Jeremy Lin made his debut last night as a Los Angeles Laker starting point guard, and put in a respectable performance.  He was facing his old team, the Houston Rockets, and specifically the man who took his job away last year, Patrick Beverley, who is also the best defender on his team.  Pat played aggressive defense on Jeremy the whole night, as did Jeremy on him, and they ended up with similar numbers: 7 points and 5-6 assists.  More importantly, Jeremy made plays by penetrating and dishing off (or scoring), and as one announcer put it “lit the fuse” under the team.  The Lakers got off to a slow start and were able to pull close once or twice, but ended up losing by 18.

Because of the time zones, most of the Laker games start around 10 PM.  I had recently been able to push my bedtime back to before 11 PM, but now it is going to be harder.  I will have to do what I did last night, record the game and go to sleep.   I was only partially successful with this strategy last night, and this morning I felt like someone had bopped me over the head with a rubber mallet.  It took me the whole day to recover.

Tonight we’re going to a neighborhood meeting with National Grid to find out how long our gas service is going to be cut off for a local bridge rebuilding project.  So it’s time to sign off…