2022
1-7-22 I finally obtain a copy
of Starstruck #6. My life is complete.
1-12-22 I start posting the Pony Book sketchbook. I still suck at drawing.
2-15-22 Probably the most
shameful incident of the lockdown/masking nonsense with Aggie Sports. The police were handing out tickets. This was a Softball post. I didn’t buy a season pass this year. The team was not good, so I mostly went to
Baseball games in the spring and they weren’t good either.
3-10-22 A large James Dean
poster and a Pink Panther painting my mom had.
5-31-22, 6-1-22, 6-6-22 And then this
happened. Aggie Baseball won the WAC
Championship. I still can’t wrap my head
around this. I watched them lose over
and over again in the regular season.
They were terrible. This set up
Ian Mejia’s heroics in the NCAA Tournament.
Even the opposing fans applauded him when he came off the field.
8-30-22 It was an inauspicious
start to the Football season with a loss and a failed evacuation of the stands
for a weather delay. With the late start
and the weather delay, the game lasted to about midnight. I also missed saying, “Hello,” to Jordan
Abalos, one of my favorite Volleyball players.
9-5-22, 9-13-22 Aggie Soccer looked like
they were going to have a good season as they beat UTEP here. This was after playing at College Station
against the A&M Aggies in front of 6,000 people. They lost 2-1, but showed they were legit. Their next game, they whipped up on Nevada,
4-0.
9-21-22 Oh, this stupid two-day
soccer match that ended in a draw on a questionable call by the ref. It was another weather delay game.
9-23-22 A straight-set
conference loss on their home court?
Unthinkable! This wasn’t even the
low-point of Aggie Volleyball this season.
9-27-22 I was talked into seeing
Aggie Football the same day as a Volleyball match and was rewarded with seeing
their first win of the season.
10-3-22 The setter situation
with Aggie Volleyball finally comes to a head.
Down two setters (one injured, one quit right before game time), local
freshman girl Rilen Garcia helps the team to a win.
10-4-22 And then the wheels came
off for Volleyball for the season. It’s
a bad sign when your star player is crying on the bench.
10-5-22 And probably the worst
Football game I’ve ever seen and I blame both teams for that. And then after the game, I found out the
Aggies had been two touchdown favorites in the game and lost to a team that had
been beaten 73-0 the previous week.
10-10-22 A win for Aggie Soccer
in their final home game. They were
undefeated at home this season (with a couple of draws).
10-13-22 A fun game for
Volleyball against a bad team. Coach
Jordan emptied the bench for the game and we got to see everyone in
action.
10-17-22 I wasn’t there for it,
but the Aggie/Lobo Football game turned out to be pivotal for the team’s later
success and, strangely, the future downfall of the Aggie Men’s Basketball team.
11-2-22 Dad took a trip around
New Mexico and here are the pictures.
11-8-22 Aggie Soccer wins their
first conference championship!
11-21-22 It wasn’t easy, but
Aggie Women’s Basketball finally beat the UNM Lobos. What a game!
At the end of the game recap there’s a note about the Men’s Basketball
game being cancelled over a shooting.
12-29-22, 12-30-22 Aggie Football gets one
of their best wins ever over a team that had been in the Top 25 earlier in the
season. Listening to the game on the
radio, this may have been one of my happiest moments with Aggie Football. After an 0-4 start, Aggie Football was
somehow playing in a bowl game and won.
It was the best surprise of the Aggie Sports this year.
2023
1-16-23 I begin posting the
infamous “Baby” series of material my mom
collected while she was pregnant.
1-26-23, 1-30-23 Ah, the WOTC/OGL scandal
finally gets me to post about RPG’s again.
1-27-23 Aggie Football held a
Downtown rally.
2-2-23 I start posting from
another sketchbook called Ilya 2. Same crappy drawings, though.
2-16-23 Aggie Men’s Basketball
cancels their season. There’d been a
shooting involving a player. (Curiously
Alabama had this same problem, though it didn’t affect their season and they
were a #1 seed at the NCCA Tournament.) Then there was a player hazing scandal that
finally came out and shut everything down.
The team was also terrible, so it was just as well.
2-22-23 This was a bad
sign. Aggie Baseball was swept by a
school I’d never heard that was transitioning to D1. If they’d been swept by a team transitioning
genders, they would have cancelled the season.
2-28-23, 3-6-23 Two great games at the
Troy Cox Softball Classic.
3-7-23 My Softball season
highlight, meeting Volleyball player, Ryleigh Whitekettle.
4-12-23 I finally post my Diecast collection. I’d meant to do this for years.
4-24-23 A fun morning with Aggie
Volleyball at an exhibition tournament.
4-27-23 Ron and I took in an
Aggie Baseball game with 500 kids.
5-24-23 It’s the state of Aggie Sports post. It’s unusually spicy.
I’m close to finishing another sketchbook, but apart
from that I have no more collections that I intend on posting. I’m going to lapse on daily posting for the
foreseeable future. I still intend on
making more sports posts, such as for Memorial Day.
I haven’t quite figured out what my commitment to Aggie
Sports will be next season. I’ll go to
games, but I might not be getting a Season Pass. Going to games alone and writing a bunch of
recaps afterward is more of a grind than I want. I’d like to have time to write some fiction,
and I’m sort of wanting to see if I can follow some Internet lessons and learn
how to actually draw. These are two
things I haven’t been able to do with my daily posting and daily drawing.
This isn’t a stopping point, but a point where I’m
reconsidering my priorities.
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