Hi everyone! It’s been one busy week! Getting ready to go on parental leave in June, so I’ve had to start delegating tasks to other people and training them to replace me, but it looks like that responsibility is now past me, and things should start calming down at the office before I head into the hectic world of child-rearing, handing out apple-guacamole-fig (or something like that) fruit pouches, and preparing Kraft Dinner for lunch Monday to Friday. I’m looking forward to spending the summer months taking care of my two kids, taking daily walks to the park, and eating popsicles in the middle of the day, but I do fear those days when all the neighbourhood kids congregate in our backyard and start combining the contents of our sandbox with the contents of my daughter’s water table and throwing the final product all over the place, breaking our toys and climbing all over our new $2,600 dollar fence.

That said, I’ve gotten past stage two of my manuscript submission (editing down magazine quotes, getting last-minute interview and photo permissions, and cleaning up sources), so at least that’s one more thing out of the way. It’s all in McFarland’s hands now until they send me an edited version of my work. I’m getting very excited about the new book, but I hope the next big stage of the process happens sometime in the fall once the kids go back to school/daycare and life returns to normal. All in all, things are good, and there is the feeling that we’re all moving on to another stage of life and career. And it’s the playoffs too!

Yes, that wonderful time of the year most Seals fans never got to experience. There were those eleven sad playoff contests in April 1969 and 1970, but nothing else. Most of those games have been forgotten, but there is one that stands out as being rather controversial: game one of the West Division semi-finals against Pittsburgh. Not many Seals fans are still around who remember that night, but those who do probably still curse Nick Harbaruk’s name. If you don’t know how the game ended and why it was so controversial, I invite you to head on over to the articles section and read all about it..

Before leaving, if you haven’t yet voted for who you believe should be inducted into the Seals Hall of Fame, you can do so by clicking on this link: https://form.jotform.com/210704845040244. Voting will remain open until the end of June, and the newest inductees will be announced in mid-July like we do every year.

Until next time, stay gold!