Last night, someone privately poin­ted out to me that it seems that the stuff I’m post­ing here I just make up as I go along.

That is cor­rect.

And that some things I say are hardly rel­ev­ant to the photo presen­ted.

That is cor­rect too.

Any­ways, this photo is another “fresh” one, I took it last Sunday when we (NUIM Vol­ley­ball Club) had our first two games here in Maynooth, as part of the Men’s National League 2^nd Divi­sion.

We got our arses beaten all over the place (here’s an account of our hero­ism), los­ing both games. How­ever, it was great fun nev­er­the­less, and we’re just in there for the craic and the train­ing effect (we don’t have a coach, and are just barely enough play­ers to form a team!). No one had any ambi­tions of win­ning any­thing, so there were no tears shed.

Also, no one got hurt, which is sur­pris­ing, because one of the teams was made up entirely of “killing machines”. Take this guy in the photo, who reg­u­larly spiked super-​sonic balls over people try­ing to block him (he was a giant). Dur­ing those balls he reg­u­larly deformed the space-​time-​continuum, as can be wit­nessed in the shot… More pho­tos from the event here.