While it felt good to get a good chunk of painting work done on the house this weekend, it felt weird yesterday when I finally got a chance to check e-mail and surf around a bit. Normally, I check e-mail semi-neurotically, and have stretches where I wander past the same websites enough in a meandering circle that I’m surprised one of them doesn’t pop up with a message like, “Dude, you were just here. Nothing’s changed.” And with a house that consists of nothing more than electricity and water, the radio is pretty much my link to the outside world.

So you can understand why I might have missed this news in Central Indiana.

I’ve been a Ron Francis fan pretty much since I started following hockey real close in the mid-80’s, and aside from the “what the hell are they trying to pull!?!?” trip through Pittsburgh, he’s spent his whole career with “my” team. I even, unknowingly at the time, saw his last game for the Whalers/Hurricanes franchise in Columbus a few years back. I wish I had known at the time, I would have paid more attention to him specifically than to the rest of the game, which I don’t remember the result, anyway.

Making the Hall of Fame is ridiculously deserved, and I’m glad to see he was recognized his first time through. Congrats Ronnie Franchise!!