Tuesday, October 19, 2010

2 Months Later...

So the alien abduction was a hoax, so I'm back with an update to briefly summarize the past 2 months:

I moved to Corvallis for grad school, skating semi-regularly with the Lane County Concussion team until my car decided to cook the motor. My landord plays on the Sick Town Derby Dames team, so I am eventually going to be refereeing in some capacity here. Once the motor is rebuilt then I'm going to be on a regular 4x/week derby schedule plus whatever outdoor skating I work in around class.

The last couple months have brought a few more new skaters at PMRD with our new guys moving along nicely. Unfortunately, our captain and league president (Carpe Demon) suffered a bad fibia spiral fracture at the end of our first coed scrimmage and will be recovering from the injury until February or so.

I got to play in RCR's coed scrimmage last weekend where I witnessed the shock and awe that was Quadzilla. Seriously, I think he is 3 people sharing the same space and time, he was that good. Great eye-opener to how far I have left to go, but I would be pretty content to achieve maybe 1/3-1/2 his skill.

Hopefully I'll be somewhat more timely in my updates, and the weekly remind from the new phone should help with that as well...