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Well, The Red Wings have been knocked out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Edmonton Oilers. They just couldn't score goals, and when they did they blew leads. Needless to say, they're still my team.

I feel bad for Manny Legace, who will be ridden out of town on a rail after a good regular season. Detroit is hard on goalies. And the big question now is whether Steve Yzerman will come back for another season. I hope he does, but I'm just not sure.I guess we'll see in a few months.

As the Cubs fans would say, there's always next year.

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The weekend was awesome. I took Friday and today off after a couple of weeks of crazy travel. Susan and I spent the whole weekend together, which means it was a good weekend. On Friday night we ate dinner at a Mexican place where I drank lots of good tequila. On Saturday we played games (see below) and on Sunday we helped Susan's new roommate k_rocked move into her house. I made Eggplant Parmasan and it was tasty. Today The Q and I went to Adler Planetarium and learned about the stars we could see if Chicago wasn't terribly overcast. BUT WE KNOW THEY'RE OUT THERE. We bought too much stuff at the gift shop. The freeze-dried ice cream was just like I remembered it: Kinda icky, but in an interesting way.

GAMING SESSION REPORT
29 APR 06 w/ Pants, Grumbly, and The Girl
( Crokinole, St. Petersburg, Diamant, and Niagara )

We took lots of pictures of our combined game collection, but they're on Susan's camera so we'll have to wait on those.

30 APR 06 w/The Girl:
( Lost Cities and Battle Line )

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(click the picture for a much larger version)

The collected games of Pants, Grumbly, and Myself. Generally the left three piles are mine and the right two piles are Paul and Nancy's, but there is some intermingling of games (and a few (well, four that I can think of) that we both own). The beautiful rising sun in the background is my lovely Crokinole board.

Also, this isn't ALL of our games. I have a lot of games that live at my house (30 or so, at least) and a few that live at Susan's (maybe 10), and Paul and Nancy didn't include their less "geeky" games like Trivial Pursuits and such.