Let’s run it back, Flagged, Had to stay awake
I played pickleball Saturday morning after already playing in the tournament Monday and two lunchtime sessions during the week. I realized one of my favorite things in pickleball is after you beat a team and they ask if you want to “run it back”. To me this means the other team feels they should have beaten you but didn’t for some reason. I always welcome running it back, Saturday had one of those situations.
The team we were playing had two middle aged men, both with solid skills and better mechanics than I have. I could tell the one guy in particular was getting frustrated. He could hit hard and did so repeatedly at me however most of the time I blocked the drive cleanly back at him. One rally really pissed him off where he drove at me from near point blank range, I blocked it back to him in the air, he took another full swing sending another rocket which I blocked back at him as well. On his third giant swing he drove the ball into the net. I try to not react much externally when I make a good play like that but believe me inside my mind is yelling “yea get that shit out of here!” So in the run back game we beat them again, 11-7 proving it was not a fluke. I decided to leave on a winning note, happy overall with my play. Winning run back games are always fun for me.
Saturday afternoon I took on the task of replacing the American flag at the entrance of our development. Since I am a board member I saw the email where somebody commented how beat up the old one was which I honestly had not noticed. I offered to handle the replacement.
Whomever did it last used some creative rigging. The rope that the flag was attached to was falling apart and was wedged into the pulley so I was unable to lower the flag to change it. Instead I had to lift the entire 11-12 foot pole out of it’s base and lay it on the grass. When I bought the replacement flag I bought a replacement rope and hardware so the flag can be lowered and raised via the pulley instead of having to heave ho the entire pole out of the ground.
I got out for a short ride on Sunday on my V13 with the primary focus of testing my new DJI Mini mic set up. It’s inexpensive and much more bare bones than my existing OG DJI mic but it seems to work well. I like the small form factor and getting two transmitters for $79 seems like a great deal to me.
Last night I had to stay up until close to midnight to run a process at work. I decided a good way to stay awake was to live stream to fill the time, my 125th live stream episode. In the stream I talked about the recent changes in our community regarding e-bike enforcement which is bound to spill onto the legality of my electric unicycles. I also talked about my interactions with one EUC manufacturer who offered me a collaboration on one of their wheels. The collaboration had all sorts of conditions and instructions on how they wanted content created which I immediately pushed back at. It seemed like they wanted a glorified commercial for the wheel instead of an honest and open review. I ultimately told them no thanks and asked them to not contact me in the future.
By the time I got the process at work done my head did not hit the pillow until a little after midnight. It’s going to be a long day.