Sunday, September 13, 2026 (Court Day #965)

As I walked around in my kitchen—a real kitchen, as in my house!—there was pain in my right knee. It is so chronic these days, most wonder if it’s worth mentioning anymore.

I still have a significant welt on my right leg from my tumble almost 2 weeks ago. It’s kind of crazy how significant and how long this bump is lasting.

Heading to Brommer

It was clear skies and a sunny 64° morning as I left my house. I had two new classes starting today, my Beginner class at 1:30 p.m., followed by my Advanced Beginner class at 3 p.m.

As I drove to Brommer Park, I was hoping to wash the taste of my play from Thursday night out of my mouth. Thursday was bad.

Brommer Park

I pulled into the parking lot at 8:41 a.m. to find the parking lot only a little bit over half full. I ended up waiting to get into a game.

I caught a photo of Gary. It’s the look of focused anticipation!

I made a note of two body bags… but I can’t remember if it was me bodybagging someone twice or me getting bodybagged. In any case, some bodybagging went on today!

I teamed up with Mary Kay and our opponents were relentlessly targeting her. 

I played with Marcus against tattoo Aaron and bird-researcher Alex R. and we lost 8-11.

Stacking in Rec

John, the taller stocky guy who often shows up wearing a 49er sweatshirt, has his birthday today. We ended up in a game together and we were playing against Conner and Aaron, the tan, bearded, tattooed guy. We found ourselves down 3-9, mostly through me trying too hard. We went on a run after John suggested that we started stacking with him on the left. That worked well. It was a battle back-and-forth for those last remaining points. We ended up winning 12-10. That was nice good game, not a cakewalk by any stretch.

Gabby & Becca

It was getting closer to time for me to leave. Gabby was hitting balls back-and-forth with a young woman who I had met once before named Becca. I asked Conner if he wanted to play a game with the girls—I wasn’t going to have a lot of time just sit around and wait for some other game to finish.

I suspect Conner was taking it a little bit easier in this game, I know that I was. I was passing on winners and trying to hit the ball to Conner more frequently. Becca and I ended up losing this game 10-12.

Hit the Road

I checked the time and it was 11:51 a.m. I needed to get home to teach.

It was 70°F when I left. That was nice, it only climbed 6° since I arrived.

Most of the games today were with one or two weaker players. I think they were only two games that I’d consider strong and challenging games.

Number of days on a court: 965
Number of total hours: 3,541
Number of paid coaching hours: 234.5

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