Monday, September 10, 2007

"I called it the Caleb point."


I have my new computer now. UPS was kind enough to leave it in our aparment lobby. Just inside the door to the street that doesn't close most of the time. In related news, UPS deliverymen are incompetent baboons.

I played a lot of sports over the weekend. Wicked Awesome's fall highlight reel started on Sunday, featuring the return of Beef Ox. This will be chronicled by someone else with accompanying picture soon enough so I will allow you to satisfy your softball curiosity elsewhere.

On Saturday FUNK had our first tournament of the fall in Naperville. I stayed at the Hatzfield residence the night before to get a good rest. I was feeling reluctant going into this tournament. I was ready to play but not exactly excited. This was a young team and I am now in my later 20s. I can't quite grasp the flavor of this as it alternates from motivating me more and burning me down.

We were supposed to have 27 players there (according to DM). I knew to expect less, however when it was time to start the first game and we had 12 I was a bit bewildered. Apparently confusion is the fuel that drives the Caleb-Train because I played my hardest the first game turning it into my personal mission statement of dedication to the team. I subbed as little as possible while maintaining performance. My best point, and by this I mean of my life not of the weekend, came about half way through the game when both teams were winding down from the initial spurts of energy and suffering a morning lull. I had three layout d's and felt personally responsible for driving my team to the goal. We ended up losing the point on a swilly huck but I still felt accomplished.

The rest of the weekend went much better than expected. We won our pool and played good ultimate until the end of the day post-bye when we failed to get reignited. Cass came and stayed about halfway through the second game. Her parents came and watched the second and third game we played, including a glorious victory on the last point of the game. I really appreciated having an audience.

I don't know what the future holds for my ultimate career. I had however been timid in laying out ever since this spring for a reason so secret I have yet to discover where it came from but its departure signals a welcome rebirth for me and an ominous warning for my opponents. Talking trash on the internet is not new, but neither is me pwning the ultimate field.

P.S. Someone mentioned the lack of pictures on my blog. Since I do not take many pictures I have instead decided to google the title of every post and take my favorite picture from the third page to lead the post. Hope this satisfies the photophiles.

7 comments:

Cass said...

HatzFELD Cal. We're almost even. :)

TaylorStreet said...

I have no idea what a "layout d" is, but it sounds fucking cool. Well done!

Jay M. said...

Possible descriptions that I think would fit "swilly huck."

1. A tasty micro-brewed beer from southern Wisconsin.

2. Chuck's new nickname for Wicked Awesome.

3. A backcountry word meaning, "jive turkey."

4. A strange sport term, such as: "bicycle kick," "scrum," or "hockey."

Jay said...

I think you should have used the picture linked below, I think its more stoic

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/images/ap/images/ap33.61.L.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blogmeridian.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html&h=395&w=500&sz=37&hl=en&start=43&um=1&tbnid=F_mbpEaUWU-QhM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DI%2Bcalled%2Bit%2Bthe%2BCaleb%2Bpoint%26start%3D42%26ndsp%3D21%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

Jay said...

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/images/ap/images/ap33.61.L.jpg

sorry, here is the link

Jay said...

add "33.61.L.jpg" to the end of that last one, I don't know why I can't paste links, I think it is because Jesus hates me

Jay said...

One last try, in two parts

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/images/

ap/images/ap33.61.L.jpg