Guatemalan Towns Abandoned

As reported by the AP.

Normally, I wouldn't think twice about horrible events like this. It's in a far away land, there's not much you can do, except to offer support by donating money or supplies.

This one hits home a bit, since we are still going through the adoption steps and are not yet able to go to Guatemala City to pick her up and bring her home.

What's surreal about it is the flooding and mudslides occuring near the Lake Atalan area which is where Savannah's birth mother is from. I have not heard anything in particular about San Lucas Toliman, so I am hopeful that she is safe. In additon to the mudslides and flooding in Guatemala City itself, where I am hopeful that Savannah herself is safe.

It's tough as all I can do is wait, hopefully soon I will be able to travel down and get her.

Hockey Opening Night (OLN and Jackets)

So instead of watching Invasion after Lost (more on that later), I decided to check out the post game on OLN.

I really enjoyed it, great background fodder to playing NHL 06 on the puter last night. It reminded me of College Game Night on ESPN. Look ins at games in progress, actual strategy, tactical analysis. Very good first effort.

The downside was that the production values looked like something out of ESPN circa 1979. The set looked like it might have been made out of an erector set.

But as I once read, it's all about the content. Make sure you have the content, and then work on improving the package. The NHL has tried package before and failed. This is much better because the content is there.

I didn't get to watch much of the Jackets loss to the Caps. I've always been high on Fritche, and I was very happy to see those goals. Hopefully Brule will remain around for a long while. The Jackets problem is that they're going to need to really improve on special teams. Too many penalties and not a good enough Power Play. I was fine with the kill, but they're going to need to adjust and do it quickly. Hopefully Nash will be healed up and good to go next week. I'm thinking he'll be held out against the Flames on Friday.

Still Around...Been Busy

As always, when things get busy, Blogging tends to die off. At least for me anyway .

Its not that there's nothing to say, it's that there's not enough time to put it into a coherant format.

I've got things to say about:

• Savannah (Got a kick ass video of her, but no idea how to post it out here)
• Netbeans 5 Beta (Slow, but love the new Struts/JSF integration)
• Crew (Didn't think the level of suck could get much higher, until the loss to Chivas)
• Jackets (If this team plans on being good, the young guys are going to have to get good very quickly)
• Supreme Court (no sorry, I'm so far out of the poli-loop to even make a coherant statement on that...I'll leave it to the pundits)

But as you can see...all I've time for is one liners. And that'll have to do...for now.