Pie to commemorate 9-11?

I'm tired, so let's keep this brief. I woke up and got to work at a reasonable hour this morning. Then I spent most of the workday doing some minor website/marketing editing and prepping the macros/conditional text in the documentation for 6.0. One odd thing about today—we had pie in "honor" of 9-11. I'm not too keen on that. I can understand talking about things or even putting flags at half-mast. But I think honoring or commemorating the day is exactly what we should not be doing. Anyway, at 5:30 I went to Kiwanis for a little bit of throwing and two or three points of ultimate. I had an awesome backhand today, by the way. I think I'm getting it back, and actually my mechanics are a lot better because of my focus on it lately. Then it was volleyball time. I'll tell you what, it's not often that I admit to being the worst player on the field of anything. But I was today. These guys are all really good, and Vance was a better setter than almost anyone I've ever played with. It was definitely upper-division play. I think my contributions to the team will be limited to making sure they have enough people to play. And I guess I can stay back and be ready to dig out a few spikes. My serves generated a few oohs and ahhs, so maybe that's another strength I can offer. Even with me being the worst out there (and I'm not saying I totally sucked, I just made about 5 or 6 very blatant errors), we lost. 15-10, 15-8. Oh well. It's still going to be fun. And maybe I'll get my volleyball skills back. I saw the Crandall brothers from the ward there, as well. Maybe I should ask them to help me get my skills back. After volleyball, I went to Pier 1 Imports and bought Laura a vase for her birthday tomorrow (yes I'll put flowers in it). It's kind of a translucent white. Not too loud, but still with personality. And then I went to Walmart, where I tried out one of those new McDonald's salads (I'm not impressed) before getting about $80 of groceries, miscellaneous cleaning supplies, toiletries, and plants (88 cents for each small plant—I'm decorating my whole room with them). Then I came home, and that wraps things up.

Posted September 11, 2003 (11:22 PM) | Comments (1)