Sean’s Baseball Team Moves To 2 – 0
April 21, 2007
If it’s Spring time and Saturday, it must be time for a baseball game for Sean. However, today hardly seemed like Spring as the temperature was only in the mid 50′s with a chilly wind. It’s been in the upper 70′s or low 80′s for the past couple of weeks.
Once again, Sean’s team was victorious by a score of 10 – 7. It was a close game with the opposing team having two runners on base in the last inning when our relief pitcher struck out the last two batters for the victory.
Sean again started the game behind the plate. He did another great job stopping the ball behind the plate. I must say, last year, I had my doubts about his viability as a catcher, but he is dispelling those thoughts this year. He still needs to work on arm strength and his throws to second, but he clearly has the knack now to keep the ball in front of him on wild pitches. After the third inning, the coach moved Sean to third base to give the backup catcher some more work. That only lasted about half the inning as the other kid tries but isn’t really a catcher yet. This is his first year in that position, so he is learning. However, several dozen passed balls and three runs scoring largely in part because of those passed balls, and Sean was back behind the plate.
Today, wasn’t as good for Sean at the plate. His first at bat, he laid down a perfect bunt along the first base line and easily beat it out for a single. He looked pretty bad at his second at bat striking out. The first two swings looked pretty horrible and weren’t even close to the ball. Then, he misread the sign from his coach at third base and tried to lay down another bunt, but fouled it off for the third strike.
The family enjoyed a nice relaxing lunch after the game at a local eatery before Suzanne and Savannah headed off for a baby shower. The boys dug in to the Xbox 360.
Looks like the start of wild fire season is quickly approaching. Earlier this week, a small 20 acre wild fire started, but was quickly extinguished. We didn’t get very much winter rain this year, so a particularly harsh fire season is forecast. This one was a good 30 miles or so away, but gives us a nice reminder to tidy up the outside and make sure there isn’t any fire fuels near the home.
Back To Normal
February 25, 2007
It’s time to get back to more normality tomorrow. It’s been a hectic start of the year at work. It culminated in the business trip last week. The kids and Suzanne also get back to normal with a regular dance week and a full week of school.
We had a nice relaxing weekend and are ready for the week. We watched several movies this weekend, Chronicles of Narnia and Firewall. Firewall was a very watchable movie. Sean and I manage to play a bit of Xbox 360 and I discovered I have missed it a bit as I haven’t played much lately. Between working late and then working on a couple of new websites I am trying to launch, there just hasnt been much time. Actually, one site is new and one is a complete redo of an existing website.
The 158th site has been running the same look for about 19 months now. It’s time to change the appearance, plus I want to change CMS’es. That’s the most challenging part to get some of the existing functionality to work in the new CMS – which by the way, will be wordpress versus php-nuke. I also found time this weekend to play about 5 hours of America’s Army with my clanmates. It’s been awhile since I have spent that much time with them. I still like that game. We also a scrim this weekend and were victorious. It was on my favorite map, SF Hospital and we won 11 – 3. I led the way for our team with 19 kills. It felt good to be back into the game.
I think its time to spend a bit less on the websites and maybe spend more time playing Xbox 360 and AA. Of course, that’s only when the family is dancing. When they are home, it’s time to get back to movies. We used to watch about 12 – 15 movies a month. That’s dropped to maybe 4 lately. It was fun watching a couple this weekend. Don’t worry, I will still be posting and keep Mr Papa’s World up to date 
but the days of 6 – 8 hours working on websites will have to slow down. It may just take longer to launch the new sites.
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