With 15 seconds left, coming back from trailing 2-0 for 2 periods, a baseball style shot put the Jets out of their misery and the Blues take the series lead again! They’re playing the best hockey I’ve seen in years.

My wife is turning 40 and I’ve been wanting to make it special - something to remember - so, stretching it over the next week we are celebrating. Had an epic family get together yesterday and promptly hit the road at 10pm headied to Bristol, TN, for the Food 500 NASCAR race, a good 9 hours from home. Pit passes start at 10am and I think we’ll just make it to town by then if all goes well. Listening to sultry country music (“...you break things when you get mad...”) about to cross into Kentucky.

Totally garbage week. Not much salvageable except to be glad to have left TX early, stormy weather all around there and tough work, getting home to the family and this little book, which is so heartbreakingly written it is worthy of a first reading followed by a second.