Day 152: Everyone scavenged food for breakfast, leftover pizza, Heather made the boy English muffins with cream cheese I think... I found an avocado and some summer sausages slices... We hit the road, I wanted to get some footage of the other divisions of kids at the hockey camp today. Got there part way through the novice group. Got past the COVID Door Nazi (Later she asked if she scared me... LOL, um, no ). I set up some cameras and Heather and Lawson went into town for the morning... they went to the park, watched the ski line, chased the ducks... ok there wasn't much chasing, they just kinda stand there and expect you to give them food soo... a walk around the lake and lunch at A&W... they brought me back some too. I went out around 11:30 and helped the boy get his gear on in the parking lot... we can't use the dressing rooms yet. You get dressed in the parking lot, you can put your skates on inside but don't move the chairs. They are cleaned between each group and 6 feet apart, they each get a chair to put on their skates... then the parents must leave and the kids file onto the ice. Oh, and yes masks are required while putting on skates... but not on the ice. Lawson headed in fully geared up, skates and all. I went back to taking pictures and video, The twins from hockey father helped man one of the cameras, so he was a helper not a parent and could stay. Heather went off to do Heather things for a while... she went looking for a new golf glove. Came up with squat. She might have managed a nap, oh yes why was she not at work? Doctors appointment, a follow up thing on something she didn't have anymore, they changed it from an appoint she had to be there for to just a phone call which she could have done from work BUT she wasn't notified early enough and had already booked the day off... besides who doesn't enjoy the day off. Boy went out with the Division above him and the division above that. The actual goalie coach was in quarantine and couldn't make it... it is what it is... COVID Sucks. Definitely not up to the standards it was last time he went to the camp... I hope Nick comes back next year. The goalies running the program now are kinda green and just going through the motions , I have all kinds of things I could complain about but everyone is just getting back on the ice and I think the focus is a little off. Frankly they need to take it up a notch for Lawson, he looks bored and is not trying... not that you have to try hard when they lob the puck at the middle of you at half the speed the novice shoot, I mean he would have to literally try hard to get out of the way to actually let the puck in... Then in the second half they were abandoned almost like a real team practice... the goalie coaches did little more than fish pucks out of the net while the players shot on them 2 at a time... not sure what you are supposed to focus on there, you can't even get down in a butterfly because you need to be in two places at once... no feed back, no coaching... meh, I'm hoping it gets better. For now I'm going to drag my feet in regards to posting video because it doesn't look pretty. I took some stuff from the next group that came on, then packed up and went looking for the rest of the FamJam in the parking lot. On the way home we stopped back in town and got Lawson some Italian Cheesy Bread from the Pizza place and grabbed a few coffee for ourselves. Once home I unloaded the camera gear and stared clearing the chips off, putting them onto the computer for editing, sorting and compressing... I made a new facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Turnbull-Sports-PhotoVideo-101397698348904
And posted almost 100 photos there... I looked at some of the video, 5 minutes is 100 meg... times that by the number of 5 minute files I have and that's about 6393 hours of uploading to the internet... I'm going to have to edit it, compress the shit out of it and load it to Facebook on a sunny day when the network doesn't lag as much because of the dampness. Basically the internet connection sucks. I will try to edit some video tomorrow. Too tired now, must sleep.