Random Thoughts by Chuck

Congratulations to the World Junior team on a 4th consecutive gold medal! While our 20-game undefeated streak came to an end against a very good Swedish team, Canada still dominiated in international hockey also winning the Spengler Cup and under 17 championship. What is truly amazing are the records Canada has amassed over the years. 20 consecutive wins, 400 minutes of 5-on-5 shutout hockey (which equates to almost 7 full games) and 160 shutout minutes courtesy of Justin Pogge in 2006 when Canada didn’t allow 1 goal in against Finland and Russia in the semi-final and gold medal game respectively.

Canada has appeared in the gold medal game for the last 6 consecutive years and it was Canada’s 10 consecutive medal in the World Junior tournament. In the last 16 years, our World Junior team has won 9 gold medals, 3 silver and 3 bronze which is a tremendous feat.

The 2009 tournament in Ottawa is already sold out and will be the perfect venue to tie our own record with our 5th consecutive gold medal. 10 players are eligible for next year’s tournament

The talent Canada has produced bodes well for 2010 in Vancouver when the team will likely consist of the likes of Crosby, Spezza, Luongo, Turris, Heatley, Lecavalier and Pronger.

What’s next for Canada? The Women’s junior team absolutely hammered Switzerland 15 – 0 in a preliminary game on Saturday, which of course was overshadowed by the men’s gold medal game. Mark January 20th on the calendar, that’s the date of the gold medal game for the women’s under 18 tournament and the next of many more medals to add to the list!

Last week my wife went out to get some groceries and left a 10-pound bag of potatoes in my trunk.    I was wondering what that rattling around was, I usually dispose of the body right away…..er…..nevermind.

Fast-forward to this week and we take the now frozen bag out of the trunk and cook up some yummy mashed potatoes.   Unfortunately my wife put my PDA beside the frozen potatoe bag on the counter and this morning when I got up, it was swimming in a pool of brown water!  Good thing it wasn’t plugged in.

Anywho, after I removed the micro-SD card and drained the water out of all the other crevices, everything still works great albeit it does have a nice raunchy potatoe smell to it.   Oh well, it works so no harm done…so far!

First my digital camera, now my PDA.  I’m hoping she’ll destroy our 6 year old DVD/Home theatre system next!

I figured it was about time for a new site considering my last update on the old one was August 2005. Figures, now that I DON’T work for a social media company anymore I finally start my own blog.

Just like every other personal blog on the planet, this blog will largely be about me, my family and my take on stuff I read or stumble across. Why does it matter to you? Well, it just does so read and comment often.

First of all, I am completely in love with Wordpress. Granted I used to be a web developer and designer, but from start to finish, including the neato facebook integration, it took me probably 2 hours in total to setup this site. I’ll be posting something to outline how simple it was and which plugins I used to create this site.

Check back often and let me know what you think.