But the honest, dark, truth is that on the other hand I really don’t want the Canucks to win the Stanely Cup while I’m not there. The city would be irrevocably changed. A city of losing would have a championship to savour and talk about forever. And I would not be a part of it. People would look different…more confident. They’d reminisce in large groups about the team of 2007 and I would find myself quietly nodding along, the last kid at the party who had yet to kiss a girl. I’m actually not sure I could ever go home again. It wouldn’t be the same home anymore.

I wrote that in April 2007 when the Canucks were in the playoffs and here I am two years later once again cheering on my home team but also desperately hoping they don’t actually with the Stanley Cup. And dispensing with the Blues in a sweep last week has only fuelled my anguish.

Go Blackhawks?

Blergh.

Just because Jesus died on this day doesn’t mean that crocodiles are going to observe the occasion. In the Northern Territory this morning a man went missing. The article states:

The 20-year-old local and a friend tried to swim across the crocodile-infested waterway near the Daly River community, south of Darwin.

I don’t know about you, but I try to avoid swimming in water infested with anything, never mind an animal known to eat humans. Seriously, who in their right mind would swim in that waterway?

Police say the men had been drinking and a crocodile was seen near the pair when the man disappeared.

Oh.