Since i've been neglecting my blog here, I have added my twitter feed to the right side of the site. So even when I'm away, you can see some of my randomness.

yay Sox
boo Mets
job is killing me at the moment
enjoying the rainy cooler weather
hockey season has begun again

Got to see Ravi and Jason as The VLA came to NYC to play some shows. It was quite awesome to see them play and bring back the days of HUGE. Now they are back in Los Angeles. If you watch the FX show "Damages", they did the title track for the show.

Here it is... released today in front of the Simpsons Movie (which is awesome) and exclusively online at AOL.

If you have plans to see the Simpsons Movie (and who doesn't), make sure you get there a little early to catch the trailers. The first trailer for our next film, Horton Hears A Who!, starring Jim Carrey and Steve Carell will be showing in front of the Simpsons.

We're getting a screening tomorrow. Mmmmmm popcorn.....

So my friend Peter's 30th birthday was this past week and to celebrate, his family sent me and 6 other lucky guys (including Pete) on a rafting trip down the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon. It was an amazing trip and I will be forever grateful that his family was so generous and thoughtful. Pictures from the actual rafting trip were collected on disposable cameras that are still being developed and Colin's digital camera which he had a waterproof case for. But I had a handful of photos from our first and last days in Moab where the average temperature was 105 degrees.

We spent 3 days on the river with our very cool guides Rob and Tanner who made us some excellent meals and navigated us on two rafts and two duckies through a low but still class 4-ish rocky path down to Lake Powell. It was a perfect mixture of excitement, chill time, predictable events and unpredictable craziness. Absolutely massive trip. the pictures will have to speak for themselves and I can't wait to see and hopefully post the rest.

I have switched my photo gallery choice again. This time to Google's Picasa. It's simple, easy, and slick. And since it's Google, I'm pretty confident it will be around for a while and will continually improve. So check out some of my Costa Rica pictures.

costa rica

I take no credit for this beautifully nice style for Google Reader. I merely took the stylesheet created by Jon Hicks at hicksdesign.com which he provided for the Stylish Firefox extension and made a Greasemonkey version of it. In fact, I just cut and pasted code from another Greasemonkey extension to apply the CSS. So I'm sure it's a horrible implementation, but I just wanted to get the style working with Greasemonkey and not have to install Stylish.

I figured others might be interested in it.
This version is ported from Google Reader Theme v08

download the Google Reader theme for Greasemonkey.

Feel free to improve upon the implementation which I admit is a complete hack. Also, since this isn't my original creation, I may take this down if Jon wishes I do so. If you want to leave comments, you have to login first. I'm still trying to get this drupal installation up and running correctly.

Just plain busy. That's all. But I couldn't not show the world the award I strive for every day. I leave for Costa Rica in a little over a week. Fucking... A...

My hockey team, the Shock, finished our season on an 8-2 run to make it to .500 for the season and squeak into the playoffs. This was a pretty impressive feat considering we were a disaster in the first half of the season going 2-8 and enduring a lot of sloppy play and internal team difficulties. We pulled it together and have become a pretty strong team. I ended my point drought in our last two games scoring 2 goals (one on a breakaway, one on a deflection). Was nice to get them in wins as well. So we eeked into our playoffs against the Phantoms, a team we had been pretty evenly matched with during the season.

Game 1 they came out strong and scored 2 quick goals. We recovered and got 1 back in the 2nd and tied it with 6 minutes left in the 3rd period only to have the goal waved off because the ref said it deflected off of one of our forwards skates while it was in forward motion. He said even though it was not intentional, any forward motion of the skate on a deflection that goes into the goal is no goal. We didn't want to get into a whining war so we finished the game unable to score again and lost 2-1. After further review, the ref was wrong. If the puck is purposely kicked in the net it is no goal, but unintentional forward motion does not nullify the goal. So we were robbed. But that's they way it goes.

Game 2 was last night. We came out stronger and had a good 1st period which ended with us down 1-0. With the score 3-1 in the 2nd I had a shot go off the post. Then midway through the 3rd it started to get a little more desperate and physical. We had to start taking chances and got burned and lost 5-1. I had a few checks and slashed someone in the head in the last few minutes but the refs weren't calling anything so... I took a few more penalties in the last few games trying to use my size a little more on the ice to my advantage which had good results despite putting me in the box more (the website doesn't show all the penalties... I took a couple more than it lists)

Bitter end to the season. We all believed we could win and get to Toronto, but there's always next year.