Ogre

You’re one of the most empathetic posters on here so I know you’ll smell what I’m cooking here. Your isolation has buffered you from the worst of Covid. It’s tearing families and friendships apart. Try spending your day on a crowded construction site with unsanitary conditions and the risk the hazards of the trade bring to begin with. Now add a deadly, highly contagious disease to the burden. Now to that burden you should add the threat that far less than half of the coughing, sneezing, spitting fools are vaccinated. Add the whining when a customer mandates a mask, when a contractor institutes Covid protocols. The arguments over microchips and changed DNA and government conspiracies. All of this after we have watched men our age that we know well suffer for weeks on ventilators. A few of them have even died and still with the nonsense! There’s no doubt in my mind that I will watch even more of them suffer and die from Delta and I don’t quite know how to handle it. Its almost too much but then go home and watch your wife’s mental health suffer because the non profit she works and lives for is hanging by a thread because of outbreak after outbreak. Something needs to give or else we’re all going to NS. We’ll try not to pop your safety bubble but it’s going to be tough buddy.

But then you have to twist your neck all around to check out all of the goonies😉

Please don’t tell me that you are suggesting that the vaccines are accelerating the rise of variants. It’s a well known fact that the Delta variant got its rise in bodies of the millions of unvaccinated people passing the virus around like a hot potato in India. And where in the US has this Delta variant primarily affecting children? Texas, Alabama, Louisiana? Florida? All areas with a very low vaccination rate. The vaccine uses mRNA technology if weren’t aware. The mRNA tells your healthy cells to produce the Covid spike protein which triggers your body to produce antibodies so (inner) triumph is ready to go and fight when Covid does invade. (and no it doesn’t do a damn thing to change your DNA as it never enters the nucleus of the cell to be able to do so) Triumph’s overall viral load is far lower and far less cells are invaded so the virus has less time/space to multiply/mutate. As a benefit, triumph experiences less illness. The unvaccinated are driving the variants! If I knew where the ‘get go’ actually were I’d go there and tells those fools to shut the hell up. (I’m guessing it’s down the road from El Dorado, right around the corner from the fountain of youth). Also as described, the vaccine greatly reduces overall viral load. CDC is pretty clear that the vaccinated can still transmit. They are saying that it is at a far lesser overall viral load. So infected vaccinated Ogre is transmitting X/cu. liter of air whereas infected unvaccinated Ogre is transmitting Y/cu. liter. The important thing to note is that Y>X by a huge amount. Also unvaccinated Ogre is up sh!t creek (just down the river from the get go) while vaccinated Ogre is going to be alright.

I sit front row upper deck. I’m a people watcher. Love to yell “Moose Windu!” on Star Wars night when he walks by. I think he appreciates that one.

Irish Mafia in Bloomfield has really good wings. Big, crispy, juicy. They rotate in a new sauce every week. Tonight was blackberry bourbon. Just enough spice. Oh and I’m a firm believer that your metabolism doesn’t slow down as much as you do as you age. Keep moving! I turn 49 this year and I keep my gym/exercise habit a constant and I’m still doing fairly well. 10 wings+Mary’s Mac and two beers for dinner!

Or which direction you’re facing. Don’t tell me you haven’t been there.

So it creepy you’re looking for? Come here. I need to tell you something.

I always struggle to finish a puck plate. I really like the 585 special on Wednesday nights though. Half the plate and a beer for $5.85.

I’m starting to feel some emotion for this upcoming season. Vaccine? Sure! Mask? Ok! Just let me in the F’in building so I can watch some F’ing hockey!

I quit drinking beer about six weeks ago. I LOVE beer but haven’t been feeling as good so I switched to tequila and water with a splash of lemon. Lost 5 pounds the first few days and 10 overall. Still drinking and loving/living life minus beer which I LOVE (not certain I mentioned it). Can’t see me going back to a beer belly situation any time soon.

I took a solo road trip to Lee, Ma today. I lived in Otis for a little while so I know the area well. My primary purpose was to visit the recreational dispensary there. What a place! There was a line out the door and cars pulling in for pick up every two seconds. They had a very sizable workforce as well. Very well run place. Felt amazing to buy legally for the first time in the 33 years that I’ve been indulging! I didn’t need “flowers” as they referred to them. Plenty of flowers here. I was really in the market for vape cartridges for an upcoming beach vacation. They are fantastic! I hope I save enough for my vacation!😉 Never thought I’d live to see the day. Can’t wait to see little shops like this one all over my area.

It’s not so bad to be an Amerk season dumdum? Oh yup. Yer right. Need to win something.

Uhmm? Gigiddy?

From my experience with a herniated disc being deemed surgery worthy (beyond partial laminectomy to remove the herniation) it takes a destabilization of the spine that causes loss of function to qualify. What are the losses Jack has been experiencing and how could he be playing at the start of the season with a replacement disc including time to rehab the issues that necessitated the surgery? Pain isn’t a qualifier for these fusion/replacements. If a partial laminectomy to remove the herniation isn’t enough then there has to be a significant problem. It’s almost like Jack/Jack’s agent think that no one knows about spinal injuries. This stuff works with MomnDad, not with a success-starved fan base.

I think you’re awesome sauce @MODO Hockey . Good beers, good food, good hockey conversation. Sad to think you’ll never come back to this part of the US. Cheers buddy!

1B4IDIE

There’s a carpenter apprentice on my job that is a doppelgänger for Casey Middlestadt. I called him out on it and he admitted to having a Middlestadt sweater and taking pics with people that think he’s Casey. Double fist bumps to you young man!

I had L5 fused to S1 at age 30. I’m now 49 and still wear full Ironworker gear and lift weights. The fusion stabilized the spine. My same aged Ironworker buddy was forced to retire after a artificial replacement in his neck. From what I understand, the artificial disc affords greater movement with a far less stable spine. The issues with adjacent disc disease are mostly limited to individuals with a history of degenerative disease (those artificial discs don’t absorb shock like a natural disc), which I am assuming Jack doesn’t have at that age. I couldn’t imagine a surgeon performing a disc replacement on someone who could potentially be boarded in the near future.🤷

If Shrek ate right and worked out, you wouldn’t be able to tell us apart.

We wake up every morning.

When I first heard the interview I cringed. I saw a young Ogre in Jack there. Full of confidence and a big friggin mouth. Hopefully Jack learns to keep his yap shut (I did somewhat) and keep moving forward (my career has more longevity than his so the yap-shutting wasn’t as vital). Absolutely no reason to burn bridges you haven’t even crossed yet, kid. Nobody likes a whiner. Life is hard and you ain’t no Lindros. If we can’t find a suitable trade partner and he stays, I hope they give the C to someone else. I’ve had enough of this nonsense.

Like Wil Borgen? I sat in A9, upper deck/mystery section for a long time and saw that kid disrupt like a honey badger. There’s a whole lot of behind the scene that ain’t caught on camera. Let’s draft another though and prime him for QC.

I’ve been a huge T.Hip fan since ‘88. I’ve seen them dozens of times and have had the pleasure of hanging out with Gordon and Paul long enough after a show to smoke a joint a few times. Good old regular guys. Fifty mission cap is one of my favorite songs from arguably their best album. “I stole this from a hockey card I keep tucked up under…” Anyways I stumbled on this article about Bill Barilko’s hockey card from a year ago while I was looking for info on how Gordon’s last mission affected the exposure of the abuses that occurred at religious white race assimilation schools(to call them exactly what they were intended for). A great man that was inspired by the divine. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5652598 And for those unfamiliar with Gordon’s final mission…The Secret Path https://secretpath.ca/

I’m 100% certain that you will be able to find frog legs on a special board in any random Tampa Bay restaurant tomorrow.

If I were toilet paper I’d actually prefer to be used the other way.