I have been working with him at the batting cage a lot lately and we’ve taken his lefty swing from being a stand still, poke at the ball swing into an almost real swing. He still has to work on his pivot foot and shifting his weight better though. He’s seeing the ball good and when he gets a hold of one, he’s hammering it. The coaches have noticed his improvement too and moved him up to hitting #5 last night. Brett is 7 and the league is for 7/8 year olds. Batters 1-4 are all 8 year olds and they normally generate the majority of the teams runs.

Why so proud last night? Well the 1-4 hitters got on base everytime and Brett got to clear them off a few times. Brett went 2-3 with 6 RBIs and 1 run score last night. The 1st at bat, runners were on 2nd and 3rd and he nailed one right between 1st and 2nd. The right fielder got it in fast, but 2 runs scored and Brett had to stay on 1st. He eventually scored though. Next at bat, same thing… runners on 2nd and 3rd. He hit a line drive just over the 1st basemen’s head. 2 runs score, Brett gets to 2nd. 1st double of the year too. Next batter gets a single and Brett holds at 2nd. Next batter hit a grounder to 3rd and steps on the bag, Brett’s out and really pissed off that they didn’t tag him. He thought he was safe. I had to explain the force out thing to him. He was so upset. His last at bat, runners on 2nd and 3rd AGAIN. Brett hit a routine grounder to 1st. Runner from 3rd scores, 1st basemen throws to 3rd, but the 3rd basemen misses and the other runner scores. I call that 2 more RBI, but technically it’s only 1.

Congrats Brett! What a game!

PS. They lost 12-13.

Check out all the bad photography on Flickr.

I loaded my Wife and Son up and headed down to the 2:50 show. It was very good, but I was a tad disappointed that it wasn’t better after all the positive comments. Don’t get me wrong, it has a cute story line with some pretty cool lessons to be learned as well, but it wasn’t all that I expected.

The good news for my Son is that I scored him a souvineer Wall-E Watch!

I do have a thought though… Are we going to be those humans in 700 years?

We hit some nasty stop and go traffic on the interstate and our hour drive turned into two hours. We made it just in time for tip off.

Great game, Alabama almost won. (we weren’t expected to win, in fact we were a nice underdog really). During the game, a tornado ripped through Downtown Atlanta where this game was being played in Georgia Dome. The game was delayed 1 hour and 4 minutes. When they resumed it was 2 minutes into overtime. Down by 2 with 2 seconds on the clock, Bama shot up a 3 pointer to win and it rimmed out. Bummer. If you sit back and think though… What if Alabama had not sent the game into overtime. Where would the fans in the Georgia Dome be 5 minutes later when the tornado hit the Downtown area? Scary really.

So, we go to bed… 4am, my wife wakes me up and it sounded like we were in a warzone. (can’t believe I would have slept through it). A big HAIL STORM came through the part of Birmingham my parents live in. Check out these pictures… WOW!

Nasty huh? I am so, so thankful that my car didn’t have any damage. I can’t believe it really.

Edit: This was posted from my phone and I wanted to give the reason I have 600 1 dollar bills on my front seat. The reason is simple. A joke. I got a bonus check today and I am giving my wife $600 to blow on what ever she wants, but as a joke, I am giving it to her like this.

What is this 20 pounds I am talking about? I feel like I have lost 20 pounds this week in what ever the polite word for the stuff you blow out of your nose when you have a cold/flu… hehe… I don’t know the polite word for snot, but I have filled many tissues and I am freaking sick of it. Nagging me… it goes away a few days and then it’s back. Maybe my wife is right, I should visit the doctor and get sicker from the waiting room.

iPod Nano for our 16 year anniversary last week and a new laptop for her birthday this week. My wife will be Mrs. Tech soon enough.

PS. She doesn’t want jewelry. (or at least that’s what she says) She has more than she could ever wear already.

My wife is going to have one hell of a time keeping busy now. She spent the last 5 years at home with Brett, helping him develop, etc…

I can’t believe he is already in school. Time flys… FAST.

And my daughter probaly gets her walkthroughs from this site already… hehe

Source : Crunch Gear

My daughter and son were watching TV around 7PM in the living room. The were picking at each other and one of them hit a button on the remote that ended up turning everything off. I was dozing off and was in and out of consciousness, but I saw my daughter attempt to turn it back on. I have one of those fancy remotes, the Logitech 880 or something like that. This remote controls several devices in one click. For instance, you want to watch a DVD, click “Watch DVD” and the remote goes to work. It turns off the satellite receiver, changes the amplifier input channel, and turns on the DVD player. Well, she hit “Watch TV” and everything but the picture came up. She fiddled for 3-4 minutes with the remote before giving up and just leaving the room, never to return. End of that episode. When I got up from a short nap, I went to work in my office and never turned the TV on. I work and play until bedtime and retire…

About 9am this morning, I got a call from my wife. “I can’t get the TV to work.” I asked here if the TV was actually on. She didn’t know. It was possible that the HDMI switcher in my Yamaha amplifier was set to the wrong output, but I had a feeling the TV wasn’t on, so I asked her to press the power button. “I don’t see any buttons”. I told her that they were on top of the TV. She said she didn’t even know the TV had buttons. We have only had this Sony Bravadia for 6 months or so, but damn… You didn’t see buttons last time you dusted? Anyhow, she found the power button and it fixed the problem.