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Rep Retirement Thread 133: I still hate you all

Rep Retirement Thread 133: I still hate you all

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Re: Rep Retirement Thread 133: I still hate you all

MavHockey14 said:
It's cold and rainy here, one of those days where you just wanna curl up on the couch and sit around for hours upon hours.
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With a good calculus book, right? ;)

So, isn't this the 4th quarter? Did it just get into some material you are having trouble with, or has it been tough all year?

Are you coaching a AAA team? What year?

Why do I only have questions and no answers?:)
 
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goldy_331 said:
With a good calculus book, right? ;)

So, isn't this the 4th quarter? Did it just get into some material you are having trouble with, or has it been tough all year?

Are you coaching a AAA team? What year?

Why do I only have questions and no answers?:)
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You're like an episode of Soap.

*Sorry to 95% of tLodge who have no idea what that means.
 
hockeyplayer1015 said:
Morning!

So last night, I'm getting ready to leave for the game, and after I unlock my car, my hazards continue blinking for no reason. I, in a very perplexed state, try doing anything and everything to figure it out. Push the hazard switch in and out a few times, lock/unlock the car, turn it on/off, disconnect the battery and reconnect it... nothing. Get back inside, and notice that my seals around my windshield let in more water than usual, as my roof "carpeting" was wet around the front, and I had some standing water in some of my compartments. Pretty sure it's a short in my wiring now, so I just pulled the fuse so my hazards would stop acting like strobe lights while I'm driving. Now I'm that ******* who doesn't signal, but it beats pounding the hell out of my dashboard to stop the hazards from blinking every second!
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Horn broken. Watch for finger!!


Grrrrrrrr..... Got in early today and the lady that had an appointment to see me today just canceled on me. Just lovely! :mad:
 
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Springtime in the Rockies continues this morning with a bit of freshly fallen snow on the ground, not much, just enough to show that it did snow. Good morning.:)
 
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JF_Gophers said:
You're like an episode of Soap.

*Sorry to 95% of tLodge who have no idea what that means.
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I'm in that other 5%! :D Awesome show.

'Morning, Lodge. The weather is giving us a reality check today. It's barely going to break freezing here on the North Shore. :(
 
goldy_331 said:
With a good calculus book, right? ;)

So, isn't this the 4th quarter? Did it just get into some material you are having trouble with, or has it been tough all year?

Are you coaching a AAA team? What year?

Why do I only have questions and no answers?:)
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It's a perfect day to leave calculus out of the equation of life wise guy!;)

You are correct with it being end of the year, it's the last of the stuff we'll learn. I've struggled a little bit since hockey was in full swing since about decemeber, but the last 6 weeks or so has been the super tough part.

I am indeed coaching AAA hockey, the Southern MN Knights. It's the first year, founded by my coach and former UMD star Curtis Doell. I'm coaching the 2000 team, so they're not too bad. On Wednesday nights we do skill nights, which are open to the kids who weren't placed on our tournament rosters, who do an hour on ice and an hour off ice with the treadmill and plyometrics. It's become a really good thing so far. Our goal is to provide a chance for southern minnesota players to gain more experience playing at higher levels of competition to help make southern minnesota more competitive with metro teams, etc.

Luckily for you old man, I've got the answers.:p
 
Re: Rep Retirement Thread 133: I still hate you all

Morning, Lodge. Took my EMT-B National Registry exam today. First time I've ever taken an exam and I have no idea of how I did. It was a computer-based learning exam (like the GRE, where as you answer questions correctly, the test gets harder) and I had to be finger-printed, bring 2 forms of ID, have my picture taken, wear noise canceling headphones (if I desired), and be videotaped.

Hopefully I get (positive) results tonight. They said it can take up to 2 business days, but sometimes, if you take it early in the morning, they will post the results that evening.
 
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Good luck 'ewe! Fingers crossed.

Mav, I think you guys need to build numbers and depth in the youth ranks. One of my kid's buddies is an A player in Edina (was on the state champ PWA team this year). Back when he was a squirt A they faced the Mankato SQA team in the finals of the Edina tourney. Jutting's kid was on that team. They were good, but only had 12 skaters and got worn down by the end. Hopefully programs like the Knights can help build that depth for your association.
 
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Earlier this morning I took my car to the tire shop from whcih I bought my tires to have the tires rotated. Since I bought my tires there the rotation uis done free of charge .One of the techs drove my car into a bay to perform the service. I sat down to read the paper, looked at my watch and saw in was 9:09 A.M. Five minutes later I was back in my car and on my way. Nice timing.;)
 
Re: Rep Retirement Thread 133: I still hate you all

bostonewe said:
Morning, Lodge. Took my EMT-B National Registry exam today. First time I've ever taken an exam and I have no idea of how I did. It was a computer-based learning exam (like the GRE, where as you answer questions correctly, the test gets harder) and I had to be finger-printed, bring 2 forms of ID, have my picture taken, wear noise canceling headphones (if I desired), and be videotaped.

Hopefully I get (positive) results tonight. They said it can take up to 2 business days, but sometimes, if you take it early in the morning, they will post the results that evening.
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Good luck! :)

And good afternoon, Lodge. About to make a fresh batch of nougat...
 
goldy_331 said:
Good luck 'ewe! Fingers crossed.

Mav, I think you guys need to build numbers and depth in the youth ranks. One of my kid's buddies is an A player in Edina (was on the state champ PWA team this year). Back when he was a squirt A they faced the Mankato SQA team in the finals of the Edina tourney. Jutting's kid was on that team. They were good, but only had 12 skaters and got worn down by the end. Hopefully programs like the Knights can help build that depth for your association.
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I totally agree. We've got a new director of operations who fully took over his first full season last season, and he's implementing a lot more drills and emphasis on hockey skills rather than just "moving kids through the system." He played at MSU. Depth is an issue at our top levels, and with the two school split between East and West, the numbers are directly pointing to 90 percent or more of the kids attending the West side. That's a problem because East's high school team suffers mightily. They played a roster of 14 with no JV this season.:o.

Things will turn around at some point, but it takes time because scheduling teams from the metro is very tough. Our high school team this season could only schedule AA schools such as shakopee and prior lake. It's getting better, but it takes time. We made state in '08 which has helped us a TON. We next year will hopefully get into the Duluth Christmas Tournament, which will give us 3 more games against tougher opponents.

Basically, we re trying to get our program to be better and better each year by playing better competition, and promoting more options to play for our players, so that we can promote the game here in town, and across southern minnesota.

I also hope that the Mavs here in town aren't too largely effected by the stupid B1G. The Mavs give kids in town a dream. A former teammate of mine, and a hometown kid played his freshman season here in town, and when kids here see him out there on the ice, they can look at him and say hey. He played on the Mankato Peewee A when he was my age, etc. If we could get a coach to bring our program back to life, I guarentee we'd have close to capacity crowds week in and week out, and it would make hockey even larger in the community, which would in turn promote the game further.

It's so disappointing knowing we had Sandelin on campus, interviewed him, and didn't even give him a second interview. Dean Blais was on campus, didn't hire him either. I don't understand how our AD doesn't see the potential for what a good WCHA hockey team could do for a town, and a University. It's the same thing every single season. The Mavs are hardworking, with a few talented guys, who take way too many penalties, and have a horrid power play. I just want so badly for us to grow as a program, get some tradition, make some final fives, make the tournament, etc. The potential is there, we're in the WCHA and we're in the State of Hockey.

Sorry for the long, semi-rant:p
 
Re: Rep Retirement Thread 133: I still hate you all

MavHockey14 said:
it's an AP Physics course, so it deals with both. My Calculus class would be AP Calc, a variation of Calculus 1 and the basework for Calc 2.
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If you are talking those classes in HS, then you should be fine entering an engineering program. Calc is just a hard class for many, and while you do need to know it and has a basic understanding of it for engineering, it isn't super critical to be an expert in it: you'll just look up what you don't remember anyway.
 
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