Today, I played handball doubles with Flynn, Linus, and Brendon. I was not pleased with my performance. Some of my por performance can be attributed to tired arms from yesterday's handball and pullup session, but the real problem is my lack of practice. Most of the elements of my game today that I'm ashamed of were errors I almost played appropriately. I was often in the right position, but maybe a foot off from where I should have been, or I got to the ball and hand-faulted. I felt I should have done a lot better, but in retrospect I really couldn't have. When I've had a few games a week for a couple of weeks I can play better, but I should have realized my limitations, how cold and out of practice I was today. I was a little rough on myself today.

Let's just get one thing perfectly clear

This will melt your brains.

I proposed today

Just about half an hour ago I proposed marriage to my love Erin Colleen Anderson.

Here's how it went down. Erin was at CoalCreek Coffee, playing Go, when I came to see her. My pretense was that I would like to have lunch with her while she was there. While there I slipped a camera to my friend Will, who introduced Erin and I. I also pulled out my laptop and surfed a little, with the intent of leaving it open and suggesting she check out the newest Black Vatican. Little did she know that I had been conspiring with Flynn of the BV to have a version of me drawn up in comic form. The comic me is on my knee with ring in hand and a word bubble with a little question mark in it. As soon as she started looking up the comic I knelt down beside her and got the ring ready. As soon as she looked over the comic I held up the ring and asked her if she would marry me.

Here's what it looked like

you might get something like this

Imagine



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Vampire Princess

I bought Bunny a dress, and it just arrived today. The dress was labeled "Vampire Princess dress" and was originally about 93$ When I first looked at it the dress was on clearance for 43$ and I considered getting it then, but held off. On a whim, I looked at the sight later and the dress was marked down to 21$ and they still had Bunny's size. I thought to myself that I could not possibly pass this up and got it for her. Like I said it came in today and I'd say it was more than worth it, what do you think?

I've decided to learn how to play an instrument. I've never been that musically inclined so I decided to start easy. The easiest choice would be to take up the tambourine, but I think I can do a little better than that. So, on an impulse, I decided to look into Pennywhistles. I got the idea from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere book. A roguish and somewhat dodgy character pulls out a pennywhistle from his coat pocket and plays a tune on it. The fact that a passable pennywhistle can be purchased for under ten dollars is also a factor in my decision. After plenty of research I decided to go with a lovely starter whistle from the Walton company. Walton whistles are the top sellers in Ireland, and the particular whistle I bought is a Walton's Little Black Whistle. If anyone needs to ask, the answer is yes, the color did affect my choice of whistles. I almost went with the Guiness whistle from Walton, but I read in several places that there is no difference between the Guiness and the Little Black except color and 3 extra dollars for the Guiness version. So here it is, the Little Black whistle.



















I have found several places online to start my study of the instrument. One of the best seems to be this nice fellow, who just happens to be a Jesuit in training but I wont hold that against him.