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I played in a hockey game yesterday for the first time in over a year. Woohoo!
Not only did I play, but I got First Star of the Game too. Can you believe it? I never would have thought I’d be playing this good so soon after taking a year off. Granted, they gave me 1st star because I got shelled and kept the score to a 4-1 loss, but still…

It was a lot of fun! I was asked to fill in for a practice/shinny hockey session on Friday and after the practice the guy that runs it said I played great (!!) and wanted to know if I’d be available to play in Toronto on Sunday. I was thrilled to be playing in an actual game — they’re so much more fun than shinny hockey.

The other team was pretty cool too, and there didn’t seem to be one asshole on the ice, which is unusual. You usually see at least one, or maybe I just didn’t notice. (You know, too busy getting pummelled with pucks!) The team I played for was kind of expecting to lose, so there was no pressure and everyone had fun.

Wayde got some cool photos of the game. I’ll put them up in my hockey gallery as soon as I get a chance.

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[Note: The following is cut and pasted from the baby blog.]

I think Wal-Mart hates Canada. I uploaded pictures to their site, thinking I could order the prints online and have my Mom pick them up at her local store — I’d save on shipping and it’d be ultra-convenient for her. But guess what? They won’t take my Canadian credit card. You hafe to fill out a form with your address to verify your credit card, but the drop-down “state” list doesn’t have Ontario. Nor do they accept my postal code. Dammit. It woulda been so cool to do that!

I was thinking that maybe I could get their “online shopping card” and put it on that but (duh!!) you have to pay for it online.

They have a German, Chinese, even Korean website, but not one for Canada. Bah.

What really sucks is that if I want to ship prints to my mom using an online service it’s more expensive — not only because of shipping, but also because they all charge about 15 to 25 cents more per print. Insane! Wal-Mart charges .26 per print, Shutterfly.com charges .49 per print (unless you order a large amount) and Snapfish.com charges .39 per print (again, unless you order a lot). PlanetFoto looks cool, they let you pick up your prints at a local shop, but they don’t have one local to my mom or Wayde’s mom.

I’m going to try to go to Wal-Mart tomorrow to get a Shopping Card if I can — hopefully it will let me order online from Canada.

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