Hockey!

Well, maybe this whole 'working for HP' thing is going to work out, because we just enjoyed one of the perks. HP sets aside 72 tickets for every Sharks home game in the HP Pavilion, and they have a lottery on their intranet where every employee can enter. I guess not everyone knows about it, because after less than a month of entering, I got 4 free tickets to the Dallas Stars v. San Jose Sharks game.

The timing worked out really well, because it's Iain's birthday this week too, so it was kind of an extended present for him. Since we had 4 tickets we invited his friend Johnny and Johnny's dad Mark.

It was a pretty exciting game, and they kept it close until the 3rd period. We even got to see a small fight. What's the old addage... "I went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out"?

Sadly the Sharks couldn't pull out a victory, and gave it up to the Stars in a 4-2 loss. I was kind of bummed since I'm almost never there to cheer on the Sharks (If you don't know, I'm a HUGE Colorado Avalanche fan), and the one time I want to see the Sharks win... well, that's just the way it goes. We had a good time anyway, and hopefully this won't be the last time I win the hockey lottery.