What's the Score, Dad?

Aren't doctor offices great? I used to always get sick after going to my doctor for a checkup. That really makes you want to go! Recently, I thought I had kicked that pattern, but guess what? I had my yearly checkup in St. Louis with my kidney doctor yesterday. Everything is where it is supposed to be number-wise with my blood work. But the downside of the trip was that I came back sick. UGH!!! There should be a "never sick in summer" rule. Even Amanda said that you can't get a cold in the summer. She said it - so now it's a rule. Luckily this "non-cold" has only a low grade fever, runny nose, watery eyes, aches... you know, typical Swine Flu stuff. Just kidding. Just sick enough to not go to work, but not too sick to have to be in bed all day. I am never going to the doctor when I am well again! Only kidding.

Amanda's softball playing is improving with each game. I am helping to coach her team. I have resigned myself to the fact that she won't take instructions from me on the field. And that is ok. She actually caught (let roll into her glove correctly) three balls that were hit to her in her last game. You really can't call them games, though. In my mind, games have winner/losers, runs, outs, and a certain amount of competition. This is coach pitch/tee ball. Everyone bats, everyone plays the field, everyone gets to run all the bases, there are no outs, and no strikeouts. I'm old school... you play to win... at all ages.

The upside is that there's no yelling/fighting by the parents!

I Can Hear You Now

First I want to clarify. Verizon is now giving a break to those of us who lost phone service after the May 8th storm. My land line phone service was restored on May 28th. My neighbor called and after punching through several prompts was able to speak with a live, human being who worked for Verizon customer relations. Their first question was "did you call in the outage?" Are you kidding me? He said to Verizon "We kind of had a big storm go though, so I thought you were aware of our problems."

He said his "break" amounts to $8. Wow... that's like what - $ .40 per day? Yeah, that's fair.


Our church celebrated its 50th Anniversary today. I love my church. I wish I could do more for it.