I am sitting here using some anonymous neighbor's WiFi while waiting for a technician from Verizon to come check the DSL. Since Saturday afternoon we've been without our regular service and it's gotten old real fast. I do see that the blog here is in desparate need of an update, so I'm going with a quick visit I made to Two by Four a few weeks ago. It was around 11pm on a Saturday night and I was k...

I want to clear up a few things regarding an argument I had with a player this week at Sophie's. It was during the third match of the night and we were down 0-2. I had lost earlier, in the first match, and had been replaying scenarios in my head from my match and was pretty pissed at myself for some of my poor decisions. My apologies to everybody for the temper tantrum. But what I want to write abo...

Lots of good thoughts running through my mind today. I'm still feeling really good about the summer APA session, my new teammates and playing on Monday nights. We had our first away match last night and we won 4-1 (the team we played, from Identity, only had four players show up, so one of our wins was by forfeit). When I picked up the sheet on Sunday I must say I was a little humbled to see that I...

This past Monday night was my first time playing for the Monday night Sophie's team. I won't get into the specifics of the team's dynamics just yet. It's very early on and I just want to see how things play out. But I have to say, I feel pretty good about this season. We won our match, 3-2, at home against a team from Sixth Ward. I played second, after AJ had won his match decisively against a SL4....

I had forgotten about a slow, non-league night this past winter at Sophie's when a photographer came in and started taking some pictures. I quickly learned that the photographer, Shanna Ravindra, was shooting pictures for New York Magazine's online bar/nightlife listings. I chatted with her only briefly, but once she told me her name I soon realized that I had used a few of her shots on this blog i...