you were my boy blue!

well it was a bittersweet weekend.

i started things off leaving friday night through some HELLACIOUS weather to go to Ft. Walton for my mom's family reunion. on the way i called to find out their room number and found out my family dog Trouble had died earlier that day. he was about 17 so his days had been long and fruitful. he wasn't in any serious pain but had bad arthritis. for a dog his age he was in pretty good shape. my mom said she just let him outside that morning and found him dead under his favorite shady spot in the back yard. you could only wish we all died so peacefully.

ft. walton was nice. i got to see a cousin of mine i had not seen for nearly 10 years and his now 4 yr old son julian. they live on a remote island in hawaii in a grass hut. i can not stress to you how literal i am being when i say that. it is a pretty enviable life though i must admit other than the 10 dollars a gallon for milk.

i left the beach and headed back home late sat. night b/c i had my ultimate tourny at 9 am sund. morning. i was not prepared. we played 3 games in the morning from 9 til 1:30ish then broke for lunch. we lost 2 and won 1 during our first portion. not so hot. we ate lunch at an awesome lebonese spot called mona's for lunch then hit the fields at 4 for the last 3 games. all in all, we basically sucked. we have some awesome players and some weak links. i brought my D game (defense) and shut down any chance of deep threats. made some nice interceptions and blocks however i threw a couple away on offense. we were flustered since things just couldn't come together with a few of the players.

every game we lost was pretty close though. story of our season. basically we would work to tie it up or get a lead and then it would get blown. anyways, short story long after a day of ultimate we all went to get trashed on free beer at St. Roch's Tavern. I was already sailing my ship out to sea since we were out of the tournament by late afternoon and i began drinking asap. i ended up eating bbq chicken pizza (first chicken in about 3 years i guess) which gave me some glorious poopage the next day.

all in all, it was an awesome time. my team while lacking in wins, brings a serious lush factor to the table. we always had a good time. im already buying new cleats for the fall league and plan to blow this shit wide open.

this time next year i will have a 60 yard hammer throw with laser guided precision.

My friend

We are the champions. Well not quite. Our tournament isnt until the 22nd of July, BUT we got our first regular season win tonight. Once again it was a brutal point for point game. Their stacking system for creating teams is remarkable efficient. We have yet to have a game (at least for us) that was more than 2pts spread. We play to 15 and each score is 1. We generally play for 2 hours so it's pretty rigorous.

Anyways we effin got the Dubya and it feels so nice.

Wound updates: Uncle Flow made another appearance tonight. A couple teammates expressed their jealousy at my having such a handsome strawberry that i get to show off every week with the crimson rivers running down my leg. Also, unrelated to ultimate, i bruised a rib. Unremarkable story attached to that injury, but this shit freaking HURTS. It's not a terribly bad one, but i can't take deep breaths or yell without it feeling like someone is jamming a broom handle into my rib cage.

Also FYI I am an otter.

That is all.

Glorious Food

Well i finally got my claws into some good ole farmers market grub. I got the tip from one of my ultimate league players as we got hammered after 4 hours of midseason ultimate play previously mentioned. They had everything. My fave picks were A) the dairy: the creamiest milk and butter i've ever had the joy of clenching in my cheeks B) general produce: HUGE peppers (3 for 1$ greens and 3 for 2$ reddies muy loco!), squash, zucchini, egglplants, okra etc... and C) SEAFOOD! shrimp for ::drumroll:: 2 bucks a pound. i regrettably had run out of cash by the time i got to the seafood table, but i'll be back on saturday. they run it on tuesday and saturday both within biking distance...le sigh. :D They even had worms for starting your own compost and crepes made to order. I'll probably take some pics next time of the local "color" that comes out at 8 am to the market.

Also, tomorrow begins the second half of our ultimate season. Despite the midseason tourney blowout our team has done very poorly in the regular season. Tomorrow with your good wishes and my new wristbands our team will let loose an ass kicking worthy of a LA rioter's nod of approval.

Uncle Flow

Uncle Flow,
originally uploaded by brent.buckelew.

Week two of my strawberry. I reopened this little nasty two more times during this weeks play. I decided to give it a name since it will apparently be hanging around for the duration of the summer league. On a positive note my team won the middle season tournament last night. We were all firing on all pistons and make huge defensive and offensive plays. It got pretty ridiculous as basically every other play involved at least one of our team fully laid out flying through the air to either bat away or snag a disc. Much fun...and then the whole tournament group biked over to kingpin and got drunk. Tra lala.

Today im enjoying 1) healthy relaxing bowel movements 2) mango,strawberry, and banana smoothies 3) reading in the sun. No special order.

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