I had a post started but somehow lost it... so this is a redo. Sigh Anywhooooooo.... Another season of ball hockey started last Friday. We played the team we knocked out of the finals last season. They certainly seemed to have remembered and played with an unexpectedly high intensity for an opening season game after three weeks off... Our play was also pretty rusty, missing shots on net, incomplete passes, no finish... we weren't good. So we've started the season with a loss... Shockingly, we also only put up 4 goals - we typically double that... So hopefully a better result this Friday. I don't what I was thinking, but, the second game was short players, so I played a second game. The body held up for two more periods but by my sixth period of play my lower calves were not happy...I did play pretty well, we did win the second game. I was shocked that I had no post game leg cramping... I pretty much assumed it was going to happen... I did down two gatorades so I guess that helped....
It was an early morning for a hike meeting... they are always Saturday morning... so escaping the hockey then up early sequence is impossible. Was good to see everyone in person.
No rest for the weary... Saturday evening was Bdot's work holiday party... To avoid the introverted nightmare of small talk, the parties are usually active. This year we returned to the 'make your own dinner night...'. It was worth it. Dinner was really good... Steak, fish, bean salad (which I cut lemons for), soup and bananas flambรฉ for dessert. The restaurant was in Vaughan which I haven't been to in years. My how it has grown... So many buildings - it felt like driving through downtown Toronto - with the car volume and slowness...It was funny to see the Chef enjoy the dessert as we were leaving, but getting out the 'good stuff' and adding dark chocolate to the dessert! Staff there was excellent and made for an enjoyable night.
Calves continued to burn Sunday... even after an epson salt soak... UGH. Aging sucks.
...and of course, RIP Renee Good. She was murdered by a misogynist Federal ICE goon who was upset at two lesbians giving him attitude. Then worse, (?) Mango doubling down and justifying the murder and his VP giving them carte blanche to execute more innocent Americans. As usual, no accountability. The US has seriously lost its way...the whole administration is hell bent on authoritarianism. Just disgusting.
Congress needs to grow a pair and 25th Amendment their out of control nutjob leader...