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Rep Retirement Lodge #164: Weekend Plans

Rep Retirement Lodge #164: Weekend Plans

  • Watching my team play in the Gahden

    Votes: 3 10.0%

  • Catching some games at the final Final Five

    Votes: 9 30.0%

  • Picking a winner in Atlantic City

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • Joining the other two fans in Rochester

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Following my team in Detroit

    Votes: 2 6.7%

  • Tailgating in St. Paul

    Votes: 8 26.7%

  • Drinking at the Black Rose while my wife thinks I'm at the Gahden

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Eating Giada's bacon-wrapped melons

    Votes: 10 33.3%

  • Golfing - finally!

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • Pfft. I've been golfing for weeks!

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • Having a Margarita! with my favorite Uncle

    Votes: 10 33.3%

  • Shoveling snow. Again.

    Votes: 7 23.3%

  • Shoveling something else

    Votes: 9 30.0%

  • Watching March Madness with Freddy

    Votes: 7 23.3%

  • Sitting by myself in a corner. Sober.

    Votes: 8 26.7%
  • Total voters
    30
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #164: Weekend Plans

Happy Easter folks!

Paps just got pulled over on the way to Iowa for Easter brunch. Cop was a complete ***hole.

Les, best of luck. Don't let some people ruin your day and an incredible weekend for your family. Happy Easter. Everything will work out in the end, and while what happened isn't right, the car can be fixed. Have a chocolate milk an enjoy today with your family.:)
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #164: Weekend Plans

Dude Love said:
I didn't even get any negative rep last night. Newbie slackers.
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I only got one, and I asked what "*********" was supposed to be. Then he claimed it was in good fun. He was a troll, of course. :)
 
UncleRay said:
Les, I saw you post that you weren't sure about going to Pittsburgh, but can't find the post and I'm too lazy to read back through several pages. I regret very, very little of my mis-spent youth. All those decisions that perhaps would have been better off made differently. They were made with the available resources, experience, and (lack of) brains that I had. However, the one that I really, truly wish I could have a do-over on was my decision to NOT go to the FF my freshman year when the team won it all. A team that I knew well because it is a small school, and for which I was the photographer. It was Spring Break and that's what I was - broke. With every fiber of my being, les, I urge you to go to Pittsburgh. When this becomes a yearly event for Lowell - and judging by last year it may become just that - you can skip a FF or two here and there. But this one? The first evah?? And with your relationship to the team? Go. Just go. Beg, borrow, steal the money. Put it on credit cards and figure out in May how to pay them off. Even if it will take months to get the cards paid off. But this year is special, and will never ever ever ever ever be repeated. Ever. I will honestly be upset if you don't go. And take Jr. Didn't someone say they have tickets they aren't going to use?
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This times a million. I told my dad I'd spent every dime I had to go to Pittsburgh had Minnesota State made it.
 
MavHockey14 said:
This times a million. I told my dad I'd spent every dime I had to go to Pittsburgh had Minnesota State made it.
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I'll let les detail it but she told me she had to work and you know her profession isn't one of those "easy day off" deals. I'd also say she'd probably have it earlier than the rest of us.

At the same time, I remember telling the union people the same thing... Take it and go.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #164: Weekend Plans

UncleRay said:
Les, I saw you post that you weren't sure about going to Pittsburgh, but can't find the post and I'm too lazy to read back through several pages. I regret very, very little of my mis-spent youth. All those decisions that perhaps would have been better off made differently. They were made with the available resources, experience, and (lack of) brains that I had. However, the one that I really, truly wish I could have a do-over on was my decision to NOT go to the FF my freshman year when the team won it all. A team that I knew well because it is a small school, and for which I was the photographer. It was Spring Break and that's what I was - broke. With every fiber of my being, les, I urge you to go to Pittsburgh. When this becomes a yearly event for Lowell - and judging by last year it may become just that - you can skip a FF or two here and there. But this one? The first evah?? And with your relationship to the team? Go. Just go. Beg, borrow, steal the money. Put it on credit cards and figure out in May how to pay them off. Even if it will take months to get the cards paid off. But this year is special, and will never ever ever ever ever be repeated. Ever. I will honestly be upset if you don't go. And take Jr. Didn't someone say they have tickets they aren't going to use?
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This. Times a million. You have a chance to witness history in the making. Now, I know it may not even be a financial thing, but rather responsibilities at work, lil having school, etc. I wouldn't worry about tickets, hotel or transportation because there are always tickets (and if Mr Les works for the team, tickets should not be an issue but again, I don't know how the school is dealing with that). With regards to transportation.....when I started following BU hockey when I was student, I said that if they ever made the Final Four, I was going. I didn't care if it was someplace like.....Detroit. Heh. The first time BU makes the Final Four when I started following them? Detroit in 1990.

I was working at home games and my "boss" in the athletic department (who put in my time sheet, etc) was my good friend who was the Assistant Sports Marketing person. She was working with the athletic department to arrange for buses for the trip. Now, back in the day, there wasn't this extra week to help with planning. BU won on Sunday and the game was Friday. Went to work on Monday and told my boss I was going. Thankfully I had a great boss who got it (the fact I was working on campus helped, even though she could give a crap about hockey, or all sports). Did I mention buses? To Detroit? The buses were leaving at 8pm Thursday night to drive 18 hours to get to Detroit early afternoon. 18 hours!!! And we cut through Canada. And in the middle of the night, somewhere in Canada, the bus driver was talking to the other bus driver saying he was falling asleep and they had to switch off but it was still another hour till the first stop so they did the switch WHILE DRIVING!!!!! The bus swerved, everyone was jolted awake.....ah, memories.

Oh, and I didn't mention the best part. Five days prior to BU beating Michigan State that Sunday, I had my jaw unwired after 8 1/2 weeks. I had elective surgery on my jaw on January 20th, was in the hospital for 5 days, out of work for a month, and my jaw wired shut. I was not able to eat normally when I got unwired as all my jaw muscles had atrophied to the point where it was very difficult to chew. I lost more weight that week after I was freed than I did the entire 8 1/2 weeks I couldn't eat solid food that well. My folks were worried about what I would do. But NOTHING was going to keep me from that trip. I made four thin peanut butter sandwiches, Yodels, brought my own drinks and my own fork and knife, that was easy to get into Joe Louis Arena in those days so I could cut my Little Caesar's Pizza into wicked tiny little pieces to make it easy to eat. That's what I did for four days. And I don't regret it for one moment. Even when BU lost the first semi final. I watched the national championship game as a college hockey fan and that was it!

I really hope you can work it out and make it there. We want to hear your first Frozen Four story.
 
Scarlet said:
This. Times a million. You have a chance to witness history in the making. Now, I know it may not even be a financial thing, but rather responsibilities at work, lil having school, etc. I wouldn't worry about tickets, hotel or transportation because there are always tickets (and if Mr Les works for the team, tickets should not be an issue but again, I don't know how the school is dealing with that). With regards to transportation.....when I started following BU hockey when I was student, I said that if they ever made the Final Four, I was going. I didn't care if it was someplace like.....Detroit. Heh. The first time BU makes the Final Four when I started following them? Detroit in 1990.

I was working at home games and my "boss" in the athletic department (who put in my time sheet, etc) was my good friend who was the Assistant Sports Marketing person. She was working with the athletic department to arrange for buses for the trip. Now, back in the day, there wasn't this extra week to help with planning. BU won on Sunday and the game was Friday. Went to work on Monday and told my boss I was going. Thankfully I had a great boss who got it (the fact I was working on campus helped, even though she could give a crap about hockey, or all sports). Did I mention buses? To Detroit? The buses were leaving at 8pm Thursday night to drive 18 hours to get to Detroit early afternoon. 18 hours!!! And we cut through Canada. And in the middle of the night, somewhere in Canada, the bus driver was talking to the other bus driver saying he was falling asleep and they had to switch off but it was still another hour till the first stop so they did the switch WHILE DRIVING!!!!! The bus swerved, everyone was jolted awake.....ah, memories.

Oh, and I didn't mention the best part. Five days prior to BU beating Michigan State that Sunday, I had my jaw unwired after 8 1/2 weeks. I had elective surgery on my jaw on January 20th, was in the hospital for 5 days, out of work for a month, and my jaw wired shut. I was not able to eat normally when I got unwired as all my jaw muscles had atrophied to the point where it was very difficult to chew. I lost more weight that week after I was freed than I did the entire 8 1/2 weeks I couldn't eat solid food that well. My folks were worried about what I would do. But NOTHING was going to keep me from that trip. I made four thin peanut butter sandwiches, Yodels, brought my own drinks and my own fork and knife, that was easy to get into Joe Louis Arena in those days so I could cut my Little Caesar's Pizza into wicked tiny little pieces to make it easy to eat. That's what I did for four days. And I don't regret it for one moment. Even when BU lost the first semi final. I watched the national championship game as a college hockey fan and that was it!

I really hope you can work it out and make it there. We want to hear your first Frozen Four story.
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This post is one of many reasons I love tLodge. Encouragement, support, etc from people brought together by the greatest game on the planet. People who share passion for the hard work of student athletes and their schools. Love it.
 
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UncleRay said:
Les, I saw you post that you weren't sure about going to Pittsburgh, but can't find the post and I'm too lazy to read back through several pages. I regret very, very little of my mis-spent youth. All those decisions that perhaps would have been better off made differently. They were made with the available resources, experience, and (lack of) brains that I had. However, the one that I really, truly wish I could have a do-over on was my decision to NOT go to the FF my freshman year when the team won it all. A team that I knew well because it is a small school, and for which I was the photographer. It was Spring Break and that's what I was - broke. With every fiber of my being, les, I urge you to go to Pittsburgh. When this becomes a yearly event for Lowell - and judging by last year it may become just that - you can skip a FF or two here and there. But this one? The first evah?? And with your relationship to the team? Go. Just go. Beg, borrow, steal the money. Put it on credit cards and figure out in May how to pay them off. Even if it will take months to get the cards paid off. But this year is special, and will never ever ever ever ever be repeated. Ever. I will honestly be upset if you don't go. And take Jr. Didn't someone say they have tickets they aren't going to use?
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SiouxFanInSeattle has tixs he's trying to unload. As he is a Lodgeonian and citizen of Extrasville, Les should have no trouble contacting him.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #164: Weekend Plans

bigmrg74 said:
Check in with the other folks who's cars got hit. Getting together to help bug the police about it, along with having more eyes to look online to see if they did any bragging about it online.
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The kids have fessed up after Lil told them I filed a police report and tehy best tell him what happened. More on what we decide later.

UncleRay said:
Les, I saw you post that you weren't sure about going to Pittsburgh, but can't find the post and I'm too lazy to read back through several pages. I regret very, very little of my mis-spent youth. All those decisions that perhaps would have been better off made differently. They were made with the available resources, experience, and (lack of) brains that I had. However, the one that I really, truly wish I could have a do-over on was my decision to NOT go to the FF my freshman year when the team won it all. A team that I knew well because it is a small school, and for which I was the photographer. It was Spring Break and that's what I was - broke. With every fiber of my being, les, I urge you to go to Pittsburgh. When this becomes a yearly event for Lowell - and judging by last year it may become just that - you can skip a FF or two here and there. But this one? The first evah?? And with your relationship to the team? Go. Just go. Beg, borrow, steal the money. Put it on credit cards and figure out in May how to pay them off. Even if it will take months to get the cards paid off. But this year is special, and will never ever ever ever ever be repeated. Ever. I will honestly be upset if you don't go. And take Jr. Didn't someone say they have tickets they aren't going to use?
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Thanks everyone for sharing all the stories and encouragement. I will be trying to get there for Saturday. I absolutely can't do Thursday. It just isn't do-able no matter how much my boss understands. Back story is long and complicated but can't shut down the practice and I am it Thursday. I probably won't get out until 6-7PM. Short of a transporter and beam me over Scotty... Saturday, on the other hand, if it shakes out is another story.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #164: Weekend Plans

Good afternoon Lodge.

When BSU made it to the frozen four a few years ago I was unable to make it. I had a business/personal trip lined up in Vegas with the CEO (my boss) and I didn't want to commit career suicide. For a brief moment I seriously considered going to the F4. BSU doesn't make the mortgage payment for me but the meeting with the CEO changed my career path for the better. The situation sucked big time and I was sick to my stomach that I couldn't make it. BSU will make another run sooner or later............
 
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I will always wish that my Dad and I had made the trip to Providence for the F4 back in 2000 to see SLU in it. Sure, I was able to go to the BU 4OT game, and that was extremely memorable, but who knows when, or if, SLU will make a Frozen Four again.
 
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