This just in: Hockey is more important than President

Currently playing:  'My Grandfather's Clock'  I learned this song while working on the Island.  I fell in love with it.  

I had the weekend off.  It was great to stay up late and sleep in.  The usual sleep in time for me nowadays is about 8:00 or 8:30.  Sounds early, but when I get up at 5:00, eight in the morning is just like noon.  An extra three hours or so is amazing.  But this weekend, I slept in until 9:30 on Saturday and almost 10:00 this morning.  It was very needed.  This week really wore me down, but I don't know why.  

Anyway, I was excited on Sunday afternoon to watch a little hockey.  It wasn't the Wings, they beat the holy hell out of Colorado in four games.  It was the New York/Pittsburgh game.  Anyone who watches hockey knows about the really young team Pittsburgh has.  Not only are they young but extremely talented.  I haven't gotten to see them play much this year, so I was looking forward to it.  And I go to turn the TV to NBC and....there's no game.  What the hell.  

It was a special report about the president coming to Kansas to speak at a high school graduation.  The greensburg high school graduation.  If anyone has been living in a cave, here is a quick catch up.  Tornado wipes an entire town off the map last year.  The whole fucking town.  Gone.  Sad story.  They are in the process of rebuilding the town.  Feel good story, of course.  So the president decides to speak at the graduation.  That's cool, I guess.  But did they really need to interrupt the hockey game I wanted to watch to show him landing at the air force base?  Honestly.  Then they went to the graduation.  I barely paid attention to either of my graduations, so why would I want to watch this one?  

I was looking forward to watching a hockey game and got interrupted by a PR move by a lame duck president.  Instead of putting the whole damn thing on CNN or fox news, they put it on a channel that also had the hockey game.  

This may sound ridiculous to some people, but living in Kansas has cut down on the hockey watching.  I saw maybe six games this year.  If the game would have been a Wings game, I think I would have thrown a fit.  I'm selfish, I'll admit.  There were some basketball games on today, why couldn't they have interrupted those games instead.  No one gives a shit about basketball.