The giggle

This year, our Many McGee's vball team has been having sooooo much fun. We really do have a lot of fun playing together.

Last night we played the late game, 8:30 p.m. For a bunch of  "old" people, that is really late. At that time of night, we don't play at our best and we don't always act "normal." For example, last night Tom giggled....during the middle of a play.

It is quite normal for our team to carry on conversations with each other while the ball is in play. It is also normal for us to talk to the other team off and on during the game. And we definitely laugh during our games. But I'm pretty sure that this is the first time one of the guys has giggled during a game.

It made me smile.

The other team sent a light free ball over the net. Tom and I were in the front row and the ball was right between us. Normally, I have the second ball. So I thought Tom would take it. But Tom thought since it was a nice light free ball, I would take it and set him up in two hits. And sadly, neither of us communicated during this play.

Well, I stepped back, let Tom gently pass it to me, I gave him a nice set and as he was going up to hit the ball, he giggled.

"Did you just giggle?" I asked.

"Yep." Tom replied.

"Why?"

"Because I wasn't sure what we were doing."

Sometimes, that is how our games go. We're not sure what we are doing.

Oh, so close

I had high hopes for our games on Wednesday night. We had a ringer filling in for us. Jason. Big guy with big blocks and hard hits. Add that to Steve, Jenna, Ray, and Tom's hits and blocks and surely we could get three wins out of it.
Well, sadly I must report that we lost 2 out of 3. Very close games.
We analyzed our playing and the best we could figure out was that our downfall was that we kept stepping in front of each other and messing up the digs.
Any suggestions?

On a fun note, for our team huddle before the third game I suggested we say Setters are beautiful. Ray is such a great captain that he went along with it! Of course, he and Tom are also setters so they felt just as encouraged as  I did.

I got some slack from Steve. I believe there was a comment about being old. He was scared that I would withhold his sets from him. But being the gracious person that I am I chose to forgive his silly comment about my age. He was just joshin' me. Right!?!

Trying out a podcast

Today in Techie school, we worked on recording and editing a podcast.
We are working in a room full of people and have a lot of background noise.
I'm sure if I were working in the quiet of my own office, it would sound a lot better.
But for the sake of learning, I'm going to post it anyway.

Hmmm,,,,maybe I won't post a podcast. I'm not sure where to add it at.

How about a video instead...

volleyball from Kimm Guercui on Vimeo.

adding photos within the text

I figured out how to add a slide show in the side bar.
But now I would like to figure out how to add the photo among the text.

An important step in downloading photos among the text is the placement of your cursor when you begin the process.

My bad

If you sat back and listened to the volleyball games going on at Pearce, you would think these were the worst players.
We have a habit of announcing our mistakes with the famous words
My bad.
Sometimes it is said in conjunction with a hanging head or a wave to the team.
For those who are more confident in their volleyball mistakes, just say it and move on.
One of the interesting things about this well heard phrase is that many times, those words are uttered, even if it wasn't their mistake. They can be used as encouragement to your fellow teammates to help take the blame off of them.
I'm sure there are psycologists who could do a thesis paper on the insights of why we feel compelled to annouce our mistakes or take the blame for our teammates.