Table tennis humiliation!
September 24th 2002 -
Table Tennis Humiliation
I wasn’t in particularly good form in table-tennis today, and got humiliated in one game 21-0 – the first time that’s ever happened to me that I can recall! Still, the guy I played against was one of the best there. He beat me in another game 21-5, and I was lucky to get that many. I played a whole bunch of other games, and lost them all, never getting above 15. Still, I enjoyed it a lot (as I don’t have any expectations of competence yet) and I’m keen to play on. Dave’s wedding is only two weeks away, and I greatly fear that my suit will be a little snug – I’ve not been doing much exercise since the ski trip, and that was also when I had my suit fitting. Oboy!
Guitar practice
I went to guitar practice yesterday, for the first time since the ski trip, and was relieved to find that I didn’t suck. I had been practicing a bit, but my tutor is a devil at picking up on bad habits, and extended periods of practice without intervention have previously resulted in very bad habits indeed. What’s particularly nice is that my tutor has decided to pick up the pace a little – I’m moving to some more challenging pieces, stuff that’ll sound really nice when I can get them to work. Yay!
Rut
Otherwise, I’m feeling like I’m in a bit of a rut. I haven’t been doing much creative in a while. I arrive back from work at about 7:30pm usually, have dinner, browse the web for a little bit, play with Anna for a while, then go to bed. It’s only taken two weeks to get like this… still, Ev and Sam arrive for a week’s stay next Saturday so that’ll hopefully pick up the pace a bit!