First Week

Where are we?

A wonderful summertime destination

The appropriate snarky answer to this is always 'Earth', the more immediate and subject matter relevant answer is about 2 days into a new season of basketball.  Since I left you last spring I haven't done much or really felt like doing much with this blog.  I tried writing a couple things but they ended up virtually crumpled up in the virtual waste basket.  When I started this idea about 18 months ago I really was only committing to trying it for one year.  I did that, it went ok.  What I've found is a new level of respect for people who do this on a daily basis.  It can be, and was at times, pretty draining even to the point where you wonder if what you're doing is really worth the efforts.

I am not a writer by trade or education, it is something I found along the way that made it easier for me to both organize my thoughts and remember them.  I am actually not very good at either of those things, a picture of my brain might look something like this:

that could be my monitor, sadly I am not exaggerating

Writing this blog revealed a few things about me that I didn't particularly like.  One is the number of just ridiculously simple spelling and grammatical errors I catch myself making.  It is often times something I can't control or stop from happening, it is simply the continued deterioration of a brain I will have to learn to deal with.  Believe me I don't enjoy editing something 4 times and still finding errors that I didn't see the first 4 times anymore than you like finding them (unless you're a Calvin grad then you probably do like finding them).


None of the many things I can think of sound like a good enough reason to just shut things down completely.  I do like having a place to compose thoughts and other non-sense away from the clutter of what is a less and less enjoyable message board experience.

Where are we going? 

setting course in a general...that way direction

I'm not sure I've completely decided how I will handle this year on this blog.  By the end of last season I was pretty tired and worn out, I don't necessarily blame blogging for that but it was probably a contributing factor given some extra games attended and some later nights that otherwise wouldn't have been.  I'd like to avoid the affects of my annual 'spring crash' as much as possible.

In the meantime I'll put out a schedule analysis sometime soon and a couple other things before the season starts.  From there I'll just contribute when and where I can, I really have no desire to see and write about as many games as I did a year ago.

First practice picture of the year comes to us from the Hope women's team:

If I lived closer you'd hear about them more

It's really here already isn't it.