Month: June 2020 (Page 3 of 3)

Sunday, June 7, 2020 (Court Day #346)

I asked Binh last night if he wanted to play at Brommer today but he replied that he’d be playing at Derby instead and I was invited. Good enough.

I arrived at Derby at 9:15. Maree was there with her husband Mark G. Binh was off in the corner warming up with Allan K. Chris was there with his blonde girlfriend Barbara. Tom M., Sue, Wayne, Dave Allenbaugh and Jerry were there too. A pleasant surprise was Bryan from San Jose was also in attendance.

For health safety, we each served with our own ball. We did our best to never touch the ball of another person. Tom forgot a few times. Most of us forgot at least once—even me once. With that, I had a sanitizing wipe I had at the ready in my backpack and used.

Wayne was playing well. He was actually in a short dinking battle and won the point. Wayne, the banger! Impressive!

I can say, even playing lefty, I was still solidly in the mix in terms of skill. The most memorable game was Bryan and me against Maree and Binh. The last game of the day. He and I were both playing left-handed though we are both naturally righties. He for the challenge, me due to injury. We still won 11-6 or 11-7.

12:40 and we were done. Maree, Mark, Binh, Bryan and me all walked out to our cars together. There was some talk about going to lunch, but with COVID still affecting restaurants, it never materialized and we went our own ways.

Number of days on a court: 346
Number of total hours: 975

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Monday, June 1, 2020 (Court Day #345)

Last night, I contacted Binh about playing this morning, we arranged for two other people, Josh (older, not younger) and Stuart, to round out our doubles game.

I arrived at Brommer Park a little before 9 a.m., our planned time. Binh was warming up with Josh.

Before long, we were in a game with Dean. Dean was nursing some injuries but even then was taking it easy on us.

I didn’t play as well as yesterday. Even Chuck noticed. “You’ve made more mistakes in the last 10 minutes than 10 games yesterday!”

Still, I had some decent play. Binh and I played Kevin and his wife Bev and it was a good game. Honestly, I can’t recall if we won or lost, but we were up late in the game. Not bad for me playing lefty, right?

I continued to be careful about COVID and wiped down my hands and paddle between games. I did touch my face a few times, but I never touched my eyes or inside my nose. Still, it’s a bit like Russian Roulette. But instead of six chambers in the revolver, there are a thousand—or many thousands. There’s no way to completely eliminate risk, but one might say the same about going to the grocery store.

We wrapped up play shortly after noon. I headed home to make a run to the dump with the tree trimmings from yesterday. Back to work tomorrow.

Number of days on a court: 345
Number of total hours: 971.5

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