Monday evening took it pretty easy, I did beat the hell out of my heavy bag...that felt great.

Dragon Boat Racing is BACK! That was some great times when we did it out at Raccoon River. Now its going to be at Grays Lake on Augest 18th. Web site information for the Dragon racing


Here is that Krasnyansky, I was talking about yesterday that's hanging in my living room. I think it's incredible. Again this picture doesn't do any justice to this piece!

Baseball games tonight for both boys 5pm & 6pm. Looks like the weather should hold up.

Deep Thought for the Day: One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

This rain is incredible and it’s suppose to continue through the week. On my way to work this morning every single creek and river was well out of their banks. What does Saylorville look like??...we don't need another 93'

Saturday was Volley’s Beverage in Hand Tournament it was a blast, the boys even enjoyed it. It was kinda windy for the oversized ball we were playing with, nonetheless fun. The only problem I saw was Stephanie jacking me in the jaw, which still hurts. Austin made some new friends…already working on older women. At least his priorities are straight. I left it up to the boys on how long we were staying, they wanted to stay…missing Spiderman 3. I think I’ll be taking them this weekend; I have to give it some consideration as it may be too violent for Blaise. When we finally lost our last game and left the boys fell asleep inside of five minutes, they were exhausted....they are so cute and pieceful at that stage, too bad they have to continue to grow up.

Sunday, I had my last pool league ”Thank God”....Yes, I did win. I think I’m done with pool till fall except for The Masters in June and then probably have to play in Vegas, July or August.

Since it was raining…no biking, Stephanie honored me with her presence and we went to the Art Auction over at the Jordan Creek Marriot. After giving her specific directions not to let me buy anything she failed. Also the auctioneer to say the least was easy on the eyes, staring profusely at me during most of the auction. Afterwards Steph brought me to reality when she said” she was just trying to get you buy more”, as she rolled her eyes.
I ended up buying one piece called After The Ride on canvas, goes very well with my Pinball Wizard one also by Scott Jacubs.

This one has many of my favorite things in it; can you guess what they are? Here is a picture of it…and this doesn’t even come close to doing it justice. You'll have to look at these pieces sometime!



I passed up another one that I have wanted for over a year, called Best Cellar
I haven’t been able to justify spending that much on a piece.... I shouldn't say that as one of my Krasnyansky's was 3x..but I like it much more. Hopefully I’ll pick it up at the next auction as I know they are almost gone.

Then we went to Spiderman 3…it rocked. Don't tell my kids, I'll be going with them too. Wow, Stephanie can be jumpy! About 4 times during the movie she jumps and yelps. One time it was perfectly quite in the theater except for her. After the movie I went home and did some laundry, just thinking how I can’t wait for work the next day….and now it’s the next day!

Coming up on Saturday MS Walk from the state capital...see if I can carry Blaise 4 miles to build those legs up...

Mothers day is coming up…..also LAZERFest on Sunday at the balloon fields in Indianola.

....and Shit Marcus is going to kick my ass when he gets back......

LGN!!!

Deep Thought for the Day: To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.

I have three separate groups of friends going to Vegas over this weekend. Originally when asked about going, I was like in May?...now I’m eating those words as the last 2 days have been crappy and tomorrow may not be much better. I’m sure they will have a great time! Even though none of these going usually gamble, they will be enjoying the reset of the night/day life…..I could always use a little extra $$$ from there, guess I should have went. I’m 7 for 7 in Vegas….one of those was a tie.

Crappy weather for softball last night, but we beat up our competition pretty good. Most of the team were shocked we were playing. It had been raining off and on all day, even some during the game. The field itself was stellar. I wasn’t planning on playing due to my calf being stiff and we were going to have plenty of guys, apparently just not at the start. So I ended up playing the first 2 innings and had 2 home runs…..they weren’t pretty. Scott had a pretty one later. We had Laura, Kim, Temp, Scott, Dave, Bill, Andy, Sedi, Beth, Kim, Sarah S, and me. Laura screwed up her streak by swinging, but she blames me. You know its fun to win…..and there is this Connie girl on the other team…. Most of us went to Limeys for a few hours after….wasn’t patio weather. I got beat up by by a particular woman on the team for what happened over the last weekend…nothing like jumping to conclusions, before you get the whole story…Of course Dave didn’t care about the specifics, what he heard was cool.

Marcus called today, he's coming back in the next couple months. High of 110 today....it's a dry heat? We also talked about him buying half interest in the bus....I'm burned out with it, like most everything else. They way we can finish it up right, for the fall football games. He will probably make one day of Ragbrai...he won't be riding....sound familiar?

LGN

Austin has a overnight B’day party tonight, so it will be just Blaise and I. Probably try to get some soccer practice in with Blaise...

Beverage in Hand Tournament at Volly’s on Saturday. I’m not sure how much I will play. I want to play left handed as I can’t afford to rupture my tendon again in my right elbow. After I thought it was healed the first time. I started another league, the second week first spike,” SNAP”. It doesn’t seem like it’s totally back from then. Sucks, because most my friends play leagues all the time and I can’t…..but I’ll survive. The kids will be with me also, so I'd be constantly chasing them around.

After that, I plan on taking the boys to Spiderman 3. Some cleaning, some baseball practice, maybe a little more soccer with Blaise. Possible some computer work too....SO FAR BEHIND!

Sunday..pool league and some biking……

Eric is still gone and we are losing Fabio in a few days…..who’s next, hmmmm….

Useless information for the day: Killer Rabbit sequence filmed today for Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974).

Deep Thought for the Day: As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

Everyone Have A GREAT DAY and WEEKEND!!!

Had lunch with Nicole#1 yesterday at the Star Bar...she is so nice...She even gave me a piece of cutlery. I don't want to sound mean, but our waitress needs to go back to waitressing school.

Unfortunately I had pool league last night...it was so nice out...anyway our team got our asses whipped....I on the other hand won all my games. I even had Fernando call the guy from last week and tell him I had time to take up his bet, he balked at it though....would have been an easy $400. We were at Jeannie' Bottle
Temp showed up and we bs for a while....discussing pros and cons of girls with...... There was also a small skirmish with another guy I was playing, but I ended that quickly.

Got another decent night of sleep.

Softball tonight


Deep Though for the Day : I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.

Notes about rotating header pictures : I've had several ask about them. Yes, that one is my senior picture. The Z28 I got rid of in about 92'. Austin is the little one in the chair with his thumb. The one picture is my model pose. Yes; that is Honest Abe with Marcus and I, we had taken a time machine back....long scary story to say the least.

Blaise had his first game last night, he looked so cute...but he also looked like a 5 year old that has never played....he watched the ball roll right by him twice. When the kids finally figured out they needed to get the ball they'd all take off after it as a group, it was cute.

Austin's team won their first game last night 7-4. They had fun the whole game, seems pretty hard to keep them pumped up. A couple of the kids I think are in bad situations at home and they are so down when they show up. They usually take most of my time trying to get them enthusiastic....let alone coaching. We played the same team that I mentioned in The day after... on Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 08:54 AM. The coach didn't even seem to be in it last night. Our pitchers looked really good last night; Joey, Brice, & Andy. Kaleb is a little kid had an outstanding catch in left field laast night and even with the sun in his eyes. Michael, he's kinda a timid kid had a great tag out at third landing on his shoulder and still holding on the ball....Kudos to the entire team.Indianola Little League Site

Got some sleep after working on the portal for DMACC for a couple hours last night.

This pool thing is getting old...have to be inside tonight again, when I should be outside, particularly the steak ride.

I have made some revelations about my living arrangements...and I think it will shock most. I'll talk about it later after I come up with a plan of action.

Deep thought for the day: If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "probably because of something you did."