Thursday, April 2, 2026 (Court Day #920)
It was wet on Tuesday so tonight was my first time playing since Sunday.
Earthquake
This morning at about 1:40 a.m., I was suddenly woken up by my house getting thrown back-and-forth. It was an earthquake. And a decent sized one at that. I was at work in a second story office in October 1989 when the big quake struck and took out a number of buildings in downtown Santa Cruz. Today’s quake wasn’t quite as strong and lasted far shorter—only about three seconds.
My wife told me before she left for work that it was a “4 point something” earthquake, but why it felt more intense than that was that the epicenter was only a few miles away in Boulder Creek.
One of my staff, who is not native to California, was pretty shook up, literally, by the earthquake. She said that she didn’t go back to sleep and instead spent four hours on the phone with her mother in Europe. Me? I was tired and was back asleep within a few minutes. Earthquakes are nothing new to me.
Skypark
I set the security alarm after work at about 6:20 p.m. then headed to Scotts Valley.
It was sunny and 64° when I arrived in Scotts Valley about 6:30 p.m. Sunset was still an hour away.
It was busy enough that I needed to park down the street and around the corner.
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It was very busy, in fact, it was so busy that there wasn’t enough room in the paddle rack for all the waiting paddles. There were 32 on the courts, 16 paddles in the rack and another 5 or 6 paddles either jammed between the rack and the fence or lying on the ground next to the rack, waiting to get in. That’s over 50 people.
A main topic of discussion tonight was the earthquake. A few people said that they simply slept through it.
There were no games of major note tonight, it was hard to be choosy about partners without extending already long waits even longer.
Number of days on a court: 920
Number of total hours: 3,435
Number of paid coaching hours: 209.5
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