December 20-25

Friday night at McCaskey as the Red Tornado hosted Elizabethtown in a divisional crossover. The JV squad started the night with another one-sided win, since losing their non-league opener the club has won four straight within the league by an average of twenty-nine points. The varsity game on this night was another matter entirely, it was an exercise in aching frustration. E-Town is (along with Warwick) expected to be a major force in Section II, given this result it makes the victory over Warwick all the more valuable. On this night it was our turn to be behind the eight-ball, E-Town scored the game's first twelve points and we never recovered. The final score was 76-67, Elijah Terry and Makai Ortiz-Gray had big nights with 25 and 24 respectively but it means little when you don't win the game. The record drops to 3-3 overall and 3-1 within league play, the boys have one more crossover game but that comes up in late January. Had lunch with Jenny and her mother on Saturday, the rest of the weekend and the early part of the new week had little to recommend it. We're in "that time of year" which has been historically depressing and in light of what happened during the summer it hasn't changed one iota. Over the past five months I honestly believe I've been handling things as well as I can (because in my opinion I HAVE) but that doesn't mean the loss isn't felt. On Wednesday (the "big day" itself) I went to Jenny's place and spent most of the day there, I merely thought it the better alternative to sitting around the house all day by myself (plus it goes without saying that anytime Jenny and I are together is a good thing). In the afternoon Jenny's sister Carol, her niece Amber (Carol's daughter) and Amber's two children dropped in for supper, Helen made sure there was plenty of food to go around. When I returned home after dark I showered and settled in for the night in a relatively good frame of mind. Take care, thanks for reading.