I'm old!

So, what's one main lesson we've learned about Sullivan people? They can't tell age...

Last year, at a little kids basketball game (the big Sullivan-Carlisle 5th/6th grade rivalry), I was asked which team I was rooting for. When I tried to explain I was just to "scout" our upcoming kids, she got confused, and eventually asked, "....so you're in high school?" That's what every twenty-six year old wants to hear.

Tonight, I was the at the junior high golf match (again, scouting out the "future"), and a parent of one of the kids asked me, "So which one is yours?"

So, I look like I'm in high school, but am old enough to have a middle-school kid. Not sure I like people thinking I'm old, either...

By the way...since it may have slipped your notice...it's really freakin' hot outside.

Clever

A scene from Algebra II:

"Great! Now, let's do that same thing, just with letters this time!"
"Why???"
"Actually, we're going to use 'x'."

You have no idea how much I enjoyed that....

I am finding God to be kind of clever lately....if He isn't necessarily getting some of the growth and commitment He wants out of me, what does He do? Give me more responsibility, in fields I care very much about. So what do I have to do? Spend more time with Him, seek His guidance all the more. Sneaky...

Small Town USA

Ahh, the joys of a small town...

Being a basketball coach, I have to work the concession stand during the varsity football games. Pretty much all coaches have to do this at some time or another. Of course, since this has been going on for awhile, the community expects the basketball coaches to be there. So when I'm in there, they're a little curious. I mean, this is a small town, so they gotta know what's going on. I don't know how many times our head coach was asked who I was, with me standing only six feet away. It's fun to hear "he's our new JV coach....he helped out last year....did a good job..." over and over, but I was amazed at how many times I had to hear it. Sort of makes you feel a little famous. :)

Now, I'm sure there'll be a time when I want things more private, but for now, it's kind of fun.

Too many links!!!

So, I've been linking a lot on here lately, so what am going to do about it? Link some more.

I like it. I like the idea of God fighting for me. I've been reading a little about us being God's bride, and what that means in terms of Him wooing us and such. But, being a guy, sometimes I struggle with that analogy. But I really like the idea of God fighting for me.

Last night, of course, then He posed the response to me. Am I willing to fight for Him? And maybe not in a traditional sense. I think there's a tendency in me to do all the things a "good" Christian does (whatever that means), even if those things go against the grain. Does that make any sense? For instance, I feel called to Yorktown, and so most Sundays I go there for church, which is definitely a sacrifice of many things. And God is honoring that. But do I fight to totally maximize my time there? When I can't go, do I fight for quality time here by myself in TH? Or do I just kind of...skip it. Do I fight to meet with God every day? I think not fighting, in some ways, just resorts back to the "religion" that I've been ranting on. Yeah for being hypocritical!

All this, I need to keep in mind that God still fights for me. He still seems me as being worth that. Don't get too hard on myself....just make sure I'm fighting, too.

Hungry

I want to go get some Chinese for dinner, but I currently cannot leave the TV because Tiger Woods is making a run at history at the PGA Championship. He's currently on 17, and two pars will tie the low round for any major. Now, he's in the fairway on a birdie hole, so we (I) could be about ready to see something that's never happened before.

So, while I wait, I did some exploring. I saw a skit parodying Who's on First the other day on TV (not this one, though it's quite funny), so I've been trying to find it. It's the same dialogue, with the exception that in place of Who they put Tino Martinez, in place of What they put Chuck Knoblach, and in place of I Don't Know they put Scott Brosius. It was really funny, regardless of the use of Yankee infielders. The duo was called Slovin & Allen. If you can find it, better luck to you... Otherwise, spend a lot of time watching Comedy Central until their CC Presents comes on and tape it for me...

The fast and the furious

So, when you are almost the only teacher at school and you need to download some videos, you get between 2 and 3 MB/sec. Rock on!

The (curse of the) billy-goat is getting furiously busy lately. I already mentioned the injury to Alfonso Soriano a few posts ago. Well, the Brewers, who lead the Cubs by 1 game, are in a free fall, so to keep the Cubs out of the play-offs at this point, he's had to go into overdrive. So, instead of calling up our stud outfielder to replace Soriano, we call up someone else who does almost identically the same thing, just not as good (batting about .060 worse). Then, our stud third-baseman, who's leadin the team in RBIs, hurts his hand and has been/will be missing some games. Then, another outfielder goes down, so we finally bring up our stud outfielder, Felix Pie. In last night's game, who do we play against the rightie Roy Oswalt? Neither of the two lefties we just brought up (that would make sense), but the right-handed-hitting Matt Murton, who can't hit right-handed pitching. *sigh* Oh yeah, and our ace gave up 7 earned runs in 5.1 innings. Now we got to Colorado, which has won like 9 or its last 10 home games...

I think it would be really cool if I could somehow title my next post The cast(e) and the curious. Then maybe The bass and the laborious. The past and the pore-eous??? Maybe The last and the laborious. The sass and the soreness? I'll shut up now...

Interesting YouTube thingy

Found an interesting few parodies on YouTube today (total of six of them). Regardless of whether you think the viewpoints are perfect or 100% theologically sound (at least, in how they're presented), I think it's interesting to see a little rebellion against "religion" like I've talked about before. I think the best one is the one I linked to above...

The billy-goat strikes again

The Cubs All-Star left fielder, who just signed an 8-year, $130 million dollar contract (or something ridiculously huge like that), pulls up lame trying to go first-to-third on a single during yesterday's game. He strained his quad, and is out for 2 weeks to over a month. So, not only do we kill a rally in an important game last night, but our starting-to-sputter offense is in *a lot* of trouble. We're still only 1 game back of the Brewers, but I've seen this before...

Chinese food

There were six lucky numbers on the fortune cookie fortune today. Three of them were prime. The other three were:

2^5
5^2
2*5

I seriously need a life...