More Volleyball

Another Loss

Alex had another volleyball game last night and they lost in the third game. They play a best of three games using a rally scoring format. That is a point is scored on every serve. Back in the old days you could only score if you served the ball and you played to 15. They play to 25 for the first two games then only to 15 on the final game.

The girls won the first game then went on to lose the second one and only scored one point in the third game. It was painful to watch. In the last post I said something about the girls going backwards in their abilities. I'm not so sure about that. I think, now, that they just haven't gotten any better. The teams we're playing seem to be getting better and we just stay the same.

Anyway, as long as Alex is having fun I suppose that's all that matters.

Long Weekend

Sorry about that

It was a semi busy weekend, so my posts were a little lacking. Saturday Alex had a clarinet recital that she has been looking forward to for a while. Did I say looking forward to, I meant dreading. Although she does pretty well she doesn't like doing it and it has been horrible leading up to it. Of course she did fine and got a first place. Unfortunately I had to miss the event.

I went to one of Angela's cousins bachelor party. The most fun was racing "go karts". All of my time playing racing video games has paid off in kicking a bunch of young kids butts. Then Sunday was a day of trying to motivate myself to finish up a paper for a class I'm taking. I really need to stop putting off my papers to the day before they are due.

Alex had a volleyball game Monday. Angela seems to think that the girls are going backwards since they lost another game. I tend to agree. Alex does really well in receiving servers but her serving has been lacking. Hopefully they'll pick it up for the tournament they have this weekend.

Wii fitness age: 27

More Wii

Sorry...

I got more Wii news. I talked about the Wii being able to cross boundaries between the ages. I think that this article pretty much sums that up.

Wii Invades Retirement Home

Maybe the Wii could be a fantastic donation item to local retirement homes. Of course you have to be able to find them first.

Updates

for past posts

We haven't seen the skunk around. I've smelled it but haven't seen it. That's good news.

We're still playing the Wii, and I'm still having fun. The bowling is starting to kick my butt. I'm putting a little to much curve on the ball and not hitting the pocket very well. I bowled a 114 or something like that. Emma's 175 smoked me!

The Wii fitness test has added boxing and golf to the tests. I've brought my fitness age down to 33. I had a low of 24 but it jumped back up. Emma did the test the other day and was thrilled with her 80. I think she is under the impression that higher is better. I didn't want to pop that bubble so I let it go.

Tomorrow is the guitar update...

Volleyball

uninspired

Alex had a volleyball game last night, and the girls lost they're first match. They play a best of three and it looked good after the first game but after that they seemed to lose any motivation to win.

Alex played pretty well, she does a really good job from the back row receiving serves. We need to work on the serving part though. We think she does a good job and enjoy watching her play.

Hopefully they will pick it up next time.

Wild Animals

Not good!

There are certain wild animals that you don't want to see on your front porch. A bear? Sure that wouldn't be very good, but not very likely. We don't live in bear country. If there was a bear on the porch you could probably make a little noise and it would hopefully go away. I'm not a bear expert, that's why I said hopefully.

A tiger? See bear entry above. How about an opossum? I have a little experience with this one. We've had one of these on the porch and it waddled off with a little shooing away. Coupled with Mr. Opossum is Mr. Raccoon. He wasn't on the porch but was in the yard. He (Mr. Raccoon) kept coming back though, so he's now Mr. Pushing Up Daisies. This may seem like a cruel result but he took a few cats with him and didn't seem very likely to stop feasting on them.

This brings me to the current creature and the one voted "I don't want you on/ near my porch"

Mr. Skunk made an appearance on the porch last night. I looked outside on my way to the living room and there he was, about three feet from one of our cats and about five feet from the front door. Once again I'm no expert on these things but I'm pretty sure that if a skunk gets startled they defend themselves by spraying a really nasty smell. So what does one do to get a skunk off the porch and away from the house?

Well I cracked the door to hopefully (there is that word again) get the cat to come towards me and the skunk to move away. A couple of tense moments later, with only one skunk tail lift (no spray, thankfully) the skunk moved off the porch. Unfortunately he moved under the porch. I wasn't going to flush him out so we had to just let him work himself out of there.

He must have left on his own sometime in the night since I did a cursory peek through the lattice under the porch and didn't see anything. Hopefully he'll stay away.

The "Wii"kend

More snow

We got some more snow on Friday. Once again it made driving a slow go, but luckily everyone made it home safe. I think Emma is enjoying the Wii a little more. She has branched out into also playing tennis. It's fun to watch her play, it's also fun to play.

Yesterday Emma put on some makeup. She apparently was an actress and was going to be starring in a PG-13 movie. We asked her if she knew what a PG-13 movie was and she did. But she didn't have an answer as to why she was going to be in one. She just said she was. Once again, I have no idea where she comes up with this stuff.

Day III

I'm happy

I guess I should have gotten a Wii a little earlier, I blog more. Wii Fitness went well for me. I have a lowered my number to 33, hopefully I can maintain that.

Alex had a volleyball game tonight, which they won, so we didn't get to Wii until we got home. We bowled of course. Emma is getting better, which is good. She funny to watch when she does well. Her hand goes to her hip and she looks back at you like "I'm good, that's right!"

I think everyone is getting better with bowling also. I scored a 220, my personal high and Ang rolled a 170 or 180. Like I said before, it's fun

Wii Day ii

I'm sore...

To say that the Wii is an interactive video game is an understatement. I tried the boxing and now I'm sore. I guess I used a few muscles (I use that word loosely) that I haven't used in a while.

The Wii has a fitness test on it. You perform a set of tasks, bowling, tennis and baseball then it shows you what your Wii fitness age is. I was a little shocked at mine, 47, until Alex did hers and got the same result. It does say that the tests are designed for adults so the kids test won't be as accurate. I'm discounting that for now. Of course Alex performed the test again the next day and was down to 32, the best fitness age is a 20. Somehow I think I'll have to work a little harder to get mine down.

Snow Day

No School

We got a bit of a winter storm yesterday. It made getting home a bit slow, but we all made it home safely. Alex has been under the weather lately so she may only have one day of school this week.

Thankfully for Ang I came home with something to occupy the girls on the snow day today, besides the snow itself. I brought home a Nintendo Wii. Alex seemed excited but it looked like I just punched Emma in the stomach. Thankfully she warmed up to it.

The Wii is amazingly fun to play. It allows the entire family to play one game and be competitive. It came with a sports pack and it looks like bowling is the game of choice.