Whatever you play, I hope the ankle starts getting better soon, Gafra. Hang in there!
It’s a bit of hit & giggle really, a local comp and I am in one of the 4 teams our gym has in place. We don’t take it too seriously and it’s more of a social game than anything else. I played the same comp for a while last year, then switched to mixed netball and promptly stopped when my knees said “ENOUGH!”. Beach volleyball is much lower impact on joints, I find.
Gotta say it’s getting harder to keep up with 20yr olds bouncing around the court as competition!
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Armando, thanks for that: keeping in mind your trials with the new addition makes my problems seem quite minor. Hope all is well on that front.
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Pike, she’s playing field hockey. She played India on Monday and was slammed 4-0, and South Africa later in the week and lost 1-0. I expect she’ll be fairly despondent by the time she reappears at work on Monday.
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Gafra…in case you didn’t know…use of the multi-quote feature will eliminate having to respond to individual posts. Just click “multi-quote” on each post you want to respond to and when you reply it nicely stacks them. I was playing with it the other day and found it quite useful.
Just found this in my archives. Wanted to share:
Ice Beach Volleyball??? Do they still wear bikinis, because THAT I have to see.
Well, other than the wife and I being exhausted from all of the driving and anxiety of feeling powerless, everything’s great. The baby gained 30 grams overnight, on top of the 45 she gained the previous day. So she’s now much bigger than she was at the start of the week. If she keeps this up, she’ll be back up to her birthweight by this time next week…which would totally rock!
pain now but pleasure last night. I can’t clearly remember everything that happened, and I’m not sure why there’s my blood smeared on my face (okay I lied there was a game of drunk’ in midnight football involved, like always), and my and elbow’s bandaged, but all I will say further about last night is
NICE!!!
Too bad I have to work tonight but hey every moment of pleasure and all that right,
Nickname Boomer? Nickname Starbuck is more like it!
Glad to hear she is going so good…I love that they measure her weight gain in ounces so she doesn’t have to make it all the way to an ounce before it looks like she gained weight.
She’ll be home with you sooner then you think. Didn’t she have a ultrasound today or something?
besides, Drunken midnight football is an experience all should be introduced to at least once. I really mean it everyone should try it. And responsibility comes up with sun like always.
Just want to test my new sig.
In the words of Heidiger (or was it Dany Glover?): I’m getting too old for this $%#^ 
Here’s a new bit of banter… I just got cast in a basic cable reality show… they’re gonna make this happy old fat guy eat right and exercise for the next month… I’ve just spent most of the last two days in front of a camera without my shirt on… Is that the LA lifestyle, or what?
— Dismal the half-naked hairy guy
That is awesome Dismal, perhaps eating right and working out will ultimately make you less dismal! Warm you up to tepid!
Good luck! Break a leg!
Well, if you signed on…then do your best and eat some salad, dammit !!! Best of luck Dismal, so to clarify, you’re getting paid to try to get in a bit better shape ??
(ominous music fades out-circle wipe in on The Lonely Toaster)
A metal hand slams down on a static emitting communications console.
“Who is this General Bantha of which they speak?”
“Hmmmmm…
Perhaps a rebel spy, in league with that notorious Colonal Tauntaun and the crafty Private Wamp Rat.”
“No matter, their alliance shall not stand long against the might of the Empire.”
Clasping his fists behind him, The Lonely Toaster turns away from camera and glares out into space.
(Music up-circle wipe out)
Yup… That’s what it’s like to live in LA… I’m getting paid to work out, I’ve played poker with Romo Lampkin, and I do standup comedy when the wife gives me a boy’s-night-out… It’s definitely amoung the weirder places to live. I’m just following the local ordinances… They give you a ticket if you haven’t had any updates to your IMDB entry in six months.
— Dismal the otherwise generic middle-aged guy with a 9-to-5 job, a wife, two kids and a half-million-$ mortgage
Yesturday I spent two hours on a sound stage in a nondescript studio on a side-street in the San Fernando Valley down the street from a strip club, most of the time with my shirt off… hmmm… maybe it’s isn’t a reality show after all…
— Dismal the unknowing porn star