Thanksgiving Thoughts

Alright, haven't posted since the Friday Yorkton/Melville game. Since that game (which never made it to air), I called a Senior Hockey fundraiser game in Grenfell on Sunday afternoon, and, everything went off with out a hitch. Relieving for me, because I was worried the problem was on my end Friday, since I've never had a problem at FAA in Yorkton. But if the phone lines in Grenfell, SK work fine, I guess my gear isn't an issue. Still, I've gotta find a game to make up, and even though it involved Melville AND Yorkton, it was technically a Mils broadcast, being that they were the road team, so it'll be a Melville game that gets added at a future date.

I kind of let Thanksgiving pass by without much thought this year. I wasn't able to get out of town for the weekend, which meant no turkey dinner (I did just pick up a Turkey Breast "Sub of the Day" at Subway, if that counts!), so I guess it didn't feel like Thanksgiving. But the parents came down for Friday's game and stayed over, and the better half, who's now interning at Carleton High School in Prince Albert, made it down from Saturday until today, so it all worked out.

But I, and we, certainly have a lot to be thankful for. You may not like anyone you see on the ballot for tomorrow's (TUE) federal election, but at least whoever wins will run a democracy. Sure, it sucks that we got the first dump of snow the past few days, but the +30 days aren't THAT far away. The Riders were a joke today, and I yelled and swore at the TV several times before switching to baseball... but, it IS just a game. If a football game's the biggest of my worries I've got it pretty good. Infact, I said it while doing colour with Randy Atkinson on TV for Friday's game... he was saying I'm the voice of four Junior 'A' teams, occasionally two Junior 'B' teams, and an unknown amount of Senior Hockey and High School Football teams that pop up around this time of year. And I said, 'yeah, but not too many people can say their job involves going to a rink almost everyday for 7 months a year, so I can't really complain.' Yeah, it's lots of hours and a lot of bus trips, and I'll never make a million bucks, but I legitimately love what I do, so that's another thing to be thankful for. I'm also fortunate enough to have a great family and soon-to-be in-law family, parent's who've been married for 25 years, 2 sisters that drive me nuts but are alright, and all four grandparents still living and married for something like 56 and 46 years.

Anyway, that's my sappy Thanksgiving talk... promise we can talk sports again tomorrow!