Whew, glad that’s over.
That was one freakin long day. Work from 8:30-noon, a working lunch from noon to 12:45pm, and back at work again from 12:45-2:15. And no break for dinner either. Yeah. I’ve worked 37 hours since Friday. Thankfully I wasn’t alone; both Jeff and Cam were along for the ride tonight, too.
A couple of unresolved questions remain, but I think *knock on wood* we’re almost done. Yeah!!
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Coming Home
If the 16 of you who have hit this page in the last 24 hours are wondering what’s happened to me, well, yeah, good question. I think there’s some kind of blog flu going around these days, plenty contagious. 🙂 For me it’s been a combination of that, and well, getting really busy.
Lots of news since we last spoke. First the two big ‘uns:
(1) On Thursday, my Ultimate Frisbee team squeaked a narrow victory against Dos Manos (15-13) to advance to league finals! Woohoo! Here’s hoping we make it two in a row — “start a legacy” as Jeff puts it.
(2) I’m coming home for Christmas! I arrive in Victoria Wednesday, Dec 24th, around 4:30pm, and leave Sunday, Dec 28th at 7:30pm. I know it’s not very much time, but if you’re in Vic and would like to see me, please please get in touch. I want to see you (probably 🙂
Little stuff:
My server logs tell me that my previous entry, about Sarasota Parks and Rec messing up the field bookings, was emailed around the offices at Sarasota Parks and Rec. Hmm….
It’s been a movie-night kinda week. Wednesday, watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? at Amy’s place with Darren. I quite enjoyed it, well done. In particular, if the scoring of the movie is any indication (you never know these days) I bet the soundtrack is great. Friday, MJ, Melissa, Darren, and I watched the French thriller La Femme Nikita. It was okay, but at times the storytelling could really use some help. I can remember at least three separate instances in the film where rather than working it into the film somehow, the producers of the film chose to show the passage of time by having the characters ask really out-of-place questions, such as (in a scene immediately after we discover our protagonist has a boyfriend): “We’ve been dating six months now.”… “It’s my 23rd birthday coming up soon”, which following a scene where the protagonist tells us she’ll be turning 20 in a few days. And so forth. Now, to be fair, we were watching an old VHS copy which was not subtitled but dubbed, so something could have been lost in the translation. Still fun film, but The Professional is a much better offering from the same director. And last night it was a bit of The Princess Bride before I inconceivably had to run off.
Speaking of work, I logged 20 hours over the weekend. We’ve got a big deadline coming up in the next few days. Just a hunch right now, but I think this might be related (Thanks to Cam for pointing out the link.)
Somehow during this weekend I also managed to get in some disc golf with Amy, MJ and Melissa; we got through 6 holes before it got too dark to play. Highlights include Amy sinking a 100-ft putt in heavy wind, and getting given a disc golf driver and putter. Nice!
Last night was a lot of fun, because after an excellent meal at Cam and Melissa’s, I met up with a bunch of folks at the Cock & Bull Pub to help Alec celebrate his 24th birthday. I gave him the Farricker Spirit disc I picked up last year; I think he’s been an excellent role model for all of us on the Slackers — competitive and fair at the same time; a good teacher.
Last night was also sad, because it was the last time we’d get to hang out with MJ. I think everyone on the Slackers is going to miss her. Even though she was only with us for four short months, she was a unifying force, bringing us all back together as a team when we drifted apart, whatever the reason. And just a plain hell of a lot of fun to hang out with.
MJ, if you’re reading this, I hope the trip to Colorado went well. I have trouble driving the three hours it takes to get to Orlando, let alone 24 straight! Write soon! -
Sarasota Parks and Rec Messes Up.. Again
I am royally peeved. Remember what happened three weeks ago, the last time I tried to book practice under the lights? That’s right… Sarasota Parks and Rec double-booked the field. Well guess what?
Somehow, between last night and this evening, they managed to find a way to do it again. After arriving at the fields at 6pm, I paid field-booking-guy Cliff for the time under the lights and went out to set up the field. After twenty minutes, a softball player arrived, and while there was a minor dispute in the office, Cliff assured me that we could go ahead and play on the field, since it was his belief that softball was there tonight in error. So I went back on the field, expecting it to start clearing out. Moments later, some of the softball players — who, until this point, had been milling around the dugouts — warned us to get off the field (which we’d already lined with cones), because they were “starting, like it or not.” Said one loud-mouthed brat: “We just don’t want you getting smacked in the face with a ball.”
Even though I had just paid for the fields, at this point Cliff walks out from the office and gives the fields away to the softball players because (and this is best explanation I could get from him) “they’re big bullies”.
Suffice to say, I got our money back. Problem is, the first game of our (single-elimination) playoffs is in two days, and because of this mismanagement, we haven’t been able to practice in three weeks. We really needed to practice tonight. In an attempt to make it up to us, Cliff offered us the remaining Tuesdays in December for free (though it remains to be seen if he can avoid scheduling someone else in our timeslot, or if he even had the authority to give us this offer in the first place). Extra sucky tidbit: MJ leaves us for Colorado on Dec 7th, :(… so she won’t even be around.
Now the plan is to show up an hour early on Thursday to get a little throwing in. Augh.. Oh well. We made the best of a crummy night tonight by going to Crusty’s, a pizza joint I’ve never been to. The pizza was okay (I’ve had better), but I’d definitely recommend against their nachos (which Alec had, and which were pretty impressively bad — a basket nearly filled with completely broken chips).
At least the company was good. 🙂
Alec and Me
Eric looking into space, Darren looking… well… I have no idea 🙂
Amy gets fresh!
