Odds ‘N Ends…

Well, Blogger was having fits all week, hence no posts. One of the many error messages indicated a move to new servers, so I guess they ‘upgraded.’ Probably a nice way of saying Windows crashed :) GO OIL!!!! The Oilers pulled out a must win tonight coming out 2-1 over Carolina to take game 3 of the finals. They’re back in the series, down 2-1, but at least they won’t get swept. The home town crowd was really noisy and into it, so the home ice might have given them the edge they needed. Was cool to see Mark Messier in the booth with GM Kevin Lowe. Maybe some of that old Oilers magic can rub off on the young guys. I bet they wish they had Messier in the lineup now :) Best on ice leader ever. Brings to mind great hockey moments from the past. Sure it was for the Rangers, but who can forget Messier’s guarantee that the Rangers would win that playoff game against NJ when they were on the brink of elimination, then he went out and got a hat trick to make sure it happened. The Rangers went on to win the Cup, breaking a 50-plus year drought. One of my other favorite stories was from the last time a Canadian team won the Cup. I’m not sure which game it was, but one of Montreal’s many OT wins on the way to the Cup that year was a marathon. The story goes goalie Patrick Roy told his teammates in the locker room before OT started not to worry about the other team scoring – nothing else was getting past him for the rest of the night so they should just concentrate on getting the winning goal. Then he went out and proved it, and they went on to win the Cup… Picked up a PS2 game in the Walmart sale bin called LA Rush. It looked like a fun street racing game and it was cheap, so why not? Played it for a couple hours tonight and its pretty fun. The car controls are a little twitchy, but different cars control differently too, so it all depends what you’re driving. You can even get on the freeway and drive flat out with Nitro bursts through heavy traffic. And when you wreck, it slows down and shows the car flying apart in detail. Pretty cool game for a sale bin buy – especially after I found some cheat codes on the net to stack up the game money :) While I was at Walmart, I picked up Garth Brooks latest CD – The Lost Sessions. 17 songs for about 9 bucks. Not bad. It’s really good too – reminds of the early Garth music. The other night driving home from work I heard the single That Girl Is A Cowboy. It was really good to hear Garth back on the radio with a real country song. Ironic that when he was the big name of country music, they often said some of his songs weren’t country enough. Now he’s back with something that’s more country than most of what’s on the radio. I guess it’s all cyclical. Anyway, there’s some really good tracks on the album, including a cut of Garth singing the classic Nitty Gritty Dirt Band song Fishin’ in the Dark. He does a pretty good job of it too. He gets some help from Trisha Yearwood, Alison Krauss, and Martina McBride on a couple different tracks too. Then there’s the hilarious track ‘Cowgirl’s Saddle’. I was tired when I was listening to it, so it took me a second to get it, but when it hit me I couldn’t stop laughing. Nothin’ wrong with his sense of humor :) I was watching an interview of Trisha Yearwood and they were talking about her and Garth and her getting mad at him during the recording of the song Shameless came up. The part on the track where you hear her background vocals really belt it out was the point of contention. I guess the story goes that she cut her part and thought it was good and then Garth said something like - is that all? He really wanted her to wail it out at that part and I guess she eventually got mad at him and thought fine, if that’s what you want. So she cut it just really letting loose and wailing it because she was mad at him. When she was finished, he came in going “That’s it!” and the song turned out to be a hit. She said that’s as mad as she’s ever got at him, but it turned out well in the end…