Volleyball

Recently I attended my granddaughter's varsity volleyball game.  There are no sports besides volleyball that I enjoy watching.   Perhaps this is because there are no other sports thst i enjoy playing. 

I first played volleyball in the most quintessential place: Santa Monica Beach.  On sand.   This matters a lot because you take risks diving on sand that make no sense on concrete.  At USC, I joined pickup games with the engineering students.  At an employer in Mountain View, my co-workers and I played volleyball behind our building on the edge of the swamps that adjoin San Francisco Bay.  We had great fun, sometimes chasing balls into the water.

At a couple of the startups where I worked in Telecom Valley, we had organized volleyball leagues of the various companies in our business park.  These are very happy memories of the happiest time of my life.  We were again on sand. 

Watching teenagers play volleyball as it should be played (receive, set, spike) is a real thrill with saves that often involve rolls across the floor is great fun.

I hope to drop enough more weight to resume playing volleyball.   Perhaps there is an an old fogeys league here.