I can feel it. The time to wrestle again has come. When I've had matches like I did in May, I'm fine for a while without wrestling. Then I can feel the desire to wrestle getting stronger. Usually, little can be done about this because I have to wait until I travel again to have any hope of working up a match. But here I am planning another road trip, and a couple of nights along the way offer the good potential for wrestling. So I might have a match on Wednesday, and I might have a match on Sunday. We'll see how it works out.

Back to a little more of my wrestling history, my next match came just a little less than two months after the one in early November 2002, and it was again with Chris. At the end of December 2002, I had to make a trip back into Chris's area. Here's what I wrote in a journal entry dated Monday, 30 December 2002:

On Friday the 27th I drove on into -----, arriving there around 1:00. I went to Chris's place, where he has a little room set up with mats. I'd never wrestled on mats before so I was looking forward to it (especially because I'd missed making it to his place back in November). Since we'd last met, he'd bought a pair of wrestling boots off Ebay, and he was anxious for me to try them--supposedly they were originally made for Bobo Brazil. We dressed out and wrestled for about an hour, a light-play mix of submission and pro styles. He'd had knee surgery at the end of November, and this was his first return to the mats. He seemed to get around pretty well.