Turkey Day and Michigan weekend

Turkey day was a rousing success with much food, revelry, and Guitar Hero.  All the food turned out to be eatable, if not quite good.

After turkey day, Char and I decided to a mini vacation was in order; with four sports games to watch in 3 days, what other option was there? =)

Well the Blue Jackets played well against the Red Wings on Friday, but failed to pull out the win, losing 2-1 at home.  Surprisingly I had no problems with the loss, since they played and competed with arguably the best team in hockey the entire 60 minutes, but were stopped by a hot goaltender.

The Nevada vs Boise State game was a wild one.  At two points Nevada (a 14 point underdog) was trailing 17-0 and 24-7.  I stopped watching during the third quarter and went on two watch something more entertaining, like Swamp Loggers on the History Channel.  ( what is so historical about swamp logging in the present day? )  Due to a passing interest I flipped back to the game and lo and behold Nevada had come back to within a field goal.  We got that field goal to tie the game, had a defensive breakdown to let a 50+ yard hail-mary pass succeed to put them in position to win the game with 2 seconds left with a field goal, they BOTCH the field goal, it goes to overtime, they botch another field goal, and Nevada wins the game with a field goal, by a red-shirt freshman in front of 30000 fans.  Did I mention that Boise State was #4 in the nation at that time?  ( we were #19)  Wild and crazy game.

OSU convincingly finished off UM in short order after a shaky first quarter.  Good start to a Saturday (game started at 9 am PST).  Char and I celebrated by going out for some sushi for lunch; very tasty.

Then the bloody Blue Jackets have to go and stink up the weekend by playing a stinker of a game in Detroit on Sunday.  When you have a 4 minute powerplay that included a full 2 MINUTES of 5 on 3 and you only get one actual shot on goal.....you know our powerplay fucking sucks....

But now it is Monday and the work begins again.  Back to thinking in Fortran for the next week ( I'm sure my brother will be proud).