I watched the Patriots game at my sister's yesterday. The Pats set a team record by scoring 62 points in a 62-0 laugher against Tennessee. Tom Brady set an NFL record by throwing... ummm... I forget... was it five touchdown passes in a quarter, or six in one half, or was it five in one half. Something like that.
At the same time the Bruins were making a couple of roster moves. I didn't learn about them until this morning. Milan Lucic was placed on the long term injured reserve list. He has to sit out a minimum of 10 games or (or is it and) 24 calendar days.
On top of that, they traded Chuck Kobasew for a 2011 second round pick, an unsigned draftee (who is a freshman at Harvard, I think) and a minor leaguer. I've been a fan of Chuck's since the lock out when he played for the Lowell Lock Monsters and set the franchise record for goals in a season (the same year that future NHL star Eric Staal set the franchise record for points in a season, although Staal's record didn't stand for long). He's been playing like an M.I.A. this season though and if someone had to go to light the spark under the team, he didn't do much to save himself. He now plays for Minnesota, the poor bastard. I'll miss him and I wish him the best of luck.
Let's just hope the ploy works and this trade puts the fear of the hockey gods into the rest of the team and they start playing like they don't suck. Please?
Now for a recap of the weekend.
Friday evening Jen and I met at my parent's house and headed South. We drove the entire length of Rhode Island on route 95 all the way into Connecticut. We checked into a hotel in Mystic and pretty much went straight to sleep. We were, in a word, exhausted.
Saturday morning we got up (too late to consider a dip in the pool) and dressed up nicely (Jenny looked fantastic of course) and went-a-gamblin'. The first stop was Foxwoods. We ended up in the new MGM casino. Jen played blackjack while I watched. Occasionally I would sneak off and drop $20 in a slot machine. I never won any of it back. We stayed there for a couple of hours or so, maybe closer to three. When we left we were down $25 (all from my slot machine excursions) and the price of lunch. Not bad.
We then headed to Mohegan Sun, after getting briefly lost. We almost ended up in Westerly, RI which is the home of my former radio show co-host (okay, host. She did almost all of the talking while I pretended to push buttons) DJ Deena. We didn't try to stop in though, we had gamblin' on the brain. We turned around and eventually found our destination.
Again, Jen went to play blackjack while I occasionally wandered to a slot machine. I spent about 4 minutes on two excursions and lost $50. That was enough for me. Jen was doing well at the table and when a seat next to her opened up she convinced me to sit down and play.
Yes, I played blackjack, but in all honesty I just sat there and did what Jen told me. Even when I was getting the hang of it I still ran all of my moves past her first. When she first sat at the table she had $100 in chips. When we stopped we had $250. After all was said and done, factoring my slot losses, her Foxwoods results, and breakfast and lunch, we left Connecticut with $172 more than when we arrived. Not bad at all.
On Sunday we woke up early to get some much needed laundry done. Damn the real world's responsibilities for edging their way into our fun weekend. We also watched a few episodes of Smallville. It is one of Jen's favorite shows and we have made it the next one on our watch-it-from-start-to-finish list.
For lunch we made an impromptu trip to The Border for lunch and then we headed to my sister's for the fall-birthdays-steak-and-cake. We split our time between watching the babies and watching the Patriots. We made some plans for Halloween. Jen and I do not have the kids this year so we are going to visit my sister on the 31st and my parents, where both babies will be, on the 30th. I have always loved Halloween, but I think I love it more now that there are kids involved again.
(unrelated side note, the red tail hawk that lives near our building just totally buzzed my window. Very cool)
So that's it for now. A week and a half to go before we head to Indiana for the first time in my life. Looking forward to it.
Good Day, for now.
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