Somebody came by the house the other day and was trying to sell a newspaper subscription.

She asked if we wanted the Herald or the National Post. I said Herald. She then mentioned that everybody wants the herald.

Now that I think about it, nobody out the west wants to read about national issues. Generally because national issues are eastern Canadian issues.

I find it funny that the National Liberals, if they look bad in the gomery findings will then target the West in terms of scandal.

They're going to focus on Klein's 2 tiered health system even though Quebec has more privatized hospitals per capita then Alberta. This is because the Liberals know they can win Canada without winning the West.

Isn't our political system a joke? We have corrupt liberals that took tax payer's money. Yet they won't even get jail time. If a person lies on his tax return he faces harsh penalties. Yet these politicians won't even get touched.

The alienation of the West will continue on until sufficient amount of people start to live here and out number the East. Then they cannot win Canada without the West.

My parents went to a opening of a new condo development. They're building it by the Calgary Tower.

All but 10 units were sold out.... That's just sick.

The prices were sick too... paying over $320 a sq. ft.

Flames 1 - Ducks 4

gah....

At least we hit everything and Iggy is looking better.

Alright, not sure how many of you have heard about the illegal strike going in BC. But here is an Opinionated column on what has been happening.

BC Teacher's Strike

One thing stands out to me, the Average top salary and with the teacher's wanting a 15% pay raise.

Errr, I have no sympathy for that. I work in the private sector and with the high oil prices, all of the employees still did not receive an average 15% wage increase. So why should teachers?

However their other 2 points that they're striking about is valid. Class sizes and the composition of the class.


Man, I should work for the public sector....

Well, finished 350ish out of 1300 people in the poker blogger tourney.

I WAS doing well, always with an above average stack for most of the tourney.

I made one critical error, my JQ vs QQ (i had Qs and Js, he had the set)

Then I preceded to get rivered twice in a row to get knocked out. That cruel cruel river.

Generally I'm a pretty even keeled guy. I rarely show extreme anger or extreme happiness. It didn't used to be like this, I'm not sure when this changed, but I used show lots of emotion, anger/happiness/sadness... etc.

Especially at work, if stuff goes bad, I generally do not panic. I understand that stuff happens, and nothing is going to change by complaining or getting angry about it. It is also the same about good things, I don't get extremly happy about things because it may be taken away.

This attitude has translated into my personal life. I tend to shrug off bad things that happen, but when good things happen I don't get too elated.

There are good things to this (I don't make as many mistakes now due to being angry) but there are bad things to this as well (showing happiness when something good happens).

I always believed that people need to outlet their feelings. So is my even-keeled attitude a sign that my passion for life isn't as strong as before? That I just don't care about things as much? Or is it that I know life has ups and downs and you just got to keep going?

I'm not sure if I miss the old emotional me. I used to take things so seriously, so passionate about things (or just anal about things). Now it seems I just breeze through life.

How do you still keep your passion for living, but also guard against negative emotions? Does anger/disappointment/sadness not go hand in hand with happiness and joy?

I read an interesting article in the herald the other day.

In Banff Somebody in a smart car parked perpendicular to the curb... and got a ticket.

I think that's just ridiculous for a few reasons.

1) A hummer parked on the street sticks out more then a perpendicular parked smart car
2) The cities should be promoting fuel efficient cars (especially Banff)
3) 2 Smart Cars can parked perpendicular to the curb in one parking meter. (Hence they should make micro parking)

anyways....

Flames 3 - Oilers 1

We looked awful in the first period... and some of the second....

Is Edmonton going to be the only team we can beat though? I'll glady take 8 wins out of a possible 8 games... but that's like 16 points. I'm guessing you'll need at least 100 points just to make the playoffs. (each team had an average of 10 ties in the 2003-2004 season), so say half of them add another point due to the shootout. That's another minimum of 5 points added to everybody's points. You need about 91 points last season to make the playoffs, so add 5, and that's about 96.

Sooooo we'll need another team to beat up on....

hmmm,

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. In love, you feel the most alive when your partner is patient and never willing to give up on you. You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change. You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic. Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred. In this moment, you think of love as something you don't need. You just feel like flirting around and playing right now.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

Flames 0 - Coyotes 2

Bah, went to the game, awesome seats (Section 107, Row 12).

our powerplay..... i'm just digusted...... going to bed now.

Flames 3 - Oilers 0

On TV on CBC

Overall good game, although Edmonton was missing their top 2 players (Smyth, Horcoff).

Our powerplay scored and our Penalty Kill was perfect... although we're still last in the league in both categories.

Next game against Phoenix tonight... I want Calgary to win... but I have a feeling Phoenix will win... They're due, they've lost so many 1 goal games.

Looking good,

Flames 2 - Stars 3 (OT)

Calgary's season opener was on TV on Sportsnet.

Calgary played much better today but their penalty kill is still a disaster. They basically lost because of their Penalty kill.

Some highlights,

Phaneuf fought Guerin and held his own.
Best line for Calgary was Reinprecht/Lombardi/Kobasew

The game was actually pretty boring, I thought the refs didn't call enough penalties. There was some clutching and grabbing that didn't get called.

I also watched the Buffalo/Tampa Bay match.... and boy that was fun to watch. Scoring chances galore. It went to a shootout with Buffalo eventually winning.

K, i think it's official.

I can no longer eat shellfish or I will break out.... I don't think it's allergies, I suspect it may have something to do with the liver.

Oh and Apples does it again Apple

But they did annouce record sales yesterday but not enough for analysts so their stock drop. They ONLY sold 7.5 Million IPods instead of the expected 8.5 million.

It's tough to have high expectations hey?

Flames 3 - Colorado 7

umm, yeah... I didn't see this trashing coming.

I've underestimated the injury of Regher. Everybody thinks we're so deep on D, but really Ference, Montador and Leopold are like 25. Even Phaneuf is what 20?

Speaking of Phaneuf, that was a massive hit he laid out last night. Knocked the Avalanche player out for a bit.

Anyways, I think the Flames will win their home opener by 2 against Dallas.

Flames 3 - Red Wings 6

No TV for this game.

Well, I picked the Wings by 2, close enough.

I'm not sure what happened other then the fact that the Wings were 5 for 9 on the powerplay. That's just unreal.

I think we scored none on the powerplay so we're 3-1 in 5 on 5.

No ratings on how the team did since I didn't see it.

On another note, I tried some Astronaut Ice Cream today... it was interesting... I prefer real food.

Flames 3 - Blue Jackets 1

Game was on Sportsnet

Alright, so they did cover the spread of 1 1/2 goals but at least I got the result right.

I only caught about half of the game.

Offense: 4/5
Defense: 5/5
Goaltending: 4/5
Powerplay: 1/5
Penalty Kill: 4/5
Discipline: 5/5
Effort: 4/5
Overall: 4/5

So their effort was much better this time around. They were aggressively skating around and had a good forecheck going. Lots of sustained pressure.

But... their powerplay still sucks... they keep going for the downlow play on the powerplay with nobody driving the net. I think they should go down low as usual, one guy drive the net, pass it to him if he's open, if he's covered it means the point is open on the other side. Then you get a 2 man screen on the goalie and you can get a nice low hard shot on net.

Their discipline was good again. I think we'll have one of the most disiplined teams of the new NHL.

Watching Phaneuf again was amazing. If you didn't know, you would have no idea he's a rookie.

Anyways, no in-depth looks at the team today. I didn't catch the whole game so I reserve judgement.

Next game is Sunday against Detriot at 2pm. I'm afraid I will have to pick Detriot by 2 for this.

Calgary is notoriously bad at Afternoon games.

Flames 3 - Wild 6

Game was on TSN tonight.

My rating of the game,

Offense: 3/5
Defense: 4/5
Goaltending: 3/5
Powerplay: 1/5
Penalty Kill: 2/5
Discipline: 5/5
Effort: 2/5
Overall: 2/5

Alright, I had my eyes glued to the TV for this.

The Flames started off slow.... really slow. The Flames got outworked in the first period and I rarely said that the season before. The Flames is about outworking the other team for 60 minutes but not tonight. They picked it up in the third period after the huge hit by Warrener that knocked Zyuzin out of the game. I gave them 2/5 on effort mostly because you have to play hard for 60 minutes.

Our offense was alright offensively but defensively... they did not backcheck aggresively enough in the first period, hence the goals by the Wild and hence the 3/5 rating.

Our defense was solid, Phanuef looked great out there. Hamrlik looked a little out of control there both offensively and defensively but hung in there. I didn't think we would miss the presence of Regr that much but I wish we had him in the lineup. Defense was solid, 4/5.

Oh Kipper, he looked... ordinary. 3/5 is ordinary.... but we need him to be more then ordinary for the Flames to do well. I wish we still had Turek as our backup, I think he's head and shoulders above Sauve and Krahn.

Powerplay... 1/8, it looked good on about 2 of those powerplays and not the one we scored on. It needs improvement fast... really fast. I thought Calgary should have called a timeout early in the 3rd period when they had that 4 on 3 but they didn't and they didn't score. 1/5 just because we scored 1 goal on it.

Penalty Kill... 1/3, 33% on the penalty kill is no good. I think we need to be more aggresive in our box but I can't pinpoint what's wrong with our penalty kill. So a 2/5 rating.

Disicipline: 8 to 3 in powerplays for Calgary. Enough said.

I'm too tired to stay up for the Edmonton/Colorado game, but I did pick Edmonton to win this game.

Next game

Flames at the Blue Jackets

Prediction: Calgary to Win but won't beat the 1 1/2 spread @ the Blue Jackets home opener.

Opening Night Record

Buf/NYI: Picked Buffalo - 1/1
Mon/Bos: Picked Boston - 1/2
NYR/Phi: Picked Philly - 1/3
Clb/Was: Picked Columbus - 1/4
Atl/Fla: Picked Atlanta - 1/5
Det/Stl: Picked Detriot - 2/6
Pit/NJ: Picked New Jersey - 3/7
TB/Car: Picked Tamba Bay - 4/8
Ott/Tor: Picked Ottawa - 5/9
SJ/Nash: Picked San Jose - 5/10
Ana/Chi: Picked Anaheim - 6/11
Dal/LA: Picked LA - 6/12
Cgy/Min: Picked Calgary - 6/13
Edm/Col: Picked Edmonton - ???
Van/Phx: Picked Vancouver - ???

Sorry about the lack of posts. Hasn't been much happening.

Took my dad to the hospital for surgery. When he was discharged, we picked up some meds.

So apparently, there's regular tylenol (tylenol 1), extre stregth (I'm assuming tylenol 2), and the one we picked up for him is Tylenol 3 (prescription only).

Then there's Ibuprofen (Advil), 200MG is regular, 300MG is extra strength. The one we picked up for him is 600MG!!! I think if you used that for headaches, it would not only get rid of the headache but also put your in a drunk like state since your blood will be so thin....