I went to Volleyball and then I took off my jacket ’cause I was getting warm. More on that later.
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
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I’ve been going to volleyball for two weeks this year (I also did it the previous year) and one thing I’ve noticed is that some of the players like to point out the bleeding obvious. For example, I (though it’s been other people too) may hit the ball too far to the left and they say “oh, you hit too far to the left, aim more to the right.” or “oh, you hit the ball too hard, hit it softer.” And the people who say this aren’t the greatest players anyway. I’m doing the best I can and pointing out the bleeding obvious doesn’t help me improve. If I see a fault in the somebody’s serve, I don’t say anything ’cause I know got problems of my own and I know they know they’re hitting “wrong” (if it’s really obvious). Pointing out “flaws” is an art. You can’t nag to get your point across or else it’ll go the other way.
We got these two way radio at Radio Shack. Those radios are great. It has a ringer so you can “call” the person with another radio (on the same frequency). Also, it has a vibrate setting so if you are in a loud place, you know you got a call. Plus! You can set it so when you talk, it comes through without needing to hold down a “talk” button. Plus! You can have different ring tones, you can get six+ weather channels and it has a 12 mile range!
It’s exactly like a cell phone but without the steep monthly bills and people other than the family can’t call you ’cause it’s annoying how people now expect to be able to just call you up and talk your ear off to you anytime and anywhere. I mean if you have a cell phone and somebody calls you and you don’t feel like talking, you gotta come up with a darn good excuse or else the caller’s feelings will . . . to put it in cell phone lingo, “be *kshkshshk* breaking up *khshhhkrackle*.
And besides where did the idea of actually wanting to talk to the person come from? I’ve always thought that when you’re calling somebody, you are hoping that the guy does not pick up the phone because you want to leave a message. Isn’t that the case when you’re calling somebody and then when they pick up, you blurt in a dissapointing tone “oh, hi. . . I was actually hoping to reach your answering machine.” Ok, you wouldn’t say that but that’s the feeling you get. That’s what’s great about email. You can write whenever you feel like it, you have time to think about what you want to say and you can stop talking/writing. You don’t have to make up an excuse to go. Plus! If you don’t want to respond, you don’t have to!
But back to the walkie talkies. They’re only $40-60 bucks which was great.
I was going to the library when I saw a truck parked in the city council building’s (or some important place) . . . uhh, it wasn’t a parking lot but kinda like a place where people would gather after a meeting or something. Anyway, the truck had “Document Shredders” written on it. Doesn’t that seem a little suspicious at a building like that? I dunno. If it’ll save the city a few bucks by donating some confetti to the piniata store, I’m for it. (Some people might understand that more than others)
Boy! I sure know my meats! I was watching The Late Show with David -Dave “Safety First” Letterman- Letterman and they had on the Know Your Current Events segment. Somebody picked Know Your Cuts of Meat and I decided to play along at home. They first showed something in the Lamb catagory and I guessed it was a shoulder and it was a Shoulder Blade. Pretty close but the second was dead on. The second round was in the Veal catagory and seeing the strip of veal, I quickly guessed (in my head) Veal Cutlet and low and behold! Veal Cutlet! Who’s the Mutton Man now!?