So it has been quite some time again since I've blogged. I've written notes on the subway, had pages drafted out but they never quite made it on the blog. There have been some really great developments with my teams this season. The Big City team is doing better yet we're still adjusting to one minor issue but as long as we isolate it and minimize it then we do okay. I won't go into details but let's just say that we're working on it and I'm feeling a lot better about it. My Urban team is still in first place. We had a rough game last week, Halloween to be exact, when the candy was flying and the costumes were worn, and we faced a decent team but we had a couple of players who got lost finding the gym. It was a little hard for people to find but we also knew the other team playing before us so we were there super early. Anyway, with some key players not there we kind of fell apart in the first game and lost a lot of our confidence. These players are good but they do not make the whole team but many other players just had a rough start and we had to get back on focus. We did by the second game and gave the other team a good fight, barely losing it 16-17. We totally decimated them in the third game once we got our bearings back in place with a score of 15-4. We knew we had the just stay focus and have fun. But there's always one game that just gets away from you and there's nothing you can really do about it but just let it go. This week we had another great game where the referee commented to us that we have a lot of fun on the court. It's never at the expense of the other team because we always keep it on our side with the laughter and "cutting-up" romp that goes on. So it is a bit of a mind game on the court and as long as we stay focus, talk to each other, and have fun then we're doing the best we can.
I'm also happy to say that next week I'll be attending the wedding of my old teammate Anne Tam to Harry. I wrote my first blog entry about Anne and how she was the first person I met in my "volleyball" career. Now I can't believe that she is getting married to Harry, another volleyball player. I can't wait and will take a lot of pictures.
Last week was the fourth anniversary of attending Brandeis Open Play. It was actually Sunday when I started but this time the date (Nov 2) fell on Friday night play. It's still a changing scene, six months of new faces and rotation but there have been some great people to walk through those doors along with a lot of good play.
So the crew I've been hanging around for the last year or so has come up with some really crazy stuff. But lately they've been doing something for pictures that began when a few of them took a trip to Canada. They "jump" in the pictures and they did it through a lot of Canada, a short four day trip produced about 750 pictures and mostly it was of them jumping. So we've been doing a few jumps in random places but one night over the weekend we decided to jumps in front of NYC famous places. We covered just a few places but we're trying to cover regions of the city. It's totally stupid and I was simply the photographer (it takes good timing to catch them in the air), but when they jumped people would smile and laugh, so we made people happy. That's the best part of it. Having fun and making fun. This is a photo of Belinda, Vanessa, and Rich jumping near Rockefeller Center in front of the GE Building. 
