Friday was the first day of the big Breast Cancer 3-day walk here in San Diego. I had a couple co-workers walking in it, and the walk when right by our building, so a big group of us went down to cheer them on as they passed. We ended up heading down there about half an hour before our walkers showed up, but we cheered for all the walkers as they came by. It was a really neat thing. It was a tiny thing to clap for people as they walked by, but everyone was so geniunely happy and thankful that we were there. So that was really nice. I'm pretty sure that we, the spectators, were the real heros that day.

Friday night, Diana and I headed over to the ol' high school football game. It was a lot of fun. I loved going to football games when I was in high school, but I barely remember actually watching any of the games themselves. Diana gave her students a point of extra credit on their homework (which is basically nothing) if they came up and said hi to her at the game. A few did, and we even saw one or two literally walking around, scanning the crowd looking for her. It was only after a couple students came running up excitedly that I realized what a clever plan it was. Some seed of an idea of "seeing their teacher is a positive experience that you should look forward to" is now planted in their heads, and I don't think the importance of that could be overestimated. Clever girl.

Saturday, we took my parents to the airport, and then did a little shopping. I'm dismayed at how few stores interest me at UTC. EBGames barely has any PC games anymore. No bookstores. No Gamekeeper/WotC. Not even a Radio Shack. That place is pretty much cut, as far as I'm concerned.

We finished watching Eryn's "Freaks and Geeks" DVDs this weekend. What a great show. I throroughly enjoyed every episode, and am pretty bummed it was cancelled. We also rented "Spellbound", and "Searching for Bobby Fischer", the latter of which we watched with Diana's parents Sunday evening (haven't watched "Spellbound" yet). SfBF was a really good movie. Kinda cheeseball, but I liked it a lot. The main kid (character, not actor) in the movie, Josh Waitzkin, is the guy who teaches via Chessmaster 10 (he does substantial dictated, animated, annotated lessons in the game), so it was neat to see it from that perspective as well.

My Fantasy Football boys won over the undefeated Brown Trout. I was down by just a couple points going into the Monday Night Football game, and had Baltimore defense. No problem, I figured, but then KC started scoring tons of points, and I was getting no defensive points at all. I was completely saved by a punt return for a touchdown, which I didn't realize at the time counted for my defense (it's a non-standard setting, I believe). So, it was a squeeker.

Last night, I had a workboy softball game, where we played a team that has been undefeated for the past two seasons. They beat some other team in our league something like 40-4. They are a bunch of 30+ folks, all of whom, you can tell, were ex-highschool or college baseball and softball players. The women on the team were better than our boys, and their boys were really good. Basically, one of those teams that just has no business playing in a B-league, for-fun softball league.

Which leads me to this. I like to think that I'm not a quitter. But I also believe in choosing your battles, which implies quitting. In spite of what others might think, I really don't mind losing. I really don't. But I've got better things to do then run after softballs while watching the other round the bases at will. That's just not fun. So, our team struggled through it, and really the game ended when the other team decided to stop playing seriously. It really left me kind of bummed. I left a nice warm house and cozy wife on the sofa for this?! Bleah. I'm interested in your comments on situations like this…