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Awhile back I gave my parents a old hockey bag full of Hockey and Lacrosse equipment to store while I was in a tiny apartment. Well my dad was cleaning the garage, and calls me to ask what he wants him to do with the bag especially now that I own a house. Most of it was mid level gear that I didn't care about any more and held no value. I told him to grab my TPS gloves out of the bag. He told me some mold had grown on them. I said don't worry I will figure out something. Well my mom took it upon herself to put them in the washing machine (front load), and I received this picture. pour one out for my gloves. I told them to hold on to them still. I may get a fabric marker and paint them or just use them as is. I was only planning on using them for pond hockey anyway.

I work at a small hockey shop, and I know I could benefit from having a Sparx with me as well as the blademaster. During the season there are just so many times being there by myself I get backed up to a 45 minute wait. I could see me doing the locals skates on the blademaster since they come to our shop specifically for the sharpening, and any out of towners that only come through once or twice a year on the Sparx. I could also through figure skates in there, because I just plain hate sharpening those. However my boss is very cheap, and he will not purchase one. Wishful thinking.

I don't really think there is a place to put this so this seems like a good spot. I work at a small LHS one day a week, and yesterday my boss informed me that he had hired a new employee and I had to train him. We got to talking, and I had said how I was a late adopter to composite sticks. I told him I was still using wood while playing in college even though composite sticks had been out. He followed up with a "Dude how old are you?" I'm 29. We had a good laugh about it.

Back when I was in high school my Junior year (2003-2004) we had 3 bomb threats in 3 days. The whole school went out to the football field for about 2 hours or so, and then went back to business as usual.

Since I posted about it in the Sweet Spot, and said I had stuff to vent for those of you who care here goes. When we moved we wrapped all of our glassware in newspaper we ran our dishwasher which worked fine during the home inspection and the final walk through 4 times and it crapped out. Its definitely an older model. No biggy the wife and I want to re-due the kitchen anyway so we can either buy a cheaper one to hold us over or just hand wash. I vote for hand washing, because seriously its not that bad. My dad, mom and brother came up to help us with the move. My dad is a very handy guy, and I have learned most of what I know from him. We went to change out an outlet in the bedroom because I told him its something I have never done before, and I would prefer if he watched over me and taught me how to do it. We did one no big deal. The wiring is a little old, but everything worked. He told me to go and do the next one by myself and he would watch. I pulled the outlet out of the wall only to find out there was no metal box surrounding the outlet. Who ever put the outlet in screwed it to the back stud? WTF who does that? We just put that one back in the wall and decided that we wouldn't use it until it gets fixed. My parents live 4 hours away, and my uncle who has been an electrician his whole life also lives in the same town as my parents has offered to come up with my dad, and take a look at the electrical and fix whats wrong. All he requires is a place to coffee, beer and a place to sleep (in that order too). Again no big deal. Its better than paying someone to do it. My dad and I installed a floating floor for our laundry closet, and really made it look very nice. I painted the walls installed some molding. We really went to town on this closet that you won't be able to see much of. The wife, and I once we got our closing date went to Home Depot to purchase a washer dryer set. We had it set to be delivered and installed this past Saturday. I got the phone call from the delivery company (who is not Home Depot by the way) saying they would be there in a half hour. An hour goes by. Hour and half.. 2 hours nothing. I tried calling the cellphone number of the guy who called me no answer. They no called no showed me on the delivery. I called Home Depot and they said there was nothing they could do since the place was closed. I stopped into the store on Sunday, and they said the same thing, but they would look into it. I call the delivery company this morning asking when my washer and dryer would be delivered today, and they informed me they do not deliver on Mondays. I called Home Depot back, and the woman said "yeah they don't". I told them to cancel my order, and I would just be going with Lowes or another place locally owned. They didn't even bat an eye or try to do anything to help me out. Now I am a reasonable guy if the delivery driver called me, and said we can't make it for XYZ reason I would have understood. If the woman who worked at Home Depot told me they don't deliver on Mondays I would have understood, but for everything to be sprung and surprise me the way they did is just unacceptable. I went to Lowes on my lunch break, and bought the same models from them. Lowes does their own deliveries and installs so at least they can't pass the buck if they mess up. They even price matched it for me. It doesn't help that I worked for a tech company for a number of years that prided themselves on customer service, and even when the customer was totally wrong they would still do all they could to help the customer. I am ruined in that sense as far as customer service goes. I judge company based on that one. The only upside is I have a few more days to really make the closet look even better. Thats my rant. I am still very glad we bought the house. I am sure there will be more rants in the future, but thanks for reading if you did.

I have officially been a home owner for a week, and I have plenty to vent about, but seriously the stuff I need to vent about doesn't make me regret buying the house.

I don't know of any sales, but if you checkout this guy on sideline swap he usually has a lot of college pro stock stuff. Right now he has some Yale practice jerseys. He has had Yale gloves before. https://sidelineswap.com/fanellihockey

I ordered my wife the #shiplap shirt as a house warming gift. The unnecessary drama they put in some of the shows is dumb, but some of the shows grew on me.

My wife and I closed on our first home yesterday. We move in on Thursday. Its a bit of a fixer upper, but I have always enjoyed doing work around the house. The only downside is less extra cash for hockey equipment.

Finally got my Supreme One.9 converted big thanks to @JR Boucicaut for the help.

About to hit a private session of hockey at the outdoor rink with some friends. Then off to see the Albany Devils take on the Sound Tigers. Today is going to be a good day.

Not trying to gang up on your or beat a dead horse, but if you in the US if you where to buy LS Edge holders at $35 each and a set of LS3 steel at $70 your looking at $140 total. VH is only charging you $110 if you look at it like that shipping is free and you're saving $10. I do understand where you are coming from though. You go online and it says $799, because its not until the second page does it charge you for holders and steel.

Fun weekend at the Saratoga Pond Hockey Classic. The ice was crap, and we went 1-2 we could have easily won all of the games except we drank too much. I'm in the middle white 4500 TPS gloves

My Supremes have really great wrap similar to what I image VH would be, and for the top 3 eyelets I lace out to in, because I have a tough time when the skate is on.

Albany is a great little city. I hated it when I first came to college, but now after being here for over 10 years its really grown on me. Although thanks to the Devils now our winter fun is coming to an end.

Well its official now. Maybe they will bring in the Islanders to replace them since they will be homeless soon.

Believe me I would have much rather kept the River Rats. Such a better name. Who doesn't love a dirty rat that came out of the Hudson?

The Albany Devils (AHL) are most likely packing their bags for Binghamton. Its a huge bummer for the hockey fans. I live about 15 minute walk from where they play so my wife and I as well as bunch of people would always go and heckle the other goalie. It was always something fun to do. I end up going to around 20 games a season. There is talk about them bringing in another professional team, but I don't think its going to be hockey.

I know Tuuk 8.5D is 272. On your holder there should be a size near the rivets usually towards the back of the skates.

Sometimes its nice to have the whole pond to yourself

A friend of mine asked me to come to a stick in puck at the local outdoor rink. We ended up getting a 2 hour long pond hockey game going. It was so much fun sometimes I wonder why I still play in a league and just don't play pick up.

Someone was taking some pictures at my beer league game a few weeks ago. The best looking one of me was when I was in the background of a shot so its a little blurry.

Played the dirty team last night in mens league. I don't know what happen to this team a few years ago they used to be skilled and we would play some good fast games. Over the years they haven't had many player changes, but they just got so much dirtier to play against. The constant slashing, hooking and cross checking. We are talking the puck is no where near you and you catch a slash to the back of the leg. Last night I went into the corner for a puck and I boxed a guy out, and he cross checks me from behind. I drew the penalty, but he was complaining to the ref asking why I wasn't getting a penalty. He ended up getting an extra 2 minutes for unsportsmanlike. Same player in the 3rd period just went at my player for a hit mind you this is a no check league. Hands up and his hands/ stick made the most contact with my teammates head. The whole team was complaining to the refs and telling them to do their job better and the game wouldn't have gotten out of hand. but to tell you the truth if they called the game tighter that team would have had way more penalties than they had. For reference in a 24 game season last winter this team had 279 penalty minutes the second dirtiest team in the league had 244 all of the other teams where under 180. So this team is getting 100+ more penalty minutes than almost every other team in this league. Its at the point where I don't want to play against them anymore. I wish the guy who runs the league would kick them out, but that would only leave us with 5 teams which wouldn't be fun. Sorry for the long rant enjoy your day!

Thanks for the advice guys. If and when I win the one.8's off eBay I will purchase the chassis. I plan on doing this at the shop I work at. I only work 4 hours a week and always leave the repairs for the other guy who works there with more experience in holder swaps. I figure what better way to learn then to do it myself. I will post pictures when they are complete.