So in the end, for the first round, I swept the West and missed only the Rangers in the East. Not a bad record heading into the second round. Professionals always gripe about how hard it is to pick the first round because everyone is so close, which I’ve never understood. Now is when teams start getting close, and when picking a decisive winner becomes more and more difficult. In the official Sportsnet pool I’ve netted 62 points to tie for 9,260 (ack!) with our resident friends House coming in second with 55 and Cliff Coleclough barely trailing at 53. Don’t forget to get your picks updated for round two! Interestingly enough I was close on the tie-breaker questions as well with my guess for “How many games will be played in Round 1 of the playoffs (all series combined)?” coming in at 43 instead of 40, and my guess for “How many will be the most goals scored in a series by one team in Round 1 of the playoffs?” coming at at 21 instead of 19. Nice.
Thank God for Facebook, it’s certainly figured out what Classmates.com never could. Everyone I’ve ever known seems to be on it, including many folks I’ve long lost touch with. One of those people was James Yule, a good friend from Brampton I had lost touch with 16 years ago. My sister, Kim, scheduled a dinner with the three of us, our spouses, and James’ eight-month old son James-Dylan. It was a great time catching up, and thankfully we were at no loss for words. JD is the cutest little guy with an amazing laugh – Kim took a video and I’ll try to remember to put it up when I’m home later. This weekend I’m scheduled to meet up with another old high school friend, Renee, who I actually found originally on MySpace but have caught up with a bit more on Facebook. How did our parents meet up with old friends? Pony Express?
Facebook is creepy. 90% of the people I’ve ever known in my life have all, independently of each other, set up facebook accounts within the same 10-day period.
I did pretty good with my team picks in the first round
Det 5, Ana 5 (BANG!), Van 7 (BANG!), SJ 6, Buf 5 (BANG!), NJ 5, NYR 6, Ott 5 (BANG!)
Nice, Cliff.. I respect a man with the stones to pick against his favourite team.
Kip – I signed up for Facebook a while back on the suggestion of another friend and sat with two or three friends for about six months. Suddenly, since April, it’s just been non-stop. But I read an article recently that says Toronto is by far the largest network in the world, so it appears it’s growing quicker in our (my) area.
Not too many High Schoolmates on FB – which is a good thing. Classmates sucked cuz you had to pay for it. Evan of all people got me to join facebook.
Not too many High Schoolmates on FB – which is a good thing. Classmates sucked cuz you had to pay for it. Evan of all people got me to join facebook.
.. and then his girlfriend made him delete his account because hot chicks were on his friends list! :D
Great, does that mean that I’m going to have to delete my account too? I have 30 chicks on my friends list and none of them are un-hot. Oh the pain of starting over.