It's now nearly two weeks since I posted anything here, but I've had good reason(s).
First, I really haven't had much of anything to say.....
Second, I've been busier than a one-legged man in a jumprope contest.....
Third, read one and two.
Actually, there's a lot going on, so let's start with sports:
Jesus is coming back tomorrow; the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (oh, okay; I know they dropped the "devil" from their name to try and attract the over eighty crowd to their home dates, but they'll always be "devil rays" to me!) are ahead of the BoSox in game 5 of the ALCS and look like a shoe-in to win the American League pennant. A Rays v Phillies world series?
Better check the clouds tomorrow to make sure the sign of the Son of Man isn't blatantly displayed there!
Next, two HIGHLY unlikely things happened in football this week. First, on Monday evening, my beloved Browns absolutely THROTTLED the defending world champion, the undefeated New York football Giants. That was a big enough surprise, to be sure. Then, yesterday, my little 8th-grade "B" team won THEIR first game of the season by the astounding score of 7-0. Yes, boys and girls, my defense pitched a shutout! Woo-hoo!
We actually did some things well, too! After we scored our touchdown at about 2 minutes into the second quarter, our little kicker was kicking into a strong wind, so I called him aside and said,"Carlos; you aren't gonna get much distance against that wind, so let's kick it onside. Which way do you want to go?" He said "Left," so I called the rest of the kickoff team together and told them what we were going to do and then reminded them that, after 10 yards, a kickoff is a live ball, meaning that it's just like a fumble. Then I asked them if they remembered the fumble drill, which brought a rousing "Yes SIR!!!", so I told them that it would be just like that drill.
Carlos kicked the ball a perfect distance (about 12 yards), the left side of the kickoff line covered it perfectly, even knocking one guy away from the recovery, and one of our guys fell on it at about the 45 for wonderful field position and a real opportunity to run away with the game.
Well.....it was a great opportunity anyway!
At work......that's where the jumprope contest has been going on!
I usually stay pretty busy during the season in any case. This year has been worse than usual. We HAD three main academic "thrusts" last year; "Rigor and Relevance," SIOP, and Safe & Civil Schools. This year, we've still got those, but we added CHAMPS, the DATE grant, and the 21st Century grant. In addition, they asked me to mentor one of the new ACP teachers, so I'm doing that (AND all the training that goes with that) in addition to all of my regular duties AND coaching.
Juggling all of this stuff is about to drive me insane!
Well, actually, it was fitting together pretty well until Ike butted in. I had training or some other duty on five consecutive Saturdays, but nothing I couldn't handle. Then two of them got cancelled due to Ike and all of them wanted to reschedule for exactly the same day!
Sorry, folks. I gave my clone the day off and I can't be in two places at once!
Anyway, I'm taking a weekend off this weekend. All I'm going to do is finish the storage building in the back and move stuff from the garage into the building. Can you say "walk through the garage? That's good......I knew that you could!"
That's not what I'm looking forward to, though! In a couple of weeks, MDB's brother invited me up to God's country for a deer hunt. It'll be my first and I'm REALLY looking forward to it!
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