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This week:  a rest.

Courtesy of NBC, NHL, Chicago Blackhawks, and my TV The Chicago Blackhawks WON, beating the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6.  YAY BLACKHAWKS YAY! The Cup has been making its way around the city, turning up at restaurants and bars with the various players and going to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Sharp's house for a team lunch on their rooftop deck.  There are Twitter Stanley Cup trackers and if you happen to go to the place where the Cup is visiting, you can touch the Cup and get your picture taken with it.  Most people are excited about the Stanley Cup and I am happen to report I am one of them.  (We had a fire drill this past week and our building facilities manager ended the drill lecture by saying, "Be safe.  Go Hawks.") Two million people came to the parade; the city doubled the length of the parade route to accommodate all the people they realized were going to attend.  There were 61,000 free tickets for Soldiers Field and Jumbotrons set up outside of...

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American Pharoah raced into the record books when he won the Belmont Stakes yesterday, earning racing's Triple Crown for himself.  What a stud!  No, seriously.  That piece of horseflesh is now worth anywhere between $20 - $100 million dollars.  For the right price, a few fillies will get to spend adult time with him and they will have his children and win big racing money and on and on.  There will be no pre-nup and he will not be paying child support.  Animals!  Whatever. I know nothing about horseracing but it was very cool to see him cross the finish line ahead of his competitors.  The 37-year wait for a horse to win the Triple Crown is over!  His trainer was happy, his jockey was happy, I imagine his owner was bust-a-gut happy, and I was happy for them. American Pharoah, smiling in victory.  Courtesy of Fox Sports.

For the third time in six seasons, the Blackhawks are in the Stanley Cup Finals.  GO HAWKS!!! I HOPE THEY WIN!!!  GO HAWKS!!! It almost embarrasses me to admit that I have a hard time watching games.  Baseball, football, hockey, it matters not -- if it's too exciting and my team still loses, I get very upset.  I don't like being upset so I just await the outcome while doing something else.  Then I can be delighted or horrified at the result but I won't be devasted and sad. Here is the Stanley Cup with some fans:  Photo courtesy of ??  Who knew Lord Vader and a Stormtrooper were fans? I said it before and I say it again:  GO HAWKS!!!

And where is this wonderful thing?  Not in Vienna, nor Munich, nor Berlin.   It's in rural Minnesota.   I think the late Freddy Mercury would approve.  I certainly do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'Sup indeed I went out yesterday in the late afternoon, driving down the alley from my garage to the street, and I spied the plastic Santa.  I thought it was great and had to have a picture.  This fine man came from out of nowhere and asked in an Eastern European accent if I wanted the plastic fellow.  I said, "No, but I want his picture."  He said, "Will you take my picture with it?"  "Sure!" I said with great enthusiasm.  He crouched down and put his arm around Jolly Ole St. Nick, I turned on the flash as I was shooting into the sun, and click!  I only had to take one picture and I am very proud of it.

I recall the notion of good ideas for the blog earlier in the week.  I foolishly didn't make note of them and so today I G OT N OTHING. In celebration of IGN, I am going to go out and do errands. Remember:  La vida es rica; la vida es llena.