View From the Bushes

I know it's been a long time since I blogged and for that I apologize. Things have been pretty crazy. Of course, the vast majority of last week was spent at the GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas. I got back late Thursday night, but I was too busy catching up on stuff to post anything yesterday. I've decided that while I like road trips, that solo road trips are not very fun at all, particularly when you're really tired. What's interesting is that the most exciting thing to happen this week didn't even take place at the convention...

As I believe I mentioned in an earlier blog, my oldest son is in pee-wee wrestling. They have four tournaments, and each wrestler gets two matches per tournament. In the first two tournaments my son lost all four matches. So I was pretty worried that he would go without any wins at all. Despite losing four times he had a much better attitude about the whole thing than I did. In any case, his third tournament was the Tuesday I was gone. So I gave my wife strict instructions to call me the minute it was over. And lo and behold, he'd won not just one match, but both! The first was a massacre; apparently he won something like 19 to 2. The second was against a girl who'd been wrestling for three years, and it ended up being much closer. I believe the final score was 10 to 9.

Apparently quite a few girls are in pee-wee wrestling. A friend of mine who also has his son at the tournament told me that he also wrestled a girl in the second match. Apparently it wasn't quite as close as my son's match. After they pair people up for their matches they line up the pairs at the edge of the mat. From the moment they put them in line the girl started crying, and when it was their turn they decided she was too upset to wrestle so they let the pair behind them go ahead. This continued as pair after pair after pair went past them. Finally my friend went down to the mat and asked them if they could find someone else for his son to wrestle. Apparently this was enough to shock her into activity and they did finally wrestle, but as you might imagine the outcome was already pretty much decided.

Weekends are much too short
Ross