A few notes from today
Monday, 2 September 2024 22:02![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimenaI've been really tired today. I suppose it's mostly my own fault, though, because I didn't fall asleep until past 4am last night... and I was up again at 7:30am. That's obviously way too little sleep, so I slept a bit in the (early) daytime, too.
Other than that, I went for weight training today. Normally I try to do that on Tuesdays, but because of the snooker tomorrow, I decided to go today instead. Believe me, it took quite some convincing myself to even go there, because I would much rather have stayed hope sleeping and resting.
I've been out with a friend in the evening as well. We went for a walk around an island a bit off of the town centre. There's a nice view towards the sea from the topmost point on the island, but the last time I had tried to go up there, I failed because the road was just too steep. However, it turned out that we had simply tried to go up the more complex and steep route, and there's another one that's a bit better, so today we actually went all the way up there. I've lived my whole life in this town, and there are still so many little things I haven't done yet. This, though? It was nice, and also nice to experience it with the friend, as we stood there talking for quite a while.
Finally, the Saudi Arabia snooker tournament does my head in. Maybe I'll go into the whole rant about what's wrong with it in another post, but today's problem is that they redid the draw for the Last 32 round, because it was incorrect before. How the heck do they mess up the DRAW?! I mean... it's such a stupid error. The result, of course, is that everyone now has new opponents compared to what they had been preparing for. Not that I'm sure the new matchups are any better for my boys than the old ones. We'll see tomorrow, then. The matches that matter to me are these ones:
1pm: Mark Selby vs Neil Robertson
7pm: Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Lei Peifan
Okay, so Mark vs Neil is obviously an amazing match-up, objectively speaking. I like both, too... but I'm also quite nervous about it, because I really, really want Mark to win. I watched most of Neil's match tonight as well (he won 5-1 vs Gong Chenzhi), and he did a lot of good things there. Neil doing good things is normally a good thing... but not necessarily so when it's Mark on the other side of the table tomorrow. Let's see what happens, though. But I admit, I'm far more nervous about this match than about the evening one. I have a lot of faith in Ronnie to get through his match without too much trouble, but we'll see.
Other than that, I went for weight training today. Normally I try to do that on Tuesdays, but because of the snooker tomorrow, I decided to go today instead. Believe me, it took quite some convincing myself to even go there, because I would much rather have stayed hope sleeping and resting.
I've been out with a friend in the evening as well. We went for a walk around an island a bit off of the town centre. There's a nice view towards the sea from the topmost point on the island, but the last time I had tried to go up there, I failed because the road was just too steep. However, it turned out that we had simply tried to go up the more complex and steep route, and there's another one that's a bit better, so today we actually went all the way up there. I've lived my whole life in this town, and there are still so many little things I haven't done yet. This, though? It was nice, and also nice to experience it with the friend, as we stood there talking for quite a while.
Finally, the Saudi Arabia snooker tournament does my head in. Maybe I'll go into the whole rant about what's wrong with it in another post, but today's problem is that they redid the draw for the Last 32 round, because it was incorrect before. How the heck do they mess up the DRAW?! I mean... it's such a stupid error. The result, of course, is that everyone now has new opponents compared to what they had been preparing for. Not that I'm sure the new matchups are any better for my boys than the old ones. We'll see tomorrow, then. The matches that matter to me are these ones:
1pm: Mark Selby vs Neil Robertson
7pm: Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Lei Peifan
Okay, so Mark vs Neil is obviously an amazing match-up, objectively speaking. I like both, too... but I'm also quite nervous about it, because I really, really want Mark to win. I watched most of Neil's match tonight as well (he won 5-1 vs Gong Chenzhi), and he did a lot of good things there. Neil doing good things is normally a good thing... but not necessarily so when it's Mark on the other side of the table tomorrow. Let's see what happens, though. But I admit, I'm far more nervous about this match than about the evening one. I have a lot of faith in Ronnie to get through his match without too much trouble, but we'll see.