I've got blisters

Hey gang,

so as expected, this weekend was rather dull. Even the Hyde Park Food Produce was closed when I went there this morning. Closed! Something about easter sunday and what have you. Just when I was getting accustomed to this buying groceries on sunday thing. Oh well, so I got some water, bread and milk from the pharmacy next door. Heheh.

After that I went to the gym. Now the plan was to shoot some hoops - or at least try to - first to warm up, then do my weight routine, shower, sauna, shower, done. So I borrowed a basketball and went to the little "auxiliary" gym. In there were three guys playing on one hoop. I did walk past them and started shooting on my own but it felt impolite not even to offer to play two on two. How could they know that I haven't played this game in almost seven years.

So when I offered two on two, they surprised me by saying "sure, but let us finish the game first". See, I didn't even know you could mount a "game" with three people. So I went back to shoot at another hoop by myself and while their game was still going on, two more people went through and said that they wanted to play on the main court. Soon afterwards, when the initial three were done playing, they said they'd go to the main court and that I should come.

Uhm, well, OK.

So the new arrivals were actually four people - just like the four of us that had been in the little gym. So teams were pretty much decided on right off the bat.

I did get a warning in during warm-up shots that they should beware of me. Trouble was that during those warm-up shots I miraculously got a few three pointers in so the people on my team probably thought I was full of it. Oh well.

Those four that had arrived together obviously didn't team up for the first time. They had their act down and destroyed us in the first game. Obviously, we wanted to rematch and this time it was a closer game that we actually won in the end. So of course, we needed a tie breaker. This was the point that I knew I had to stop - I was wearing the wrong shoes for this and that tiny little bottle of water I brought was drier than moon sand by now.

Unfortunately, that would have left the teams uneven at three to four, again, not really a polite time to go. So we played that third game and I finally have my blisters - same place on both feet, dang those shoes.

So I'll give my best impression of House, MD limping across the wards these coming days.