Comment Promises.

I promised that I would post about the twelve things that can go wrong when putting up Christmas lights, after I had posted the twelve things that go wrong while getting your lights to work. But I never got around to it as things got busy. I guess I will save it for next Christmas season. I am sure no one is that disappointed. I made the last one kind of long and will try to make the second one shorter.
I had also said in a comment on my post "Of the Games" that I would make a post about some single ping pong matches that were played, in order to rectify a misrepresentation of a players skills due to the one bad night they were having on the table, of which night I made my post of. So the player informed me that they had not been filling well that night thus the reason they did not do so good. And so I said that this post would follow. So with out any further babbling here are the records that proves the player in question to be an able player.

The top four players the night of my post were Myself at 21, Johanna at 16 or 18 (she went in earlier then the rest of us), Calvin at 12 or something like that, and Sierra at 9. That was the problem. Sierra is known as the second best Texas Tornado player among us. So the fact that the only time I gave the finals in one of my post, was the only time she was not in second, might have been a tad unfair. But she made up for it in single play later. After I had played Mr.Candler I had Sierra play him. She had been teasing him every time made a mistake, say things like "Dad how could you do that!" and so on and so fourth. So I figured a little humbling would not hurt. Mr.Candler is the only person to have beaten me more then once while playing for the V.A. title at the Family Conference. We split the games 2-2, but I held a doubles tie breaker over him. I really wanted to play a fifth game but we never got around to it. Anyway, that was all history, and even though I have beaten him the last six of eight games we have played, I still think of him as the second best player that I have played against. So it came as a surprise when his daughter beat him. I then sent in Calvin to see what he could do against her. And for the first 15 points I thought the buck was going to have to stop with me. But with the score in her favor 9-6 and momentum clearly on her side things fell apart. Calvin hit one good slam. It rattled her enough that he picked up several more points. It was not till the score was 18-12 did she regain focus and start playing like she had for the last game and a half. But it was too late. Final there was 21-14. Then later that night, the highlight of her ping pong career took place! With midnight approaching she held a 11-9 lead over her closest competitor in Texas Tornado. In eight head to head matches she had won six of them against him, and with it she had tie breaker over him. But after he pulled within one there was only one thing left to do. Making it to the finals herself she faced off with the would be tier. She beat him regaining a two game lead over him. But over the next four rounds she failed to make a finals appearance, getting knocked out late in each round. The second place player did win however. Making it to the finals three times but only managing two wins out of it. That was enough to tie them at 12-12. everyone agreed that this would be the last round. All she had to do was win the round or have him not win it. She still held the tie breaker over him with head to head wins. One by one player dropped out of the last round. The final four, the last three and finally the finals them selves. The tie breaker meant nothing now, she had made it but so had he. The winner would take all. *battlefield music starts playing here* Just across from her stood the player that had been neck and neck with her all night. Now was the moment of truth. Now all the chips were on the table! This is what makes legends! The man and the moment were about to meet! And...she lost but it was close. *Music stops suddenly here with a trumpet striking a wrong note*

Robert L.