Riding the Pine Pony

So, I dressed tonight for my first Riddle hockey game in quite some time. I haven't played in a game for about a year and a half. Basically since my dad died. So it was a little weird being on the bench again, but I think I got back into the swing of things well enough. Coming on very late in the season has me playing 3rd string defense, something I've never done in my life. It was a very new thing to me. Only getting 3 or 4 shifts a period and sitting the bench during special teams scenarios, like power plays or penalty kills. I guess I'm just used to being the one that was always put out during those situations. I don't know, hopefully next semester I'll get to show the coach a bit more how I can play and get back to (in my head) where I belong. Doesn't help any how out of shape I am at the time. I haven't been in good hockey shape since my freshman year. But for the rest of this season I'll be content just with doing whatever I can from where I am. I'll play my ass off on 3rd string and thank the coach for every shift he gives me. I don't know the coach very well, but he seems like he's got a good hockey head on his shoulders. I ended the night tonight with a +/- of 0. Which isn't really that good considering we won 10-4. I was on the ice for one of our goals, and I was scored on in a situation that was directly my fault. That was a bitch, cause I was focusing so hard on actually playing decent position during the time I was given. I got caught out of position pretty bad at one point, and the guy managed to get a shot off that dribbled in. Oh well, take it in and learn from it. Speaking of learning from it, I'm not so sure I'll be getting my skates sharpened at our local rink anymore. The guy who did my skates butchered them like I've never seen before. The outside edges on my skates were literally not to be found. I'm seriously considering shipping my skates back home to NH to get ground down and recut, it was that poor of a job.

Anyways, enough about hockey. Not much going on with flying. Finally got an instructor, and oddly enough it's my old RA from my freshman year. He's kind of goofy, but definitely a cool guy. It should be a fairly easy course, at least for the first half. It's just review of Private license stuff. I'm going to my first Commercial oral tomorrow around 1600 I believe. That in itself is cool, because most instructors when you put "all day" availability on the weekends will put you on ultra early in the morning to get the rest of the day off for them. So being able to actually sleep in will be nice.

Hmm, T-shirt shop stuff. Well, I've been working on one new design. It's not quite finished yet cause I need a good caption to top it off. I'll post it below, maybe someone can come up with a better caption than I. So if you think of a good one throw it in the comments.

Here it is:



Pretty funny, eh?

And with that I think I'll mix myself a particularly strong drink, and enjoy my last night of the weekend.

Peace out brussel sprout.