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Playlist: 6/22/06 - 80's Retro Edition

Playlist: 6/22/06 - 80's Retro Rewind

"Destination Unknown" - Missing Persons
"(Keep feeling) Fascination" - Human League
"Tainted Love" - Soft Cell
"Breakout" - Swing Out Sister
"Heart and Soul" - T'Pau
"Shattered Dreams" - Johnny Hates Jazz
"Perfect Way" - Scritti Polliti
"I Can't Wait" - Nu Shooz
"99 Luftballons" - Nena
"Wouldn't It Be Good?" - Nik Kershaw
"The Warrior" - Scandal
"Obsession" - Animotion
"Suddenly One Summer" - The Motels
"Voices Carry" - 'Til Tuesday
"Ball Of Confusion" - Love & Rockets
"Let's Go All The Way" - Sly Fox
"Cuddly Toy (Feel For Me)" - Roachford
"The Cult of Personality" - Living Colour

A Whole Whack O' Stuff

Hey there everyone! It's that time again .. yup! The ol' blog update! Of course where do I begin? that therein is the question! Let's hope that somehow or another this will be a good entry. So on with the show shall we?

First things first. I hope somehow I can get that MRI/Ultrasound for my shoulder moved up. I tell you, this is just getting annoying not being able to have full range (and or) use of my arm. It's not until something like this happens do you take the simple things for granted. I will say that nothing hurts really (well, with Sensory Neuropathy you don't quite feel the pain that "normal" people feel) badly but just being able to wash my hair without having to use my left arm to lift it up would be nice or even brush my hair without doing the same thing like I do when I wash my hair would be great. It's all just a real inconvenience borderlining on nuissance now. All I want is this fixed and looked so I can get on the ice at the start of the hockey season! And even that is doubtful if I need surgery because a early prognosis by my doctor says it could be my rotator cuff and that can take up to 6-8 months to heal (of course that depends if I get booked for surgery in October and **assuming** that I require surgery).

I know I shouldn't just to any conclusions until I know the facts but let's hope for the absolute best but I am fearing the worst. Bummer.

The 2006 FIFA World Cup of soccer is in full swing and so far I am really enjoying the quality of soccer played and the different countries who have made this tournament with their different (or same as years before) styles of play. It's pretty cool to see a little country like Ghana beat a Super Power like Czech's (who are ranked second in the world by FIFA) like they did on Saturday. Of course I'm cheering for England (and as I type this I am wearing my 2002 white England jersey with my fave player David Beckhams' number 7 on it) like I always do whether it's World Cup or the Euro Cup. I'm thinking England can get past Equador on Sunday but I am not sure past that. The game against Sweden yesterday showed the best 45 minutes they have played all tournament thus far but the second half of thegame wasn't too fantastic despite the fact that they got a 2-1 lead with about 5 minutes or so go in the game until Sweden scored at the 90 minute mark. They have to play a full 90 on Sunday or else it will be a long and disappointing wait for another 4yrs. I think they'll pull this one out Sunday.

Not too much happening at the work front really. Mind you though I did travel half way across the city to only find out that I didn't have to work last Saturday. For some reason I misread the schedule before I left the week before. I just didn't look at the right name on the sheet. Of course I did check very carefully for the following week and this Saturday I don't work as well. You just have to love that down time during the summer in retail when the hours get cut back by head office. I suspect I will be in next week but I will just go in anyways to check and maybe go to the movies too if anything good comes out this weekend (which I suspect will not be too much until Superman comes out on Wednesday).

And speaking of movies ....

I went and saw "Nacho Libre" last Friday. It's no secret that I am a wrestling fan so this film was right up my alley. In general the film was okay and was entertaining to some degree. I thought it was a cool concept to use Lucha Libre as comedy fodder and the idea of Jack Black in tights was funny while all the while being a Mission chef on the side but for some reason I didn't burst outloud but more so a guffaw than anything. If you enjoyed the "Napoleon Dynamite" style humour (which I loved) then you will enjoy this. But for some odd reason it didn't work too well with me. Was it bad? No it wasn't bad at all. Was it good? Somewhat. I think it's one of those films I will have to see again and see if I wasn't in the right frame of mind to see that day.

Anyways, that's all I can think of for the time being. I'll get around to posting my playlist some time very soon!

Pictures, pictures and more pictures!

OH WOW! two updates in less than a few hours. I am not sure if that's a "Spatch's Spatchtastic Splatterings!" record or not but if it isn't, let's make it one!

So, I just checked my email and one of my sledge team mates, Maricyl, sent a bunch of us who went to Ottawa for the Ottawa Carelton Sledge Hockey Challenge pictures from our opening game. The photos in themselves were pretty cool and I thought I would share a few.

So let's get to posting!



This picture that you are looking at was taken by Maricyl before I headed out the locker room door to go get my sledge and hit the ice for our opening game on the Friday night. I think I remember her saying "Jay .. smile .." so I turned and looked and here's the reaction she got. You know, I thought before a game athletes weren't supposed to be all smiles? You know, the intensity of the moment, preparing to go out there and wage war against the enemy and show no mercy. I guess I had a lapse in "intensity" before I went out. But have no fear folks! The intensity came when the puck was dropped and the game started.

Which by the way leads to this .... (great transition huh?)



This is taken as well from our opening night game against a team from Ottawa called the "Bandits". They were a replacement team made up of inexperienced players and a few experienced players from the senior version of the Bandits if I remember right (and who we played later .. the senior version). What you see here is my team mate Jim and I going in on a 2 on 0. I had recieved a pass from Jim and I broke in towards the net and got a shot on goal. This was taken right at the moment when I recieved the pass from him and as I said, headed in towards the net. From what I remember I managed to get a pretty decent shot off and scored on the far left side and netted the second goal for us and were up 2-0 at this point (Jim had scored the opening goal). This was also my only goal of the tournament!



How about another action photo? Here's me circling to go in and defensively cover a player. I couldn't believe that it took me up to this point in the season to figure out what the heck I was supposed to do when I play left/right wing. I always hear that when I turn about I get my sledge too low to the ice. I guess that explains why I peel out so much! ;)

*note to self .. don't get down so low when you circle about ..



Lastly here's a great team picture taken during the final 2 minutes of our Gold medal game with our coach trying to calm us down after we got flustered by a late goal by the team from Conneticuit. We wound up winning the game 3-1 but it was a tense and long two minutes to say the least!

So there you go folks! A bonus update here in the ol' blog!

Hotness prevails/the worst video ever

It's that time again folks .. yup .. it's blog update time! (YAY!)

For this installment it's another video. No, I am not posting up video because I can't think of anything to write but rather because > yet another video has caught my eye and is deserving and worthy of a posting.

What you are about to see is probablly one of the funniest rants that I have heard in a long while. I wish I could tell you who the guy is that did this video and where he's from and what not but you just have to listen to this rant.

And no .. I am NOT a sell out! (you'll get the joke at the end of the video)

Enjoy and until next time!

J