Friday Night Hockey Fights

Sean's radio show was moved to Friday nights for all of January - bumped by the madness that is college basketball. The whole month our schedule has seemed a bit "off" because of the change.

This week he was doing the show live from the Baracuda's game. That's our minor leage (Southern Professional Hockey League) hockey team here in J'ville. It's very much minor league - the fights are better than the hockey, and the players look so small they could be high school kids out there. But it is a good time, and the beer is overpriced but cold.

Sean had a great time doing the show live, and got to go on the ice after the first period and do a bit of crowd interaction.


We had great seats up by media row
(Samantha was goofing for the camera)


And Montgomery was invited to go down on the ice after the second period to help with a crowd game


Was a good night, and we had the greatest bit of timing when we left. The second I closed my car door there was a tremendous thunderclap and the rain came pouring down. It was a downpour the whole way home, of the turn-on-your-emergancy-lights-and-hope-no-one-hits-you variety. This was great timing, as opposed to having to walk the 3 blocks from the arena to the car in a drenching downpour with two kids.

And today, it's clear but windy and 20 degrees cooler. Just a reminder that it is winter, even in Florida.

Sean's iPod Nano showed up, so I'm converting a bunch of wma files to whatever the iPod format is so he can load it up. Then this afternoon, I'm escaping to Books-A-Million with Montgomery. Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments for him, and an hour of quiet time for me. Hoping to get this new book far enough along to enter it in a contest, but the deadline is two weeks away and the minimum wordcount is 25,000. Going to be a bit harder to reach that then the Heat Wave contest was!

If you haven't seen Random Facts about Chuck Norris yet... go. Oddly funny stuff. Sean had great fun dropping the more PG of them into the radio show at odd moments last night.
"Only Chuck Norris can prevent forest fires, but he likes toasty marshmellows."
(If you don't know who Chuck Norris is, this won't be that funny.)
(Chuck Norris is ok with that.)