Cruising to a Halt

Well, the Cruisers took a hit to their record last night, losing 11-6. An embarrasing night in the field for myself, especially if it was fastball, but it was only the rec league slow-pitch... yet, I'm still a little embarrassed. I can't remember what inning it was exactly, but the first batter, one of these hulking guys on the team, skyed on towards me... I was backing up when I caught a bad patch of ground, my ankle rolled, awfully easy at that (because of previous injury) and I fell straight back on my ass as the ball fell to the ground. Then, before it was too late, there was a groundball that beat me five-hole... also very embarrassing.

Despite my defensive faux pas, my bat worked just fine. I went 3-for-3, all doubles, 1 RBI and a run scored. So, I suppose there's a silver lining in that dark cloud somewhere.

Tonight, it's a battle for first place in the fastball league tonight. The Royals are playing Rusty's at 6:45pm at Shouldice... should be a doozy of a matchup. We'll probably end up going up against their good pitcher, as he's dominated us so far this season. Unless... we get really lucky and play against the guy who has lessened their record to about where we are in the standings.

Jen said she might come out to the game tonight and Natasha wants to come out on Thursday night, if she can't make it tonight. It's sorta weird having someone else take interest, other than my folks, in my games. Crikey. That's never really happened before.

Otherwise, yesterday was pretty quiet again. Natasha didn't end up meeting me at the pub for the football match, rather Jen did when she was let out of school early and saw me walking by Starbucks as she was trying to study in there. She came and met me for one and that was about it. After the match, I met her back at the house (of course she didn't stay for the whole game) and took her to the bank to take care of rent.

I guess I'll be paying some bills today as well... yeah, it's about that time again. I really have to become a lot more focussed when it comes to bill paying. There's no reason why I shouldn't be. I really gotta straighten out my head a bit.

Looks like a pretty quiet day to start here in the office. Notice how I said 'to start.' Yeah, there is also a good chance I could be swamped before lunch today... but I kinda hope not. I do wanna watch the other semi-final today between Portugal and France. Kinda torn on who to support... with Portugal crushing England's hopes and France being France, it's really tough. I think all I can hope for is just a generally good football match.