Turbo, Human scoreboard, More meet ups

Last night was my third volleyball session with the higher skilled group and it was the most fun yet. There were a couple new faces this time, one of them was a young guy that was on my team. His energy and speed was amazing. He would explode after balls, going full out Superman on some of his saves. It was a lot of fun playing with him. I played pretty well overall and feel like I finally am in a group of people that I really enjoy competing with.

For some reason in both pickleball and volleyball I am the human scoreboard. I always am the one to keep track of the score and call it out in both sports. I don’t really know why this is but people now expect me to be the scorekeeper. It’s a role I don’t mind, someone has to do it.

It’s funny, when I first moved to Naples in 2000 I was all about volleyball. I looked all over the place for groups to play with. I did a few indoor sessions at a local rec center but quickly realized that was bad for my knees. I recall going to the park that I now play at and seeing others playing but not being willing to approach a bunch of strangers to ask if I could join. Now here I am, nearly 25 years later out there in the thick of it. What a strange and twisting path I took to get there.

I did of course wind up playing beach doubles for a number of years when I hooked up with Randall. We had a good time playing although that was only in less than 10 tournaments a year which required a cash and travel expenditure to participate in. I never had a local group to play with weekly. I am enjoying it, even though it wears me out at 56 years of age.

On Saturday I am supposed to meet up with some more people that know me from my YouTube channel. They are vacationing in the area and asked if I would ride with them so I said sure, why not. I have probably connected with at least 10 people that previously only knew me from YouTube. It’s always been a positive experience. The rest of my weekend will include my setting up my new robot vacuum, pickleball and whatever else comes to mind.

Last year at this time I was digging into all of the preliminary steps with buying my house as well as getting my old house in tip top shape and ready to sell.