Here's our schedule for next year.
Sunday...slow day. Just baseball practice in the evening. Except the third Sunday, which is the scouts pack planning meeting for a couple hours in the evening. Oh, and then when the Bucs have a home game, we work it as a fundraiser for my daughter's swim team. That's a six-to-seven-hour commitment eight Sundays between September and Christmas eve.
Monday...Cub Scout pack meeting three out of every four Mondays. Thank God there are no Monday night home games.
Tuesday...Synchro practice from 5:30 until 7:45.
Wednesday...My son has religious ed from 5:30 until 6:45. My daughter has youth group from 7:00 until 8:15.
Thursday...Synchro practice from 5:30 until 7:45. And the third Thursday of each month is the Cub Scout Pack meeting. I have volunteered to be the assistant Cub Master because I am entertaining to children. There is also a Bucs exhibition game on a Thursday night.
Friday...we rest. Except when we don't.
Oh, and there's a baseball practice and game sometime during the week, but I don't know what nights those are yet.
Saturday...Synchro practice from 9-12. Baseball game in the afternoon. On the first Saturday of every month, we have mandatory First Communion classes for my son and my wife and/or me from 3-5. The there's church at 5:30. Also, there is a Bucs exhibition game on a Saturday night.
Also, the first weekend in August, we are trying to do a hot dog stand as a synchro fundraiser. And then starting in January, my daughter will have as many as eight synchro meets, which typically run the entire weekend.
And then there's four to six Cub Scout camping trips. And we have Universal passes in Orlando.
And it would be nice to get a weekend with the wife in there, too...Plus the miscellaneous crap that pops up here and there...
Fortunately, my company is into work-life balance. My job allows it. Being a priest does not. This is one of the reasons I am not so quick to jump on the married-priest bandwagon.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Monday, April 25, 2005
Hey, I'm back!
It's been a long time since I have posted here. I've been too busy with other outlets for my writing. So here I am. I've dropped my subscription as a Glenn Beck Insider, which means I can't post any more on their message board, which means I have to channel all the stuff in my brain someplace.
So this is the place.
And there's lots of stuff. Not just the Jesus stuff, but a lot of other stuff, too. Right now, I've just finished reading a book called Fun Is Good by a guy named Mike Veeck. His dad, Bill Veeck, was the one-time owner of the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians. When he owned the Indians, he decided to have a midget pinch hit for him, just to attract attention. It did. He walked on four pitches. But the lords of baseball decided it was a bad idea to allow midgets to pinch hit (and they were probably right), so Eddie Gaeddel's career lasted one plate appearance.
Mike Veeck had his own moment in history: Disco Demolition Night. Between games of a double header between the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers, the younger Veeck offered that if people brought disco records, he would blow them up in a dumpster between games. They did. He did. And by the time the drunken anti-disco forces had left the field, the White Sox had forfeited the second game. He was fired the next day. Twenty-six years later in Chicago, people still talk about Disco Demolition Night. They do not talk about the '79 White Sox.
Veeck recovered from that to become successful at marketing, promotion, and running minor league baseball teams. It is not uncommon for his minor league St. Paul Saints to outdraw the major league Minnesota Twins. His book is a how-to guide about his life and how he implemented Fun is Good. In organizations that are open to it, Fun is Good is tremendously successful. In organizations that aren't...well, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are one of those organization. Let's just leave it at that.
I am working on Fun is Good at work. I am hoping it works for me, too. As I try, I will publish some updates here. I have some cool God stuff, too, like why it might not be a good idea for priests to marry. And other neat stuff about baseball, sex, beer, and life.
Y'all come back now, here.
So this is the place.
And there's lots of stuff. Not just the Jesus stuff, but a lot of other stuff, too. Right now, I've just finished reading a book called Fun Is Good by a guy named Mike Veeck. His dad, Bill Veeck, was the one-time owner of the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians. When he owned the Indians, he decided to have a midget pinch hit for him, just to attract attention. It did. He walked on four pitches. But the lords of baseball decided it was a bad idea to allow midgets to pinch hit (and they were probably right), so Eddie Gaeddel's career lasted one plate appearance.
Mike Veeck had his own moment in history: Disco Demolition Night. Between games of a double header between the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers, the younger Veeck offered that if people brought disco records, he would blow them up in a dumpster between games. They did. He did. And by the time the drunken anti-disco forces had left the field, the White Sox had forfeited the second game. He was fired the next day. Twenty-six years later in Chicago, people still talk about Disco Demolition Night. They do not talk about the '79 White Sox.
Veeck recovered from that to become successful at marketing, promotion, and running minor league baseball teams. It is not uncommon for his minor league St. Paul Saints to outdraw the major league Minnesota Twins. His book is a how-to guide about his life and how he implemented Fun is Good. In organizations that are open to it, Fun is Good is tremendously successful. In organizations that aren't...well, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are one of those organization. Let's just leave it at that.
I am working on Fun is Good at work. I am hoping it works for me, too. As I try, I will publish some updates here. I have some cool God stuff, too, like why it might not be a good idea for priests to marry. And other neat stuff about baseball, sex, beer, and life.
Y'all come back now, here.
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