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Hockey update

Hey sports fans!
I just got back from Arcireale where the Sigonella Sun Devils handed out an impressive beating to the Catania Flames. Led by stellar goal tending from yours truly, Sig pulled out to an impressive seven goal lead after the second period. I then decided to let one of our other guys play a little net minder and I skated out. Apparently I forgot how to skate. Anyway, the 'ol Sun Devils still managed to win by 7 or 8, but who's counting?

Sorry for the lack of pictures, I forgot the camera.

lunch with dad

Quesadillas, woohoo!!
As always, start with good ingredients. Mmmmm, tastes like chicken
The taste tester approves.
Now onto the skillet
That's a pretty good quesadilla

Sorry for the bad spanish.

remember the roses?

The one in the left corner that was planted mainly in cement finally bloomed this summer. One or two of the other bushes bloomed last summer, but were rudely de-dirted so many times that I'm not sure they'll make it. so sad. At least this one's a trooper :)

Bonus

Patrick "Roy"-sdorp*
I just realized that I named my child after a professional athlete and got away with it.
I don't think the missus will go for naming the next boy Michael Richter W.
* Patrick Roy is french and therefore his last name is pronounced Wa

Final Score

Ok, here it is:
B&E -2
Dadw -2
E.G. -2
Momw -0
LilB -0

Now the awards,
MomW gets the award for originality.
LilB picks up the most concise answer award
B&E and DadW split the first place points prize.
Mrs G. takes the Bob Barker award for guessing closest to the price of the equipment without going over. In case you were wondering it was in the neighborhood of $1400. Hurray MWR!!

Prizes that have no monetary value:
First place:
a picture of $5000! Yay!

Second prize:
A broken hockey puck, to be hand deliverd when I visit in February.

Enjoy your prizes!!

look, I made something

So I keep asking my mother to knit things for me, specifically diaper related. Knowing my mother, I had a feeling her compliance would come with an expiration date and sure enough, my last package from her contained, among other wonderful goodies, several pairs of knitting needles and some fisherman's wool. I did some googling and found the pattern that required the least amount of knowledge and said "can be completed in about 2 hours." HA. Three days and a cherry kool-aid bath later, I present my first ever finished knitting project, a newborn sized soaker for the fat of stomach and skinny of leg. And no, this is not a strange way of announcing that I'm pregnant again. In case you wondered.

"not bad for a first try....." is about the best we could come up with for a reaction in this household ("Kinda ridiculous" is about the worst, so far). I've got some wool that has been coffee-dyed (rather poorly, but still) drying for my next project, a soaker that (hopefully) will fit the boy right now. It'll look great over his training undies that someone is going to send me in the mail because they don't carry them here at the NEX. hint hint.

Your tax dollars at work, er.. play.

Christmas came early for the Sigonella in-line hockey team. Our local MWR has seen fit to use of a large portion of their budget on new goalie equipment. As you may already know, that's me. woo hoo! Look at all this cool stuff:


Free points if anyone knows what any of these items are called. Points will get you some cool prize. Prizes will be selected by me and will more than likely have no monetary value whatsoever. The wife says bonus points awarded if you know how many of your tax dollars was spent on said/pictured equipment.










will I model it for you? Of course.

So I am huge now and goal tending should get a lot easier. Look for future posts about the Sigonella team pummeling Catania and other Italian and European teams in the near future (of course led by some stellar goal tending from yours truly.)






Patrick approves wholeheartedly. he would also like you to see how big the stinkin' bag is that they gave me to lug all this stuff around in.



























That's all for now folks!

Some important news,

Well, not important to most but these guys care. It seems the New York Yankees (aka Evil Empire) have been eliminated from playoff contention. Ha Ha!

GO SOX!! Now the pictorial:

ah, the agony of defeat
















depressed fans








Better luck next year!






GO SOX!!!

Haircut time!!

This is our model:
his name is Chuck, he is a heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting championship.

In case you are a Californite and think you may recognize him, he is from San Louis Obispo and I think he may do some of his training there.
Any way here are the progress pictures:

The unsuspecting victim.













The first cut

































Look he's enjoying himself.










Concentration is key.

















The finished product. Not bad for a first timer.