Man, our hockey team has improved big-time. We lost yesterday to the team that won the championship in the previous season, but we hung with them pretty much until the very end. That's two games we've played really well but just came up short in the end. You can totally see the improvement. I know there's a handful of people on the team that read this, so this is not meant to "offend," but I think the main reason for our improvement is the defense. We've finally started to just dump the puck ahead into the zone instead of stick-handling with it and let offensive players, such as myself and Kim, chase it down and set up an offense or take some shots on goal. I can see it on my end, because I'll typically set up on the point on defense, and yesterday I got a ton of passes to me (by both teams, actually) where I could just turn and fire.

I now have two goals in two games, but I keep forgetting how truly hard it is to score a goal in hockey and I get frustrated. I just have to remind myself on the floor that rarely am I going to score--hat tricks don't come every day, if at all. :) A telltale sign of how much better we've gotten is that I've taken probably 30-40 shots on goal in two games this season--compared to far fewer in the previous season. I'm really psyched about this now, because I think come playoff time, we'll be really rolling if we aren't by then.

The other great news: Only 4-5 hours until White Sox Weekend begins. Of course, as I cynically expected, I'm going to freeze my ass off at all three games. Stupid weather.

Also, I stayed home last night and played video games, saving me money but keeping me up until 2 a.m. That's better than the 5 a.m. bedtime I had on Monday, the first day I had Civ III.