God, has it really been that long since I last posted on this blog? Things have been furiously chaotic, and seriously changing. So I haven't played a lot of tennis lately.
But today I moseyed out to Crockett High to play tennis with a group of folks. It was 105 degrees. I remained standing (and running and such) for two hours and I'm not quite sure how. At some point, I felt like the sun was just going to take me. I felt weak in the knees, and nausea seemed to grip my whole body. But for some reason my play improved.
Yes, I was ready to die, and just kept going. Even though most sane people would have stopped and maybe even gone straight to the hospital. I just figured that if I died right then on the tennis court, it was the way it should be. So I kept going, potential heat stroke be damned.
I did get over the worst of it, but decided to throw in the towel after a couple of hours. I won some, lost some. Didn't play any singles this time because there were a bunch of people and only a few courts, so it was all either doubles or Australian.
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A scholarly discourse regarding fascinating and obscure psychological factors leading one of this planet's more curious carbon-based organisms to extemporaneously expel random musings which may or may not be related in some fashion to propelling a small round object through space above a flat surface either into or beyond an interweaved perpendicular highly porous fabric, within or outside of geometric patterns inscribed upon the aforementioned flat surface, mostly utilizing a stringed paddle.
This blog will, among other things, chronicle my attempts to meet my New Year's resolution of playing 365 sets of tennis in 2007. I did let myself start a little more than a month early. Why? Because I can. And because the thought of averaging a set a day for a year is, um, maybe a little overwhelming. I wanted some leeway to deal with the inevitable injuries, rainouts, cancellations, and so on. I also needed time to ramp up and contact people and get a network of people to play. So I have already started 2007 with 34 sets that I played in late November and December of 2006. Anyway, either way, I did play (and even exceeded) my 365 sets for a year, whether you count it from starting early or or from January 1, 2007. For more info, click on Why a Tennis Blog? and Clarification and Further Study of the Matter at Hand. Nowadays I just chronicle the tennis I play when I feel like it.
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