A Few Quick Notes 343

-Though not as hot as yesterday, today was nonetheless quite hot. Given that there seemed to be a little less of a breeze at some points today it is possible that may have even been less pleasant. The other similarity with yesterday is that even though the temperature has dropped several degrees from the high and even though the sun has set, things are still quite warm and unpleasant. I fear that tomorrow may be even worse.

-It seems that the national NDP party did not change their name at their conference this week in Halifax. In the lead up to the convention there was some discussion that the party might drop the 'New' from their name. As someone who tends to like to leave things the way they are, I didn't really see what advantage the NDP might derive from such a change, it seemed that the only likely outcome would have been confusion among voters, potentially leading to a smaller share of the vote.

-We Ultimate team was scheduled to play a double header today starting at 4:00. Shortly after we arrived it became clear that the first team we were to play was not going to be able to field a full team and would thus be forfeiting. After a brief discussion with the opposing team we decided to mix the two teams up and play a scrap game. Though I made a few decent plays at the beginning of this game, my overall play was less than stellar.

Soon after our first game ended the team that we were supposed to play for the second game informed us that they too would not be able to field a full team and would be forfeiting. Instead of sticking around to play a scrap game this team decided to head out.

Our team then made its way to the other field at the facility where we divided ourselves and played with the first team and another team, neither of whom had enough to field a full team. The resulting game was quite fun. The best part was that as we had combined three teams we actually had enough people for subs and shifts and thus weren't required to play the full game in the heat. As everyone playing in our second game had played a double header we were all quite relieved when the end of the second game rolled around. It was rather unfortunate that we all had double headers on one of the hottest days of the year, seems like rather poor planning on the part of the league.

-This heat is really killing me. Even though I have a fan on, it seems that I am not doing much more than just blowing warm air on myself. Maybe I might try to sit on some ice cubes or something to cool myself down.