Well, needless to write, but this is one happy household. When I arrived at the gig house last night I pulled in behind a car with a Dallas Stars logo on it; the driver got out of the car, looked back at me wearing my Chelios shirt/jersey and said, "Nice to see you - GO PENS!" Heading into the house there were more cars bearing a Stars logo and I knew I wore the right shirt and ballcap.

Before we got started several of the guests and myself had a long discussion about hockey: what the Stars could have done if not for all the injuries this year; what they'll do next year; how much the Red Wings are hated by everyone in North Texas, and whether or not the Pens will take the cup in six games or seven. Of course, I stood alone in the crowd. Gordie Howe would be proud.

Some of the Stars/Pens fans wanted the tv on with the sound off but our hostess would have none of that, so, I advised everyone that my wife was going to leave me a voice-mail - at the end of each period, and, whenever anyone scored. One guy, who was there with his wife said that he did not want to know the score because he was taping the game and would watch it when he got home. As it were, I put the phone on silent/buzz and took to the stage. After about two songs I got a buzz, then sometime later I got another buzz, etc.

After an hour or so I told everyone that there had been several buzzes in my pants since we started and I took a break to listen.
One Stars/Pens fan came up and asked me the score and then she just hung her head; then, after another buzz the wife of the man who was taping the game came up, leaned into me and said, "Please, I can't stand it, just whisper the score to me." She didn't like what she heard at all.

The evening was really a great success from a music/entertainment standpoint, but at one spot, fairly late, our hostess came up to me and said that I had given more than enough for the evening and that I could quit whenever I felt like it. I told her I'd take a beer and that with a minute-forty to go in the final period and my guys up 5 to nothing - "Hell, I'll sing all night if they want me to!" GO RED WINGS GO!.............mwh