Notes from the weekend:

* Friday we went to Game On! (a bar/lounge place that's part of Fenway Park) to watch the BU-BC hockey game (Icedogs victorious, 4-3). For a $5 "donation" (it was apparently upgraded from an actual donation to a mandatory one) we got in, got to participate in various raffles (the wife won a polo shirt - in medium - which will fit one of our nephews nicely), and have some free food.

It did not obviate us from a responsibility of ordering drinks and other food if we sat at a table, as a wait staffer was happy to let us know. This does seem a little like bait-and-switch, and as they pulled the free food pretty much when the game started, it wasn't like we weren't going to order anything for the next three hours.

I wasn't particularly impressed with the place, and in a way wish the skanky bowling alley it replaced was back. At least that had character.

We missed Cooch's latest Sports Pulse appearance, a Guinness-fueled spot where he apparently managed to malign a sizeable portion of the American population. Well done.

* Saturday we played in the Ann B. Davis mirror and did OK - 4th or 5th out of 12. We were clearly too old and/or mainstream for fair chunks of the tournament, which should put paid a little bit to trash being a format for dinosaurs. I was distressed to see my visual bonus on Winter Olympic logos edited to include years - at that point, why even bother with pictures? - but was even more distressed when I learned that the visual was printed on the back of questions.

After the tournament we went to the BU-UMass hockey game, which turned out to be the Icedogs' 7th win in a row, the longest current winning streak in the nation (for NCAA div 1 men, of course). They avoided the letdown, although at times they played like they weren't going to.

This all made it a good weekend for the team when thinking of the national tournament, as they jumped from the bubble to being tied at 4th (with BC) in the Pairwise rankings. The jump is a good thing, but it stikes me as showing the Pairwise to be too volatile. If we lose to Lowell this weekend, do we drop back down to the bubble? And what's so hard about using RPI?

* Sunday was a complete waste. The wife worked and took the car, so I stayed home and did nothing of consequence. We did watch the first two episodes of 24, which was kind of ruined for me when I'd read about one character's death a week or so ago. But the death of another character about 3 minutes later was a surprise. I'll save more discussion for the other blog.