Sunday, February 1, 2026 (Court Day #897)

It was a sunny 54° morning with only traces of clouds in the sky. For a January day, yesterday was an amazingly balmy 73° midday. I was thinking that maybe it would be that nice again today and it mostly was.

Brommer

I pulled in at Brommer Park at 8:50 a.m.

I got into an assortment of games over the next three hours.

In one game, Stoehr—whom I hadn’t played with in quite some time—and I lost 9-11 to Mo and Stu.

Caesar and I lost 7-11 to JP and Brendan. This one was more on me than Caesar. I was feeling low on energy by this point.

Cesar and I played against Evan and Paulie. We lost 9-11. It was a close fun game. There were more mistakes by Caesar this time.

Sean Lynch and I lost 7-11 versus and Austin and Isaiah, but we won the rematch 12-10. Those were fun games.

“Home, James.”

It was 68° when I left at 11:53 a.m. I had to get home then to teaching.

The last game helped me feel better about myself. My biggest issue in the last game was popping up volleys. (Or as my phone thought that I was saying, “follies“!)

Today was a mix of good play but also hitting the ball long, into the net, or hitting bad drops.

Skypark Tennis Player

I took a photo today when I was out at Skypark teaching this afternoon. One of the tennis players wasn’t happy that we hung our paddle rack two feet into their tennis area. (The tennis courts are more often empty than not whenever I’m there in the evenings.) Hanging the rack inside saves the trouble of having to go in and out of the gate. A few weeks ago, one of their players moved the rack outside of the courts and permanently secured it to the fence so it can’t be moved, and left a note.

Honestly, I don’t blame them. The tennis players already lost two of their four courts to pickleball and pickleball is so popular that the tennis players know to avoid the courts at certain times due to the lack of parking. Still, the note seems a bit aggressive . . . how about the word “please”?

Number of days on a court: 897
Number of total hours: 3,378.5
Number of paid coaching hours: 197.5

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