Happy Birthday Pickles

The Finatic's favorite team, the San Jose Sharks, beat the Phoenix Coyotes by a score of 4 to 2. Althought the Finatic's Sharks took some bad penalties during the second and third periods, they still came out on top. The win allows the Sharks to keep pace with the Dallas Stars and Anaheim Ducks in the race for the Pacific Division title.

The evening was very special for one of the Sharks' youngest players, Marc-Edouard Vlasic. Vlasic, aka "Pickles," turned 20 years old today and he capped off his birthday with an assist on the Sharks second goal of the night. Good job, Pickles!

The Finatic had a lot of fun at the game. The Finatic and the Finatic's mom put up two posters ("Cheechoo we Wanchoo" and "We heart Sharks"). The Finatic and co. also brought pom-poms, rally rags, and a red light similar to what flashes when a goal is scored.

Two cool colleagues from the library sat next to the Finatic- as always, Finatic does not use names of the Finatic's friends out of respect for privacy (only exception is if name is already listed on another blog). One cool colleague does a whole lot of excellent work for the branch libraries, and Finatic was thrilled to see him at a game. It was the first game for his friend, but she said that this was the best game ever. Hockey is so much cooler in person than on TV.

We laughed at the drunk guys in front of us. One of them had wet shoes as he left to climb the stairs, and he slipped and almost kissed the concrete. He made a good recovery, but this was certainly a sign of things to come. When he came back, he tipped his full glass of al-kee-hol onto the back of the guy in the row in front of him. The drunk didn't even realize it until the guy and his wife started to get a little upset and some of the people from our row offered up napkins. The drunk made a pathetic attempt to help dry the guy off, and the guy said that they probably ought to raise the legal drinking age. The drunk and his buddies left and missed most of the third period.

Well, the Finatic is tired and very thrilled with tonight's results. Tomorrow, the Finatic will be attending a home ownership fair. The Finatic dreams of owning a home in Santa Clara, Alameda, or San Mateo Counties. The Finatic acknowledges that this may be just a pipe dream, but hopefully it will not go up in smoke.

P.S. The Finatic in no way condones the use of illegal substances. The Finatic doesn't even like to take Tylenol for headaches! Besides, the analogy of the pipe dream and up in smoke is a common turn of phrase. If it offends you, you should probably get out more or build a better social armor.