Just Call Me Bob August 5, 2007

The Wreck of the S.S. Bluboo

The Northern Ontario fishing expedition of Rosalita and Bluboo reached a sad conclusion on Saturday, August 4, as we made it home from Spanish, Ontario, to Cross River, NY, in under 14 hours. We originally headed to Spanish for one week but we didn’t want to leave, so we stayed for an extra week.

I hope you will read my glowing review of of The Waterfalls Lodge and look at all our pictures on my Waterfalls Lodge page. Right now, it is time for me to expose the treachery of the cunning Rosalita who cleverly turned the tables on me, attempting to cash in the insurance policy.

Since mid-May, when we celebrated Rosalita’s 50th birthday and planned for upcoming one-year wedding anniversary, Rosalita looked forward to our fishing trip. It was something she really wanted to do (she likes fishing) and it was a chance to go to Northern Ontario for a spectacular wilderness adventure and good living.

In my usual joking manner, I told our family and friends that our trip would likely include a scene from “A Place in the Sun” starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters. When Clift gets Winters pregnant out of wedlock, he takes her out on a lake in a rowboat and their rowboat capsizes in lake. Winters drowns and Clift is convicted of murder and executed. I even joked about getting Rosalita her very own lead-lined life jacket (under the guise of giving her extra protection from the gamma rays from outer space).

The New York Rangers Are Ready! August 5, 2007

Rangers Sign Avery and Hossa … Time to Rock and Roll!

While I was vacationing in Northern Ontario, Glen Sather, President of the New York Rangers, signed restricted free agents Sean Avery and Marcel Hossa for 2007-2008 following arbitration hearings. The Rangers roster is essentially complete for the upcoming season and represents a substantial improvement over the 2006-2007 team.

There seems to have been some media hype about the rigors of the arbitration process for Avery. The Rangers offered $1.3 million and Avery asked for $2.6 million. The arbiter essentially split the difference and awarded Avery $1.9 million, an $800,000 raise from the previous season. Apparently, it seems that some shrines of sports journalism integrity like The New York Post have tried to stir the pot and present Avery as angry and dismayed at comments made by Rangers management.

Let’s set the record straight for Avery, the fans and the mediocre hockey writers.