The Electric

• My left knee is all gone to crap. If I was a horse, I would be shot. Keep that in mind as you gaze at this post.

• I pray that Texas beats OSU so I won’t have to listen to Buckeye fan all fall rant about how they’re #1. Part of the joy of college football has been taken from me by having to live with Buckeye fan for the better part of 25 years. God I wish I was back in Bama.

• Starting to get pissy at work which isn’t a good thing. Makes me wish I could just throw down the “That’s just the way it is.” card as well as have a switch I could throw that would not make me care what others thought. I would be insufferable to those around me but it not like this is ever going to happen… I’d implode from the guilt.

• Question of the week: You try to start a grassroots project with a co-worker That project is then dovetailed into a larger effort involving other co-workers from different groups. You are happy because the scope of this effort could be enormous and needing additonal resources to be done right. In the final project proposal, key things you felt passionately about were pushed into the “to be reviewed” section while other things that you feel are stupid have been moved to the top “do now” section. These stupid things are so stupid, you didn’t even get pissed when you’re name was left off the final proposal. These things could wreck the whole project but you’re not on the list anymore so why should you care but then again it would majorly suck if something isn’t done. Something that made you head down this path in the first place. So what do you do?

The last three years, I’ve been the captain of the OCLC cooperate challenge co-ed softball team. This is a dubious distinction given that the team hasn’t won a game in the close to 4 years I’ve been with the company.

Now this year I had hoped to pass captaincy to someone else. Except that person never did showed. So thanks to my locked up schedule (new job, family commitments plus trying to get a fence built) we never had a full practice with everyone showing up.

Because of this, I was expecting the worse.

So I must note that this year’s team was surprising in many different ways.

First, we had some new players join us for the first time who played really well given that they hadn’t been on a field in a few years.

Next, we scored more runs in the first inning of the 2nd game than the previous 4 teams did COMBINED.

Yet we still went “Two and a barbecue”

First game with Bysis was close except for one big inning that did us in.

The second game with CAS hurt in more ways than one. After a 10 run first, we only managed to put another 7 on the board. Next, CAS just kept chipping at us until they got a big inning of their own to tie the game. After the top of our order was held scoreless, CAS push across the winning run just before the skies opened up raining out the rest of the event.

I should also note that one of our women players had to come off the field due to the heat which was like being in a sauna. I’m praying she is able to bounce back and would be willing to play with us again.

My knee is sore and the Advil hasn’t hit yet so I’m heading to bed…

Last few weeks have been just one big blur for me which is part of the reason I haven’t been posting as much.

In the month of June, just at work mind you, the director over my group was let go, I was asked to help organize a symposium on library services for the blind, our Admin left to take another job and then my training registration process came unhinged while try to get everyone trained by Aug while folks are out of the office for vacations and membership gatherings.

Home was spent working with the city for a variance for putting up a fence (which we got approved after finding out our survey was wrong and that the planning commission thought we were going to put up a wall rather than a pool style open fence.

Needless to say, I’m stressed.