Yesterday we finally had some drier air come into our area. Although it was still warm the lack of humidity in the air was clearly noticeable. Both during my lunch time pickleball session and my evening volleyball play my perspiration levels were significantly less than what I had become accustomed to.
Speaking of volleyball, I played pretty well last night, putting in some of my more consistent play in awhile. Although I enjoy playing with the core group I still am hoping to possibly play with some more consistently skilled players to help me elevate my game more.
I now have ceiling fans and a raised garden bed sitting by the front door in boxes. All of it will get installed by the end of the weekend. I look forward to both having modern, matching fans in all of the bedrooms as well as the ability to start growing some fresh veggies and herbs in the open spot by the corner of the lanai. Life is good.
On Friday after work I hit up happy hour with some of our pickleball crew something I don’t typically do, ever. It was a nice relaxing way to slide into the weekend. Later Friday evening I did a rather quick live stream. I ran out of steam pretty quickly due to poor sleep the night prior.
I did more purging this weekend. You would think with as much purging as I have done in 2023 that there would be little left to get rid of. That is not the case. My target this time was my t-shirt collection which used to stuff four drawers of the dresser.
I have gone through my shirts a number of times but this was the most significant cut of them all, filling a 30 gallon trash bag. I did very quick evaluations on each shirt which included recalling how often I had worn it in the last year. I also finally started using holes and other severe signs of wear as viable reasons to retire the shirts. The end result was much less full drawers while still having enough t-shirts that I could wear a different one for 3 months straight and never duplicate. It was an effort well spent.
I watched the Eagles game on Sunday. The Commanders were more competitive than I thought they would be. The Eagles made some sloppy moves at the end of the game. They were already in field goal range and could have kept grinding closer while running down the clock. Instead they threw into the end zone for a TD which is great, normally. However in these conditions it was not ideal. AJ Brown who caught the TD made it worse by taunting the defender which moved the kick off back 15 yards which in turn allowed Washington to start with great field position.
The defense allowed the Commanders to march the filed with only one timeout before scoring a game tying touch down with literally zero time on the clock. It was frustrating as hell knowing if the game was managed better and AJ wasn’t an idiot Washington would have had no chance to come back. Luckily in overtime the Eagles forced a punt and then were able to drive within range for Jake Ellliot to put the game away with a long field goal. The running game which had been dominant the last two games was not yesterday. Luckily Jalen Hurts picked up the slack posting what I think was his best statistics of this season.
The rest of my weekend was enjoyable and chill, a state of being that I am looking to indulge in more and more often.
