And Basketball.......

I haven't wrote about this yet but I was asked to join a friend in starting a intramural basketball team with several of his co-workers.

We are now 8 games into the season and are still searching for that elusive first win. Everybody is out there to have fun which I like. We were overlooked at the start of the season but now that we have had considerable leads in half of our games (we just can't seem to finish strong) we are slowly gaining respect from the rest of the league.

Hopefully we can put one in the win column before too long.

Softball (23 MAY07)

Oh wow I guess it's been a while since I wrote about this. With my Thailand trip and FTX I guess I've forgotten to write about it, but we have still been playing!!

We have amassed a 20 win season already this year and one loss. That one coming to at the nads of the Essex. Last weekend was Armed Forces Day and we actually got a tournament in that wasn't rained out. We started out great winning our first two games pretty well, but the Essex team seemed to find their bats as the day went on and once they found us in the Championship game they never looked back. They had to beat us twice to knock us out and that is just what they did in two very close games.

Last night I guess we were still feeling the shock of being beat by the same team thrice in a row, and we gave away a game to the fire department that we should have won.

Wecaught a break though by playing the depleted USS Safeguard team. We played as effectively as the other games the only difference was they couldn't. We beat them with the mercy rule and stopped the 3 game losing streak.

4 MORE YEARS! 4 MORE YEARS!

Well the time had come again to make another decision. The window for my re-enlistment opened and thanks to great work by one of the few good NCO's in this unit I ogt what I wanted, Europe. More specifically Germany, but I figured chances were thats where I was heading with the many ARMY bases in the country. After asking about the country to friends I have over there the decision came easy. So as of yesterday I re-enlisted for 4 more years to get the slot over there. I report over there next spring so that gives me plenty of time to finish up travelling over here. Thanks for all the congratulations!