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.

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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

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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.

Yeah, I won!!!

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End of Week Thoughts

• I hates me some cowboys
• I loves me some football
• Mo brings up a great point, check out the comment from yesterday. I have to agree. Not only do we push ourselves but others are pushing us as well. Most of the time we're not even aware of it.
• Becker Vineyards--Cab--Very good. It's actually been a pretty good way to relax lately. I had a glass last night before bed and slept better than I have in quite some time. I also ran 3 miles and was up at 4:35 am so that might have something to do with it. Me likes me some Becker.
• Speaking of Becker, never watched the show.
• Speaker of show, never understood the racing reference. Didn't they all show?
• Still debating my fantasy football team name, Seinfeld is the theme again. I got a couple in mind and so far the Frightened Turtles are leading the way.
• If you haven't seen Intervention, it's a must see, TIVO baby. There's something about seeing somebody else in dire straits that makes you feel a little better about yourself. Is that wrong?

How many times

must I tell people "yes, I'll take care of it"? The speaker today focused on taking care of yourself, telling people no, and not spending so much time at work. I am pretty consistent with my hours at work but the hours I put in at home taking care of people is starting to add up. Hopefully it will get better after the school year begins. I kept thinking about my staff and how much time they put in at home or off the clock. Am I creating an expectation that they should keep it up? Does your boss or my boss create the same expectation of us?

Jason Taylor again

I'm really getting tired head on JT. He's already talking about his Hollywood aspirations. Seen on PTI today, he seems to be getting more...well...his skull appears to be expanding. Still, there's a strange fascination since he's Zach's brother in law. I almost feel like he's the brother that I always looked up to. The one that I wanted to be like. The one that always made me feel like a failure. Wait..I already have one of those.

Zach's sister?

I always wondered what she looks like and see little to no family resemblance. I assumed she would be short and bulky like Zach and a big round face. There might be a little something with the round face but other than that, one of them is definitely adopted.