A Few Quick Notes 385

-Things have started to look a lot more like Winter around here in the past day and a half. Yesterday we had some snow, though not too much, and it seems that we may be in for a little more tomorrow. That being said, even now, there really isn't that much snow on the ground and it isn't too cold.

-For the first time this year we had pressure-cooker prepared beans for dinner tonight. Not surprisingly, I went to our old favourite, black beans, to get the job done. While I can't speak for the others, I know that I was glad to be back on the bean wagon.

-We had an amazingly intense Ultimate game last Saturday. At the beginning of the game we jumped out to an 8 to 1 lead and were just dominating. Not surprisingly, the opposing team tried to switch things up and moved to a zone defense (playing a position rather than a man/woman), which was quite effective at slowing us down. By the middle of the second-half things were really quite tight, and for a while our opponents were even in the lead.

With about 3 minutes remaining the score was tied and we had the disc. As we had been doing since the other team started playing zone, we slowly worked the disc down the court by passing it back and forth between two handlers. Then, with about a second left on the clock one of our players make a break for an end-zone corner and caught final pass of the game. Just as our player landed in-bounds with possession of the disc the buzzer sounded alerting us that the game ended. It is definitely the closest finish I have ever seen in Ultimate and was quite fun to be a part of (it didn't hurt that most of us seemed to play well individually and as a team).

-Word on the street is that there is a new Republican Senator in Massachusetts. Brown, through his victory, and Coakley, through her loss, seem to have really done their best to dislodge the memory of Teddy Kennedy, and the Democratic dominance of the state that he symbolized.

-Don't forget to mark your calenders, this year's annual Montifax Blog-Off is just a few days away. As the competition approaches I will try to make a brief post about rules (some of which will be a little different than last year) and what might be expected. We hope that you will be able to follow along (and even root for your favourite contender, if that is the kind of thing you like to do).