western league all cancelled their seasons. First time in the 102 year existence of the Memorial Cup, it won't be contested. Yiye. Don't know what to do.

The Tokyo summer games next year will be scheduled for July 23rd to August 8th. Hopefully the qualifying will continue.

This years summer games in Tokyo have been postponed to next summer. They will be held no later than the summer of 2021. No surprise really. Dates of the games will be announced at a later date. Pretty sure that Canada and Australia pulling out had an influence as well as other nations threatening to pull out if they didn't postpone.

From Piya Chattopadhyay: Canada will not be sending a team to Tokyo for the games due to the COVID-19 virus. Understandable move. Hopefully the games get delayed.

Spring starts at 9:57pm Mountain time (which Prince Albert and Saskatchewan is in). First full day is tomorrow. It's -14c at the moment and is supposed to warm up over the weekend and stay warmed up (hopefully). Time for the snow to start melting.

That time of year where everyone wears green, or tries to. Green beer served at bars (if they're still open), green river in Chicago and St. Patrick's day parades, if there were any. Stay safe out there.

Yup two more are going. Jordan Steen and Amar Dhesi won their respective classes and will be going to Tokyo. Nice.