No complaints, A W

I had a great weekend. Friday after work I got to take in another sunset at the beach, something that will be much more difficult to do once the clocks change in a couple weeks. The weather was near perfect, the water looked like a lake and all seemed right with the world for a few minutes.

I kept myself busy on Saturday doing a bunch of different tasks. I had been having some annoying issues while doing video editing. I decided to throw a new video card into my computer which is now over four years old, probably closer to five. The card has a significant horsepower boost although since I don’t do cutting edge gaming I don’t know I will notice that much of a difference. I just want these long pickleball videos I have been editing lately to go smoother.

Saturday night I went to see the Halloween lights at Victoria Park, something I had not done in a year or two. It seemed like there were fewer houses decorated than I remembered but the ones that were were pretty cool. I wonder how these people store all of these Halloween and Christmas decorations on an annual basis.

Sunday morning was my first ever pickleball tournament. My partner Brian and I had never played one before. This was a “mini” tournament where the only divisions were skill level which were gender and age blind. We played the 3.5 skill level. The division only had a total of six teams including three female teams.

We won pretty easily all of our pool games except the last one. It was against two women whom probably would play 4.0 in a female only bracket. They had good hands and made a lot of smart plays. If we made a mistake they more often than not made us pay for it. We were barely ahead 8-7 when one of the women had a very bad looking ankle injury where it got turned 90 degrees. She was down on the court for awhile while people attended to her. She got wheeled off the court so we wound up winning that match by forfeit.

In the playoffs we played two mens teams we had beaten pretty easily in pool play. Both playoff games were much closer. Brian and I were getting a bit tired and the other teams played better than the first go round. I believe the scores of the two playoff games was 11-7 and 11-8 in our favor. It was a fun morning and made me more interested in playing more tournaments in the future, something I have not done in many years since my old beach vb days. I recorded all of the games but one.

I had lunch with Brian and his wife afterward which was nice. It felt good to escape the heat and replenish my energy with some quesadillas. I watched the beginning of the Eagles/Vikings game at the bar and listened to the rest at home. I did not realize former Eagles QB Carson Wentz was playing for the Vikings right now. Hell I didn’t think he was still in the league. He had a very Carson style day where he made some great and awful plays.

Jalen Hurts had a big day statistically and the Birds managed to escape Minnesota with a win that they were fortunate to have. In many ways the Vikings outplayed the Eagles IMO. I am not quite sure why the offense can no longer run the ball. Barkley had over 2000 yards last year and seven games into the season he hasn’t even had a single 100 yard rushing game. It seems the offensive line is the problem but maybe all of the fame and fortune that came after Saquons monster year last year has taken a little edge off his game. It’s clear that this team is still struggling to find any sort of consistency, despite a 5-2 record.