Archive for October 2008
Still Going? — Week 14
It continues to be hot here during mid-day. I just don’t know how much longer this can hold up.
I’ve been extremely fortunate to harvest roughly 15 tomatoes due to this. The eggplants and peppers continue to come too.
The fall crops are growing slowly but surely. The carrots and radishes, at the front are doing well too. I expect to harvest the quick growing radishes this coming week.
Box 1
Tomatoes
Box 2
Eggplants and bell peppers
Box 3
Brussels sprouts and spinach
Box 4
Beets and cabbage
Box 5
Broccoli, cauliflower, basil, artichoke and cowpeas
Lacrosse
Just over a month ago, Silver Creek (where I also play hockey) sent out an email that free lacrosse clinics would take place. These would be run by Shaydon Santos, captain of the SJ Stealth lacrosse team. I went to check that out, and the rest is now history.
I’m back to playing lacrosse again. Every Sunday evening there are two sessions, a beginner at 7pm, and advanced at 8:30pm. We do a lot of fundamental drills as well as 1 on 1s and 2 on 1s. Occasionally we’ll scrimmage.
Clearly a glutton for physical punishment, I join the advanced guys too, for a good Sunday night scrimmage beating. I’m always exhausted at the end of it all. It’s no wonder I can’t peel myself out of bed to get into the office at my usual 6:45am on Mondays.
Simple Pleasures
A few weeks ago, Tobia and I went to Mendocino. While there, we stopped by a small shop in the village to look around. Immediately, I noticed a good quality hacky sack near the cashier. $3.50 later, I purchased that hacky sack.
I could not have guessed the amount of pleasure this simple thing would bring me. For the record, I hadn’t hacky sack’d since my senior year of high school, more than 10 years ago. Back then, me and my buddies- DR and Beast used to hacky sack every day at brunch religiously… good times.
Now, I find myself with no one to hacky sack with, but I’m truly obsessed with it. I’ll take breaks in the mid morning at work to step outside and hacky sack for 5 minutes, I’ll definitely sneak some time in during lunch, and will spend at least half an hour every evening in the garage. My current record (as of last night) is 45 kicks in a row.
This past weekend, we went to SF with a bunch of friends for the day and I brought my hacky sack with me. I must have hacky sack’d for about 8 hours (on and off) throughout the day, hopefully not driving everyone in the group crazy.