i am bored. it is hard to believe that i have not driven in almost 2 weeks. i love my children and i am so happy to spend some time with them. their mom is in florida so i am mr. dad and mr. mom. no complaints about that. i wish i had them all here so we could have 4 way arguments instead of 2 ways!!!
as i sit here, i am bored. i have lots to do. it is easy to put doing things off. after all, the phone might ring anytime, right? but i can't leave. i can justify putting off the things i should be doing to make room for the things i may not end up doing. makes perfect sense doesn't it?
my time off is good and deep inside i know it. i need the break from the road because i know my perspective will change when i get my next assignment and get behind the wheel.
funny how things change in life. for most of our lives we dread going to work. we enjoy all the fruits of our labors. i like to eat. i like to play. work has only provided the means to do what i wanted to do. this is different. i love what i do. i love trips and every one is different. the people are different. it is not boring at all. i feast on being around other people and i guess that is why i love doing what i do.
i have been considering some life and career changes and i am stuck moving forward. i have seen a lot of geese lately so i know that no matter the direction i will be okay. sometimes god does not move fast enough for me and i get impatient. when i do i make bad decisions and suffer the consequences. i have enough maturity now to know that even waiting is progress in motion. i can't see it but i trust. god may not move fast enough for me but i know his timing is perfect and mine is always late or early. so, i wait.
until next time...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
is this what we are leaving to our children?
i wanted to think "not in my state" when i heard about this on fox news tonight. today a judge said the lethal injection violated the inmates eight amendment protections. i copied and pasted this so don't think i am changing my protocol. i would not go to the trouble. i read this on a tv station website and included are the comments i posted there. am i alone in this?
"U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger said the protocol "presents a substantial risk of unnecessary pain." She said it violates death row inmate Edward Jerome Harbison's Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment."
this is the dumbest thing i have ever heard. to think we should be sensitive to him suffering before he dies? i don't care if he cries like a school girl. i hope his pain is excruciating, long and graphic. and then the judge added;
"the new protocol does not ensure that inmates are properly anesthetized before the lethal injection is administered". i wondered if the judge saw crime scene photos of his victim. did the killer check to see if she was "properly anesthetized" before he beat her to death?
"Harbison was scheduled to be executed early next Wednesday for beating an elderly woman to death during a burglary in 1983."
beating death? do people really know how hard it is to beat someone to death? the pain and suffering they feel?
if we allow idiots like this continue to stay on the bench then we can no longer question decisions like this that are made. when will we rise up as a civilized society and say no more? the more i read stuff like this, the more i believe in bernard goetz and vigilante justice. i say we turn this murderer loose. when vigilante's get finished with him the lethal injection might not look so "cruel and unusual".
god help us all.
there may not be a next time...
"U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger said the protocol "presents a substantial risk of unnecessary pain." She said it violates death row inmate Edward Jerome Harbison's Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment."
this is the dumbest thing i have ever heard. to think we should be sensitive to him suffering before he dies? i don't care if he cries like a school girl. i hope his pain is excruciating, long and graphic. and then the judge added;
"the new protocol does not ensure that inmates are properly anesthetized before the lethal injection is administered". i wondered if the judge saw crime scene photos of his victim. did the killer check to see if she was "properly anesthetized" before he beat her to death?
"Harbison was scheduled to be executed early next Wednesday for beating an elderly woman to death during a burglary in 1983."
beating death? do people really know how hard it is to beat someone to death? the pain and suffering they feel?
if we allow idiots like this continue to stay on the bench then we can no longer question decisions like this that are made. when will we rise up as a civilized society and say no more? the more i read stuff like this, the more i believe in bernard goetz and vigilante justice. i say we turn this murderer loose. when vigilante's get finished with him the lethal injection might not look so "cruel and unusual".
god help us all.
there may not be a next time...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
season stats
as i mentioned earlier, i would post some statistics from my road trips this year. these are baseball road trips only.
this blog is not just about baseball as you can see. a lot of my trips i do not post about. i will try to do better in the future to chronicle my travels and add photos as i can or deem appropriate. chances are, if you are reading this you know who i am or at least who i drive for. i will not volunteer this information as i know this is available to anyone worldwide. i do not use names or specifics for obvious reasons and never will.
until next time...
15 ROAD TRIPS
14,876 MILES
92 DAYS ON THE ROAD
16 PLAYERS PROMOTED TO EITHER “AAA” OR MAJORS
SEASON START (ON THE ROAD)
LAST ROAD GAME (PLAYOFFS) 09/10/2007
this blog is not just about baseball as you can see. a lot of my trips i do not post about. i will try to do better in the future to chronicle my travels and add photos as i can or deem appropriate. chances are, if you are reading this you know who i am or at least who i drive for. i will not volunteer this information as i know this is available to anyone worldwide. i do not use names or specifics for obvious reasons and never will.
until next time...
Monday, September 17, 2007
master yoda was there for the playoffs
my life is not a boring life. life on the road is not boring. combine my life and life on the road and it really is quite interesting.over the last 5 months with a minor league baseball team, i have seen and experienced a lifetime of oddities-some sad and some absolutely hilarious. this is one of the latter.
i was backing my coach into my designated parking spot just outside the gates of joe evans field (a/k/a/ "the joe"). i noticed a honda accord parked on the street with a passenger in the front seat. all i could see was a stick due to sun glare. the coach i had brought the guys down in was our flagship. 2 9' couches, in-motion satellite tv, radio and wi-fi. coffeemaker with 2 beverage dispensers as well as refrigerator, ice chest and microwave. seats trimmed in leather and also an inverter for ac power. it is a cream puff. anyway, i am sitting on the coach watching fox news and the passenger has not moved. kinda odd i thought. i dozed off (actually rem) and when i woke up he was still there. this had been well over an hour and i was quite concerned at this motionless figure in a car on a fairly warm day. becoming curious, i walked up to the car and here is what i saw!!!
until next time...
Saturday, September 15, 2007
the playoffs
we made the playoffs!!! it has been a wild ride but we made the league playoffs. as i write this, hang with me.
it started in raleigh when we won and got the "wild card" in the playoffs. it was a big deal. we started the season with a great team. we lost almost all of our original team as well as some that were sent up from "a" ball. just estimating, i can recall at least 10 players who were promoted to "aaa" and 6 who went to the majors. not too bad. i don't know of any other team who sent that many players on. i remember in one day, 6 trades were made. i remember taking my son to a home game and him asking me who were those guys wearing our team uniforms. so many new faces. and, we kept winning!!!
we went to huntsville for 2 games.we won the first game and lost the second. we came home for the third game and won and lead the best of five series 2-1. we went back to huntsville and lost games 4 and five. i thought the trip back home would be hard but these guys being professionals, knew it was "just baseball" and that was the way it went. it was hard loading the bus for the last time. earlier in the day, i sttod in the dugout with any eerie feeling that this was going to be over. i was not ready. i spent a lot of time with these guys and they had become like family to me. i stood looking at the field for a good 30 minutes taking in all i could. the smells, the gentle breeze as i felt it on my face, the sounds of people filing into the stadium and the Star Spangled Banner being sung for the last time. this was harder than i imagined but i knew tonight was do or die.
after the game and as the players came out with their equipment bags, i shook everyones hand and to my surprise, the all hugged me and thanked me!!! they thanked me!!! i was the one who started out thanking them for some lifelong memories and ended up with them thanking me. i was moved beyond words. i started off as "just the bus driver" and according to the coach, i became "team". thinking ahead to next year, i look forward to seeing how these guys will mature and get better. seeing their careers change and their personal lives continue to develop. get married and have children. and i know some will not change beyond time distance.
i am compiling some stats that i have kept thru out the year. when i am finished i will be posting them here as well as my year end recap.
as for me, i am looking forward to seeing my family more often. as much as i loved these players
my own children will always come first. i look forward to seeing my 4 children and creating some lifelong memories of our time together. i missed them everyday and i want them all here with me now. school has started and in time i will.
until next time...
it started in raleigh when we won and got the "wild card" in the playoffs. it was a big deal. we started the season with a great team. we lost almost all of our original team as well as some that were sent up from "a" ball. just estimating, i can recall at least 10 players who were promoted to "aaa" and 6 who went to the majors. not too bad. i don't know of any other team who sent that many players on. i remember in one day, 6 trades were made. i remember taking my son to a home game and him asking me who were those guys wearing our team uniforms. so many new faces. and, we kept winning!!!
we went to huntsville for 2 games.we won the first game and lost the second. we came home for the third game and won and lead the best of five series 2-1. we went back to huntsville and lost games 4 and five. i thought the trip back home would be hard but these guys being professionals, knew it was "just baseball" and that was the way it went. it was hard loading the bus for the last time. earlier in the day, i sttod in the dugout with any eerie feeling that this was going to be over. i was not ready. i spent a lot of time with these guys and they had become like family to me. i stood looking at the field for a good 30 minutes taking in all i could. the smells, the gentle breeze as i felt it on my face, the sounds of people filing into the stadium and the Star Spangled Banner being sung for the last time. this was harder than i imagined but i knew tonight was do or die.
after the game and as the players came out with their equipment bags, i shook everyones hand and to my surprise, the all hugged me and thanked me!!! they thanked me!!! i was the one who started out thanking them for some lifelong memories and ended up with them thanking me. i was moved beyond words. i started off as "just the bus driver" and according to the coach, i became "team". thinking ahead to next year, i look forward to seeing how these guys will mature and get better. seeing their careers change and their personal lives continue to develop. get married and have children. and i know some will not change beyond time distance.
i am compiling some stats that i have kept thru out the year. when i am finished i will be posting them here as well as my year end recap.
as for me, i am looking forward to seeing my family more often. as much as i loved these players
my own children will always come first. i look forward to seeing my 4 children and creating some lifelong memories of our time together. i missed them everyday and i want them all here with me now. school has started and in time i will.
until next time...
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