What a great day this is at Casa De Shepard. It began when the veterinarian called this morning and informed my beautiful bride that the cist they removed from our doggy’s ear was not malignant. Today is also the closing day of the February launch of my newest program, the desktop video training version of “How to Be the Employee Your Company Can’t Live Without”, which I discovered passed my pie-in-the-sky dream goal at exactly 11 minutes past midnight last night (the beauty of selling products on the Internet), and tonight is hockey night.
Though I looooooooove my Tennessee Titans, who had the best regular season record in professional football last year, I’d rather watch the Titans on TV and attend hockey games in person (though I can’t watch hockey on TV). I never knew anything about hockey until Nashville got its own NHL team 11 years ago. In the first game I attended, they got a hat trick (look it up if you don’t know what a big, hairy deal that is), and was instantly hooked.
Even though my Nashville Predators are 11th in their conference and will probably get whooped badly, I’m stoked about going downtown tonight to see the Detroit Redwings take on my Preds. And if things get too ugly, there’s always Tootsies Orchid Lounge and honky tonk row right across the street from the hockey rink. 
