Around this time every year a touch of hope for a Toronto Sports Team gets into your heart and you begin to feel just a smidge of excitement for their chances – and… it’s gone. Nope. Out early into over time on game seven of the first round series. It was fun while it lasted. Hell my eldest daughter and I saw our very first live NHL game this year. Sadly, probably not a repeatable occurrence unless we go to Ottawa, or catch them playing in Florida again. No way can I afford to go see them at home. Not in the same caliber of seats anyway. I’ll look into the pricing for the nose bleeds up in the 300’s. I think it’ll be close to or more for the 300 seats than I paid for both fourth row from the ice behind the net at Amalie Arena.
I will need a radio or something as I really did miss have an announcer in my ear to feed me information during all of that frenetic action. I mistook a couple of calls when I had to guess at what was going on.
I’ll look at prices for Ottawa tickets too. Lots of hotels near by, just off the high way. Can make a whole day out of it. Could be a fun lasting memory. Not the eight hours of driving to get there and back, but eating before the game, watching the game, staying up later than normal, and then staying over in a hotel before a mobile breakfast, and the trek back home again.
Or, I’ll take my kids to a Jays game for 1/3 of the price, and be there in an hour, and home in 45 minutes. Ha. Atleast we have lots of choices being just above Toronto. We could try TFC too. I used to love going to soccer games with my wife prior to us having children. Stadium has changed a fair bit since I last sat inside it.
I believe today is Sunday, so I’m going to have a lazy day. I fixed our fence, fixed the lid on the garbage box, erected a newly purchased storage unit my wife bought, and I cut down some oddly shaped lumber into useable pieces. I did a fair bit more cleaning & sorting in the garage shop too. I have more proper lumber on hand, so I’m getting rid of the too small scraps I keep because I usually don’t have any real lumber on hand. Now I realize I have White Oak, Red Oak, Ash, Walnut, Cherry and Pine boards. I don’t need to keep scraps “just in case”, as I will likely create more from the newly acquired real hard wood boards.
Now that traveling is done, and tax season is over, I can look seriously towards finding a reasonably priced used 1.75Hp bandsaw. Or failing that, buying one new with a warranty and mobile base accessories. I also decided I want to put mobility wheels on my heavy work bench so I can move that around too, to act as an outfeed table in my small confined space. Or I’ll wind up playing Gears of War 4 whenever I have any spare time and the garage will sit quietly until I get back in there once again. Who is to say how things will shake out.
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