Here kitty kitty kitty

Over that last 4 or 5 months there have been two kittens living under the building I work in. They have always kept their distance and don't bother us. They are afraid of me, perhaps its the barking noises, key shaking, horn honking....etc. A couple of the women in the building have been feeding these cats so they are getting more and more friendly. Not to me but that's okay.

Anyway, one of them has been very loud when we arrive so I assume it's hungry. "I say catch a mouse. We have plenty." It doesn't listen. Thing is, it's the only one left. The other has left the coupe. Fine with me, less mouths to feed, sorta. I have put up with these cats because our mouse problem was gone. "If you can't catch a mouse, leave." Only one listened.

I don't have the nerve to tell everybody that the cat that left was probably lured into a coyote trap and will not be returning. "Good riddance" I say. "You deserved it for failing us as a mouser. If you do by some miracle of the holy mouse god return, be ready to catch mice." If not you might find a similar fate but from a different kind of coyote. OOOUUUUUUWWWWW

Clipper

So I started looking for pizza coupons Saturday night because the Tech game ended late(OT) and nobody wanted to cook. I started looking, looking, looking and all these other coupons from the Sunday paper just kept piling up. Funny how you want to use coupons, keep them, but never really look at them after that. Anyway, I started sorting, cutting olong the lines, throwing away the expired ones, and I bet 2/3 of them were already expired. When did coupons start expiring in a month or two? That's one more way the man is brining me down. Buy it now or lose it. Gee, no pressure there.

Anyway, the wife took some of the ones I clipped to the store with her and saved a little over $7.00. She didn't use the expired one for buy one get on free loaf of bread. She's afraid that looks cheap or something. I woulda tried it but that's another story. So is it worth spending an hour clipping coupons for so little monetary reward? I say yes because it's one little way that I'm getting the wife to buy chocolate, ice cream, juju fruit, etc.

Whadda think?

Is the layout good, bad or ugly? New colors, fonts?

Hey Grandpa...

What's for dinner? Well we got all beef patties or all beef links with plenty of trimmin's and tots. Once you let that roll through your taste buds we got honey buns or mini Nilla wafers to satisfy your sweet tooth. Wash it all down with a
couple of baseball games (little league) and you got one special fillin' viddlefest. Notice the legal use of the picture? Grandpa don't wanna get in trouble with the cyber law.

Workday blues

Ever had 'em? Me neither. I finally took a couple of vacation days to do some fishing and other R & R but the weather didn't cooperate. As I look out the window at the seemingly georgeous day I am reminded that vacation days are for suckers. If you schedule them in advance, something will throw off your plans. If you wait until the last minute, something will throw off your plans. Oh well, I have a few lest I'll just have to try again. Until then:

Overrated?

KSU fans were chanting at the Tech team yesterday. Also taunted Harrell with "System QB", probably the lamest chant you can have. Aren't they running the same system? Why didn't their QB perform just as well, maybe 7 TDs instead of the 6 Graham finished with. Maybe it wasn't a taunt but but a hope for their future. Freeman is supposed to be one of the top QBs in the draft next year. Maybe he'll fit better in a different system.

Hey Mo, nice game yesterday you gotta feel good about that one. It was getting kinda close there at the end though. Maybe it's the system 'ol Bobby runs down there.

I don't think OU or The Longhorn is overrated at all as they looked very good against a couple of wanna be contenders. Clash of the Titans next week, should be a classic. Pregame prediction: OU 39 Longhorn 26 I never pick scores in the obvious numbers like 21-14 call me fickle or something.

Stuggling

for something to write tonight. I'm trying to keep it up but man it's difficult. In a nutshell:

Baseball game tomorrow
Grocery Shopping
Fantasy Hockey draft tomorrow night

No TTU football but there's some good ones. Hey Mo, Go 'Buffs!!!

The grocery shopping reminds me of when I was a child and we did same after church on Sundays. Seems like we spent like a gajillian dollars on food. There were 7 of us. We were pretty well behaved although we always asked for sweets n treats. Every once in a while mom would give in and get something, anything, and we'd sure as hell eat it. Remember that old taffy that tastes like peanut butter? Loved it then, hate it now. I always pushed for the bucket of ice cream, you know, the 2 gallon or whatever it was. Chocolate chip. Greatness.

Well it's my turn to say no, yes, maybe if you're good. I wonder if mom and dad had the same thoughts. I'll bet they did.

Know this guy's mom

Derek

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Baseball madness

Had a very uncomfortable situation at the 12U baseball game today. During the game, kids were on base, the coach and a parent got into a yelling match. I've heard about them but never witnessed. After the parent started yelling instructions to the kids, it went something like this:
Coach: The coach is right here.
Mom: Then start doing your job.
Coach: I am, you can shut your mouth.
Mom: You're right coach.
Coach: You can be quiet or leave.

I thought it was over but:
Coach: I will tell them when I want them to do something, I'm the coach. You can leave.
Mom: My kid is out there, I'm not leaving.

Keep in mind they're about 30 yards from each other

Coach: You can leave
Mom: You can't..
Dad: Please don't do this.
Mom: I don't have to listen...
Mom: And this is free.

I was rolling the camcorder on this but when I listened to it at home, it wasn't as tense. You could hear them yelling but the mumbling in the crowd, especially the other parents, husband, etc. was not very audible.

At the post game coach talk, he handled it pretty well asking all parents to not shout instructions to the kids. They will get confused and not perform well at all. I totally agree with the coach but he should have left the bench and asked the mom to talk away from the others. Man it was tense and made DBBI look pretty bad. Where were the umpires? I though they could have stepped in also. Did I mention this was the first game of the year? Nice

Got speed??

You gotta check it out. It's cool to see the speed at 100. It's a little confusing the first couple of times but after that it's quite entertaining.

Today's Happenin's

• Hit the Buck on the way to Ft. Worth. I just love drinking coffee and driving. The air in the truck smells like the Buck, listening to the Ticket Schtick...Greatness


• Geek speak for about 5 1/2 hours. Some people there are really smart and there are some school districts that are very lucky. There are others that are..well..


• Texas Virtual Schools is extremely interesting to me. The ability to teach a class with no discipline problems, awesome.


• Shoulda stopped at the Buck on the way back but just couldn't do it. I musta had the tea from caffeine hell for lunch. I was thinking faster than I could speak. Sonny's tea...gecha some.


• After picking up the boys at school, mowed the lawn, weeded eated (word?) and edged in 1 1/2 hours. If I had brought out the blower I would have gotten to the hour and a half mark again. Thing is, it was great. The truck said it was 78 degrees! Almost fun.


• Baseball practice, last one before the first game. The boy was off the hook, couldn't stand still, follow instructions or quit kicking the dirt. Will I think that's cute when it's the grandson/daughter? Hope so.


• Chips and queso for dinner at 8:00 pm. I don't like eating that late, especially something like that but man it was good. The wife can make some good squeezo.

Things that are cool

Hovercraft
Beer boots
Corvettes
People that call when you WANT to talk
Technology..yes I love technolgy
Juji Fruit
New shoes

OMG

Have you seen the size of the TU jumbotron? I'll be that thing is bigger than my HS football stadium. Seriously? Do the Egyptians need to see the highlights? I think they're trying to compensate for something...

Labor Day Thoughts

What is labor day? I think it's just a government created holiday to stir up $$$ for the economy. How many sales are there today? Aren't 3/4 of them mattress stores? Oh, I see, we need more rest so the idea of everyone taking a day off to buy mattresses will add up to more hours of sleep. It all makes sense now.