Rain, rain don't go away!

You know what's weird? Now that I'm trying to grow grass I find myself rooting for rain. If I had my way it'd rain pretty much every day during the week. Not the weekends, cause I've got baseball to play every Sunday! But I was sitting at work and looking out the window watching it rain and actually said to myself, "Huh, this should be real good for the grass. Nice long, slow rain." Hopefully it'll keep this up from time to time so I don't have to water so often to keep the new grass from getting burned up. Summer is going to be a real challenge.

In the words of Mark: "Never trust anyone driving a ZipCar." Why not? cause these are people that don't drive very often and are typically REALLY bad drivers. Bad even when compared to the rest of the drivers here in Boston! I bring this up after almost being hit by a damn moron in a ZipCar SUV on my way to Target today. They were in the left-turn only lane but apparently didn't really want to be there. Oh yeah, and they got really deep into the intersection, even on a red arrow, before deciding that they needed to be in a straight lane. So what do they do? They just decided to floor it and try to squeeze in b/t me and the UPS truck in front of me. And yes, there was a median on the other side they had to dodge. Putting themselves in a position to hit either me or the median doing about 30mph. If I hadn't swerved over towards the right lane a bit at the end, they would have clipped my left-rear quarter panel pretty solidly. And of course they act like I'm the jerk. They don't know how to drive and follow really simple traffic signals, and clearly can't just wait for 30 seconds when there's an opening to change lanes into and I'm the jerk. But that's just kinda how it goes out here. People are just entitled and self-absorbed and just can't be expected to show any respect or consideration for their fellow man. But what can you do.

What I'm going to do is drink a few (dozen) beers and watch game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals! Featuring a fellow Bison , Bret Lebda. Well, 1/2 Bison since he only was there for 2 years before moving to Ann Arbor. The NW suburbs of Chicago isn't exactly a hot-bed of hockey, so that was a good move. Former NHL-er Bubba Berenzweig made a similar choice our sophomore year and moved to CT to attend a hockey-based prep school. Paid off well after he was later a captain at UMich, won the Ken McKenzie trophy in 2000 as the best American-born player in the IHL, and played a few years in the NHL. So now I've got 2 reasons to root for Detroit to win. Lebda and ex-Blackhawk Chris Chelios. 3 reasons if you include what the Penguins did to the Hawks in 1992, which I do.

Ken McKenzie Trophy