Why, Hello There.

by Anne

• There's really not much to report these days really. I suppose I should welcome Paul Byron as I am wont to do to new recruits but, meh, I'll get around to it sooner or later.

• I don't want to talk about Saturday night's game as it was indescribably uncomfortable.

• However, I would love to discuss at great length the delicious Greek delicacies S(h)ara and I along with our friend Allison enjoyed at the Greek Heritage Festival in downtown Buffalo. Greek food is my favorite so I was pretty much enjoying the hell out of my evening...until the hockey game started. If I had been a Red Wings fan, it would've been one of the best nights of my life. Ok, maybe that's going a little far, but had I been a Red Wings fan, it would've been sweet.
  

• I'm still wearing my Jordan Staal shirt. Well, I've changed since Thursday, but I've been sleeping in it, hoping it'll bring him luck. So far, not so much.

• I found a new style of jeans that I love and any girl reading this knows how much buying and trying on jeans sucks so to have a good jeans experience is quite rare. As rare as a Penguins goal on Saturday night.

• I like that one of the top stories on Sabres.com is GP's 500th goal because my Mom loves mentioning that she was at the game when he scored it. And why wasn't I invited, Mother? I was a grand total of 8 months and fifteen days old! I would've TOTES appreciated the significance. Whatevs, I was probably at home with a sitter or my aunt, drooling on myself and eating Cheerios.

• My cousins and Aunt came to visit me at work today. Jimmy took my break with me. He had an animated argument with my Sabres keychains about how mad he was at the Sabres. He called them a disgrace. It was quite hilarious. He's a goofball. He was also wearing the Miller shirt I gave him for Christmas. He also thinks its funny that he's the shortest kid in his class.

This flipped picture totally messed with my brain today.
The Buffalo is charging the wrong way and the C is backwards and on his right shoulder.
What are they, the Red Wings?

• Is it the draft yet?

I Always Leave The Lights On In My Car

by Anne

I really do. Like all the time. I got (almost) straight A's last semester, have a (supposedly, I don't know what the number is) high IQ and enjoy discussing Shakespeare in depth, but I cannot for the life of me remember to turn off the lights in my freakin' car. I think the last common sense problem tends to outweigh any of the other more academically related intelligences.

The Sabres had an intense practice at home yesterday before leaving for Chicago today to take on the Blackhawks. Patty Lalime will be starting in net against his former team. There are many ways you could look at the goaltending choice, but I support it. Miller has been on a string on starts, and needs the break. I know he's playing well, but the reason we signed Patty was because he was better than Thibault and more reliable. He's only gotten us 2 wins, but his game is better to watch than it sounds on paper. He's played well, but the rest of the team, for some reason, hasn't shown up to play in front of him. Hopefully that will change tomorrow night.

I'm a little disappointed that the Sabres first game against Soupy is in Chicago and not here in Buffalo. I'm not sure the reception Soupy would've gotten. I'm sure there are some that would boo, but he didn't really do or say anything to draw the ire of Sabres fans and resident Buffalonians, Chris Drury.

I'm currently about a quarter of the way through this book:

So far I'm enjoying it. There are a few sections that seem oddly out of place, but for the most part its a good read. I'm on page 60 and we've barely made it to 1973 so I'm not sure how close to the present this book is going to get. Its a good read with some interesting stories to share. The book comes with a CD that features audio interviews with some of the "Buffalo Greats" I haven't popped the CD into my computer yet to hear who those "Greats" are but I can only assume there will be interviews with some of the many many players interviewed already in the book.

I'll let y'all know how the rest of the book shakes out. Devils at Canucks tonight at 10:00! Wooo!!!