THE NEGATIVE REACTION

ITS WAS A GOOD WEEKEND.

This past weekend was a nice one.  I went to Fargo for the annual Flatlands indoor tournament.  WE kinda took the gas pipe and went 1-3.  We barely lost our first game 1-0 to some chippy Crookston team, then beat up on a Grand Forks team 4-0.  The GF game we pretty much dominated the entire game.  Then on Sunday, we needed to win to stay alive.  I personally didn't care too much since I was ready to go home at that point.  We played some young, fast team, and our keeper let in some "soft" goals, but we kep tit close the whole game, but lost in the end 6-4.  As fate would have it, we played the GF team we smoked 4-0 on Saturday for our last game to decide 5th or 6th place (out of 6 teams mind you).  It hought we had the game bagged when we went up 5-4 with less than 3 minutes to play.  Yeah, they scored and we went to sudden death overtime.  Basically, whoever scores first, wins.  They had one really good forward.  Guy had some moves and played clean, so I gotta give him some props.  Of course he got free on a break one v. one and had a nice slip move to the corner and toe poked it in for the win.

Besides playing well despite a pulled calf muscle and not playing the last two weeks, I still managed 4 goals and several assists.  I kept my head and my mouth shut the whole weekend except when we played the coorkston team who's goalie elbowed me in the neck, the punched me in the back of the head.  No call either time.  So I boarded the shit out of him 
and got a two minute penalty for it.  Then when I was wrestling int he corner, I checked him again pretty hard and did some damage to his elbow.  I didn't care, their team was a buch of hacks, and I was all to happy to lay out some hits and damage to their guys.

Besides the good soccer, my friend Dave ordered UFC 78 so we got to watch some pretty good fighting.  It was funny to hear the guys who were unfamiliar with MMA and the UFC talk about it.  I was dropping all the lingo like, half guard, full guard, back control, full mount, etc.  Everytime Dave and I would use these terms people would ask me what they meant, it was funny.  

When I left on Sunday, I was glad I came.  I know last year I was poo pooing the whole affair, but I really did enjoy myself this year, and I'm pretty sure the guys were glad I played. 
The ride home was long, but worth it.

The only thing worth mentioning is my son's mother is going to take me back to court to try and get my child support increased to pay for his military school ($26K per year).  I've already spoke to several attorneys and they all say I shouldn't even be scared.  When we did the calculations online at the state site, it actually came up lower, so the odds of her getting a court to double my support simply to pay for his school is not going to happen.

Anyways, turkey day is right around the corner, so we'll see how the rest of the week and the holiday goes.  


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