Well, I awoke briefly to the spastic jumping and yelling that is my son when he is being himself. I'm thinking he was probably fighting with his sister over the Roku remote. Or he was telling mother about the books he wants her to check out from her work. Or he was talking about the story arc on his game to his mother. Or...
I went back to sleep. I re-awoke to J telling me she was leaving for work.
She took the baby's stroller so my day was ruined, again. I was hoping to go to the pool or stroll in the nice weather, but no.
I watched Dr. Who, and I wasn't struck by awe.
I got to thinking about a thought and pulled out the Kill Bill Vol. 1 sound track. I then wondered if the film was on Netflix. I know it's violent, but hey I felt like seeing it. I watched a little before I had to stop due to my middle child wanting to be in the room.
Pirates were winning and idiot manager used the bullpen that promptly lost the lead and then the game. Baseball. I said to myself I'd care if the Pirates were over .500 on Father's Day I'd maybe care, but the season is a bust now.
Sulking. Not about the day, but about things that never happened. Things I never knew. Feelings I always felt. Collusion from hell though the dust settled ages ago.
I never understood why we never had food in the fridge growing up. Condiments do not count as food. Parmesan cheese doesn't make a decent cheese sandwich. Single slices of cheese only there when there's no bread in the bread box. Found out my folks had life insurance on my brother and me. The subject came up because my mom got a call while spoke to her from a guy following up from an application she submitted last year. My dad is dying and not going to get life insurance without high premium. I asked my mom why she needed insurance, she said she thought her current policy wasn't going to be enough to cover stuff. They had had it so long that they probably paid more into it than what it will pay out. I'm not kidding. Maddening to think what my parents thought were good fiscal investments. Let's just say I grew up in poverty for nothing.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Though my class got canceled, I intend to teach next term. I acquired Pirates of Silicon Valley to see why every intro to MS Office class should see it. I say this because my former boss used to show it to his classes and asked that I purchase it for the library. It was old and was not simple to acquire using our purchase order system.
Not sure if it's a good movie to show people that aren't sure what a mouse does, but it's a good overview of why Microsoft and Apple are EVIL since they were founded by thieving Bill Gates and jerk Steve Jobs.
Not sure if it's a good movie to show people that aren't sure what a mouse does, but it's a good overview of why Microsoft and Apple are EVIL since they were founded by thieving Bill Gates and jerk Steve Jobs.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Wednesday, a day for rest.
I intended to work on the tiling today, but my back said it needed a rest. Been in a funk from stooping the last few weeks, now with the end in sight, I need not rush it.
I'm not what I used to be, but I have my moments.
Thinking back to the days of being within an 54' trailer and unloading for 90 minutes straight, five days a week, I know that I could do things without feeling pain the next day. (I only remember one day of waking up too sore to move and I called off.)
The thing is, I got paid the same as if I was on the line where I could stand around BS and drink coffee. I only got in the trailer so I had leverage to get more hours. I had a schedule that worked around J's so that I could be home with baby K. No one said anything to me about it, I just requested the days off weekly and I got them while having a full-time schedule. I usually got Wednesday off since we didn't get trucks Wednesday and Sunday. I worked every Sunday for two straight years. I liked Sundays, I worked mostly alone.
I don't miss working retail, but it was work that I didn't have to think about while home. I didn't have to think much while working, either. It was pretty simple and cut and dry what needed done. I always longed to be done and to go home. I had a lot more energy since I never sat during the workday or stared at a PC, so I got a lot of the initial remodeling done on the house during that time.
Aside from the back, my mind has been mush looking at things online.
Internet speed has greatly reduced my overall productivity. Information is compiled as such a rate that I should be come an infovegan or at least give up following sports. Watching overpaid athletes is a waste of time, but yet so hard to give up.
Being nostalgic, reminds me of my dad saying he worked every summer when he first started teaching. He never worked in the summer as long as I can remember. Hopefully, K and B will have a memory or two me actually fixing something. I believe that B will definitely remember my orthopedic procedures to reattach limbs to her dolls.
The closer I get to finishing the tiling, I think about what will be next. Of course, the more work I do, the more inclined I am to feeling the house could be marketable. We need more room for our cars, and Ohio hasn't been a great place for me to find work.
I'm not what I used to be, but I have my moments.
Thinking back to the days of being within an 54' trailer and unloading for 90 minutes straight, five days a week, I know that I could do things without feeling pain the next day. (I only remember one day of waking up too sore to move and I called off.)
The thing is, I got paid the same as if I was on the line where I could stand around BS and drink coffee. I only got in the trailer so I had leverage to get more hours. I had a schedule that worked around J's so that I could be home with baby K. No one said anything to me about it, I just requested the days off weekly and I got them while having a full-time schedule. I usually got Wednesday off since we didn't get trucks Wednesday and Sunday. I worked every Sunday for two straight years. I liked Sundays, I worked mostly alone.
I don't miss working retail, but it was work that I didn't have to think about while home. I didn't have to think much while working, either. It was pretty simple and cut and dry what needed done. I always longed to be done and to go home. I had a lot more energy since I never sat during the workday or stared at a PC, so I got a lot of the initial remodeling done on the house during that time.
Aside from the back, my mind has been mush looking at things online.
Internet speed has greatly reduced my overall productivity. Information is compiled as such a rate that I should be come an infovegan or at least give up following sports. Watching overpaid athletes is a waste of time, but yet so hard to give up.
Being nostalgic, reminds me of my dad saying he worked every summer when he first started teaching. He never worked in the summer as long as I can remember. Hopefully, K and B will have a memory or two me actually fixing something. I believe that B will definitely remember my orthopedic procedures to reattach limbs to her dolls.
The closer I get to finishing the tiling, I think about what will be next. Of course, the more work I do, the more inclined I am to feeling the house could be marketable. We need more room for our cars, and Ohio hasn't been a great place for me to find work.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Joy of heartburn
Thursday, May 3, 2012
24
Alvarez, Pedro. El Toro. #24
I've seen one game at PNC, and the Pirates lost to the Phillies. Pedro Alvarez hit his first career MLB homer.
It was my son's first time at a ballgame, and he cried until the 3rd inning when he realized the Phillies were winning BIG TIME. He liked them. He adopted them as his team once he saw they were opposing my team sometime the year before, and he stuck to liking them as much as he cared for any team.
My son is left-handed and didn't like baseball, so I was willing to let him like whomever he wanted if it spurred his interest any.
I doubt anyone will really remember seeing Alvarez's first dinger since 90% of the packed stadium were Phillies fans, and they seemed ignorant of their surroundings. One fan behind me was perplexed that a guy not hitting his weight was in the lineup let alone able to it a ball over the left-center wall off their fringe 5th starter Kendrick.
Alvarez had a fair game today, and he's been on fire of late. SSS is what Keith Law is tweeting at the moment, and I agree. It's a game of adjustments.
Not sure I like the pieces that make up the team as individual players, but the Buccos didn't field a winner when they had Aramis Ramirez, Brian Giles, Jason Bay, Jason Kendell, Jason Schmidt, or Oliver Perez.
If they get timely hitting, field cleanly, and throw strikes, they won't embarrass themselves too often. May started ugly, hopefully they got it out of their system and can get over .500 soon.
I doubt it will happen, but stranger things have happened.
I've seen one game at PNC, and the Pirates lost to the Phillies. Pedro Alvarez hit his first career MLB homer.
It was my son's first time at a ballgame, and he cried until the 3rd inning when he realized the Phillies were winning BIG TIME. He liked them. He adopted them as his team once he saw they were opposing my team sometime the year before, and he stuck to liking them as much as he cared for any team.
My son is left-handed and didn't like baseball, so I was willing to let him like whomever he wanted if it spurred his interest any.
I doubt anyone will really remember seeing Alvarez's first dinger since 90% of the packed stadium were Phillies fans, and they seemed ignorant of their surroundings. One fan behind me was perplexed that a guy not hitting his weight was in the lineup let alone able to it a ball over the left-center wall off their fringe 5th starter Kendrick.
Alvarez had a fair game today, and he's been on fire of late. SSS is what Keith Law is tweeting at the moment, and I agree. It's a game of adjustments.
Not sure I like the pieces that make up the team as individual players, but the Buccos didn't field a winner when they had Aramis Ramirez, Brian Giles, Jason Bay, Jason Kendell, Jason Schmidt, or Oliver Perez.
If they get timely hitting, field cleanly, and throw strikes, they won't embarrass themselves too often. May started ugly, hopefully they got it out of their system and can get over .500 soon.
I doubt it will happen, but stranger things have happened.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Game of adjustments
Errors are maddening.
I wish that I could give up following baseball. If I didn't after the '94-'95 strike, or 19 consecutive losing seasons, then I doubt I ever will.
It's not like I'm a Browns fan because the Browns are now the Ravens as far as I'm concerned. But then again, NFL has a salary cap and a draft that makes immediate impacts for teams that aren't good.
Baseball is so unpredictable.
Drafting high school players and having to wait five years or so for them to work their way up through the minors is just unpredictable.
I've been excited about so many players coming up only for them to get injured or not progress beyond AA.
They don't get promoted based on seniority as much as for performance against the competition.
Athletes like Bryce Harper are rare. He dropped out of high school and got his GED to enter Junior College early. Who does that?
Football is different. I believe that I remember that Maurice Clarett finished High School early to start at OSU in the spring to be advanced of the typical freshman.
College football at OSU under Jim Tressel was pretty much professional football.
Clarett got dismissed and tried to enter the NFL draft but Sonia Sotomayor ruled in favor of the NFL of barring him and Mike Williams from entering prior to being three years removed from high school.
Clarett had other problems and failed to play on Sundays.
NBA has a one and done policy after the influx of teenagers going into the league became ridiculous. I can't stand NBA as it is today for the fundamentals are lacking that existed when I was a boy watching Bird vs. Magic.
Something about baseball makes it better to follow than other sports. Players don't change teams as often. They can change positions. They can have long careers. They usually have to be able to hit and and play defense. The season is long, but it is daily entertainment.
Baseball is game of adjustments. Being able to throw a ball fast or hit it hard doesn't always guarantee success.
MLB games shouldn't have 4 errors in them!
I wish that I could give up following baseball. If I didn't after the '94-'95 strike, or 19 consecutive losing seasons, then I doubt I ever will.
It's not like I'm a Browns fan because the Browns are now the Ravens as far as I'm concerned. But then again, NFL has a salary cap and a draft that makes immediate impacts for teams that aren't good.
Baseball is so unpredictable.
Drafting high school players and having to wait five years or so for them to work their way up through the minors is just unpredictable.
I've been excited about so many players coming up only for them to get injured or not progress beyond AA.
They don't get promoted based on seniority as much as for performance against the competition.
Athletes like Bryce Harper are rare. He dropped out of high school and got his GED to enter Junior College early. Who does that?
Football is different. I believe that I remember that Maurice Clarett finished High School early to start at OSU in the spring to be advanced of the typical freshman.
College football at OSU under Jim Tressel was pretty much professional football.
Clarett got dismissed and tried to enter the NFL draft but Sonia Sotomayor ruled in favor of the NFL of barring him and Mike Williams from entering prior to being three years removed from high school.
Clarett had other problems and failed to play on Sundays.
NBA has a one and done policy after the influx of teenagers going into the league became ridiculous. I can't stand NBA as it is today for the fundamentals are lacking that existed when I was a boy watching Bird vs. Magic.
Something about baseball makes it better to follow than other sports. Players don't change teams as often. They can change positions. They can have long careers. They usually have to be able to hit and and play defense. The season is long, but it is daily entertainment.
Baseball is game of adjustments. Being able to throw a ball fast or hit it hard doesn't always guarantee success.
MLB games shouldn't have 4 errors in them!
Pirates treading near .500
As a life long Buccos fan, I dislike the Atlanta Braves.
Last July I stayed up to see a game blown after 19 innings. The Pirates were in the play off hunt, and they folded following that game in Atlanta.
This season, they finished a rough April in Atlanta with a win to be 10-12, when a year earlier they were 12-15 on May 1st.
They had great pitching with an era of 3.64 to start the season last year, and surprisingly, they have a team era of 2.78 this spring. No one on the Brewers pitching staff is currently below 3.00, and the Brewers won the division last year.
Two teams have a better ERA. Pirates have not been able to score runs, hence the losing record.
Hopefully, they get some timely hitting and are able to have a positive May.
They play Milwaukee June 1, and they have had a hard time against the Brew Crew the last decade or so.
Last July I stayed up to see a game blown after 19 innings. The Pirates were in the play off hunt, and they folded following that game in Atlanta.
This season, they finished a rough April in Atlanta with a win to be 10-12, when a year earlier they were 12-15 on May 1st.
They had great pitching with an era of 3.64 to start the season last year, and surprisingly, they have a team era of 2.78 this spring. No one on the Brewers pitching staff is currently below 3.00, and the Brewers won the division last year.
Two teams have a better ERA. Pirates have not been able to score runs, hence the losing record.
Hopefully, they get some timely hitting and are able to have a positive May.
They play Milwaukee June 1, and they have had a hard time against the Brew Crew the last decade or so.
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