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Mar. 3rd, 2019 08:15 pmGood day for the most part.
My parents decided that they should both have surgery this week, so that's a thing. I don't think it's so much that they decided as that this was the time the surgeons had bookings available and it just unfortunately worked out that way. My father had hand surgery Friday and it went reasonably well and he is recovering now. My mother is having a hip replacement tomorrow. Apparently my dad plans to drive into the city with one hand to pick up my mother after the surgery and drive her home; fortunately my brother is going with him to be the backup plan that really should be Plan A. *eyeroll*
My sister came down to see my mom before the surgery and she brought the baby along so we all played with the baby for a couple hours. She just started crawling a couple weeks ago and is a very happy and playful baby and likes rattling things and shouting strings of nonsense syllables.
After that I went to Newark for the Riveters' last regular season game. It was a nailbiter- tied at 2-2 for most of the third period, until the Rivs went up with a power play goal with four minutes left. All they had to do was play defense for four minutes, but they gave up a goal with a little over a minute left to force it to overtime. After overtime ran out the Riveters won it in the shootout, clinching the, er... number 4 seed in the playoffs.
The NWHL now has five teams with the addition of the Minnesota Whitecaps. At that size, playoffs in a conventional sense don't really make sense. So all teams make the playoffs and it's just a single elimination bracket, which is a little silly. The fourth and fifth best teams in the league play each other in a play-in game and then the winner of that game plays the first seed while the second and third seeds play in the other semi.
So the only significance of the number 4 seed is that the Riveters will get one more home game this season, a playoff game this Thursday night that I hope to get to see. If they win, the rest of their playoff games will be away games and I am not planning to travel.
After the game I took the train home. I had made a bad gamble in biking to the train station while the skies were clear and hoping the snow wouldn't start until after I got home. The snow was in fact blowing full strength as I biked home, which was unpleasant. But that just meant that for a few minutes I got to feel really hardcore, biking through a snowstorm.
My parents decided that they should both have surgery this week, so that's a thing. I don't think it's so much that they decided as that this was the time the surgeons had bookings available and it just unfortunately worked out that way. My father had hand surgery Friday and it went reasonably well and he is recovering now. My mother is having a hip replacement tomorrow. Apparently my dad plans to drive into the city with one hand to pick up my mother after the surgery and drive her home; fortunately my brother is going with him to be the backup plan that really should be Plan A. *eyeroll*
My sister came down to see my mom before the surgery and she brought the baby along so we all played with the baby for a couple hours. She just started crawling a couple weeks ago and is a very happy and playful baby and likes rattling things and shouting strings of nonsense syllables.
After that I went to Newark for the Riveters' last regular season game. It was a nailbiter- tied at 2-2 for most of the third period, until the Rivs went up with a power play goal with four minutes left. All they had to do was play defense for four minutes, but they gave up a goal with a little over a minute left to force it to overtime. After overtime ran out the Riveters won it in the shootout, clinching the, er... number 4 seed in the playoffs.
The NWHL now has five teams with the addition of the Minnesota Whitecaps. At that size, playoffs in a conventional sense don't really make sense. So all teams make the playoffs and it's just a single elimination bracket, which is a little silly. The fourth and fifth best teams in the league play each other in a play-in game and then the winner of that game plays the first seed while the second and third seeds play in the other semi.
So the only significance of the number 4 seed is that the Riveters will get one more home game this season, a playoff game this Thursday night that I hope to get to see. If they win, the rest of their playoff games will be away games and I am not planning to travel.
After the game I took the train home. I had made a bad gamble in biking to the train station while the skies were clear and hoping the snow wouldn't start until after I got home. The snow was in fact blowing full strength as I biked home, which was unpleasant. But that just meant that for a few minutes I got to feel really hardcore, biking through a snowstorm.