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  1. weezy
    Awful game last night by the Caps. 5-0 and they set (bad) records for lowest shots on goal in playoff games, etc. They were out-everything'd by the Hurricanes. The only Caps' achievement of note was Ovechkin KO'd a 'Canes young forward with 3 punches. Hope the kid is okay, but he was dazed and confused and helped off the ice and apparently taken straight to the ER. A fair fight, by hockey standards -- the kid called Ovi out, both dropped gloves and no sucker punches. But just because Ovi isn't known as a fighter doesn't mean he can't fight.
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    Went here with a friend last night for an early dinner. I hadn't been for quite a while. It was fairly slow when we arrived, but was about 3/4 full when we left. The atmosphere was pleasant, not too loud, and mostly attentive service, with one glitch. There was a complimentary plate of a couple of pizza crust rolls (about 2 bites per) brushed with a little olive oil and sprinkled with S&P and grated parm. Tasty and a little chewy. We split orders of arancini (smaller than a ping-pong ball, about 8-9 on the plate, with a nicely gooey fontina center and a bright tomato sauce for dipping), grilled octopus with a tomato and roasted red pepper? sauce with grilled baby zucchini. My dining companion found the octopus a little salty, and on its own I would agree, but with the sauce I thought it was balanced. Then we shared half orders of the mushroom ravioli with greens and abit of olive oil and parm, and the gnocchi with a slightly spicy sausage in a creamy sauce. I liked both very well and kept going back and forth on which I liked better and that seemed to end up with whichever was the most recent bite I had eaten. Overall, I thought it was tasty and well executed and glad to see they are keeping up standards. We were going to order a margherita pizza to share, but our server disappeared after dropping off the menu and by the time she finally came back around, our meal had settled and we weren't hungry anymore, so we passed. The check (with a glass of wine @ $10) came to a little under $60 for the two of us pre-tip.
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    Good game, not a great game last night. Scary at the end of the game when we were up 3-2, Oshie got a penalty and the Canes pulled their goalie with about 3 minutes to play, for 6 on 4 action. We managed to kill the penalty and then Eller got an empty net goal with about 12 seconds left to close it out. Overall, Caps did not have enough shots on goal, and they dialed down the hits after the first period, so they can play a better game than the one last night, but still a good game overall.
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    Cool that you got to see Rod Langway. My boss got to meet him thru a special all-access invite from a client/friend who is a big team supporter. Boss is not a hockey fan, but he and Langway are from similar little run-down mill towns in Massachusetts and knew a lot of the same landmarks, etc., and the two of them were just chatting it up like old friends, while the client was staring, mouth agape, while boss casually hobnobbed with one of the client's heroes.
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    Summer hours start on Saturday, April 6. Opening at 8:00 a.m.
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    oops! got it bass ackwards.
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    In their win against Tampa Bay on Saturday night, Ovechkin got his 50th & 51st goals of the season, for the 8th time in his 13 seasons that he has hit the 50 goal mark, making him only the 3rd player in NHL history to achieve this feat, with Mike Bossy and Wayne Gretzky being the others (and one short season due to a lockout). In this era of highly trained goaltenders, this is an even more remarkable feat.
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    Ate here with a friend yesterday. We split the tofu & avocado salad and an order of yakitori. Nice dressing on the salad and good contrast of creamy soft textures of the tofu & avocado against the peppery greens but a bit hard to eat with chopsticks, as they dissected the main ingredients while conveying them between plate & mouth. The yakitori were very tasty and nicely plated, tender dough and octopus. The yakitori are noted to take 15 minutes, and the plate arrived just barely ahead of the bowls of ramen. I haven't had real ramen before, so nothing to compare it against, but I enjoyed the tonkatsu miso ramen that I got (straight noodles) and my friend got the volcano ramen (curly noodles). I found the broth to be mild and rich and properly salted; the egg yolk nicely creamy, the other ingredients tender but not overdone. I liked the noodles' texture, had a nice chew to them. We both ate it all and agreed that the meal hit all the notes. If I'm back up on that side of the Beltway, I can certainly see stopping here again. The place was about 2/3rds full when we arrived around 6-ish for dinner and quickly filled up. They certainly didn't want us to linger, taking plates and bowls away immediately as we finished something and having the check ready to slap on the table when we declined dessert. A small shop in a new build-out, turning tables is important, I get it, but a 2-3 minute gap between things would have been nice.
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    Stopped in this morning before the pasta making class at Sfoglina. They're trying a new experiment -- they have a worker out front with plain and chocolate croissants, french loaves, and two ginormous thermos carafes of reg & decaf coffee, so if all you're after is coffee & croissant, you dont' have to deal with the line, you can get it there on the patio.
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    Glad to see this. There's a location on my way home that I kept wondering about but it's in a difficult shopping strip to get in & out and I hadn't braved the traffic to try it out. Now I don't have to.
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    My mother grew up far in the mountains of NC, and went into the Army as a nurse. Being exposed to a much more cosmopolitan life, she educated herself via Vanderbilt's Book of Etiquette, and then made sure her children never suffered embarrassments of not knowing which fork to use, etc., so my siblings and I grew up with proper place settings at each meal, cups with saucers, cloth napkins for the most part, and other such things. My folks were also members of a golf club and 3-4 times a year, they would take us to dinner at the club, and while it was not "fine dining" in the strictest sense, it was definitely formal dining. I remember the wait/kitchen staff being very kind to prepare "rainbow parfaits" of sherbet for dessert for our good behavior at the table during dinner.
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    I've heard it and it sounds to me almost as if you're saying "Sofina" just slurred a bit
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    March 30 works for me! I'm a light drinker, FWIW. And I'd like to keep it closer to $75 than $125.
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    Braden Holtby's enjoyable read about growing up to become a Stanley Cup winning goalie
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    That is a very unassuming exterior, to be sure
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    Bizarre, indeed! Something must be going on in NY because on Friday we get an empty net goal courtesy of their forward dumping the puck into his own net , and today the goalie pulls a move that pee-wee hockey players on up are taught is an automatic goal against. It does tell me, though, that Ovechkin is totally in that goalie's head, which is a bit surprising, because Georgikiov stopped/blocked/deflected everything that Ovi had fired at him during the game....although he had to be hurting from them. And as a testament to how tough hockey players are, Shattenkirk took a puck in the face and had to get 6 stitches (3 inside his mouth, 3 in his lip) and only missed 4 minutes of playing time, and Kempny got a broken nose and only missed 3-4 shifts.
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    And not just speed, but smarts. And with Hagelin, someone who is always troublesome for the opposition to cover. Glad he's on our team now! He was always such a pest with Pittsburgh.
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    Going into the final quarter of the season and all the teams are either gearing up for a big push for the playoffs or know they are out of contention and have traded away all their decent veterans for draft picks and rebuilding to the future. The Caps are looking good with their trades for Hagelin, who is slotting into our system very quickly, and Jensen, already signed to a 4-year contract, who is a speedy D-man with great hockey IQ, who will take a lot of the load off our top 3 defensemen so they aren't racking up 20+ minutes a night. Now that AHL players can be moved up & back without thought to waivers and cap space, I expect that defenseman Siegenthaler will return to the Caps come playoff time, even though he will likely be a healthy scratch. Smith -Pelly may also return, but the acquisition of Hagelin makes it less likely, since DSP's play was only so-so all season and he doesn't have the speed of Hagelin. Coming up tonight is a game with the other top of the division team, the NY Islanders, headed by Coach Trotz. A young team doing well this season that hasn't had to face the crucible of playoff hockey. It should be an interesting game. Coming up this month, we're seeing a lot of Tampa Bay, who is pretty much a lock on the President's Trophy, way ahead in points for the season, so these games will also be giving us a preview for postseason action.
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    Thanks Polly & Porcupine
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    Eric continues to impress even though he didn't get the win this past week. Colicchio noted that he doesn't try to do all kinds of new, weird and crazy things, but focuses on his food and finding new ways to present & prepare it. It helps, though, that Eric's food is something that's already a different approach and flavor profile to what is routinely served up to the judges.
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    To answer my own question, through other sources I have found Carlos Amaya, of Twins A Electric twinsaelectric.com 703--829-0276. He comes recommended by many of my neighbors.
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    My boss is having a hard time finding an electrician for some small jobs here at the office and at his home. He has used Walsh Electric and will again if he has to, but he would rather find a small outfit to work with. Any recs?
  23. weezy
    Trade deadline is Monday the 25th, and the Caps put Devante Smith-Pelly on waivers to free up cap space. No one claimed him (he's not had a good year) and so we keep him in the org and move him down to Hershey. In the meantime, we picked up Hagelin for some draft picks from the LA Kings, where he has not had a good year, but they play a different system and he doesn't seem to have found his groove there. He's a speedy player, good experience, and should be a good fit for the 3rd or 4th line, plus has 2 Stanley Cups from his tenure with the Penguins. Looks like a good trade on paper at least. My guess is that Burakovsky is still on the trading block as well. He's got talent but can't seem to reach break-out velocity with this team. Rumors are swirling but nothing has solidified yet.
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    Went to the Falls Church location over the weekend and got a pork souvlaki platter with roasted potatoes instead of fries. I'll never get the fries again. Those roasted potatoes were awesome! Lightly dressed in a lemon-olive oil-garlic mix, some slightly crunch-chewy edges on some of the spuds, I want another plate full of them. The souvlaki was good and the salad was fresh and a good mix although the dressing was almost non-existent, but I just slathered forkfuls around in any dressing left behind from the potatoes.
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    I'm interested and 3/30 is doable for me.
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