Weekend Stuff

This weekend was amazingly busy. On Saturday was our cricket final against our rivals from Columbia University. I lost the toss and they batted. We all bowled and fielded well and after a slight rain interruption, managed to bowl them out for 135. Every bowler took a wicket but Bert, our West Indian quickie, destroyed their top order taking 3/21, including a caught behind that exploded off the pitch and almost took the head off our keeper! It was quite an amazing ball.

I felt confident with the chase, we had a good batting side. Keith and I opened and I managed to get away to a quick start, hitting a 4 from the first ball. I ended up with 27 from 24 balls, our #3 had a similar innings and Keith and Oli got us there 2 wickets down with about 10 overs to spare. It was quite satisfying to beat them after a game earlier in the season had left a bad taste in our mouths with their antics. So Mad Dogs are the champions of the "World Series League" for the second year running. The story behind the name is quite simple...when we formed this league 7 years ago, we had to pick a name. Our captain at the time put forward the World Series League and so for the purposes of humour, it stuck!

After a couple of beers I drove home and had to shower and change quickly for poker night at Gary's. This was also a lot of fun. We played a 10 player tournament where I finished second (after two rebuys). Then a 6 player tournament where I finished 3rd or 4th (not really sure). So a $20 profit on the night and a lot of fun makes it all worthwhile. For the record, on one of my bust outs before rebuying I had JJ cracked by 99, but fortunately the cards fell the way they should later in the evening.

I arrived home at about 1:30, just in time for the broadcast of the Parramatta v Melbourne league final. Of course I had to watch and despite the result, it was a very good game of football. So I crawled into bed at 4:00am and managed to grab 3 hours sleep before getting up to help Mindy get ready for Fiona's 3rd birthday party.

It was a relatively small group but Fiona had a lot of fun. The theme was a "ballerina" party and the girls all had fun dressing up and dancing. Mindy then took Naomi to "Peace Day" with their "Roots and Shoots" group while Fiona and I napped on the couch.

So after all of this, I guess it is no surprise that I got sick on Monday. I have bronchitis and am on antibiotics. I am feeling a lot better today and should be back at 100% for my work trip to Vegas next week.