Hi Jeffy! First time I have been on since Friday or Saturday and wanted to make sure I gave you your due. Congrats, and good playing!
I went down in a ball of flames at our first NWPA stop of the season, after 2 good wins (7-2 and 7-0 against Mary Olson) - Eddie Mataya put the jinx on me or something by betting $100 that I was going to repeat my victory there of last year. I just needed one more win against someone who has never beaten me to play Kyoko in 5th/6th.
Well, in my next match I started getting an annoying tickle in my throat where I had to keep coughing. I then started feeling a slight fever. I had not been drinking my special alkaline water on Friday or Saturday and I think I overdid some acidic foods, which I believe set me up for disease. I just lost intensity..practically passing out in my chair, lol, and at the end, hung a couple 9 balls and lost the set.
They wanted us to end our matches by 6 so that meant that we were still 2 matches away from the money on the loser's side that had to come back on Sunday. That night, I knew I was running a temp, but went out with the Portland girls anyway because they were new in town and my next opponent scheduled for the morning made a rude remark to one of those ladies and I somehow felt responsible for showing that all Seattle players weren't b**ches. I felt absolutely horrible though the whole time.
I had a hard night, going to bed at 12:30, waking up at 1:30, 4:30 and 6:00.
So anyhoo, I went back Sunday at 9 (and we started our matches at 9:05), and again, lost to the gal that I have never lost to, and I swear I was going to throw up the whole time. When I left that morning, I was running a temp of 104 and still wanted to go finish her off, but just couldn't do it. Scratching on a dumb 9 ball, missing 2 easy 9 balls, and just trying to walk to the table took everything I had. I can barely remember the drive home, I was almost delirious.
I immediately went to bed on Sunday around 11 am and my fever finally broke on Monday night at 6 pm, but I have been sweating it out ever since. This post has taken too much out of me, I am going back to bed!
PS - Jeff, I hope you can make it to the Bellingham soiree with Dave.