Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)

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coolerifyoudid

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Wikity-whack, then?

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CycloneRulzzz

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Other game observations:

1. Cass Prohm accepting Monte's Male Athlete of the Year Award was absolutely adorable.

2. Fireworks were nice.

3. The Varsity Marching Band was awesome. I laughed so much when they brought the ladder "smokestack" out during that crappy Titanic song with the twirler playing the chick and Cy as whoever Leo's character was. I've never seen the movie, but seen that image a million times. Husband's like, poor Cy, he's just gonna be a frozen white face in the water.

4. Big Vic Alexander and Angie Welle should procreate giant awesome Cyclone basketball players with a sweet soft touch.

Mentioned Cass in the gameday thread. That was the highlight of the night for me. Loved the band halftime. Like when they mix in skits with the songs. My favorite was a superhero themed halftime when I was kid and throughout the performance Cy was battling super hero villains with fellow superheroes.
 

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This just a peach. Wife sends me a text of an email she got from son's HS teacher. Because of his surgery, PT and everything he has been working to catch up work. He had a little here and there left to turn in and wrapped it almost all up before midterm grades Wednesday so he wouldn't have grade deficiencies. The email explains that this teacher was just going through grades and saw that our son is failing on his midterm, but it's ok because she just couldn't get his makeup grades put in in time and now that they are (1 1/2 days late) he's getting an A.

That's freaking nice. Way to make my kid ineligible for 1-2 weeks when he gets back due to not getting around to it seeing how this school carries this stuff forward until your next eligible situation.

Who doesn't update grades right when they finish grading something? That's step 1 to avoiding this kind of situation, or any other situation that leaves things confusing or in doubt.

It also ensures that you don't suddenly have a billion grades to update and no time to do it. That's no good for anybody.
 

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Who doesn't update grades right when they finish grading something? That's step 1 to avoiding this kind of situation, or any other situation that leaves things confusing or in doubt.

It also ensures that you don't suddenly have a billion grades to update and no time to do it. That's no good for anybody.

A whole bunch of teachers.

Our semester test policy changes about every year. One year it was no need to take as long as you missed two or fewer classes and were getting an A. So graduating son asked English teacher what his grade was in early May since semester tests for graduating seniors were in a week and teacher hadn't entered grades since January 29.:rolleyes:
 
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Wow...gone for around 40 hours, and things go crazy...

Glad GTO's mom's doing as well as she can be, sorry CG's sick, and glad all avatars have been returned to their rightful owners.

Seeing these HOF pics...I'm wondering if I could get away with wearing heels still. Angie Welle does...why can't I?
 

cowgirl836

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kickball - IDK. Got coworker to sub for us even though she didn't want to. I is good negotitater. But she scored and I didn't so I'm never inviting that ***** again. (I keed, mostly.)

I had an excellent first kick and got on base. Then DH got me to second. Next person pushed me to third. I got confused though and started to run for home but went back to third. Ran into the guy on base. I was hit with the ball at some point and was like ****, I screwed that up. But ref called block in the back or something????? Isn't that a football thing???? So I got to stay on third. Ok! Second chances!

Next person is up and DH (on 2nd) is like "CG, no outs" like that was supposed to mean something to me. Person kicks and pops it up. I start running cause you know, double down on stupid or something. They catch the ball and I try to run back to third. I didn't make it. Then I realize what DH was trying to tell me. That I stay on third. Person kicking should be sacrificed before me. But I was trying to be nice like where would person kicking go??? I must run! DH was much disappoint. DH and girl behind him eventually score. But not me.

I get to third the next time too and I think I got hit running for home. I got hit by the ball a lot last night. Think I kept my kicks on the ground every time, which was good. But after those two times that I got to third base, it was all me not able to outrun the ball to first. My little legs.

Other people had some good kicks but I don't remember details so who cares! Oh, there was one point where one of our guys failed to run to third, then was forced out at third but he didn't realize it so he stayed on second and girl coming from first also needed to be on 2nd so DH was yelling at girl to get on 2nd and guy to go away. 'Twas confusing.

Oh, I had to go pee cause we'd had beer beforehand and I warned DH that I was scared of the far away dark and scary bathroom and he's like meh, you'll be fine. Other team heard my concerns and were like "you'll be ok!!"

I got back and not 5 minutes later THERE WAS A COP WITH FLASHING LIGHTS UP AT THAT BATHROOM! I COULD HAVE BEEN STOLEN OR SOMETHING! Also it was out of paper towels so I had to wave my hands running back to not have wet hands. Ick.

Umm, DH scored twice, we ended up winning 6-3 so it was good. The other team was fun. One of our guys tried to boot the ball and hit it right into the catcher girl. If she'd have been male, she'd now be sterile. As it stood, she was like oooooooo this was painful. But she's ok.

One of our girls had an amazing catch on a deep kick. DH and other guy were running up and she was like ***** please, I got this. Smooth as butter. Well, not really cause if it were butter, she'd have dropped it. Smooth as something sticky.

So that is that.
 

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kickball - IDK. Got coworker to sub for us even though she didn't want to. I is good negotitater. But she scored and I didn't so I'm never inviting that ***** again. (I keed, mostly.)

I had an excellent first kick and got on base. Then DH got me to second. Next person pushed me to third. I got confused though and started to run for home but went back to third. Ran into the guy on base. I was hit with the ball at some point and was like ****, I screwed that up. But ref called block in the back or something????? Isn't that a football thing???? So I got to stay on third. Ok! Second chances!

Next person is up and DH (on 2nd) is like "CG, no outs" like that was supposed to mean something to me. Person kicks and pops it up. I start running cause you know, double down on stupid or something. They catch the ball and I try to run back to third. I didn't make it. Then I realize what DH was trying to tell me. That I stay on third. Person kicking should be sacrificed before me. But I was trying to be nice like where would person kicking go??? I must run! DH was much disappoint. DH and girl behind him eventually score. But not me.

I get to third the next time too and I think I got hit running for home. I got hit by the ball a lot last night. Think I kept my kicks on the ground every time, which was good. But after those two times that I got to third base, it was all me not able to outrun the ball to first. My little legs.

Other people had some good kicks but I don't remember details so who cares! Oh, there was one point where one of our guys failed to run to third, then was forced out at third but he didn't realize it so he stayed on second and girl coming from first also needed to be on 2nd so DH was yelling at girl to get on 2nd and guy to go away. 'Twas confusing.

Oh, I had to go pee cause we'd had beer beforehand and I warned DH that I was scared of the far away dark and scary bathroom and he's like meh, you'll be fine. Other team heard my concerns and were like "you'll be ok!!"

I got back and not 5 minutes later THERE WAS A COP WITH FLASHING LIGHTS UP AT THAT BATHROOM! I COULD HAVE BEEN STOLEN OR SOMETHING! Also it was out of paper towels so I had to wave my hands running back to not have wet hands. Ick.

Umm, DH scored twice, we ended up winning 6-3 so it was good. The other team was fun. One of our guys tried to boot the ball and hit it right into the catcher girl. If she'd have been male, she'd now be sterile. As it stood, she was like oooooooo this was painful. But she's ok.

One of our girls had an amazing catch on a deep kick. DH and other guy were running up and she was like ***** please, I got this. Smooth as butter. Well, not really cause if it were butter, she'd have dropped it. Smooth as something sticky.

So that is that.


New term, "sticky smooth". Not sure how to use it yet but really want to at some point.

#stickysmooth
 

CloneinWDSM

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kickball - IDK. Got coworker to sub for us even though she didn't want to. I is good negotitater. But she scored and I didn't so I'm never inviting that ***** again. (I keed, mostly.)

I had an excellent first kick and got on base. Then DH got me to second. Next person pushed me to third. I got confused though and started to run for home but went back to third. Ran into the guy on base. I was hit with the ball at some point and was like ****, I screwed that up. But ref called block in the back or something????? Isn't that a football thing???? So I got to stay on third. Ok! Second chances!

Next person is up and DH (on 2nd) is like "CG, no outs" like that was supposed to mean something to me. Person kicks and pops it up. I start running cause you know, double down on stupid or something. They catch the ball and I try to run back to third. I didn't make it. Then I realize what DH was trying to tell me. That I stay on third. Person kicking should be sacrificed before me. But I was trying to be nice like where would person kicking go??? I must run! DH was much disappoint. DH and girl behind him eventually score. But not me.

I get to third the next time too and I think I got hit running for home. I got hit by the ball a lot last night. Think I kept my kicks on the ground every time, which was good. But after those two times that I got to third base, it was all me not able to outrun the ball to first. My little legs.

Other people had some good kicks but I don't remember details so who cares! Oh, there was one point where one of our guys failed to run to third, then was forced out at third but he didn't realize it so he stayed on second and girl coming from first also needed to be on 2nd so DH was yelling at girl to get on 2nd and guy to go away. 'Twas confusing.

Oh, I had to go pee cause we'd had beer beforehand and I warned DH that I was scared of the far away dark and scary bathroom and he's like meh, you'll be fine. Other team heard my concerns and were like "you'll be ok!!"

I got back and not 5 minutes later THERE WAS A COP WITH FLASHING LIGHTS UP AT THAT BATHROOM! I COULD HAVE BEEN STOLEN OR SOMETHING! Also it was out of paper towels so I had to wave my hands running back to not have wet hands. Ick.

Umm, DH scored twice, we ended up winning 6-3 so it was good. The other team was fun. One of our guys tried to boot the ball and hit it right into the catcher girl. If she'd have been male, she'd now be sterile. As it stood, she was like oooooooo this was painful. But she's ok.

One of our girls had an amazing catch on a deep kick. DH and other guy were running up and she was like ***** please, I got this. Smooth as butter. Well, not really cause if it were butter, she'd have dropped it. Smooth as something sticky.

So that is that.
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