Randomness Reigns
I’ve been learning lots about college sports at my new job and it’s been enlightening to say the least. Who would have guessed that there were so many rules and regulations governing college sports and athletic scholarships.
This week we done a bunch to get the social networking aspects of it all up and running. Kind of funny to picture me being responsible for regular tweeting. Fortunately I’ve come up with some ideas for daily and weekly tweets and some apps to schedule them with.
All this new stuff is a little overwhelming and exhausting, not like the way a marathon or operating industrial equipment would be, but in that brain strain kind of way. It’s hard to believe I’m going to add school and homeschool to all of this next week.
Well, I’m off to bed now, I’m so not used to going to bed at 10:30/11pm yet.
Wordless Wednesday #31
Teaser Tuesdays #20
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: grab your current read, open to a random page, share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page, BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!), share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My 1st Teaser:
It took less than a second, and the whole time I was waiting for the pain to get me. For the flames to hit and then spread like the night I’d met her, only faster.
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
My 2nd Teaser:
By the time I realized I’d been alone in the dark and should have been mortally afraid (at least according to D’Eriq), I was walking into my well-lit backyard. Maybe worrying about my spiritual life was a welcome distraction from reliving physical torture.
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
Another View (Or 3) From The River Park
So, broken toe or no broken toe, I kept my promise to take her to Mud Island Friday. This proved to be a bit tricky as I had to find places to put my foot up so that the toe would stop swelling. Fortunately we had a friend along and that helped to keep her entertained. I took several shots of my favorite bridge and river, it was just too easy, as well as a ton of the girls playing in the “river”.
As we walked along the river, taking breaks when my toe screamed too loudly, I did a bit of people watching. I caught myself being particularly mindful of men’s clothing. I saw everything from guys in suits to skate rats to comfy casual shirt and shorts. Funny but the guys I’m always drawn to are the ones who traverse that range easily and with a certain sense of appropriateness. Since I work with a lot of high school athletes now, I’ve become even more aware of how a guy’s clothing affects the way he is perceived by others. Guess it really is worth it to invest a little in your appearance.
Since the River walk is an exact scale model of the Lower Mississippi River flowing from its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois 954 miles south to the Gulf of Mexico, it is to be expected that our journey’s mid point was successfully reaching and taking a break at the Gulf. The girls dangled their legs (no swimming allowed) in the Gulf then went back to “Lake Pontchartrain” for a good time splashing and “swimming”.
A View From The River Park
Friday Skies #35
Every day close to a dozen of these planes fly over my office parking lot. They create some really cool shadows on the windows of my 8th floor office. As you can tell from this shot hazy, hot, and humid are still the key words for our weather here. The constant hazy cloud cover makes me think of a smoky room, you know a bar at the end of the night or some swanky cigar club where the men have been smoking their Padron cigars all evening.
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Wordless Wednesday #30
Miss Muffin 8 Years Ago…
