{"id":1470,"date":"2014-06-06T07:23:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T00:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2014-06-08T15:45:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T08:45:18","slug":"one-of-us-is-busy-the-other-not-so-much-63-514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=1470","title":{"rendered":"One of us is busy, the other, not so much, 6\/3-5\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although, it\u2019s a short week, Judy has lots to do.\u00a0 <\/span>She has students performing at the 5th<\/sup> grade graduation on Wednesday.\u00a0 <\/span>Thursday, several of the teachers are getting together after school to video a humorous tribute to the faculty and staff that are leaving BISS at the end of the year.\u00a0 <\/span>Friday, she has students performing at an assembly.\u00a0 <\/span>Busy, Busy, Busy!<\/p>\n

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The BISS graduating 5th graders.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since I\u2019m finished at school, my three days are spent a little differently.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m trying to balance my busy schedule with table tennis outings, swim sessions, and the occasional grocery outing.\u00a0 <\/span>Tuesday, I went to the park for some table tennis.\u00a0 <\/span>There\u2019s always new people and experiences, and they\u2019re beginning to get comfortable with my presence.\u00a0 <\/span>One lady has decided to teach me Chinese.\u00a0 <\/span>She can hardly play without stopping, pulling out her phone, and searching for a word to teach me.\u00a0 <\/span>I worked in a swim session, and a haircut later in the afternoon.\u00a0 <\/span>I also walked over to Solana Mall to get some of Judy\u2019s watches fixed (batteries), and to tighten up the diamond in her wedding ring.\u00a0 <\/span>The watch repair shop is gone?\u00a0 <\/span>The jeweler looked at the ring, brought a manager over to look at it, and then shook me off.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m not sure what the issue is, but they didn\u2019t want to have anything to do with the ring, or repairing it?\u00a0 <\/span>This was not a productive visit.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, I went to the TT club.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ve been there in the middle of the day when it was hot, and there weren\u2019t many players.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ve been there on a Saturday evening when it was crowded.\u00a0 <\/span>Today, I arrived at 9:00 am, and there was a big crowd.\u00a0 <\/span>It wasn\u2019t as busy as Saturday night, but most of the tables were being used.\u00a0 <\/span>I walked down to the middle of the playing area, where there\u2019s a grouping of benches.\u00a0 <\/span>I set my stuff down, turned around and someone was offering me a chance to play.\u00a0 <\/span>He was really good!\u00a0 <\/span>Everything I hit to him, he calmly returned it.\u00a0 <\/span>As we played, he was smiling, and even began to look bored.\u00a0 <\/span>The longer we played the more he began to probe the weak areas of my game, and the ball kept coming back at me right at the weak spot.\u00a0 <\/span>On the positive side, I\u2019ll improve, but my ego is going to take a beating!<\/p>\n

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Thursday, I went back to the park, searching for my self-esteem.\u00a0 <\/span>Again, there were some characters around.\u00a0 <\/span>One guy rolled in on his bike, pulled out a small jambox, turned the volume way up, and started singing along with what I think were Chinese traditional songs.\u00a0 <\/span>Someone finally convinced him to turn down the volume.\u00a0 <\/span>Then one of the guys I had been playing TT with, walked by, showing me what looked like a weird bike chain.\u00a0 <\/span>I turned back to the table to play, and a loud pop had me jumping out of my shoes.\u00a0 <\/span>The \u201cweird bike chain\u201d, was what I would call a bull whip, and he was snapping it like a circus performer getting control of his tigers.\u00a0 <\/span>It consisted of a handle, then a chain similar to a bike chain (about 10 feet).\u00a0 <\/span>At the end of the chain, a length of rope was tied in, for about 2 feet, and the last foot of the whip was an even smaller piece of rope.\u00a0 <\/span>It was a strange looking thing, but boy, it could make a lot of noise.\u00a0 <\/span>He could really handle it!.<\/p>\n

Later in the day, I managed to get to Metro for some groceries, and followed that up with a swim session.\u00a0 <\/span>Judy and I finished up the evening with some episode of season 2 of \u201cMajor Crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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