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April 25, 2004
mah feet hurt
Grampaw's feet hurt today. On Friday I was moving large robots and small submarines around to get a museum of student projects ready for Maryland Day on campus. Took it easy Friday night and then got up and came back to campus to do museum duty...lots of standing around and walking to and fro. It went well, but the exhibits were sorta back in a corner of a large building and the visitors needed some coaxing to come back and see it. Mental note: better signage next time. Then I watched a little bit of a Maryland rugby match, went home and planted sunflower, morning glory and acorn squash seeds in the garden.
Took it easy again that night, and watched a very gripping movie about a British mafia gang in the late 60's called Gangster No. 1. While I don't much care for gangster movies or crime dramas, this one was interesting because of the strange relationship between the head mafia dude, played by David Thewlis, and his goon. The goon was played in younger years by the wonderfully psychotic Paul Bettany, and in his later years by a ruthless Malcolm McDowell. The gripping part was that you could never figure out wether the goon was jealous, obsessed or in love with the head mafia dude, even until the end. There was no clear line as to wether it was love or hate between the two, maybe both.
While we didn't win today's match, the matches were competitive, and jimbo got some cheers for aggressive playing. Apparently I need to get like that more often. I got on the ball and was running with it, passed it to a teammate before getting tackled. I didn't go down, but the monkey on my back wouldn't let go either, which I think is illegal or at least bad rugby. There are no piggyback rides for kids over 35, so I knocked him with my elbow to his neck. He wasn't amused, and gave me a few rabbit punches to the back. I think the ref only caught that part, and not my elbow knock, so we got a penalty kick for the effort. He wanted a piece of jimbo for the rest of the game.
Then right after the game it was roll-up time for new characters with the D&D gang. We didn't get any playing in, and again consumed massive amounts of carbs and sugar. My tummy hurts now too.
Posted by jimbo at April 25, 2004 10:05 PM
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Techinically, we didn't win, but we didn't lose, either...A side was a 10-10 tie. B side I think was 15-7.
And you played great Jimbo! Go grampaw!
Posted by: stebbins at April 26, 2004 10:02 AM
Hey I need Morning Glory seeds. Gimme some!!!
Posted by: Dan at April 26, 2004 7:26 PM