A busy day yesterday. Started with a goodly long (for me) solo walk, back home for a nap and shower, then off again to do my duty as the leader of the Barretto Singles League.

It was the end-of-season playoff tournament for the Champs Division of the league. I play in the Stars Division, and we have our playoffs this coming Saturday. Yesterday I was there to make sure everyone understood the format and handle any glitches or issues that might arise. We actually have two tourneys; the top three play for the championship, the other three players compete for the “Best of the Rest” honor.

There was, in fact, a glitch to deal with when only two of the three players showed up for the championship bracket. Easily fixed, the no-show (who had a death in the family) was deemed to have forfeited, leaving the remaining two players to compete for first place. What was supposed to have been a round-robin format (each player plays the others) in seven-leg matches, became a head-to-head best of seven event. It was also husband versus wife, which made for a bit of added drama. Mark dispatched his sweet wife 4-0, so at least the pain didn’t last long.

All three players showed up for the Best of the Rest tourney, bless their hearts! So we got to play it out as it was intended. And it turned out to be a very nice tourney. The first two players up were Kevin and Dorie. Kevin finished fourth in Champs and Dorie was dead last by a long shot. I was surprised at how well Dorie played though, finishing her match with Kevin with a 4-3 lead. Next up for Dorie was Troy, who has also been coming on strong lately. He took the first four legs and appeared to be headed for a sweep, but Dorie came back to win the last three legs. So Dorie finished with a total of 7 wins.

The final match then was Kevin and Troy going head-to-head. Since Troy already had four wins, he would take the tourney if he won four more against Kevin. Kevin started with three wins, so he had to win five of the seven legs against Troy for a victory. That didn’t seem likely to me. Troy took the first leg and then Kevin caught fire, winning five legs in a row to earn the crown of Best of the Rest.

Facebook memories shared this video I “created” nine years ago about Hitler finding out his dart team was playing my team, Ride it In. The names of teammates mentioned brought back a flood of memories, especially involving my now deceased friend and team captain, Bridget Werner. Those were my good ol’ days for sure.

After the dart tournament was completed, it was just a little after 4 p.m. I hoofed it over to the It Doesn’t Matter bar for a couple of more beers. Then I decided I needed to drop in and say hello to the gals at Cheap Charlies. Some more beer and lady drinks purchases, then it was time to head on home.

I had some meatballs stewing in the crockpot waiting on me, so I got down to business. Shared some with my basement neighbors as well.

I made a tasty strawberry-fruit cocktail-yogurt-peanut butter-vanilla ice cream-and milk smoothie for dessert. That hit the spot!

And then I ran out of gas and hit the sack at 8:30. I really think I need to find a way to stay up a little later every night. I’m thinking firing up the TV for an hour or so might be the way to go. I can lay stupefied on the couch and be entertained without thinking too much. For some reason, I remembered the old Addams Family television show today and saw that full episodes are available on YouTube. Get Smart too! Yeah, traveling back to the 1960s every night sounds like a great new routine (rut) for me!

Well, time to get ready to Hash. Stay tuned for more of my shenanigans!

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