Tigres, 1-1

We won our game last night. It was a modest win, 40 to 16.

The game was a bit more lively than last week. We had two team members ejected. An ejection also carries with it a one game suspension. So they will not be able to play with us next week. Plus we had one player blow out his knee. No, not one of the 40 year olds either. He is 21.

We were playing in another state (I think our only road game) and I was one of the only 2 cars that were coming back last night. The city of Campeche is about 2 hours from Mérida. I got to bring the injured player home and to the hospital. The game ended around 11, and with getting loaded up, stopping at a convenience store for food and grabbing gas, we did not get on the road till 12:00. I got home around 2:30 this morning after dropping my ambulance load at the hospital.

I played a bit more in this game than last week. There was another new guy that has not been to any of the practices who played my position.

Our defensive line was incredible. A marked change from last week. One of our tackles could not be there, so we moved a line backer up to that position. That made all the difference. This line backer turned tackle ended up with probably 6 sacks and multiple running back take downs. He was quite impressive. I think he will be staying at tackle.

Our kicker was injured during the game and we trolled the sidelines to see who could kick. One guy volunteered and did a great job. I don’t know how he would do for field goals (since we don’t have our arena built, we are not kicking field goals yet), but for the kickoffs he did well at placing the ball at the back of the field.

All in all, a much better game than last week. We seemed a bit more together.

California here I come!

I am headed to Long Beach, California June 25-29. I will be going in the capacity of a polyglot/polydigit interpreter. Here is what they are asking me to do. This should be fun.

  • English to Spanish (voice)
  • Spanish to English (voice)
  • English to Mexican Sign Language
  • Spanish to American Sign Language
  • Mexican Sign Language to English
  • American Sign Language to Spanish
  • English to American Sign Language (not officially, but I am sure I will be doing a lot of that)

This is for the Deaf Baptist Fellowship of America (DBFA) conference. I have never been to DBFA before. It always conflicted with camp when I lived in the US. This year it is a pretty tight conflict too, but there is a week between this and camp here in Mexico.

I am excited about it too. There will be several old friends whom I certainly have not seen in the last 3 years, and some of them have been many more years than that.

Anyone know good running routes in Long Beach/LA?

Do you like spies and intrigue?

I would not consider myself a great code-breaker, but I do enjoy codes and trying my brain at figuring them out. I guess that is why I like puzzles and why the Rubik’s cube that a friend gave me a month ago is getting well used.

There is a website that will help you write a secret code. I have not taken the time to try and figure out how the code/decode works at it, but you can check it out.

I was given a code to plug into the site there. This is what it says: SHX OGUONPR ZI RWP MAEJ ZUSBO-VCJSFPX OPKJCBLUSBP SGDURMPR (decoded: SPY SWEEPER IS THE MOST AWARD-WINNING ANTISPYWARE SOFTWARE).

When you decode the message you will find out that there are other people who like codes and spying. Some do it for nefarious purposes while others do it to stop them. The bad guys are trying to break into your computer and take over. Sometimes they want information from your machine. Often they want to turn your box into a zombie for their use.

While the good guys like Webroot have programs they produce to help you avoid the bad guys. Their program Spy Sweeper is an award-winning anti-spyware package. It will download new spyware definitions automatically so that you don’t have to worry about the latest threat you hear in the news.

If you are running Windows, then look into having an anti-spyware solution. Their program is Vista Ready.

World RPS Society

I was listening to one of my podcasts that teaches deep mathematical concepts. While listening today, they were talking about Game Theory. This caused them to bring up a story one of them saw in the news about the Rock Paper Scissors Championship. I did some looking and came up with the World Rock Paper Scissors Society.

They have a championship coming up in October if you want to go.

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2nd Annual Phedippidations World Wide Half Marathon

Phedippidations World Wide Half MarathonThe half marathon that I promoted heavily last year is coming up again this year. Registration opened for the Phedippidations World Wide Half Marathon about a week ago. Already there are over 160 people registered. Last year there were about 400 who registered for the race.

It is not so much a race as it is a group of runners from around the world running together in different places. It is quite an event.

This year one of the new twists is that we will also be doing a 5 Km. race that same time. It is called “Kick the Couch 5K.”

The event is October 13 and 14. But you can run the week before or the week after and still be part of the event. So pick one of those three weeks to make your race day.

There is a forum to get further information if you have any questions.