Clavicly Repaired

Two weeks ago it was 4 months since I broke my collar bone, and in the last month I’ve been doing Pilates, a bit of indoor soccer, squash, swimming and even unloading containers of fans at work. All the professionals I spoke to said it would take from three to six months to fully heal, and although I don’t intend to get back into real physical things (no more indoor for now), I wanna call this sucker healed.

I even thought I’d throw in a nice photo of my lumpy bone, as of about 4 weeks ago, I tried to scan my x-rays, but they just don’t want to seem to work at the moment.

Indoor Results

Last week we went down 6-5 in a narrow contest against . We were so short of players, we needed James’ brother Tom in goals, and myself to play. You can never bag a player who comes in to help out, but I think with anyone else in goals we could have won. Of course without Tom we would have surely lost.

Things got out of control once the referee awarded a goal scored from the kick-off, the was taken before he blew his whistle to start the game again. Despite our protests the goal stood. And all this served to do was to turn the referee against us.

We conceeded many ‘fouls’ from some great tackling, and t was too much for some of the guys to bear, Andy and Ryan andJames recieving yellow cards for dissent. The final blow was when the referee sent James with a second yellow for making a fine tackle.

Just the other day we came away with a good 6-3 against . Again short of players, with James suspended (and at the Opera!), I played the entire game, which I still rew to today. Andrew arrived early to play the game before us with some ates, in the hope that they would lend their keeper in return for the favour. Unfortunately the poor guy broke his wrist in their pre-game kick around.

It was a damn hard first half, but we held onto the lead going into the break 2-1. The second half Phil went in goals, and with Andrew out on the field, we tore them up. The new system of fouls, similar to basketballs 5 team fouls, caused some troubles for use late in the game, however we outplayed them to win farily comfortably.

Unfortuntely no videos as I played in these games, but I don’t think I’ll keep playing, I don’t want to push my luck, so maybe some next week.

Big arse drive

I was a bit skeptical about my SATA drive that was spewing errors, so I tried installing Xubuntu on another HDD and trying to copy the files from my backup DVDs. Thankfully they threw the same I/O errors (at least graphically) as before. So I guess there’s something with reading the DVD’s. However I didn’t get the translated stat/err crap, so I decided to hop out to Fluidtek and buy myself a new harddrive just in case.

These guys (or guy really) are unbeatable for price. I got a Maxtor 320GB for AU$120 . Quite happy about that. So I got home and re-installed Xubuntu (please be the last time!) and setup up some big partitions for multimedia and downloads. I gave away my old IDE hard drive to Andy. Now I have almost 800GB of storage!

A bit insane I think!!

Change in Theme

After setting up a mirror of my blog on Blogger (they have labels now, and the custom layout ability is very appealing), I decided I wanted to change the layout here to kinda be closer to it.

I guess it’s a little bit closer.

Now I have to decide if I can want to keep both and just keep double posting.  It seems kind of pointless …

First Indoor Game

We have a much more respectable name this season. Instead of the Super Samurai Scorers (!) we are known as Hotspur.

Oooh original! But much better than the laughable SSS.

Ok the first game.

Hotspur 9 – 3 FIFA All Stars

I didn’t think I would record each result, but I got some videos of this game so I wanted to this time.

Indoor is so much faster than outdoor, so I can’t really analyse much. We were down 2-1 at half-time, with one screaming goal from Andy and some terrific saves from their keeper. Pulling Dan out of goals was proven to be a good decision as the re-arranged team (with Phil in goals) dominated the seond half.

They just fell apart, and Ryan ripped through to score 4 goals. A lot of easy tap ins, but with great build-ups for each goal. James was unlucky to scrape a ripper past the keeper, who kept fighting while his team gave up.

James and Andy stayed on tonight to make the number for another team. Which worked out very benefically, seeing as they were impressed with the lads, decided to help us out next week when we a re short players. I won’t be making an appearance for sometime, and only against physically weaker teams. No way am I taking up the keeping gloves this season!

Videos later, once I work out how to use Bluetooth (to get them off my phone) and YouTube …

Here’s one in particular that was good …

Rest here …