[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Although I'm not quite sure how I'm going to be able to win as many Cups as the Red Wings and Rangers and Maple Leafs, for instance, among others, before my current manager retires, whenever that is. I'm thinking of retiring him by the time the Blues arrive in St. Louis, but not sure about that yet. A version of my paternal grandfather retired after this past season, although in reality, my paternal grandfather died before my Dad's fifth birthday, to be sure. I think Grandpa's Dad died sometime in 1944, but I'm currently doing the GM/Head Coach bit as a version of him, in any case, for this dynasty.

Dad isn't yet old enough in this scenario to play, for he's still quite young. The earliest I might be able to put him in the game, in some form, will be around 1958 or so, I think, if at all. And the earliest I could be put in, no doubt, would be sometime around 1988, if memory serves, more or less. Back then, though, I was still in school, of course. I didn't finish high school until I was nineteen, in reality, a year later than normal due to my own horrible scholastic performance my first year in seventh grade. That school year was an academic year in which I didn't do all the appropriate and needed schoolwork I should have done then, if any at all, in truth, unfortunately. In essence, it was a year one might say I ultimately blew off, for one reason or another, in at least one sense, if not more than one. Not happy about it, at least not now and/or for quite a while since that time, of course, but there's nothing I can do about it now, for sure, you know.

I'm making no excuses for my poor scholastic habits of many years when I was still in school, but please do try to keep well in mind that there were likely quite a few difficult things that I and my family were dealing with when I was still growing up in my life, folks. And those certainly affected things for me in certain negative ways, unfortunately, it seems. Now I don't blame my brother who's gone now for anything bad that happened, of course, but for our family, living with two disabled children, one profoundly autistic, and the other with likely yet-unknown AS while I was still in school who was also quite stubborn and/or very lazy, for instance, I'm quite sure that raising several children for quite some time made things very hard to deal with for us for quite a while.

My three surviving siblings all managed to establish lives of their own, fortunately, even so. But I am still with my mother in her old age, even though I'm 50 years old now, and even though Dad is now in a care center of sorts at 80 years of age. My Homegone brother got put into a home of some sort when he was in his early 30's, where he then spent roughly the last seven or so years of his life, before he departed this world to be with Jesus for eternity.

I will probably put him into one or more of my games when appropriate, of course, but don't know if and when I'll ever be able to do so, either for OOTP or FHM, if I haven't already done so in at least one form or another, just yet. In the meantime, though, I'll just have to keep taking things one day at a time as they come, as best as I can, for as long as the Lord allows me to live in His world, you know, folks.

I'm not sure just how much these games of mine might perhaps affect the ultimate full development of my various stories, whether they're currently-existing ones or not. But I still strongly suspect that they or at least versions of certain people and/or teams in this current FHM dynasty of mine might just make it into my main writing project LUtD at present, somehow, although I don't know how or when they might actually do so here just yet.

I wonder how long Tony Esposito can continue to be a force in the net for us, and I wonder just how soon he might be supplanted by another goalie on my current franchise here in the relevant dynasty. His current backup is a young guy from China, but the way that Tony's been going lately in his career, it'll probably be at least a few more years before he can take over for him with the Eagles, if he's still with the team then.

By the way, if anyone wants new items for the Montreal Wanderers, at least, you can find them in my recent FHM Mods request thread, along with hockey-related items for a version of Low's Kingston Limers. I don't know when someone might produce certain items for the St. Louis Eagles to be used if anyone wants to use them in any leagues, but the relevant request thread also mentions at least them as well here, for your information, folks. Just so you all know this here well enough, and as a matter of fact, I think Greenert11 did a wonderful job on the items he posted pictures of for both teams he's done work for here, to be sure. I'd definitely recommend checking them out, if and when you like, in any case. CD out.