One more, Shogun 44 years later

After my huge one day lay off from pickleball I wound up playing twice yesterday, once at lunch and then again in the evening. The nighttime session went longer than I anticipated, right around three hours. I was on my way out when an attractive woman I played with earlier asked if I could stick around to play one more game. Despite two sore knees I agreed, of course.

A common mantra in pickleball is “one more game…” which refers to just how much people love playing the sport. No matter how long someone has been playing, they always can play just one more. Well as is often the case, one more game turned into four more games. I didn’t leave the courts until after 9:30 PM. I iced my right knee when I got home. I’m walking without a limp today which is good, since I am supposed to play volleyball tonight. It never ends.

I watched the new Shogun series on FX several weeks ago and enjoyed it. My buddy Larry suggested that I check out the original Shogun series that aired in 1980 that had Richard Chamberlain as the lead. He said it was good. After adjusting to the stark difference between 1980 production value and modern day I have been settling in and enjoying the different interpretation of the book the older series uses versus the FX version. No, I never read the book.