Chapter 87: Fun in the Sun
Just like that, it’s been another month since the last entry. Can’t even remember most of what I’ve been doing since then.
I’ve continued playing softball, and I’ve made significant progress there. I’ve played in about 7-8 games now, and am starting to get more comfortable. I’m hitting fairly decently now, regularly getting base hits through the infield or line drives into the outfield. Haven’t connected for any monsters over the outfielders yet though. Best I’ve done so far is a triple. I’ve also been active in the field, where I’ve only made one error so far, and have had a few decent running catches. We’ve started to win more games as well, which is cool. During the last game, I was running hard to beat out the throw at first base, and stepped on the bag with too much force. I expected the base to have some support, but instead it was more or less like a sponge that offered up no resistance and my heel basically slammed hard into the hard gravel, and I injured pretty nicely. For the next couple days, it hurt like hell to put any way on the back heel. Hopefully it’ll be better by this weekend, when I intend to go play at the volleyball tournament in Kelowna.
I’ve also played some tennis here and there. Some sessions, I feel like I’m playing than ever, and some sessions I can’t control the ball whatsoever. I spent one night just practicing my serve, and served up over 400 balls. Towards the end, I finally found my rhythm. Before that, I never even knew exactly where I should be tossing the ball up, and where to contact it. I finally figured that out now, and I can fairly consistently get my serves in, albeit not an overpowering serve. Played one match so far this year against Ken and won 6-3, 6-4.
Speaking of tennis, watched a lot of Wimbledon over the weekend. Was disappointed I wasn’t able to watch more during last week, because the live action was on starting from 3am. On Saturday, watched Federer win routinely over Gasquet, and that led to a finals rematch of a year ago with Nadal. Woke up at 6am on Sunday to watch the match, and it didn’t disappoint. I expected it to be a tight match, but never expect Nadal to put up that much of a fight. In fact, I would say that Nadal had the momentum for the majority of the match, and that Federer could have very easily lost the match. But instead, Federer found a way to win his fifth consecutive Wimbledon title, his 11th Grand Slam overall. He trails Pete Sampras by three for the most ever, and I think it’s only a matter of time before the record books are rewritten. It can very possibly be as early as next year, but if not, more likely than not within two years.
The last week of June, spent a couple days in Sechelt relaxing with Elaine. We stayed at a beautiful BnB called A Place By the Sea. It’s a 40 minute ferry ride from Horseshoe Bay to Langdale, and then a 30 minute drive after that. It’s a nice place to stay to unwind a bit.
These last few days have sure been scorchers. We had our company BBQ last night, and there was so many leftovers that we had plenty to do another BBQ today for lunch. I’ve eaten so much meat the last two days… almost too much. Who am I kidding, you can never have too much meat!
