Last night we had our first dodgeball game. I play on a team with some people from work and some of their friends and spouses. It was fun to let loose some aggression in a controlled environment.
We did OK. The play format is five games in an hour, though last night we ran long, so the last game was a 7-minute period. The team with the most members left on the court at the 7 minute mark won. We managed to get all their members out before the end of the period, so we won the game and the match for the night.
I would’ve had more fun if I hadn’t been battling this really sore neck for the past couple days. I’m not sure what’s causing it, but I suspect it has something to do with sleeping on my side. If I sleep on my back, I snore (loudly, I’m told), and Leah wakes me up and tells me to roll onto my side (actually, I never really wake up; I just follow her bidding in a half-daze).
Fortunately the pain didn’t keep me from throwing pretty well last night. I suspect we’re going to have our collective ass handed to us next week by a huge team of drunken frat boys. C’est la vie. They were entering the gym as we were leaving last night, and it seemed like there were 30 of them (six players are allowed on the floor at a time). There didn’t appear to be any females on the team, though there were a couple vacant-looking girls straggling along behind them clutching cameras. Paparazzi, I guess.