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Thanks for asking! She had a very good weekend. She said she was a little tired Saturday morning though

I have now called and emailed them. I am waiting for a response on both ends. I considered just letting it go as some have suggested, however, as I was in fact willing to move to another room, but I really have a problem with they're not enforcing there own rules. I have to think that the people holding the party paid for a certain amount of time, which by the information I was given was until 11pm. If they paid for more time then the hotel was not truthful with me. I also have a problem with the fact that I evidently needed to be an ass in order to get some relief.

Thanks Jack! Oh and Pooj......I really think my problem was that I did not whine enough! And most likely would have "crashed" the party had I not had my 11 year old daughter with me.

My daughter has a swim meet in Northern Virginia this past weekend. So we stayed at the team hotel, the Fair Oaks Marroit. Her warm up time on Saturday morning is 6am with a wake up call at 5am. So at 10:00 she is hitting the sack. At about that time the wedding party below us is getting pretty loud and because our room faces the courtyard we can hear every drum beat and "woop". At 10:30 I went to the front desk to see how long we will be entertained by the music downstairs, and see if maybe they could move us to a room less effected. I inqure as to the party's end time and the front desk tells me the cut off is 11pm. So I tell them fine, only another half hour we will be OK, with that. So 11 passes, and the music is actually getting louder, 11:30 passes, still the music and the yelling, 11:50 I deside to call, still being pretty reasonable, hell these folks probably planned this wedding for a year, and I understand they want to have a nice time. But the desk keeps telling me that it will be over soon. At 1:10am the music stopped. The next morning, or should I say later that morning we went the swim meet. When we returned to the hotel I spoke with the Manager, and asked if there was anything like the night before scheduled for tonight. He assured me that there was not. I really thought I had been more than fair, but I still was not happy with the misinformation I got from the desk the night before. So now I find out that a number of people who went to the front desk and screamed got a $50.00 credit on there bill. However the guy (me) who was understanding got his bill in full. OK those of you who use hotels everyday, should I fire off a letter or make an ulgy call to get some relief?

Turds in the aorta.......Credit goes to Christopher.

I can't watch this series. I might, just might watch a clinching game, but the series? Not going to happen! The clincher for me was this weekend at my daughters swim meet. I'm sitting next to a guy who forever has worn an Auburn University hat and this weekend he is sporting his 'Canes cap. I wanted to puke!

Thats Funny!!!

4 Caro-whine-a vs 8 Edmonton - Oilers in 6

Amen!

Here I am trying to enjoy what little success we have had and hope that sometime soon it rubs off on the Billls, and I get this..........I think I'm going to cry.

I know maybe this is just another "I love the Sabres thread", but really wasn't that such a blast cheering for a team that was winning. God I look forward to being able to do the same with our beloved Bills.

Outstanding! The chills are still running down my spine.

Associated Press 6/1/2006 9:28:40 AM For nearly two weeks, the Carolina Hurricanes and Buffalo Sabres have fought to a standstill to see who will play for the Stanley Cup, so closing the intense series with a Game 7 seems fitting. In an Eastern Conference finals series tied 3-3, the Hurricanes' home-ice advantage might be the only discernible difference between evenly matched teams playing Thursday for the right to face Edmonton in the Stanley Cup finals. Five games have been decided by a goal, the last two in overtime. And throughout the series, momentum has turned with each shift. And another bad turn has emerged against the Sabres. Buffalo's already depleted blueline has taken another hit as defenceman Jay McKee will not be in the lineup. According to head coach Lindy Ruff, he has "a freak infection with his leg" from a cut he suffered earlier in the playoffs. It leaves the Sabres without four of their regular defencemen for Game 7. Related Info Ruff working around depleted defence Sabres rookie Pominville drawing attention Get Ready for Seven NHL Insiders I NHL Insiders II McKee is the team's top shot-blocker and best defensive player. He was a force in Buffalo's 2-1 overtime victory on Tuesday. He logged more than 26 minutes of ice time - third most on the team - was credited with five checks and blocked three shots. Teppo Numminen (hip flexor) had a setback after being limited to playing only 4:13 in Game 6. It had been Numminen's first game back after missing four with the injury. Buffalo is also down Henrik Tallinder (broken left arm) and Dmitri Kalinin (ankle). The Hurricanes and Sabres have always seemed to find a way to win when they needed to most. Now they're both preparing for a game that will leave the loser with the empty feeling that a season's worth of hard work went unfulfilled. "It's a great opportunity," Sabres co-captain Chris Drury said. "You don't know how many of these you're going to get in your career and your life. If we enjoy it and have a positive attitude going in with nothing to lose, I think we're going to be all right." Neither franchise has had much success in Game 7s. The Sabres are 1-4 while the Hurricanes are playing their first since moving before the 1997-98 season to North Carolina from Hartford, Conn., where the former Whalers went 0-3 in Game 7s. Still, few expected either team to even have this chance when the season began. The Hurricanes had missed the playoffs for two consecutive seasons since making an unexpected run to the Stanley Cup finals in 2002. The Sabres hadn't won more than 37 games in a season since last making the playoffs in 2001. But with rule changes that sought to eliminate the defensive clutching and grabbing that bogged down scoring, these teams evolved into examples of what the post-lockout NHL hoped to be: fast-paced and offensive-minded. The formula was enough to carry each to 52 regular-season wins - franchise records for both - and two rounds worth of playoff victories. "This is kind of how we pretty much figured it would go," Hurricanes captain Rod Brind'Amour said. "We knew it wasn't going to be easy and it certainly hasn't been." Now the question is which team will impose its brand of play well enough to advance. Considering the way the past three games have gone, it's impossible to predict. Carolina is the only team to win consecutive games, following a 4-0 road win in Game 4 - the only game to be decided by more than one goal - with a 4-3 overtime home win in Game 5 to put the Sabres on the brink of elimination. But Buffalo - which controlled play for much of Sunday's loss - came out with a dominating first period to take an early lead in Game 6 before getting a 2-1 overtime win on co-captain Daniel Briere's power-play goal. Don't expect the Sabres to change much heading into Thursday, either. "We're not going to approach it any differently," Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said. "I think the way we have to approach Game 7: same intensity, same desperation." In the end, Carolina's biggest advantage could be playing at the RBC Center, where they were 31-8-2 in the regular season and have played in front of progressively louder playoff crowds. In 117 best-of-seven series that have gone to the final game, the home team has won 73 (62 percent), according to the NHL. Of course, that might not matter much in this series. "If you had told us at the start of the year that we'd be in Game 7 in the conference finals playing one game to go to the Stanley Cup, I think everyone in this locker room would have taken it," Carolina defenseman Glen Wesley said. "And that's the position that we're in. We've got home ice and we've got to make the best of it."

Over on Sabres Report the rumors are flying about McKee not making the trip due to a leg infection. Anyone hearing anything?

The more you complain. The longer God makes you live. His signature sends chills up my spine. I hope he is with the love of his life. If not for the grace of God there goes I.

....The NCAA Mens Final Four in Philly this weekend! U Mass vs. Maryland Syracuse vs. Virginia

The last 29 seconds....I was one additional second from my heart exploding.

Damn I forgot about her!!!!

Easy with that giving rise thing

....long road of disapointment....huh......From where I'm sitting it can only get better for him.

The fact that Clayton said it, assures me that the Bills are staying right where they belong, Buffalo NY. I feel a whole lot better. That said most teams would be seen as being in trouble if they were set up the the way the Bills are. The fact that the Buffalo area is not a growing, thriving market and our ownership structure being what it is will always create speculation on the part of the national media. It certainly would make sense that Ralph Wilson answers all the questions (including tax and proffit sharing) of future ownership prior to his death.

Does anyone remember who the top 10 are? You know the ones who will perform on this summers tour.

A very unattractive, mean actin' woman walks into Wal-Mart with her two kids. The Wal-Mart Greeter, asks, "Are they twins"? The ugly woman says, "No, the oldest one, he's 9 and the younger one, she's 7. Why?.. Do you think they really look alike?" "No", replies the greeter, "I just couldn't believe you got laid twice"!

I'm thinking that if Wilkerson is worth anything the one person who might know what he is worth is his old coach at Detroit Dick Juron. Just thinking aloud......

It is funny, the old argument was that they would not make calls in the playoffs, the thought being that they would let the players dicide the game as opposed to the officials. But if you think about it, the exact opposite was happening. By not making the call the game was out of control. By making the calls as they do in the new NHL the game is fully in the hands of the players. The old way would be like the NFL calling pass interference all season and then letting it go out the window for the playoffs. ...and go Sabre's