Gage Man Groweth

The puppy has grown a ton. Doubled in size in 3 weeks. He is 10 weeks old now, 99% potty trained, uses the doggy door about half the time - especially to come into the house and has generally been a great dog with a great personality. Our older lab, Sully, now plays with him every day. They play tug of war and run all around the house sliding on the wood floors. Hilarious!

Nothing happening in the volleyball world except a whole lot of #$%@. If I get any truly positive news will update.

Gage Update

Gage is a pretty cool dog. His one major foible is that he likes to chew on anything. Not a barker or a digger, at least so far, but he will chew on anything including cords, couches, shoes, plants and of course all of his toys. But in general he is learning NO! and has been doing well in regards to potty training. He is only 8 weeks old but is a fairly good sized little guy. And he just crawled out the doggy door for the first time. Nice!
Big weekend for the family. Nate is in semis for peewee football and Hannah has soccer tourney. Nate's football team is technically undefeated but they did lose a game. It's just that that team had to forfeit all of their games due to inelegible player or something like that. Hannah's team is also undefeated with one tie. Should be fun.

New Puppy

We got a new puppy on Wednesday. Little Gage is a yellow labrador retriever. We got him at 7 weeks old and he is one cute little guy. He has fit into our family with no problems. Really kind of amazing. No whining at all. He is a puppy so we have been getting up a couple of times a night to take him outside to do his business but he seems to be really comfortable going outside to do so. Only had a few accidents inside and they were our fault for not paying attention. After only 3 days he is already going to the door when he wants to go outside to do his business or get a drink of water. Easiest puppy I have ever had.

It's Game Day

Or so says my son Nate who has his last regular season football game. Rainy slow Saturday at home. Dumped rain last night and now slowly clearing up with low clouds all over the mountains. Pretty scene. Hannah has her first Jr. High Rodeo of the year. Going to be muddy and soggy in the arena. Should be fun to watch though. I'll just be a spectator today.

Relaxing

Nothing going on for me but relaxing and hanging with the family. Lots of soccer games/practice and football games/practice. Keeping in shape by running and what not and been splitting some wood to get the wood pile back up to snuff. Had a chill birthday with the wife and kids. Mexico City was a nice gig. Hope to do something like that again with the promoters. Good people and fun to work with.

Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser in volleyball exhibition Mexico City, Mexico, 9-10 October 2010

Saturday, October 9, 2010

• Exhibition Game (2:00-3:00PM)

Sunday, October 10, 2010

• Final Volleyball Game (11:00AM - 12:00Noon)

LOCATION :  Beach Volleyball Area setup next to the Diana's Monument (Fuente de la Diana Cazadora), at the intersection of Paseo de La Reforma and Sevilla

ATHLETES : Todd Rogers, Phil Dalhausser, Misty May Treanor, Nicole Branagh

Cincinnati Vibe

Great event in Cincinnati at the Hahana Beach Park and props to the promoters, Mario and Bob. I think all of the players had a great time and look forward to coming back to play. They put on a first class event with an amazing atmosphere. They have a brand new facility with great sand a bar/restaurant area that was the VIP area for center court and a great layout. The place was rockin' from Friday night onward. If you are ever in the 'nati, make sure to go check out Hahana Beach Park.

Phil and I took 2nd to Sean and John. We had a fun event though mixing it up, laughing and playing with the crowd, refs and opponents. It wasn't a "high dollar" event with $40,000 prize purse per gender so everyone was in lets play hard but have fun mode. For Phil and I we played Matt Heath and Nick Lucena in the first round and won 18 and 18. They served Phil every ball and were dropping on him and doing fun stuff. I set a few low and tight balls, on accident of course, when Nick was up blocking Phil. Half the time the three of them were laughing in the middle of the play at something one of them said. Next round we played Matt Olson and Brad Keenan. Little more serious match as they were a new team trying to impress one another as to their abilities. We won the first easily and were up big in the second when I layed an egg. We lost the second in overtime and then the third I pulled it together enough to win. In the crossover semis we played Casey Jennings and Jake Gibb. We won the first in a tight one, got smoked the second and then won the third super tight. Casey was playing the left and was pretty much money from that side. He is ballin' right now. In the finals we played okay but John and Sean were better. They beat us 15 or so in the first and then the second we were up a couple of points in the teens but they came back and tied it up at 19 all and won 24-22. It was fun though as Geeter was making fun of everyone on the court and the players were laughing and having a good time. Still competitive but fun. The funnest part for me was blocking. Phil and I split block the entire tournament and I jumped served the whole tourney too. Have not blocked that much since I played with Dax way back in the day.