What's the news???? - finalized!!!!

How could I keep you in the dark for that long...

Alright, as I mentioned last week, I do have some exciting news...

Chris Miller has been gracious enough to allow me to setup a blog on his server at Connectria.

And so, I have created the very beginnings of a new blog (finally using Notes/Domino - Steve's Dominoblog template of course) at PhilRandolph.com

It's a work in progress as I'm still learning the ins and outs of the dominoblog template, so it will take a while to flesh it out fully...and I may ask for advise, ideas, etc. as I go along.

Note - at this time, I'm still trying to get the new domain pointed at the new blog database, for now, please use this
I'll come back to this blog for the last time and change the link to new domain when it's ready.

I've changed all of the links to the new blog to "http://philrandolph.com", as that now seems to work correctly. That wraps it up for this blog...thanks for your readership here...and come on over!


Listening to - "All His Children" - Bing Crosby
Reading - "Stargazer - Enigma" - Michael Jan Friedman

A Change is Coming

Something exciting (at least it's exciting to me) should be occuring in the next few days, and I think only one of you out there know about it.

Be watching this space for an announcement in the coming days... :)

Listening to - "Rhapsody In Blue" - Glen Miller and the Army Air Force Band
Reading - "Star Trek - Tales of the Dominion War" - edited by Keith R. A. DeCandido

Happy Birthday hon!

My wife of more than nine years is celebrating her birthday today!

She's an amazing woman and I am lucky to be her husband! She means so much to our family and is the most able manager of our sometimes crazy household. I love you so much Kath!

Please join me in wishing her a happy birthday!

Listening to - Nothing Yet
Reading - Just finished "Serenity" - need to get to the library today!

Disappointing Loss, Gratifying Win!

I don't know what to say about Saturday night's debacle, but it was very disappointing to lose a second game in a row, especially at the Joe. Phoenix just dominated and we were just messy and sloppy. Also the 24 minutes in penalties to Chelios not to mention losing one of our defensemen really hurt us and got the rest of the D much more tired and lethargic than necessary. I do have to say though, Cujo was great in net, he really did a good job.

Fortunately, we did a 180 last night and stomped all over the Blues, which I figured we would but was a bit leary about after Saturday's drubbing. I was worried that once again the "D" would be too tired after so many minutes (I believe over 30 for Lidstrom) taking up Cheli's slack. The Wings came out much better and never looked back last night, and Lalime was lackluster at best.

Holmstom is really kicking butt too. He still is camping out in the goal area, but as some have noted, he's not having to pay as high of a price for holding that position any more, and in turn, he's got 5 goals in the last 3 games. Way to go Holmer!

Listening to - Nothing Yet
Reading - "Serenity" - Keith R. A. DeCandido

Can't Win 'Em All

Even though we'd like them to... The Wings lost last night in overtime to the Oilers 4-3 in a hard fought game. At least they did get a point for an overtime loss - which gives them 25 points in 14 games which ties several other teams in NHL history. They now stand at 12-1-1. Ozzie played well and made some really great saves, the guys were just giving too many close in chances to Edmonton, and Chris Pronger (previously of St. Louis) was just killing us from back at the blue line.

Now we can look forward to Phoenix on Saturday night then our good friends (to beat up on - I hope) the St. Louis Blues Sunday night. A nice weekend of hockey it will be!

Listening to - "The Right To Bare Arms" - Larry The Cable Guy
Reading - "Serenity" - Keith R. A. DeCandido

Wings win to go 12-1! Manny is Player of Month!

Another great win for the Wings against the Blackhawks last night, although a couple of downsides - Manny got hurt in the first period after making 8 saves, although from somewhere else I read - it looks like it was probably just a minor injury and he'll be ready to play on Thursday against the Oilers. The second downside was that it was televised on OLN - which I am having huge problems with. One of the guys at the desk with Clement called Brendan Shanahan - "Bret", and they missed the 2nd period faceoff entirely, they hardly ever give the name for a person getting the penalty or what the actual penalty was, especially after coming back from a commercial - apparently Fisher had gotten a 5 minute fighting penalty last night, and I didn't know about it until I read it this morning.

The second thing I want to highlight is that not only did Manny get "Defensive Player of the Week" from the middle of October - as I blogged about here, but he also has been named "Defensive Player of October"


Wow - Manny your rock - I hope you are really ok after last night's leg issue - but Ozzie's got your back - what a tandem we've got!
Listening to - "Summer Nights" - Grease Soundtrack
Reading - "Articles of the Federation" - Keith R. A. DeCandido

It's installed - and it ROCKED!

Full props to WOW!

As I mentioned on Tuesday, we decided to splurg and obstensively for my wife's upcoming birthday and as part of my Christmas allotment we've decided to upgrade to digital cable and get the NHL Center Ice package so we can get Wings games the way they were meant to be...regardless of the fact we live out of range of FSN Detroit.

They were all set with the two new digital cable receiver boxes before I got home from work, and the only thing I needed to tweak on one setup was the channel that the VCR/DVD combo was set on. I tried out taping from both new setups and all went well. I'm very pleased with their quick service and setup and all that. It'll be fun to see what all that new fancy remote will do.

And as for the game - that went great for our guys, 5-2 over the Blackhawks who we'll be playing again 2 more times in a row Saturday and Tuesday.


Listening to - "Still Ranting After All These Years" - Dennis Miller
Reading - "Articles of the Federation" - Keith R. A. DeCandido