Apologies for lack of updates

Hey hockey fans....

Sorry about my recent disappearance here... it definitely has not been on purpose.

I'll try and logically make sense of all this to see if it will make sense...

So Tuesday evening, my ever annoying Samsung Galaxy Ace Q cell starting going... completely insane and demonic for a good 4 hours. When I eventually unplugged it (as turning it off didn't quick it's... possession) it wouldn't turn back on. My best explanation is... 'it passed away due to complications from being an obsolete piece of junk'... haha!

Ended up going to cell provider and getting a loaner cell phone - a Samsung Galaxy S. I believe I had the exact same one as a loaner for 4-5 weeks last March also.

So yeah - tried to go to bed early-ish that night, but... my lower right jaw started to worsen out of nowhere, and has been in iffy condition since a sensitivity test done on it along with a molar on the lower left side that got a root canal a week or two prior. Called my dentist's office and left a message around 11pm or something to see if I could get in as soon as possible as I'd "likely be downtown most of the day".

Then as I'm about to get ready for bed, my desktop computer installed an Windows Update and it went insane! Running programs stopped showing on bottom taskbar, restarts didn't fix, even it did come back after a 2nd or 3rd reset BUT it starting with an insane zoom on the screen. No idea why it did that, so had to manually change the screen resolution and never did put it back where it was before. Anyways, my efforts there killed 2-3 hrs of sleep. By the time I laid down it was like 5am.

8:20am, dentist office called and as they were slow - told me to come ASAP. So I go there, it's deemed needing a root canal. I didn't expect to be fully covered for a 2nd one in weeks... but it happened (I bought lottery tickets that day due to that insane luck! Won $2 on the first one already... haha!)... and unexpectedly got a root canal done. Also in there, my dentist found a blockage in my salivatory gland that I knew was there for a year or two but thought nothing of it as it never bothered me. He wanted me to see my doctor ASAP - and I got an appointment for 3:30pm.

Went over to my cell provider @ 11:45am, and even though I got a new decent loaner cell - I got help offers from 2 anonymous friends to help cover my cell phone buyout, and activation of a brand new cell - to... avoid similar cell problems as I've had the last 10 months or so. Purchased a Samsung S4... and totally love it!

Then after that, I went home as soon as possible to try and lay down and catch a bit more sleep... by the time I got home, packed my laptop & bowling stuff & cords I needed, and finally got settled in bed... I maybe laid there 35mins before having to get up fast to get over to my doctor appointment.

Went there, and... to my surprise... no tests, blood tests, medication, major concern at all from my doctor. Was told that the dye injection to try and get this likely calcium build up in the gland under my tongue, is so brutal, that I should avoid it unless it starts bothering me. She showed me pictures of worrying ones... let's just say mine looks like nothing compared to some of the scary things I saw online... haha! Told me if I have any headaches as extreme as I have for the best part of a month now or more (severe heat tension headaches in ears, temples & forehead - presumed initially by doctor & optometrist to be a sinus/nasal infection... oh yeah, I got new glasses Tuesday evening too and have likely been feeling adjustment effects still there also... haha!) - I am to not even both booking an appointment with her, but instead going straight to the ER to see a doctor there. Thankfully, the headaches haven't quite been as bad since then... though my forehead is getting iffy as I type this.

So yeah, finish up there and picked up a painkiller prescription my dental assistant gave me (ate for the first time since maybe 4am, before getting that... haha!). No idea how I've yet to even take one out of the bottle yet - I've been fighting the urge, but urge hasn't been strong either.

I then went downtown, did some errands, went to the bowling alley for Thursday league bowling & started at 7pm, and 15mins prior the Grande Prairie Storm game radio broadcast @ Camrose Kodiaks started... so I seriously did my best to tweet the Storm game while I was bowling. Bowled great the first game while my 1GB mini-mp3 player was working on my earphones... but it's AAA battery died. So I moved to laptop... and tweeted there via internet radio, until the laptop died. Then I plugged in earphones on new cell phone and listened to game and tweeted via internet radio from cell. Cell nearly died, but never did (it only had half charge when I got it, and only had it charging while in USB of laptop before it died). Bowling/mind suffered after 1st game... I felt alright, but couldn't the broad side of a barn and knew my head was feeling the combination of the new glasses, root canal, root canal from a week or two possibly, and the maybe 3-4 hours sleep I got. Was going to go watch the NPHL exhibition game between Hythe Mustangs @ Grande Prairie Athletics at the Coke Centre... but very wisely went home to rest instead.

To the shock of probably anyone that knows me even a small bit, and has seen the crazy hours I run out - I slept from 11pm TH to 2pm FRI... no word of a lie! People are still baffled by the amount I'm able to do after these 2 root canals... seriously - great work done by the staff of Cygnet Dental! I had a bit of jaw/nerve soreness and a short intense right ear ache briefly, but besides that I soldiered through everything like nothing at all!

But yeah... got up & did a bit of quick running around; and tried my hardest to get as much done as possible in a 2-3 hour period before getting ready for Grande Prairie Kings game @ Beaverlodge Blades. I was doing awesome... got the NWJHL updated and got up to Drayton Valley on the AJHL... BUT... Thunder recently either traded, cut or acquired at least 7 players since my last AJHL update a few days prior - that and I was trying to fix some website/Twitter work... and my plans crashed on me like a building implosion! By the time I got suited up & ready to start walking to meet up spot for my ride, they called wondering where I was while I had only opened my door... haha! So cooked a quick bowl of soup before the got there... and literally took my backpack, the bowl of soup, and the can with me on the road... haha!

Game in Beaverlodge... holy man... no one warmed me about the cold in the arena, and between having bad cell reception inside and in hindsight, what seems to be a Samsung android software glitch with wireless/wifi connection/cell signals... and I struggled to tweet both the Kings game & Storm game @ Drayton Valley... but pulled it off as valiantly as possible. If anyone saw me up in the booth that the arena staff set me up in, during the game... probably was quite the show! I was almost in a Tourette's like state, stressing/angry about the cell signal and unable to do as much as I hoped... hahah! I laugh now, but I was losing it then... dang inefficient technology! Haha! Along with that, though I had a great vantage point for the game in the booth - it was like being in a meat cooler, and I was only wearing a suit jacket! In hindsight I also should have asked to borrow a jacket from someone, but forgot to even think about that... haha! Hands were frozen, breath was like fog, cheeks had that near frostbite light burning feeling for an hour or so after I got home... haha!

Tried my best to get stuff done last night... failed miserably! Should of went to bed, but too stubborn here for that... I instead try my hardest to get work done when dead tired! Real smart! haha! But, I did eventually get to bed and sleep.

Got up today, did some quick shopping, then setup on laptop with the TV on hockey games and been trying to fcus since... and got next to nothing done.

So, yeah... before the sun rises, I best just go lay down... rest up, and get my work caught up on tomorrow! It may seem like a waste of time to type all this - but i think i needed to just get it all out of my mind, to clear it out. Not like I'd be able to focus and accomplish anything now... but sleep, if lucky - anyhow... haha!

Off to rest I finally go... really looking forward to my 2 day Thanksgiving Vacation out of the city! Probably will be a good break I could use right about now! The crazy animals will likely not allow me to focus on work much, so I will likely get what I desperately need to, accomplished - and little else. That's what a break should be, right? Haha!

Quick update before to bed VERY EARLY for my usual... haha!

AJHL & NWJHL are both updated again, on Elite Prospects.

There's still the discrepancy for me between what I saw/read/wrote from paper game sheet & what is on online game sheet for Sexsmith Vipers' PIM in the Sept 28th game hosting the Grande Prairie JDA Kings.

Vipers/Kings rematch at the Coke Centre Tuesday was cancelled due to a power outage and badly melting ice at the Coke Centre, so hopefully will get a chance to see paper sheet again on Friday, and copy/scan/take picture of it for my records.

Besides that - I best get to bed and rest, like 7 hours earlier than yesterday. It's almost crazy for me to be downtown in the morning hours in GP - more than a day in a row! I honestly don't remember ever doing this since I moved back to GP at the end of August last year... haha! Going to be a busy day, loads to do and get done, and likely not be back home until 11PM or 12AM if I end up catching the later part of the NPHL exhibition game between Hythe Mustangs & Grande Prairie Athletics, after bowling.

Am hoping to do some website work, get caught up on AJHL moves on EP, and a bunch of non-hockey related stuff. Hopefully more too... but let's not push it... haha!

Off to rest I go!

NWJHL Finals Game 3 - Kings @ Navs in Peace River - March 20th

Well, as anyone that's been following this blog knows... I have been badly absent here since Jan 31st. February was not easy, but never would I ever have expected March would be worse! Two good days - my birthday on the 4th, and the Kings game the night after I won the 50/50 for $117... so it wasn't too bad. Besides that my month has been hell... besides every game with the Kings. Absolutely love working with this team and being a part of the organization!

March for me... well there was serious hacking of all computers & cell phone, mass problems with original cell phone including virus laden pics sabotaged by hacker potentially making me lose all pics not Tweeted or FB'd, since Jan 1st - and it appears that the virus laden pic fried/permanently damaged my first 4GB SD card. Massive bills thanks to getting desktop computer reformatted, mass data overages on my phone (100MB is squat! Haha! But how am I to know better when I haven't had a active cell for 5-6 years u til Dec 14th - I have 1GB now though), getting behind on phone bills, other bills .. then I get badly sick... worse head & sinus cold of my whole life! There was some other issues, but between Saturday night & Tuesday afternoon I was deathly ill and could barely even get out of bed or get up off anything. I'm definitely not 100% since, but a lot better than that extent.

So yeah...got a 2nd working SD card Friday, so was able to take pics for Saturday's Game 2 of the N-dub Finals in GP, but due to illness haven't made it on this blog, on EP much, nor to update stats on the AJ or N-dub... badly behind but I plan to get things up as soon as possible when available... which well... could be soon...

I now have 5 jobs officially... EP (since 08), Grande Prairie Storm (since Aug 31st), blog here (since Dec 4),                                                     Grande Prairie JDA Kings (since Jan 27th) and the Grande Prairie Athletics (unofficially since their last home playoff game at the Coke Centre vs Spirit River - I was confirmed to do game stats help with them for 13/14 and for the heck of it I did game tweets that night... haha!). But unfortunately/thankfully (as my life has been hellish... it frees up my times bit) the Storm were knocked out weeks ago in Sherwood Park in the first round  and I believe the A's were knocked out of the NPHL division finals days earlier in Spirit River on Tuesday of the same week.

For now though... here's some pics from the trip and the game. I'll add notes later, but just wanna get a new post up. I plan to post from Game 2 in GP also. I didn't have a working SD card on Game 1 in GP, so no pics from the festivities and pregame we had that night to open the league finals.