Why is it so damned difficult to find nylon or hard plastic replacement hockey blades for my Easton hockey shaft? I play road hockey twice a week, and a few years ago switched from “cheap wood stick with bad plastic blade” to a high-quality Easton composite hockey shaft + blade assembly. It totally improved my game, but finding replacement blades that last longer than a few weeks is incredibly frustrating.
I’ve tried several of the graphite blades, and they’re expensive and get chewed up by the pavement in short order, making road hockey more expensive than I care for.
“Cheam Sports” carried some excellent nylon replacement blades last year. They had about a dozen when I found them and I bought two. Last month the second of the two started to show some real wear so I went back to Cheam Sports. They didn’t have any in, so I asked when they expected more. The girl at the till didn’t know, but asked the manager, who explained that “those are a pain to order, I have to get them from the States” and that they “should be in in a few weeks”.
A few weeks later I checked back in. Still no replacement blades, and again the line about the hassle to order them. You’d think that if you had a product that sold out that quickly that you’d KEEP YOUR STORE STOCKED WITH IT.
I decided to fall back on the Internet and find a supplier of these (or similar) blades online. Wow, what a pain in the ass that was. The blade has no identifying marks on it, so I’ve spent the last hour googling for all manner of combinations of nylon, plastic, “replacement blade”, hockey, street… I’ve been through about a dozen different online stores and nobody seems to sell them. 1800faceoff.com has these which look right but are only available in JUNIOR size — I obviously have a senior stick — and they’re in the US, which means extra shipping costs plus having to deal with UPS wanting to charge me half again the cost of my order just to get a box through customs.
If anyone has any idea where I can get these kinds of blades I’d really appreciate hearing about it.
You are: THE JOKER!
Which Batman Villain Are You?
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Oh no! GW Bush is slipping in the polls! Quick, remind people that they’re supposed to vote Republican out of fear. And while you’re doing that, be sure to use language that points out it’s only possible so when the attacks don’t happen you can say that it’s because you stopped them or that, hey, it was only a possible attack.
I’m just waiting on the capture of innocent people who Bush will claim are responsible for these supposed attacks, who will then be shipped off to Guantanamo Bay so they can be hidden from sight until the Republicans leave office.
Seriously America, why would you vote Bush again? What has he done right? His economic “plans” are ruining your country, with the biggest deficit ever, your rights are crumbling before your eyes, and corporate CEOs are richer than ever. So yeah, I can see why CEOs vote Bush. But why would YOU?
For more on this argument see John Kerry Is A Douche Bag But I’m Voting For Him Anyway.com
According to Gabitus’ Star Estimator I look like Enrique Iglessias, Tim Robbins, and John Lithgow.
Man, I get that all the time. “Are you Enrique Iglessias?”
Actually, I was once asked at a Fishbone concert if I was one of the Barenaked Ladies. Ah, the wonders of being overweight. This was back when I had shoulder-length hair but I was wearing it all pulled up under a baseball cap. My response to the question was to pull off my hat and let my hair fall down.
Running away? You yellow . . .
What Monty Python Character are you?
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So we’re playing road hockey today and as we take a timeout for refreshments (we didn’t have enough people for subs, and most of us are old men now) and I notice the goalie has some “Iceberry” Powerade that says it contains Grape and Strawberry.
And it got me to thinking — I’ve never actually thought of a grape as a berry. Is it a berry? If so, why don’t I think of it as such? We started up this weird Pulp-Fiction-esque conversation about it, and we basically decided that we didn’t know.
So when I got home, I checked the defintion of “berry” and go this:
- Botany. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary and having the whole wall fleshy, such as the grape or tomato.
- A small, juicy, fleshy fruit, such as a blackberry or raspberry, regardless of its botanical structure.
So there you have it. Grapes are berries, and hey, so are tomatoes!
You learn something new every day.
According to this article, Stan saved us all in 1983 by deciding that the Soviet early warning system was in error in when it told him that the US had launched a ballistic missile at the USSR, and decided against a retaliatory strike.
Oh behalf of everyone, thanks, Stan.
This is the basic blog layout that I’ve had planned for a long time. I’d wanted to do it with MovableType but their code layout was a real pain to work with. WordPress‘ CSS was much cleaner and easier to understand.
I still have to add my webcam and DHTML display code for it, and probably tweak a few things, but this is the way the site will look for a while.
Don’t mind me, I’m just tinkering with different CSS layouts for the blog.
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