Blog of Billy

The UCO tournament was quite entertaining. I got to judge some of the better novice rounds (and some of the not-so-good ones) I've seen in quite a while, and OU had some good successes. Congrats to Conor and Blake, of course, and also to Laura and Dustin for being the second OU team to take 1st in JV while dropping only 1 ballot. Do that twice more, and I'll be really impressed.

Similar happy feelings toward the UCO kids (specifically Avery) for giving me something to do in the evening time, and a place to stay. Crashing random birthday parties at nice Chinese restaurants can be a lot of fun, even as the driver (a role I'm trying to fall back into).

One can go through and find certain cyclical patterns to their life. A really obvious one presents itself to me with the calendar. There are certain months of the year that have historically been the cause of drama, and certain months that always seem to go well. February is generally a very happy month, as is May. March tends to be troubling, but not so much that I can't function. September is usually the start of at least one big problem. The biggest difficulties I generally have to face in a year, though, tend to start sometime in the last 2 days of October, and continue cropping up right into the first 2 days of December. These are not easy things to deal with either. Less like "bad grade on a test" or "car gets a flat tire." Those are problems for other months. November touts personal statements much more like "wife leaves you" or "realize that Grandpa is really not going to get better." Looking back, I haven't had a happy/easy November since...1997-ish, which seems much longer when I describe it as 1/3 of my total Novembers. Even that one only gets counted because I don't remember anything specifically bad happening that year.

How do I know that people understand me?

[15:23] neisy888: and how is today?
[15:23] YouAreMy7thSeal: oh wow
...
[15:25] neisy888: oh it's november
[15:25] neisy888: isn't it?
[15:25] YouAreMy7thSeal: it sure is

Good ole' Neisy.