Last night, I went out to a friend of my girlfriend's place for dinner, and it turned out he has a table hockey set. What fun! It was hard to resist playing for a good hour or so. As a kid, I owned a set myself, played tournaments with friends, had a mock schedule with playoffs, etc. I used to spend hours practicing by myself. So what a rush it was to return to the game. It's been more than three decades since I last touched a hockey set -- enough, according to biologists, to replace most of the cells in this body of mine at least a couple of times -- & it was amazing to see all the same reflexes, strategies, etc. come back. (+ a Proust-like stream of memories.) My friend (now he's my friend) and I were evenly matched, and it wasn't long before we weren't keeping track of the score. It was just fun scoring goals.
Showing posts with label Hockey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hockey. Show all posts
Monday, December 12, 2005
Boys will be boys...
Last night, I went out to a friend of my girlfriend's place for dinner, and it turned out he has a table hockey set. What fun! It was hard to resist playing for a good hour or so. As a kid, I owned a set myself, played tournaments with friends, had a mock schedule with playoffs, etc. I used to spend hours practicing by myself. So what a rush it was to return to the game. It's been more than three decades since I last touched a hockey set -- enough, according to biologists, to replace most of the cells in this body of mine at least a couple of times -- & it was amazing to see all the same reflexes, strategies, etc. come back. (+ a Proust-like stream of memories.) My friend (now he's my friend) and I were evenly matched, and it wasn't long before we weren't keeping track of the score. It was just fun scoring goals.
Thursday, December 09, 2004
A CANADIAN READS KHAYYÁM AND DREAMS HOCKEYWARD
Omar, he's got the rubái, he's coming down the ice, it's a two-on-one break, over to Fitzgerald, back to Omar, he shoots -
Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would we not shatter it to bits - and then
Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire.
he SCORES!!!! What an INCREDIBLE shot by Omar! To score his 9th quatrain in this Rubáiyát!
Crowd: Omar, Omar, Omar, Omar!
And that was one HECK of an assist by Fitzgerald, EH, Don?! We gotta see that on the replay. He's got the most UNBELIEVABLE back-pass in Naishapur ...
Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would we not shatter it to bits - and then
Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire.
he SCORES!!!! What an INCREDIBLE shot by Omar! To score his 9th quatrain in this Rubáiyát!
Crowd: Omar, Omar, Omar, Omar!
And that was one HECK of an assist by Fitzgerald, EH, Don?! We gotta see that on the replay. He's got the most UNBELIEVABLE back-pass in Naishapur ...
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