Multiply 365 Day 98 - Hmmmmm

So I am sitting on the laptop again, nothing wrong with the desktop, just being lazy and typing while lying down. Which as it turns out, isn't nearly as comfortable as one might imagine.

As I type this I am trying to pay some attention to the Philadelphia Flyers - New York Islanders hockey game tonight. Sadly it isn't on TV anywhere where I can get it, and Yahoo didn't pick that game to broadcast, though they have two other games on later on tonight. What makes the game interesting for me, neither a Flyers or Islanders fan is that it may affect where the Penguins go in the playoffs. With one game remaining this season, both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are tied in points, though Philadelphia has the tiebreaker. I am not sure how that process works, it has something to do with games won in regulation and what not. But the scenario plays out like this, if the Flyers win tonight then Pittsburgh is the #4 seed in the NHL playoffs and will host Tampa Bay in the first round. If something else should happen, Pittsburgh could get the #2 seed and play host to Buffalo. Should the Flyers lose in regulation, Pittsburgh would only need a win or an overtime/shootout loss for the #2 spot, if the Flyers manage to garner a point by at least making the extra session, then Pittsburgh would need a regulation win tomorrow for the #2 spot. Since the division winners are seeded 1-3 regardless of points, there is no way Pittsburgh could get the #3 spot (currently held by Boston) and they trail the #1 seed Washington Capitals in total points, so the best they can do is the #2 spot. Not that even a #4 seed is bad given how short handed they have played this year because of injuries, but if you were to poke me with a stick in order for me to say which would be the better matchup for Pittsburgh to make the second round of the playoffs I would have to say it would be Buffalo.

While I was typing that long drawn out explanation I should say that the Flyers and Islanders are tied 3-3 in the first period. That is the type of game I wouldn't mind seeing on TV, though I imagine the players would prefer that their respective goaltenders make a save every now and again.

Really that is about all I can hope for from hockey this year. The fantasy team has officially be taken out to the barn and put down. I am still putting in my daily lineup, but with two days left in the season I can't see me making up a couple hundred points.

Sorry, hopped over to facebook to tweak my Madden team a bit. I am close to leveling up again (102 for those keeping score at home) which I should complete some time in the next couple of hours. Also while I was away the Islanders scored again, its NY 4 PHI 3 in the second period. Though because I was using the Yahoo scoreboard feature, the score kept bouncing back to early in the first period. Wake me when Yahoo actually does something right.

I am still rolling in Swagbucks these days. I got an Amazon gift card on Thursday, another $5 for my account and on the same day I cashed in enough bucks for a new card. Plus, while I usually am disqualified from most of the surveys there, recently I have actually snagged a few for 50-75 swagbucks a piece. Two I got during the Swagbucks team promotion, anyone that uses Swagbucks could opt into a contest where the entrants were divided into two teams, Team Swag and Team Bucks. I know, not very original, but then neither is this entry so far. Over the course of 5 days, any time a team member did a survey or a task, or completed a special offer, those bucks would get credited to that team and whichever team had the most bucks at the end of 5 days got an additional 20 swagbucks. I was on Team Bucks and I am pretty sure we won, we had a 40,000 buck lead on the last day and I actually contributed a bit to the teams total, with about 150 bucks that I earned all on my little lonesome through a couple of surveys and just doing free offers. I have done paid offers on their site before, I have bought flowers from Proflowers.com through them and I used their link to WalMart to get my parents HDTV for Christmas, both of which kicked back some bucks for me, but usually I just to the free offers like videos for 2 bucks and what not.

Philadelphia scored and it is 4-4 in the second. Goaltending is indeed a 4 letter word. It isn't nail biting time by any sense, the Penguins are in the playoffs after all, but it would be nice to get the two seed, and a new banner for the new arena as division champions.

I would like to take a moment to explain yesterdays entry, which garnered two compliments, two more than I usually get I might add. I would like to say that I had some great idea when I sat down and had it all but mapped out in my brain where I was going to go, but I really didn't. It was almost all just top of the head stuff, and once I picked a path to wander down it just went from there. Sure picking on Donald Trump is easy, it is low hanging fruit after all, but once he opened his pie hole the other day, they he also once again opened himself up to ridicule. The fact he views his television show as somehow being the piece that is holding the NBC ship afloat, when in fact it has been relegated to Sunday nights because if it were put up against week night competition it would get crushed (just as it has in the past) goes directly to the ego of the man. To him, it is just Donald Trump's world, and we are allowed to live in it. To most everyone else he has become a cartoon character, a buffoon who will say anything as long as it garners him an iota of publicity.

I did add another book to the shelf off to the right. While it was good, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it because much of the information in it is dated, at least by today's standards, which is saying something because I think the book was written about 5 years ago. But if you get past the statistical stuff, many of the players mentioned no longer even play football, and the numbers cited about the growth of fantasy football are below current day levels in such areas as participants, revenue, leagues, blah, blah, blah, the writing itself was very good and anyone that has the balls to quit their job to spend an entire year in hopes of winning his fantasy league title (spoiler alert, he failed) as well as taking the time to write a book about it is either incredibly smart (I don't know what the book sales are to know if he made more at his old advertising job or not) or clinically insane. I will say that it was better than the documentary I watched, "Fantasyland", about a guy in a fantasy baseball league, where the author/subject was too much involved in his project, so much so that he came off as more of an ass than anything else.

PHI 5 NYI 4 Still in the second period. I guess I should probably call it a night. I get to sleep in tomorrow, again no breakfast is scheduled, though I am thinking of scheduling one with my aunt next weekend. We just have to dot the i's and cross the t's and it is a done deal. And I am thinking about checking out the Pittsburgh Burger Company sometime this coming week, it looks like it will be delish. If I can find a menu online somewhere I will add it to the page. Until next time......