David, I saw your story about Emmett's game - was the pitcher trying to hit him? or was it just a case that he's bigger and stronger?
You know, I talked to the pitcher and his parents after the game and I thought he was kind of flippant and assholish about it. (He made an "Oops" face.) His parents said he felt bad about it (as most kids do when they hit a batter), but I think he was used to throwing hard inside without too much worry about whether he hit people or not.
I don't think it was on purpose, but I suspect he was used to intimidation being a part of his pitching game.
Which is part of how you play baseball in the majors, but not how it should be played in Little League.
Anyway, Emmett's been hit about six times this season by a variety of pitchers. Because most of them were solid shots to the body, instead of glancing blows off the arm or leg, it's had sort of a cumulative effect on his psyche.
During warmups for one game, I was standing on the first base side where I coach and an errant throw by the shortstop nailed me really hard in the back. You don't just experience pain in that moment, but a huge jolting shock to your system. It sets off your whole nervous system and your brain is screaming, "Alarm! Alarm!" and it's hard to breathe and you have a wave of nausea and all that. So that was actually useful for me to remembmer that getting hit with a ball is not like getting a bruise. It's more like getting hit in a fight.
I'm trying to get more Zen about it all. Emmett twisted his ankle yesterday and he's hobbling around on it today. So I don't know how much catching he can do in tonight's game. We're just going to let him tell us what he can handle.
Which makes three successive games where I have to worry about Emmett's ability to take the field for three completely different and unrelated issues. So I've decided to stop worrying about it. They can't all be must-play games.
I FINALLY have seen the umbrella cubicle farm. I would be obsessed with creating a full coverage system .
Pick up the clothes off you bedroom floor and throw them on because you are running late?
There are a few individuals that are pulled together --
I FINALLY have seen the umbrella cubicle farm. I would be obsessed with creating a full coverage system .
Being a Little League parent, I know you can set up temporary canopies to create shade over fairly large spaces for relatively little money. Certainly less than $1,000 would've been enough to shade the area which had eight cubicles.
So, it really is just a colossal case of "Fuck you, employees!"
The cube farm is down to three inhabitants now. One guy is on temporary duty from Houston. I'm a temp and the other guy is just used to it and doesn't want to move his desk for the remaining two months at this space.
oh and since I was looking back to see what my reading bucks scheme was, I feel the need to note that I did
not
, in fact, get fries at lunch.
t /virtous
interesting fashion site
Oooh, this is nifty. I especially like this guy: [link]
do you think the site focuses on certain types? You'd never get that many people on an American street wearing that much second hand unless you were targeting.
do you think the site focuses on certain types? You'd never get that many people on an American street wearing that much second hand unless you were targeting.
They've got to be. I think they're focusing on the stylish eccentrics and rocker types. I've seen three different profiles where the person says that Hanoi Rocks and Nikki Sixx are fashion influences, at least two Sweet Lolita/EGL profiles, and some very elegant Goths. (Like these two! [link]
There's a fair amount of vintage on the Sartorialist [link] but again, he makes a point of finding interesting people. So sometimes it's expensive and sometimes it's vintage, but it's almost never the Gap.
