Tuesdays

1. Precious sleep: ‘There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.’ - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

2. Silver Tuesdays: All he wanted was to fly home after the tournament. Easy? Not so! After a painful notice, the plane was too heavy from all the hockey bags (mind you, three teams all on the same flight to Denver).

3. Happy convert: $300 (plus another flight voucher) and a voucher for the night in a fancy hotel; $50 buys that same flight - for the tournament next month - in that same team's home town.

‘If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.’ - Dale Carnegie

Max is safe. I finally heard from him, after he had to evacuate the home he's staying in with his billet family. The Ventura fire burned down the house across the street.