September 9-12

The early part of the week had little to recommend it, there was no evening activity to speak of since there was no baseball anywhere and street hockey season hasn't started yet. On Tuesday night Don and I firmed up the league format, we get underway on Tuesday the 17th. We have eight teams as we did in the spring but the lineup is different, two existing clubs disbanded and two new teams have taken their place. Two other teams have new identities thanks to sponsorship changes so on the surface half of the league is new (although it's really just a reshuffling of the deck since many of the same players are undoubtedly involved). It's a fourteen-game schedule with all teams playing each other twice, four games are scheduled each Tuesday and Thursday with Mondays reserved for makeups. We have games scheduled for Monday October 28 since Mischief Night (AKA Halloween) falls on the Thursday of that week, the last night of the regular schedule is October 29. Sometimes it's hard to believe we've playing at Reservoir Park for almost forty years, the first game at the rink was in December of 1979 (and yes, I was supervising the league then as well). A few years ago one of the league's younger players asked me of I had been around the rink forever and I said "no, it just seems that way". Jenny and I did our usual lunch date on Wednesday, on Thursday I was at the lawyer's office to sign some checks for my mother's estate account. The law firm, the broker and the bank are all doing their jobs, I make sure they know about any related correspondence I receive and if they need anything they contact me so all in all things are going about as well as can be expected (and So Be It). Take care, thanks for reading.