Hockey night in Long Beach

I just talked with the people from Beachsort Technologies, a fledgling computer science club who are due to get some strong connections, and a bevy of projects on the way. Unfortunately, when I was accompanying the club president with another person, the advisor for the club, who was the Computer Science Department Chair, and a head of the World Wide Web Consortium, slammed the door in our faces when the president wanted to speak with him.
I hope he realized he was speaking to a business student as well. In a business setting, slamming the door on anyone can bring serious damage to relationships with people who you hire, people who want to do business with you, et al. It’s a polite way of giving the finger to someone, and telling them that they will not have any business or relationship with you ever again. I expect an apology from him very soon, because, again, that type of communication brings irreparable damage, no matter how big your plate is. Very unprofessional for someone like him. He should know better.

Anyway, I did say that I will talk about the trip I had to Glacial Garden a Saturday ago. Originally, after the Beach’s women edged UC Irvine in a rare conference win (or any win for that matter), I wanted to go home, but I thought to myself, I’ve got time to watch this game. So, I took the 20’s up to Cherry and Carson, and walked over to the Garden. There was a tryout going on before the main event took place.
Already there was some intensity going on, as a BYU hockey player made a critical mistake of breaking a fiberglass barrier during warm-ups. I hope he knew that this takes a lot of money to replace. So, as the crew replaced it with a wooden barrier, the game was delayed 30 minutes. The shrapnel were sharp, and my right thumb was unlucky to get lacerated. Fortunately, Neosporin and a bandage made it look nonexistent. But those guys will now have to pay for the damage.
A few young girls were selling 5050 raffle tickets. At first, I decided not to, but given that this could be the last Beach hockey game I see this season, I decided to give it a go. 3 tickets for 5 dollars. I ended up being the first number called, and received a $10 gift card from some local Italian restaurant in Lakewood. $5 well spent.
As for the game, it became very tense late in the 2nd period, with goals scored within 20 seconds of each other. It was 3-3, Long Beach over Brigham Young, whose team was called the IceCats. I was laying out every epithet about our incapability to finish. But four unanswered goals in the 3rd period left the home fans happy. I was even happier, because I was able to barely take the bus home, and when I got home, it was already Sunday morning.

I hope the volleyball team wakes up, and dusts Stanford, just like they did at the E-Bar Invitational earlier this year in Santa Barbara. Clap for the Chopman.