Thursday, May 6, 2004

It's been quite a week. We have practiced under glorious skies and warm temperatures every afternoon so far. I like the way we are preparing despite a million distractions.

JUST ANOTHER MANIC MONDAY (The Bangles)

Monday night we learned our tournament playoff seeding, #2 of 16. Santa Barbara is deservedly the #1 seed after thrashing Arizona in the WCLL final last Sunday.

Our bracket contains us (CSU), Simon Fraser, Michigan, Cal Poly, Colorado, Minnesota Duluth, BYU, and Florida State. We play the Klansmen of SFU at 4:30 on Tuesday in round one,

The other bracket is made up of UCSB, Texas, Oregon, Boston College, Arizona, Georgia Tech, Sonoma State, and Missouri.

You can say this or you can say that, but all I can say is that there are no easy roads in these kind of events, and our path would appear clearly to be no exception to that rule.

IF IT’S TUESDAY I MUST BE IN HOT WATER

Sometime long about Tuesday night or Wednesday I was CENSORED, asked (told) to remove some words that I had written in here Sunday night after the CU game in Provo. These remarks of mine were interpreted to be disparaging to some by some. How could that possibly be? I removed the words that had come under scrutiny. It wasn't hard. I just selected the words and hit the delete key. The words were actually never written.

THE NERVE OF THAT (Flip) GUY

My, aren't we touchy? I had no idea I wielded such power with my little "personal" diary. Far be it from me to offend anyone. I am quite sure I have only done that a hundred or so times before. I think I shouldn't say which ethnic or other group of society that I offended. I'm sure no one read what I wrote anyway.

IT’S ALL HAPPENING AT THE ZOO (MIZOO that is)

There's all this other stuff going on with me right now and right here. You got your China trip in three weeks to get ready for, with that quick trip to Maine for niece's graduation right before I head west to go toward the land of the Rising Sun. Wait, that doesn't sound right..

The Rock-it Pocket express remains the bullet train (at least for what I'm used to). but that's already old news. And then you got your Vail and all that pre-planning program and other mumbo gumbo going on right now with that. Oh yeah, and we leave for St. Louis on Monday at the crack. I do what I have to do to take care of the things I have to take care of, including my family, but I must trust in others for some of those other things, because right now my heart belongs pretty much exclusively to the events that are about to take place at the Busch Soccer Park in Fenton, Missouri.

I can't help myself, either. I spent all last night making little widgets to help ensure that our sticks are all LEGAL, including my assistant coaches. I'm sure that will be the next thing. They will check my assistant's stick and we will get a three minute penalty because Kale played with the Mammoth last year. For yesterday I deemed that to be my most important role (fixing legal stick problems) since there are others out there who will do ANYTHING to win. My problem is that I will only do ALMOST anything. I don't want that to not be enough..

China still seems far on the horizon, and I will treat it as such, even if it's really not. I started packing boxes for Vail (July) last week, because I will have so little time between China and the thing that for me is as there as life its ownself.

I am almost packed for St. Louis already, and we don't leave for four more days. My fear of forgetting any little thing keeps me pretty perky. All things must be just so, a delicate balance of what's new and what's familiar.

Most things loom small to me right now except for the challenges we will meet up with near that huge silver arch that is the Gateway to the American West.

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