They Don't Still Got It

(from August 2nd)

out of retirement for about 8 minutes

They Hit Me With Donut Holes

fine...



I'll miss them. maybe

Is This The Last Start?

Weekly rehearsals with the RxHS started tonight. The next three months are gonna be busy. Who knows how many more of these I have in me. I'm surprised I can still stand it at all. Must be the long off season. It must be.

The Girl Gathers

We are at guard today, and Yuula loves her time with the girls. They pass her around hot potato style and she loves it. Attention is her favorite passtime. She hasn't quite grasped the across the floor routines but neither have the girls in the guard so...

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Meet-Cutes And Sweetroductions

Last rehearsal of the school year yesterday. Now they're just considered summer clinics, but same business. Yuula had her first encounter with the equipment. She was baffled. Met the newest Hartsuiker last night too. Handsome young fellow Nicholas. Wasn't much of a conversationalist, but his big brothers more than make up for that. Now we just need to have two more girls....

I Got Til It's Gone

Constantly bombarded with a next big gig, I'm ready to really be out. Even tho I've written some dandies on my own the past few weeks, the urge to give is gone. Bigger fish to fry is an understatement. Think whales.

The field is rainy and graveled. My shoes have holes and my shorts want to be slept in only. Tenths have no meaning. It's writing on glass. I'm probably wrong but that's not my problem.

I'm excited to see what is for dinner.

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Something About Cauliflower

The team did well tonight. Individual breakdowns. We'll nip that in the butt on Tuesday. T-minus......

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There Was A Camp

The day after Yuula was born I had to teach. I was there, but it was weird. There reality of having a new baby hadn't sunk in and kinda didn't until Thursday, at which point I became manically depressed and spent the last block of camp playing baseball with a rifle, watching Mark Willis do Single Ladies and taking a nap. Good camp. Crap drill. I'll fix it. Photos.











What are they watching you ask?....

Human Centipede


Creepy Lip Sync

On The Outside Now

Black & white seemed appropriate.

Just Visiting

Caravans rolled into town this weekend, carrying all sorts of dancers and buglers and drummer boys. Laura and I thought we'd go see what all the fuss was about.



I took to the field like a fish. Tho I barely knew 1/4 of the kids, it still felt the same, and looked the same and smelled the same, and tho I was savoring my Taco Bell linger, I found that it even tasted the same. They're in the home stretch now, so things are coming together. Makes for a good time to visit. Usually spirits are up and enthusiasm, for whatever it may be, is high. Usually.



Laura hasn't seen the sun much this summer so it missed her and got to her fast. Wasn't long before baby belly had to put her baby belly back into some AC, so we drove around the neighborhood a bit, visiting yardsales and antique stores, but not finding much of anything worth something. Nothing in other words. Our search criteria has changed as we used to look for odd knick knacks or oversized furniture, and now we look for dolls & wood blocks. Funny how that happens.




Our buddy our pal Eric came by the rehearsal. We caught up with him. Glad to hear he's finally making some dough off his photography talents. Can't help but feel we got him into a pickle there. He filled us in on all his goings-ons, like his new clothing line and his new fish-eye lens and his new moving to Onset and his plans beyond that. He's always got adventures going on, and next weekend they'll be going on at our house.



We took Greg & Daniel to the CiCi's in Allentown. Laura has been literally dying for a pizza buffet since we moved up here. I admit, I missed that macaroni & cheese pizza too, and the cinnamon buns were better than I remembered, which is why I had about 6. Hey! It took us 3 years to get there once. Could be another 3 before we go again. Gotta get while ya can.

Then off to the show, where everyone had something to do and somewhere to be, except us. As it should be. We wandered around and tried to stay out of the way and played fly on the wall. Oh the drama.



Nice to see everyone. Old friends on new paths. Got the dream team together for a commemorative photo. We got stories. This one's going in the album.

Alien To Me

I listened to Hail To The Thief on the way home. Not a single imperfection. Puts me back in Hachioji where I bought it. No import prices. Tried to hear the new Arcade Fire too, but got duped. Maybe tomorrow or Thursday. But it was a nice ending to a long day. Something new. Work at 6 then teaching til 8. Alien to me. Also went to Nivert for the first time and got a snap of aliens on a barrel. RxHSCG10 started up. First rehearsal and way behind. This time last year the opener was done and halfway decent. Tonight was day 1. But teaching is like cozy pajamas. Haven't worn them in a year and they still fit perfect.

Battle Tested

Not bad for a first performance. Not much competition at the show but they pulled off a respectable run. That's all I could ask for.

Now we have tons to do this week to be ready for Towson, where there will be competition and it will be cutthroat. I will use this as motivation...



I caught this bad boy hanging in the halls of Vernon HS. Those crazy mountain folk. On the way out I saw this guy too.



Seems the punishment is severe at VHS.

Pretty exhausted by the time we got back to Roxbury but managed to appreciate the sky before hopping in Sexy Bird and heading home.