the small excitement of yesterday’s hurricane (well, tropical storm as far as my area was concerned) has passed, and we are back to dull old boring normal. ha. i did take a few pictures yesterday of the slight flooding we did have here, mainly for the benefit of my curious parents. you can view them here if you’re curious as well. the rising waters weren’t spectacular by any means, but they do give a person a pretty good idea of what might happen if claudette had made a more direct hit, or if it had been stronger than category 1.
anyway.
last night was nice. i left work feeling extremely frustrated with the world, but i worked off some of it in the weight room, and the rest of it disappeared when we managed to actually win another volleyball game. hurrah! everyone on the team is improving, and with the help of some strategically placed subs, the last two weeks have gone well. we always play best in the first of the three games. hmm.
i came home to fix dinner and watch the all-star game. i missed the first inning and a half because of volleyball, but it was still scoreless when i tuned in. i wasn’t paying close attention to the game for a while, as i busied myself cooking dinner and talking baseball with carter, but i sat down to watch the last couple innings, which frustratingly turned into a national league loss. i wanted to see smoltz. i wanted the braves to have home field advantage, if they can make it to the world series. watching rafael hit a ball to within one foot of being a home run, only to be caught for the last out of the game was sad. ah well.
all in all, it was really a pretty good game. i do feel bad for the players who were on the team, but didn’t get into the game…but at the same time, it was nice to see it played a bit more like a real game, and thus taken a bit more seriously.
though i could have done without fox’s stupid slogan. “this time it counts.” ugh.
