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A Fall Week

No, this is not another techie post. I think I’ll avoid writing those if I can, as this isn’t really the forum for that. And hey, this is supposed to be a personal blog about myself and not about technology. Although I love gadgets and technology, and it is a big part of my life, my life doesn’t equate to it… at least, I hope not

So anyways, I give you a recap of the last week of my life.

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Ultimate frisbee has returned after a 10 day hiatus due to the Canadian Thanksgiving break. We played both our games on the weekend on the Ottawa U astroturf. I love that stuff!

Once you’ve played on the fancy shmancy turf, it’s hard to go back to regular grass fields. No hidden ankle-breaking divots to run around, no slipping on wet grass, and no nasty stains. It’s always nice to play on astro-turf. I have even had a chance to play on the even fancier turf at the Landsdwon Football stadium. Fall Ultimate has been pretty awesome for venues.

I thought we’d be rusty after such a break, but we were revved up and we creamed both our opponents. Saturday’s game was pretty much a straightforward victory, even in the rain and without female spares. We played the same opponents we played during the finals in the summer, and again we beat them down. It was like deja vu all over again, as they continued to rely on the same defense that they tried to use in playoffs. Zone defense is easily beatable, especially when its the only defense used.

Sunday’s game was a little more of a contest. We were matching points tit-for-tat for about the first 10 points of the game. Offensively both teams were hot, and there was no real defense going on. We played a man at first, but decided to mix it up and go zone since they were considerably speedier than us. Our zone shut down their offense for some solid turn overs and we ended up creaming them thereafter.

Ultimate is great :-). I honeslty can’t think of any other sport that I would enjoy more. It’s very deep in both strategy and athleticism, so I’m continually learning the game. The assloads of running are starting to whip me into shape (I can walk flights of stairs without gassing, huzzah!), and the intellectual side of it is simply beautiful to see in action. To watch a solid offensive play in motion is a thing of beauty.

I guess the only way to describe it would be to say that it’s tons of continuous play and running like soccer, but the movement of the disc allows for a lot of strategy like in American Football.

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Saturday I was invited to a LAN party out on March road in Kanata. It was pretty fun as I got to play more Quake Wars: Enemy Territory, which just came out this month. What can I say? I can’t ever complain about 8 hours of gaming. Though we only had 6 guys playing, it was still fun to game in a group.

I also bought Team Fortress 2 which came out last week. It’s simply addicting as hell, and an amazing game. I basically had to choose between getting Halo 3 and getting TF2… I think I made the right choice. I really don’t have much time to burn on playing video games, so I’d rather spend my precious gaming minutes on a game that I would actually enjoy playing online :-).

It’s amazing to see that computer gaming technology has reached the point where games look like Pixar movies… rendered in real time. The graphics in TF2 are pretty close to what you’d see in Toy Story. It’s quite a feat when you think that something like Toy Story took millions of dollars of hardware to render.

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Renata usually does an annual pumpkin carving event, where we invite a bunch of friends and kids over to carve some pumpkins and have a potluck. So in anticipation we’re decorating and cleaning up the house to make room for it. Renata’s sister is also unexpectedly flying in from Arizona to spend the week, so our weekend, aside from Ultimate and the LAN party, has been spent cleaning up the place.

Living in a house has its costs I guess. I’m slowly adjusting to the suburban house-hold life style. I’ve learned that things are in a constant state of needing to be cleaned, and that yard work has be done more than once every 6 weeks… which I’ve been doing most of the time. Sigh…

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