The ballet opens tomorrow night, and while the schedule has not been extreme, our first night of work, striking the opera, ended only a few hours before returning to start setting up the ballet.  That first day pretty much kicked my ass, and I haven’t been able to watch much hockey, nor have the brain to write anything witty. Excuse me for not posting, but the quality of my blather would have been worse than normal.  I think I saved you the pain and suffering.

I have been trying to put together a few posts here and there about hockey blogging in general.  From what I have seen, the conversation about bloggers and their relative merits comes up every once in a while, and while it amounts to very little, this time, it got me thinking about the medium as a whole.  I can’t say there’s anything profound, but at least this time, I feel I got something out of it.  When I figure out how to say how I feel about it all, I’ll put it up.

Last night, after I should have gone to bed, I revisited the archives of a few blogs that were grabing my attention when I first started this little venture.  The off season was a pretty funny time for a few of the blogs.  If you have a chance, find a few blogs in the blogrolls that you find interesting, and go back to August and Spetember, before there were points and pain, before the season took any shape at all.  There is some great stuff out there.

Tonight, I will be at the Czech hockey bar, watching the Avs take on the Wild.  I expect a good game, good beer, and perhaps getting my head back in the hockey blogging game. 

BTW:  I think I stayed at the ESPNZone for about 20 minutes before I had to leave.  Between the manufactured yelling for the TV cameras, overcrowding, overpriced beer and food, and general lack of any interest of hockey by the crowd at large, I had to get the hell out.  If I set foot in another ESPNZone (the Bristol Cafe) any time soon, it had better have some good hockey games.  Old Chicago was a much better choice for the evening.