Bottom o' the evenin' to ya

Not exactly St. James’s Gate (though I did buy the glass there), but we do the best we can.

(In unrelated news: Daryl’s back! Woohoo! (And thanks, Bret, for the tip! (Yeah, nested parentheses!)))

17 March 2008 / 1 Comment / Tags: photo

Resurfacing

The definitive quote on blog disappearances has to go to Evan Kirchhoff of 101-280, from the title of his post last Wednesday:

I Never Quit, I Just Made 124 Unrelated Daily Decisions To Not Post Something

Well said. I only got into the twenties, but that’s long enough. Let’s review the past month.

Toronto: quality trip, if too short. There’s nothing that beats going to see the Stanley Cup as a fan of the champs. Also notable was the dress code of the lower level at the Air Canada Centre during the Maple Leafs-Lightning game I attended: a truly shocking number of men in suit and tie. I recognize that (a) Leafs games are the gold standard of sporting event tickets in Canada, requiring both fantastic seniority and fantastic amounts of money to purchase season seats, and (b) Canadian business dress standards are rather more conservative than those in America. But even given that data, I would have expected some of the denizens of the yellow seats to have changed to team attire for the game, as I’ve seen in Montreal at the Canes-Habs games I’ve attended there. Nope — there were more ties there than in the Hoo student section for a football game these days.
Holidays: fun, if a lot of driving. We did at least two hours of driving every day of Christmas week save Christmas itself and Saturday in Atlanta.
Oh yeah, Atlanta: well, it was fun other than the fourth quarter! The QB position needs to be open in spring practice, but I think we underestimated how much of a road game this was. Glennon only played in two challenging road environments all season, Boston College and Miami, and his performance in this game showed it. He’s a sophomore, though. He’ll get better — or he’ll get benched.