Been a while....

since my last post. Haven't had too much going on besides gaming and family affairs. One thing that has gotton me upset here recently is my daughter's softball league. As you may or may not know, my daughter is 5 and is therefore just getting her feet wet as far as sports go. She has done cheerleading (hated it because she didn't like not being able to run), soccer (loved it) and basketball (again didn't like the time on the bench). This is the first time she was going to do softball and also the first time it was not for our Church through the Upward program. Notice how I said "was", that is right, I have already pulled her out!! Let me explain.

First thing I noticed was that we weren't finding out about the practices until the night before. Why they didn't have a scheduled practice time is beyond me. Next I hear that the couch would have to make his own arrangements as far as WHERE to practice. In other words not at the rec center. Then we got a call this past Wednesday night at 10 saying that she had practice Thursday night at 8. That was the straw that nearly broke the camel's back. My daughter is usually in bed by 8!!! Well, the practice got rained out but the coach called to tell us that they had a pre-season tournament scheduled for Saturday and that they would be playing in 3 games. 3 games, that is wrong for this age group!!!! That means she would be spending ALL DAY at the park doing a sport that she never has done. Also, it means my 3 year old son would be sitting there all day too! That did it. I called the coach on Friday and told him that I was pulling my daughter out because of the piss poor job of planning that was being done. I appologized to him and stated that i knew it was not his fault but the rec centers. I also told him that I was very angry at that fact that the boys league was not having ANY of this problems. No, that is right, all of the boys teams had a practice schedule and a league schedule. I asked for Board members names so I could call them to tell them how unfairly I believe the girls teams are being treated as compared to the boys. The coach directed me to a website that has the phone numbers. The coach also stated that he had been asking for a tee for the girls and has still not received it. AND - that one of the girls teams had a game at 9 at night!!!!! These are 5 and 6 year olds!!! I hated pulling her out, but I wasn't going to subject my girl to a new sport and have her hate it because of some lame ass rec centers mistake!! Oh well, we will try another rec center next year and get her into gymnastics for now.

In other news, has your wife ever told someone you would do something without ever talking to you about it. Pissed you off right?? Well how about this. My father in law got us a shed for our back yard for Christmas. We talked a couple weeks back about trying to get started on it this past weekend. Well with everything going on with softball and the weather wasn't going to be particularly nice (high of 50 with 20 MPH winds) I had told my wife that I think we should wait one more week. She agreed and we made plans to take the kids to the Tennessee Aquarium on Saturday instead. Well, the phone rings about 9 Friday night and I don't think much about it. Walk into the bedroom at around 10 and she proceeds to tell me that her dad had called and he would be over in the morning at 9. WTF???? I was PISSED!! I asked about our other plans and the fact that I specifically told her I didn't want to do it this weekend. She said nothing! I then asked why is she didn't have the balls to tell her dad then why didn't she let me speak to him. She stated that the building needed to be put up anyway. She isn't the one that is going to have to be out there working in that weather!!!! She said that I could call him back and tell him I didn't want to do it to which I said I wasn't going to do that since it was 10 at night and she had already made the plans. Anyway, got the floor put down over floze my ass of in the process!! Should be smooth sailing from here....

Sorry for the rant, just wanted to sound off about some things. You know, why don't women appologize?? I still haven't got an appology from her about doing that...

Anyway, I will try not to be so negative next time.

Here are some cool pictures. God's hands are in everything!!