Here’s a few photos of our Christmas cookies from this year. A decidedly video game theme this year. Featuring Scorpion and Sub-Zero, multiple Mario Brothers characters, Luigi, Tanookie, Kuribo’s shoe. Lots of animals, pac-man, ghosts and more.
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Month: December 2013
December Ice Storm
The ice storm that hit Rochester overnight didn’t turn out all that bad, and if there had been a little more snow on the ground to make it less dreary, it could have been downright beautiful. It looks like we got between 1 to 2 inches of rain in the past few days, and with all the snow melt from last week’s storms there is quite a bit of water out there. I took a little time to walk around a bit, and here are a few photos of the ice on the trees.
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Frozen Frontier 2013
Friday and Saturday we went to Frontier field to watch the outdoor hockey games. This year they set up an outdoor rink at the baseball stadium in downtown Rochester. We bought tickets to the Friday night AHL Amerks game, and the Saturday night RIT Hockey game. With the tickets bought back in October, we had no idea what to expect weather wise in December. We were fortunate to have a cold snow weekend that Tracy and I were both hoping for.
Friday night’s game of the Amerks vs. Lake Erie was great. It was 18 degrees out, and we saw a great game. Lake Erie tied the game up at 4-4 with 0.1 seconds left to go. Then after 5 minutes of overtime it was still tied, so on to a 5 round shootout. Lake Erie took a 2-0 lead after three rounds of the shootout meaning Rochester had to score the next 2 goals without letting any in. They did, and won the game on the 6th round of the shootout, then we even got fireworks! The attendance was 11,000+, and we actually ran into a few friends we knew from playing hockey. It was really cold, and I decided to add more layers for the game Saturday.
Saturday’s game was even more fun. At 16 degrees and in the middle of a snow storm, there was much excitement. Announced attendance was 4,000+, and we were treated to a downright snow bowl. It was snowing so hard the Zamboni could not lay down new ice and was left to try and collect snow off the ice between periods. There were extended commercial timeouts during the game while an army of skaters with shovels tried to keep the ice clear. The game itself was slowed by the snow on the ice. Players were taking shots and sending out poofs of snow. I wore three layers of socks, pants, and fleece, while Tracy went for 8 layers. It was quite cold, and you needed to walk around during the intermissions to keep blood flowing in your toes.
Here are a few photos from Fridays game, and some cell phone shots from Sunday…
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Hello WordPress?
What’s going on at ScaredyCatFilms? I converted the blog to a WordPress site. For those that don’t know WordPress is a popular blogging software for making websites. When I first created ScaredyCatFilms.com, I wrote most of the web code myself to get things to work and look the way I wanted them to. Well, in the last 8 years things have really come a long way. A lot of the things I needed to do on my own, like styles, galleries, and more are now so common that it didn’t really make sense to keep doing all the work myself. This is why the site has been “down” for so long. I was waiting for a nice snowy winter weekend to start the conversion.
Not all the pages are completely updated, and you may find a broken link, or two, or more. I have left the old site in existence as I transfer content to the new site. Some pages may link to the old site, some to the new. Over all, I think this will make it much easier to modify the content on the site. I will no longer have to go home and write my own HTML, all I need is an internet connection and I can update the site through any web browser. So stay tuned!