Goalie pics

As promised. View the album here.

(The arena lends the pads, but is short of sticks. My father will buy Child Three a goalie stick for Chanukah, so long as I "tell him it's no way to make a living!!!")

Bonus proof that the world is ending:

In Montreal, it's 15 degrees C and we've had a half-hour of snow this season.

In Vancouver, they have blizzards.

Rice University's football team was invited to its first bowl game since 1961. When I went to the school, I saw the football team win a home game for the first time in four years.