3/29/22:

I was watching a documentary on the Battle of Taranto while simultaneously being part of it. I was on a British ship when the British navy launched a bunch of torpedoes to destroy German U-boats in 3-sided stockades. I watch the torpedoes travel via blue dashes on the ocean surface and explosion graphics at the spots where they hit. One sub was hit twice. I saw red arrows launch from the remaining Germans and from my ship, saw them sail past us, missing. The documentary shifted to a small, damaged Italian ship. A bigger British ship was trying to back up next to the Italian to board it but the rear bumper on the British ship was too big. A second Italian boat came by to help push the British ship. Suddenly the British ship flipped end over end through the air, landing with a clatter on the other side of the battle. It turns out I was daydreaming that bit in school. One student shoved his tray at two other kids. They stopped the attack with their forks and then flipped the tray and its food across the room.

3/29/21 #1:

I was sitting in a charter airplane with Taylor Harper (VB alum) on my left. People were boarding on my right and the pilot cabin was just in front of me. When people boarded, they couldn't stand upright (no matter how tall or short they were???) and as they went back to their seats going past me, they also passed by Sammy Voils (another VB alum). She would give them peanuts or homemade peanut butter sandwiches and charged them a LOT of money for those. I asked her why and she said "This is the only fundraising we can do for volleyball." People weren't happy at the cost, but they wanted the food.

3/29/21 #2:

I was coaching at a volleyball match in a big arena--the sort where everything is dark except the playing area. Natalie B. jumped up and hit a quick set that was out of bounds on the near side (we were on the right, our opponent on the left). The official called it in. The other coach got mad. I started laughing with Brittany (LLCC alum) that it was a horrible call...and then we started air-guitaring.

3/29/16:

Julie kept telling me how to recruit and what I needed to do to improve our serve-receive passing. I reminded her that I'm the volleyball coach and she's an academic professor...so she punched me in the side of the head.