The Struggle Is Real

COVID-19 social distancing makes playoff hockey impossible right now, but I feel like I need to keep my sign-making skills sharp. It doesn't hurt to spread a little positivity. If the TP shortage continues much longer, I may have to repurpose my sign supplies for other doodies!

We Are All Essential

Spreading a little positivity in my own way.

Intelligent Life

Hubby and I wanted to take a vacation for a few days in early March. We didn't want to go anywhere cold, but I wasn't in the mood for a tropical vacation either. We decided to return to Los Angeles, where we had spent a few very short vacations before, but where we felt there was still more fun to be had.

Because of an episode of the Big Bang Theory, we knew that the alien-looking landscape seen in the original Star Trek series (and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey) is located a short (45-minute) drive from Hollywood. And I just happened to have a Star Trek costume hanging in the closet waiting for a purpose. Borrowed the Tribble from a friend and put my sign idea thinking cone on. Voilà.

I have been and always shall be a Canes fan.

Live long and prosper, Canes!

Sir Walter Likes Team Staal

The statue of Sir Walter Raleigh currently resides outside the Raleigh Convention Center, where some of the festivities surrounding the 2011 NHL All-Star Game are to be held this weekend. On the All-Star Wide Open website, there was a pic of Sir Walter decked out in hockey pads and holding a stick. I figured it must have been photo-shopped because Sir Walter is larger than your average hockey player. But the image inspired another random act of cleverness.

Even though it was as I had expected, I was disappointed Sir Walter wasn't actually wearing goalie pads when I went downtown to see him in person, but his typical attire - whatever those floofy pants are - still worked with the sign I had made for him. I was just going to climb up there and hold the sign for the photo op, but then I decided to leave it there. Sir Walter himself asked me to make him a sign, after all. No, really, he did. He's on Facebook.

Anyway, I hope nobody charges me with vandalism. I didn't think it could be construed as vandalism; it seemed harmless enough. Walt is a tough guy. He can take it. It's not as if I beheaded him or something.

Home of the Over-Chicken Sandwich

Raleigh is decked out for the NHL All-Star Game with team flags flying on lamp posts on Fayetteville Street downtown and with fancy decals installed in the windows of businesses all over town. Most of the decals are graphics of various all-star players from around the league.

It just so happens that the player whose image graces the Chick-Fil-A at North Hills is none other than Alex Ovechkin, lovingly dubbed "the Over-Chicken" by opponent fans around the league. Coincidence?

Anyway, I could not resist the photo op. Chick-Fil-A: Home of the Over-Chicken Sandwich.