Been corresponding with a few college era folks....Crown College University of Califronia, class of 1974. Started when somebody posted some old pictures, one is of me and another classmate pointed them out to me. Yup, there I am with my old boyfriend in all my early 1970s glory.
But then we started chatting, who did we still know and I said that the person I am most in touch with is my extraordinary ex-roommate JJ. Everybody remembers her as Janice. She and I have shared a lot about our famllies and communities over the years mostly through email. Certainly some visits. She and her husband Steve rented a place on one of the Canadian islands for some months and we were a stopping place. We visited for four springs in a row traveling to the Bay Area to watch the University of Oregon softball team play their Pac 10 conference games at Cal and Stanford. My friend Bronsa used to come too, gave her an excuse to get down to the Bay Area and go to some games. JJ and Steve would host us and we would go to all the games. JJ too, though she didn't go to all of them later.
This photo, in front of their unusual home in 2007. We set up the camera on a self-timer on the car and tried to make it work. My face, obscured by shadows but there we all are.
We miss that trip. One wonders why one has to have an excuse. Oh right. Dollars, time, carobn footprint.
Good news on the Canada Cup front. The women's tournament is a showcase for National teams. 'Club' women's teams are invited to round out the tournament. Always hard to put these teams together as it's in the midsummer, takes a whole week, you have to stay in the tournament's pricey hotels. But the tournament made a crucial change to the scheduling which highly impacts player's motivation to attend. Instead of two pools, they split the tournament into the "International Division" and "North American Division". That means the international teams only play each other and the club teams only play each other. 3 club teams automatically into the championship round. What? The fun was you got go up and try your hand against Team Australia, see if you could get a hit off of Yukiko Ueno of Japan. Hang out with the big girls. This really cuts into the fun.
So Erik B locally usually gets together a team known as the Washington Blast. But, even worse than usual, players dropped at the last minute and Erik didn't have a team. He notified them yesterday. But play started today and the Washington Blast IS playing. I'm thinking that the tournament organizers got some players to join so that they could play the schedule.
Susanna played on the Washington Blast for a number of years. This year, she's playing on another team California Goldrush for a few days this week. It's wild, generally you have maybe one practice together and then play Team USA. No problem. Gin and I are going up on Monday, giving Susanna a ride. They were scheduled to play the Washington Blast. So it's darn good news that the team exists. Yay!
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