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I just got done playing with Jason this morning, and man, I have really lost my focus out there. It’s been my second day out there, and my arm is doing alright. I’m still nursing it (ice, etc) a little afterwards still.

But yeah, I really can’t seem to focus out there. But, I know it’s because I’ve been used to having to deal with my arm, and I’m not going to sweat it for now. Although, at practice today, it really got me down a couple times - felt like giving up.

But Jason just gave up on an already 3 hour long match, stareing directly at the sun the whole time! It was a frustrating match to say the least.

Home Country: Texas, USA
Backhand: One Handed Backhand
Favorite Surface: Hard
Handed: Right

This is my best friend, Jason. We met on the tennis court over four years ago, and pretty often we meet on the tennis court just about everyday. And then, after, we go enjoy a nice beer and Ramen Noodles with hot sauce.

Jason’s game has evolved right along side mine, in fact, we’ve both made huge jumps in our game at about the same time.

Jason has a pretty slick game, even if he’s jumping all over the place. He pounds every ball, full force: Never hand Jason a floater!

Jason, unlike other’s I practice with, shares the same “Fuck It!”, “No Excuses” policy I do. We don’t cry, complain, or justify playing badly or loosing. We’re all about getting the job done, and working hard, no matter what. And I think it’s nice to have someone around on the court, that thinks like me. We’re always giving each other shit on the court, because it drives us, it would make you think we think nothing alike! Haha.

Jason’s also one of those guys that does things on his own. We all help each other out here and there, but Jason often wants to figure things out on his own, and he sticks to his guns. Even though that annoys me about him sometimes, it’s also one of the most respectable qualities he has.

The campus was pretty stale today after work.

So, I know it’s summer when the campus starts acting a lot less lively. I’ve been here four years, and each summer the campus goes through this, I miss it being all crazy, all the time.

Although me and my friends boredom, outside of work, has got us hanging out again, which is a nice change.

Coding Away

Goofing off, the only way to code. That’s Renee, in the back, with all her paper :)

I think I mentioned before about how much time I’d be spending working on the Cobweb project. Already I’ve been spending 6-8 hour days working on it.

We had a meeting this morning with the lady in charge of working with the College Executive Committee, and already they’re excited to see what’s coming out of me and Renee’s office.

We have a lot of work to do this summer, the site is going to be an intense platform/application; meeting the most up-to-date standards, working well with the rest of the university, mingling well with content management systems and publishing software. It’s hard to think such a massive piece of work will be coming out of my little lappie (laptop).

Me, mighty mouse and my trusty lappie at work.

I’m trying to develop the site to be as much self managing as possible, letting anyone publish content at will, while the website does all the nasty work in the background. And, I don’t think they quite get how complex everything is, and so they’re rushing our already ‘pushing it’ December deadline.

But, as always, I plan to stand my ground and focus on quality work.

Tennis

Soo and James at the Tennis Center on another windy day. May 12th 2008

I haven’t been spending a lot of time at the NMSU Tennis Center since my arm getting better, it’s been windy day after day. My arm was at about 70%, this morning hitting with Jason, preparing for a match tomorrow.

Although he almost got past me today, me winning 7-5, I was crippled :)

I also haven’t been off to a good start on my goals for the summer, especially the one where I’m going to work out like a beast and get in shape for some tournaments. But, I’m working on that; if they would just quit bringing cake to the office, you know I have to have at least two slices!

Home Life & Travel

Walking along the bike trail. Travis, Las Cruces, NM

Oh, and I’ve also been walking everywhere since my bike was stolen.

So, I’ve been getting in a little extra excersize for all the wretched snacking going on at my casa.

Chips from left over Taco Shells and Baileys Salsa

So, I thought I’d throw a summer update out there. Actually I was bored, but it just proves my point!

Today I completely doubled my usual fitness routine! It was crazy, but it’s something I’ve been meaning to do for awhile. It’s pretty hard to do all the extra work on my own, the rest of the guys just go home - and I got about three more hours of work ahead of me.

But it felt nice, a good start to what I would like to see my summer become. Working really hard, hopefully pulling out some good results from it.

Here’s a look at some of the work I did today (after 3 hours on court):

• 3 hours on court; cross court forehands/backhands, cross court/up the line transition drill, and volleys.
• 60 sprints; sprint post to farthest corner, walk to post, with rests at 30.
• 10 sets of lunges; from baseline to net and back, with rests at 5.
• 10 sets of skips (each leg); from baseline to net and back (backwards), with rests at 5.
• 19 laps at half-sprint pace around court, with 1 walking lap at 11.
• 60 leg blasts (each leg); with weight, rests at 20.
• 60 leg blasts (switching/each leg); with weight, rests at 20.
• 80 open-stance blasts, with weight, rests at 20.
• 40 blasts/lunges; with weight, rests at 10.
• 20 minutes core; two minutes each (10), with a rest at 10 minutes. (I hate these!)
• Plus more, got to keep some things secret…

Doing this three times a week is really going to impact how tired I am, I’m pretty noodly right now. I will defiantly feel this tomorrow, hopefully I can play. At Grunt, I felt exactly like this!

Miserable! :)

I’m not even sure if this is a lot, I just know for me it’s a lot, I do about half that usually. On the other two days I will most likely double the work I do on the court, I hope my friends are up for it, and recover. Or, maybe I’ll separate court workouts and gym workouts (weight), don’t know which sounds more appetizing yet :).

I really pushed myself to do what I did today, it was tough by myself, because it’s so easy to just give up early, not do those last five lunges. There’s no one to yell at you about it, or tell you it’s worth it, or anything. It takes crazy discipline to go out there on your own, and that’s harder than the work itself!

To be honest, I have been slacking lately; doing half! Every loss at practice, every shanked shot because I didn’t get there - they kept me going today! No more excuses!

So, I hope I can keep it up.

Hopefully, I can get some pictures and videos up. Compared to how I hit a few months ago, I hope it looks different - it should!