survival can be fun

just in case all the many avid readers who do not read comments here were concerned about me and my disappearance after the previous post in which i almost dead (oh, the dramatatism... speaking of dramatatism, could there be a blast from the past popping up in the form of an anonymous commenter?... well, snagglepuss might know, but we shall wait and see if someone who actually reaches back to the days of snail mail surfaced, but i digress and this was a message of vital importance, after all), my sincere apologies for my adbsence, but this'll teach you to check the comments, ya know?>..

i survived and had oodles of fun yesterday (the sunday softball tournament)... while the team i was on was not the best, we did have fun and we beat the team that eventually won the tournament (their only loss) and we tied the team that came in second... we played six games, the last four or five without a break, which was a definite disadvantage but that's the luck of the draw... the temperature was in the 90s most of the day... that's fahrenheit for you of the metric system... much more hydration and ice kept the exhaustion away...

i shall pop more entries up tonight, i think, but at least you (and posterity) knows now... have fun out there, heat and all :)

heat exhaustion

it almost happened to me today, in fact, ot might have, actually, denial doesn't work well so to the best of my medical knowledge, it did happen to me today... four or more hours in the blistering sun playing softball and in spite of more than a half gallon of fluids including that g2 tiger drink and water and vitamins, the heat was brutal and cooling down became nearly impossible...

a cold drink of rain juice helped a lot, as did sitting in the the air conditioner in the car... so when i got home i drank another 40 or so ounces of cold water and sat down and felt much more cool and so i took a nnap before going out tonight to the planetarium with thirty or so people, a half dozen or so who are becoming friends, though in the social sense and not in the intimate sense, if you know what i mean...

and i woke from the nap in time to go to the Planetarium, but not in time to go to dinner with the group, so i went to dinner with Rasputin after the show and so it is now about 2am and the insanity is tomorrow... 7am starts the day of the softball tournament with a five game guarantee, meaning i'll be pitching at least five games... i must get some sleep... and take ice and a cooler for cold drinks...

so i shall close my eyes and see if the brain is ready for sleep now... the body certainly is, but the brain hungers for so much more... not that the body doesn't hunger too, but it is so much easier to burn out the body and bring it to blissful fatigue than it is to do that to the brain...

who cares, really...

i mean, why bother babbling on out here like this... well, as if we did not know, this is all for the one who cares to read it all... the one who cares enough to take the time... the one who wants to know... there've been a few so compelled who have told me so and we shared some amazing (and explosive) times in this live... and the words continue for them and for anyone else who might be... or even just interested...

so... sunblock... and i bought some other stuff tonight... hat... headband... wristbands... crazy glue to fix my sunglasses... facial sunblock... and other stuff... fascinating details, huh?... i'll tell you what else was in the bag of stuff i bought another time when i remember if i remember to tell you... thanks for being here...

nite nite :)