Avs Make It Interesting
I went to the Colorado Avalanche game this evening and they made it interesting.
Carrying a 3 - 0 lead into the 18th minute in the 3rd Period, after surviving a Blue Jacket 5 - 3 powerplay, they gave up two quick goals to Rick Nash and the Columbus Blue Jackets made it interesting down to the end. They held on to win 3-2.
It was an exciting game with some hard hits, a good fight, and Paul Stastny got a goal to extend his scoring streak to 13 games. In doing that, Stastny became the third rookie ever to have at least a 13 game scoring streak. The other two, his dad and uncle.
The only other disappointment was that Joe Sakic couldn’t continue his scoring streak, ending it at 12.
I think the best hit tonight when Ian Laperriere took out Nash along the boards. He just picked him up and put Nash on his back.
This is a good and needed win as the Avs head out on a 11 day road trip.
Go Avs!
Democrats Seek to Repeal 2002 War Authorization (In Their Dreams…)
In an article today in the Washington Post, “Democrats Seek to Repeal 2002 War Authorization“, the Democrats are looking to bring a bill forward to, “repeal the 2002 resolution authorizing the war in Iraq in favor of narrower authority that restricts the military’s role and begins withdrawals of combat troops.”
How do they think that this will get through? They tried to get a non-binding resolution through Congress and couldn’t. What makes them think that this bill will stand a better chance of getting through? Even if it does get through, it will ultimately face a veto and Congress does not have enough votes to override that veto.
The minute that they start restricting what commanders can do and go in a country in a war, the more problems that will come up and the more that this will devolve into a Vietnam like conflict.
Our troops need all the support that we can give them and the commanders need the flexibility to be able to respond to any threat that faces our troops there. Any less and Congress will be hanging them out to dry.
This is just plain politics and every one knows it. Congress should continue their oversight role it has on the Executive Branch regarding Iraq, but it should also start work on many other issues facing this country than just focusing on this one issue that they have focused on since this Congress began in January.
The Oxford Medievalist had some good comments in their post yesterday, Murtha’s Slow Bleed Gets Swift Death, Senate’s Still Alive.
“The Oxford Medievalist supports the idea of responsible Congressional oversight of the Iraq War—any war, for that matter. But the President of the United States is the Commander-in Chief of the United States military, and Congress has no business micromanaging the conduct of war. If you don’t like war, or do not wish for it to be fought in a way which it cannot be won (which is what the effort by the Democratic majority is all about), then you shouldn’t be authorizing the use of force in the first place.”
Stop grandstanding and get something done. If not, they will be out on the street like the last Republican Congress.
Randolph’s Restaurant and Bar, A Great Restaurant in a Hotel
Randolph’s Restaurant and Bar is a great, I will say almost unknown, restaurant just east of downtown at 18th and Grant.
We found this restaurant as part of Denver Restaurant Week. I spoke about it in an earlier post.
It was a great place and we were treated well from the moment we walked in the door. The hostess was nice and helpful in taking coats and giving us an option on a couple seating locations.
The atmosphere was quiet and pleasant, giving my wife and I ample opportunity to have some wonderful conversations without the kids around.
The waiter was quite helpful in helping us choose from the special Denver Restaurant Week menu and they had a wonderful wine selection. My wife and I agreed upon the featured Jean-Luc Colombo Syrah. It was delicious.
My wife had the Trout Patè, Moneybags, and Chocolate Lava Cake. I had the Classic Caesar Salad, Beef Shoulder wrapped in Bacon, and the Chocolate Lava Cake. It was all delicious. The Beef Shoulder was appropriately tender.
The Beef Shoulder came with a spinach creme brulee which I was a little nervous about, but shouldn’t have been. It was as delicious as everything else.
The Randolph Restaurant and Bar is located in the lobby of the Warwick Denver Hotel, named after the William Randolph Herst who commissioned the first Warwick Hotel in Denver. But many people are afraid of restaurants that are in hotels, but you shouldn’t be with this one. It was an all-around pleasent experience.
We will definitely be back. We took a look at their regular menu and there were several things that looked good. And they also had a wonderful patio that looked west toward the skyline of Downtown Denver. If you are downtown, this would be a great place to head for Happy Hour.
Enjoy your visit to Randolph Restaurant and Bar.
Denver Restaurant Week
Well the annual Denver Restaurant Week is now on and it is a great opportunity to head out and try a new restaurant in Denver.
Denver Restaurant Week is a annual event presented by the Denver Visitor and Convention Bureau to promote restaurants in the metro Denver Area.
Local restaurants put together a special menu for two and give you three courses for $52.80. It is an excellent opportunity to get out and try a new restaurant in this wonderful town. It runs through March 2.
Stikkit has a Learning Curve
Well after fruitless attempts to get my original opportunity to login to Stikkit, I used a different username and email to finally get logged in.
What I am finding out is that it has a learning curve and that you need to be connected 24 x 7 to work in it alot. They do have an option to email stikkit’s, but there is no desktop version.
I will try it for a little bit and see what happens. What I went through, I have to give it a chance.
Whole Foods buying Wild Oats
Is this good or bad? I don’t think that it can hurt. Take a look at the coverage in Bloomberg and Rocky Mountain News.
I like both Whole Foods and Wild Oats. They provide good food, many items that you can’t get anywhere else, and good service. But the one thing that hurts them is the fact that they are so expensive.
The two chains built their business on selling organic food when it was tough to find organic food. Now that everyone is selling it, mainly Safeway. Safeway has come out with a line of organics that is a lot cheaper than products that are similar at Whole Foods or Wild Oats. They are even pushing them on their website.
Another store, that is not in Colorado, is Trader Joe’s. They offer similar products and organic food at a lot lower price than Whole Foods or Wild Oats. I bet the competition is quite fierce. I would love to have Trader Joe’s move into the Colorado market.
I may have to check out Vitamin Cottage. These tend to be smaller stores but apparently have good service and prices. That is what Al Lewis of the Denver Post thinks in his blog post this afternoon, “Whole Foods announces plans to swallow Wild Oats whole“. They may be worth a try.
This acquisition can only benefit the two chains. I hope it works. The have a good product and hopes that it gets better.
Stikkit, Would Like to Try, but NO Confirmation Email
I would like to try Stikkit, but I have received no confirmation email.
It seems like this would be an easy thing to do, but they didn’t send me one and there is no way to send another one.
This looks like a pretty powerful web application and I would like to use it, but I need them to send me another confirmation for my email. I have tried to send a note to help, but they never wrote back. I have sent them another one, but nothing yet.
If you would like to check out what it does, check out this post in 43 Folders by Merlin Mann, Stikkit: Magic words, functional emails, and a handy cheat sheet.
Stikkit, please answer my help request and send me my confirmation email. Or at least create a way to resend it.
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