Random Thoughts VIII: The Ocho
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Speaking of 80's movies that have no business being rehashed, did anyone actually see Ghostbusters? I can't remember the last movie where every trailer just kept making the movie look worse and worse.
Don't feel bad. I've had pop for 3 days straight so far.
Don't feel bad. I've had pop for 3 days straight so far.
Read this quickly and saw "I have had Hop for 3 days straight." Nearly said "Dude Eric is on here!" I mean unless y'all are into that sort of thing.
I actually liked the original, don't remember seeing GB2, have not seen the remake.
Z learned a new way to tell us supper out is over. She practiced putting salad on our plates with the tongs. Then she started taking the salad away,back into the bowl. I moved the bowl and tongs, so she started using her hands.
I am glad that I was about done anyway.
I am glad that I was about done anyway.
Since I can't fly currently i decided to just join the local EAA chapter and get involved with Young Eagles stuff. Hopefully this satisfies the itch for awhile.
Got a mad, PO'd and I think injured owl at the farm. Was mowing and saw something move about 20' from me. Tried flying but couldn't take off. Scared the bejeebers out of me. Those things are huge! And endangered.
I called a naturalist. He told me to catch it and bring it to him. Screw that, that thing would mess me up. Felt like Christmas vacation where I was supposed to throw a net over it and catch it. My other option is to let nature take its course. I'm hoping something catches it so I don't have to deal with it.
I called a naturalist. He told me to catch it and bring it to him. Screw that, that thing would mess me up. Felt like Christmas vacation where I was supposed to throw a net over it and catch it. My other option is to let nature take its course. I'm hoping something catches it so I don't have to deal with it.
Huh.
Here I've been thinking I've been in a fairly crappy mood today. Had trouble sleeping last night and I'm tired.
I had an odd discussion last night with some friends about arguments. It started because someone says they've never seen me upset or heard me raise my voice. I told them that I hated arguments and told them that too many people waste time trying to prove they're right versus trying to figure out what actually is right.
One guy replied with some corny philosophical crap: "If you don't stand for something you fall for everything."
I told him I wanted to hit him with the coffee mug that he read that off.
He then proceeded to try to get me into an argument about why I was wrong.
I hate people some days.
One guy replied with some corny philosophical crap: "If you don't stand for something you fall for everything."
I told him I wanted to hit him with the coffee mug that he read that off.
He then proceeded to try to get me into an argument about why I was wrong.
I hate people some days.
I got to sleep in until 7:30 this morning and it was glorious.
You know you're an adult when you consider sleeping until 7:30 as sleeping in
sad volleyball update
So the team we played last night was listed as 2-10 in sets on the roster. So I'm like ok, we can do this. End of the first we were up 19-15 and DH lost the serve. They get a guy on serving who just starts hitting bombs. Really hard, fast serves. I think he served until they won, actually. First set was 19-21. At some point during that set, one of our guys did a diving dig that went straight into my face. I lived though.
Second set I'm noticing that they are again serving really hard (they started with the same guy who ran us out). But the girls were really good too. Somewhere around 7 points, red shirt guy (the best server) got around five aces on us. It wasn't like we were really even close - we were shanking them into the sidewall - not even toward the net. So we're eventually down 16-20 and I'm up to serve. I'm like welp, hopefully I don't do like my first serve and just hit the net. I serve a couple times and then purposefully start ignoring the score because I know I've got a mountain to climb so I'll just have fun. I finally have one serve go a bit too far left and it's short of the net by about two damn inches. ****. DH gives me this look.................I check the score and we had 19. If I had kept that serve in play, we may have tied it up. Sad face.
So third set I'm like ok let's just try not to drop this so we don't fall too far in the standings. They keep serving bombs. To this point in the season, I have seen one other girl (besides myself) serve overhand with any success. Most teams had at least two guys serving underhand as well. This entire team served overhand - and served well. Both of their girls did overhand and one had a wicked curving serve. We were down 13-17 and then got it to like 19-20. Guy ahead of me goes to serve and we get it tied up! He goes again. We go back and forth and it's back to me with the score at 22-22. So in this league, it's win by two but max of 23. So I go up to serve knowing that no matter what, I'm ending it. Que nerves. I hit a really nice, safe serve that's over and in. They have trouble with it and barely get it back over the net. Two of our people are there and one of them hits it and they collide. The ball is short and we yell but they weren't sure who hit it last (since both of them went for it) and neither reached up............and I watched the ball drop to the sand. So much sad.
So we got swept by a total of 5 points. Blah. On the way home I was like DH, how in the world were they a 2-10 team? Like our serving wasn't great but they were harder to play than the other teams who were much higher in the standings. Their guys were probably all six feet plus. Then I thought about how an email went out earlier in the week asking teams to be more considerate about no-showing and forfeiting. I have a strong hunch that this is one of those teams - especially since they had to play with 5 people as they only had two girls (had four guys, one had to rotate through). So I suspect they've been short on girls some weeks and had to forfeit as you need at least two girls to play. It would make a lot of sense because if they've been serving like that all season, there's no way they'd lose that many games.
So sad times but I'm glad I at least got that last serve over and didn't completely cost us the set.
So the team we played last night was listed as 2-10 in sets on the roster. So I'm like ok, we can do this. End of the first we were up 19-15 and DH lost the serve. They get a guy on serving who just starts hitting bombs. Really hard, fast serves. I think he served until they won, actually. First set was 19-21. At some point during that set, one of our guys did a diving dig that went straight into my face. I lived though.
Second set I'm noticing that they are again serving really hard (they started with the same guy who ran us out). But the girls were really good too. Somewhere around 7 points, red shirt guy (the best server) got around five aces on us. It wasn't like we were really even close - we were shanking them into the sidewall - not even toward the net. So we're eventually down 16-20 and I'm up to serve. I'm like welp, hopefully I don't do like my first serve and just hit the net. I serve a couple times and then purposefully start ignoring the score because I know I've got a mountain to climb so I'll just have fun. I finally have one serve go a bit too far left and it's short of the net by about two damn inches. ****. DH gives me this look.................I check the score and we had 19. If I had kept that serve in play, we may have tied it up. Sad face.
So third set I'm like ok let's just try not to drop this so we don't fall too far in the standings. They keep serving bombs. To this point in the season, I have seen one other girl (besides myself) serve overhand with any success. Most teams had at least two guys serving underhand as well. This entire team served overhand - and served well. Both of their girls did overhand and one had a wicked curving serve. We were down 13-17 and then got it to like 19-20. Guy ahead of me goes to serve and we get it tied up! He goes again. We go back and forth and it's back to me with the score at 22-22. So in this league, it's win by two but max of 23. So I go up to serve knowing that no matter what, I'm ending it. Que nerves. I hit a really nice, safe serve that's over and in. They have trouble with it and barely get it back over the net. Two of our people are there and one of them hits it and they collide. The ball is short and we yell but they weren't sure who hit it last (since both of them went for it) and neither reached up............and I watched the ball drop to the sand. So much sad.
So we got swept by a total of 5 points. Blah. On the way home I was like DH, how in the world were they a 2-10 team? Like our serving wasn't great but they were harder to play than the other teams who were much higher in the standings. Their guys were probably all six feet plus. Then I thought about how an email went out earlier in the week asking teams to be more considerate about no-showing and forfeiting. I have a strong hunch that this is one of those teams - especially since they had to play with 5 people as they only had two girls (had four guys, one had to rotate through). So I suspect they've been short on girls some weeks and had to forfeit as you need at least two girls to play. It would make a lot of sense because if they've been serving like that all season, there's no way they'd lose that many games.
So sad times but I'm glad I at least got that last serve over and didn't completely cost us the set.
Owl still around. Looks healtier. I got it to move. It fly to the middle of the road. Hole it goes into the wetland ground across the road. Probably eating the snakes and salamanders that I get from there.
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