Friday night and more pictures!

A quick update on my shoulder. This month I've started working on strength as my mobility seems to be fine. While progress the first three months seemed to make playing at the end of May a no-brainer, the lack of significant improvement the last few weeks has put it in question. At my doctor's appointment though, I discussed this thought with my doctor and he said that it's fairly typical for recovery from my kind of surgery. In two weeks, due to scheduling issues, I'll probably start doing therapy twice a week instead of just once, to make sure that I'm getting the maximum workout in that I can in preparation for playing. The doc also said that I could start some soft tossing and even start swinging a bat. Unfortunately he said I can't face live pitching yet because if you swing and miss, it could cause a strain. It makes sense, if you're anticipating some resistance from the ball and you don't get it, or if you lunge for a ball, a strain could occur.

This was on an easel on my way to the doctor. I just laughed.

Last night LL and I headed to the near burbs for a minor league hockey game. The Chicago Wolves put on quite a show in the family friendly atmosphere. It was a Friday night during the NCAA tournament, but there were still something like 10,000 fans there. Not bad. A few minutes in, there was an awesome brawl between two heavy hitters, complete with a squaring off period of about 10 seconds while they danced and sized each other up. Good stuff.

Here are some pictures:

The flames going off during the Wolves intro.

More orangy flames.

Even the scoreboard explodes while it's going on!

And apparently the scoreboard shoots fire too!

Here's the view we had. Decent seats for freebies. I picked them up through a charity auction with a dinner gift card which we also used. A nice night.