EJB

Full on wedding brawl in my hotel tonight. In Minnesota for an Os Hockey Prospects Showcase, in bed and just sacking, the little one(14) is done, then all Hell breaks loose. Enough it wakes her from a dead sleep(our room is above the open lobby).

Nothing much to add to the current, just want to say, I purchased in October of last year and after 8 months my only thoughts are, I blew it not buying earlier. I’ll take A LONG TIME to break even, because I tend to sharpen a bunch of friends and friends kids skates. Then again, I’ve never sharpened our skates so often, about every other skate, they go in. Sometimes, after one, just because I’m doing skates anyway. This machine, at this time, is the best purchase I’ve made in a while as far as useful to me, my family and friends. I have no experience with the ProSharp and assume it’s the same(went with SPARX only due to I assumed I could ask all those here for advice if I had questions, due to numbers of community that had machine), but assume it’s as easy and effective. My point, if you have the funds & desire, not pulling the trigger on one of these is a no brainer. Again, my only wish...that I did it sooner. Flip side, glad I didn’t buy the travel case. At this point, we don’t drive to many tournaments anymore, wouldn’t have been a cost effective purchase, even with a 20% discount, which I still haven’t seen since my purchase....which would result in numerous wheel purchases. (We use to road travel to 7-8 tourneys a year)

Yep & new rankings out yesterday, #2, 4, 18 & 23

Heading to Kitchener for a little hockey with my little one. Getting to play the #1, 4, 16 & 24 teams from Canada. Going to be a tough weekend and I look forward to watching the girls compete. Good family fun, can’t wait!

Well, yet to skate on them, but ran my skates through 4 passes and edges were perfect. Prechecked my daughter skates before putting them in and off 2 lines(whatever that means, other than off a chunk, sharpened at local shop Thursday). Took 8 passes and perfect. As far as I’m concerned, money well spent already.

1 2N Pro(was her previous primary) & 1 Trigger 3D PMT(replaces a 1X lite). Taping them as I type.

In Denver playing hockey, daughter snapped her primary stick in warmups for game 1. Game 2 cracked the blade of her back up stick. We actually brought 3 sticks, always seem to now, but heading to Pure Hockey to do some shopping this afternoon before game 3...

That’s interesting, when having my skates & my daughters done last week, I left with the feeling my +/- 20ish sharpenings were gone. Something to the effect of “Hey, E.J., we’re not doing the Platinum Membership sharpenings anymore. So these are free, but we’re starting a flat $10 a sharpening.” I didn’t even ask if I was losing all my credit sharpens, feeling like that is what he was saying. There was no, Hey we’ll take these two off and when you run out, it’s going to be $10 each pair.

Ordered the unit, starter pack, 5/8th fire ring & the edge checker. Was going to get the travel case, but figured for $400 and can only think twice we’ve had to get a sharpen at a tournament, I could do without it. Maybe if they do the 20% off accessories again in the future, I may pick that up as well. Seems a little overkill to travel with it, but maybe it’d come in handy for the team? Look forward to hearing your thoughts. All the positive feedback make me feel pretty at ease, including the endorsement of one of our local rink managers, who has/uses one at the rink. I’ve yet to have any of our skates sharpened by one.

After my local Pure Hockey told me they were ending their sharping deal with the platinum membership & extras with skate purchases etc(I don’t remember the last time I actually paid for a sharpening) & are going to a flat $10 a sharpen, let alone depending on who was working, sometimes a sketchy cut, I decided it was time to pull the trigger on this. We have 3 skaters and though my son and I tend to go too long between sharpens, seems my daughter wants a fresh sharpen about every 4-5 skates. Ordered tonight, meh...what do I have to lose.

So sorry. It’s such a difficult road and unfortunate that our pups don’t share our life span. Sending you positive JuJu.

I’m and idiot(happens more than I’d like). Getting ramped up for the season. Though the pup didn’t “need” a stick, she’s put a beatin on her primary(been using it for a solid 7 months?), so just added another to an order of other junk, random purchase. Got it home, cut it and said no outside work( shooting gallery with a pad, she’ll take clappers until the sun sets), just ice. Mom takes her to a stick and puck & she tells me “Too stiff dad, no flex.” Ordered the 67, not the 60.... GREAT!!!

JWHL schedule change to put us in Boston in early October vs late November.....I’ll take that all day long.

When trying on new skates, said the new JetSpeeds didn’t feel great. I’m not sure that there was a change from the original JS’s and the current model, but she felt there was and jumped to Supremes. One bake & two powerskate sessions and she says they are perfect. I wasn’t there at the fitting, just her and mom.

Last Summer Middle School League game of the year.

That is terrible news. Worst thing about our furry kids is that we are almost guaranteed to outlive them. Sending positive JuJu to you and your pup.

Does Sparx do the discounts fairly regularly? That SUMMER100 & ACCESSORY20 could save a person a chunk of change.

Delta change fees!! Even them cutting them in half cost me $405. Tournament schedule & team wanting to practice the day before(us changing leaving a day earlier/coming back a day earlier). Not to mention the $53 a ticket in air change....

That’s horrible, sending positive thoughts to you and your family. Take care.

Yes

It was great to finally meet you & so fun to watch the teams compete. I hope we can make it up to Montana for round 2!

Winter season ended tonight for the D3 team, tough two and out. Still D4 going. But why “Sweet Spot”, Summer season coming and shorts and flip flops in the locker room !

Canon 70-200 2.8

Check that total. Just talked with Canon Factory Service, after opening her up for the repair, more damaged to the lens than they originally thought. New estimate will put me around $850 total. I authorize the payment and fix, but at this point I really wonder if I should have just paid another $450 and bought a new lens. After a phone conversation and being assured it’d come back like new, I went that direction. Not a great day.

You know, that’s a good question and should have checked. Paid now, but I’m going to look into it, never know in the future. May even be worth a rider.