November 11-14

The first day of the new week was a classic example of why I operate the way I do at this time of year. I stopped by the rink in the morning and found it typically messy since we hadn't played in six days, it was nowhere near as bad as the previous week but it was still in need of attention. After lunch I went back and cleaned it up, when I returned for the evening the rink (thanks to the prevailing southeast wind) looked almost as it had in the morning. Had I not done the earlier work it would have been much harder to handle but that's exactly why we do the afternoon prelim work if needed. Semifinals began on this night with NTS and the Killbots victorious, on Tuesday (after an afternoon cleanup that was marginal compared to Monday) the Killbots advanced to the Finals by eliminating Risky Business in two straight while the Misfits beat NTS to force a deciding game #3. Jenny and I had our usual lunch date on an otherwise quiet Wednesday, on Thursday night at the rink the other half of the Finals was booked with NTS winning over the Misfits. The NTS/Killbots best-of-five championship series starts on Monday the 18th. Take care, thanks for reading