« 10 days can really fly | Main | Quick post. It's late and »

April 19, 2002
Home today because Interwoven is

Home today because Interwoven is down at work. When this happens, I can't really do anything. If I was working on a different project, I could get something done, but my current project is entirely Interwoven dependant. All the better. It's already late because my computer crashed and I spent 3 days trying to fix it, but I'm not particularly concerned. These things tend to work themselves out. Hey, the worst that could happen is I'd get fired and thrust into the cold harsh light of reality.

Channel 61 played our first Big City Vollebyall match last night. We won the first game and lost the second and third. We were trying some new positions, setting from the right and having a middle hitter. I thought it worked fairly well, with a little practise (or a lot) we could be very effective that way. The captain role is getting a little frustrating, however. What we really need is a coach. Someone who can tell people to shape up or bench 'em. Someone who stands on the sidelines and watches the whole game, watching each of us. As it is now, everyone, myself included, has a lot of complaints about what other people are doing that makes it hard or impossible for them to play well. Basically, it feels like we've reached a sort of limit to how good we can get without some serious coaching or instruction from an outside source. Someone who doesn't have to be nice, who won't see us at work the next day. Someone who's only goal is to make us a better volleyball team.

That said, maybe some of this is better left for Block Island, our slightly more advanced team, and Channel 61 should be left to have fun. The problem with this theory is that we don't have much fun when we suck.

A few days ago I passed the 1000 days of no smoking landmark. I'm up to 1004 now.

Speaking of the quitter, one of these days, I'd like to enhance that baby a little bit. Add some email functionality. Oh yeah, to coredump too.

Ta ta.

Comments

Previous Comments