National Treasure is a guilty pleasure movie of mine. The acting, plot and dialogue are suspect, but I can't seem to skip past it without watching it for awhile.
Random Thoughts VIII: The Ocho
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I would think you'd like to have the advanced notice so you could plan other stuff around it.
Oh, and by the way....
"SHE WAS OFFSIDES !!!!"
Well they were (and I believe still are) short on refs so it was pretty much at least 2-3 games both Saturday and Sunday every weekend for 3+ months and the assignor would get mad if you wanted/needed to change after he assigned them before the season started.
There are Pro's and Con's but high school me was annoyed and gave it up. I have debated getting back into it for a hobby/a little extra cash.
Offsides is really not that difficult. Much easier than determining what is a catch in the NFL.
I feel bad for the refs every week. Most parents have just enough knowledge of the rules to be obnoxious. And it seems like the less they know, the louder they are.
Ugh, I hate 8:30am softball games. I don't even go but it is be there an hour before for warm ups (7:30), hour drive (leave at 6:30), up an hour before that (5:30). She is not the roll-out-of-bed-ready-to-go type. She needs that hour. At least the low is only supposed to be 54 overnight. Woke up this Sunday for games to feels like 33 degrees.
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that I want.
Pickup with a topper, several Nascar number stickers in the rear window, and a bumper sticker that read: I'm not speeding. I'm just qualifying.
I was a ref too, I also got the FIFA certification so I could do the competitive games. When I first started (2002), you would make $30 for being a center and $20 for a linesmen. I don't remember if it was dependent on age, but at the time, I was in high school, so I wouldn't ref any that was 2 years younger than me and over. It was good easy money at the time. After a while, the assignor began to change the pricing scale based on the age group. You used to be able to make $30 for a U-8 game, but by the time I went off to college, the scale changed to $20 for that game, then went up based on the age group. I think U10 through U12 became $25. This was all for competitive/traveling teams. The local rec league started at $8 or $12 a game and maxed out at $25 a game based on the number of games reffed.
When I left for college, I e-mailed the assignor in Ames about becoming a ref there, but they never e-mailed me back. So I never got re-certified again after that.
Yeah that all sounds about right. I know the assignor for the area so I could get back into it fairly easily. I have also thought about trying football or basketball.
Garage sheetrock taping and painting project got out of hand. Decided as long as I was hiring taping guy that I should add some framing/sheetrock/insulation around side door. After guy is done I decide I should insulate/rock the eight foot space between the two car doors. Done but then I have to tape and paint moar. Then decide as long as I have everything out of the garage I should waterproof paint the block walls that are not insulated and finished off. Boxster also looks at old cabinets and, what the hell, lets demo them and get cool new ones! Of course the wall behind the demo'd cabinets needs taping and moar painting.
Then the non-self inflicted wound. Doing some finish framing around the one garage window (framed into the block wall) and some of the framing seemed wet. Poke around and find some is rotted. Poops. Think it weeped/wicked from the block. So I spend hours drilling/chiseling/prying all of the framing below the window out. Waiting for it to dry out then will reframe with treated stuff and spay foam to isolate better from the concrete better. Good news is the window itself wasn't rotted. Issue is likely the stucco over the concrete block which soaks through.
Could have been worse. I could be using yellow paint.
Then the non-self inflicted wound. Doing some finish framing around the one garage window (framed into the block wall) and some of the framing seemed wet. Poke around and find some is rotted. Poops. Think it weeped/wicked from the block. So I spend hours drilling/chiseling/prying all of the framing below the window out. Waiting for it to dry out then will reframe with treated stuff and spay foam to isolate better from the concrete better. Good news is the window itself wasn't rotted. Issue is likely the stucco over the concrete block which soaks through.
Could have been worse. I could be using yellow paint.
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Are you complaining on behalf of your daughter, or are you complaining because they keep waking you up?
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I never knew you were so mean...what did those poor block walls ever do to you? And they can't even fight back...Garage sheetrock taping and painting project got out of hand. Decided as long as I was hiring taping guy that I should add some framing/sheetrock/insulation around side door. After guy is done I decide I should insulate/rock the eight foot space between the two car doors. Done but then I have to tape and paint moar. Then decide as long as I have everything out of the garage I should waterproof paint the block walls that are not insulted and finished off. Boxster also looks at old cabinets and, what the hell, lets demo them and get cool new ones! Of course the wall behind the demo'd cabinets needs taping and moar painting.
Then the non-self inflicted wound. Doing some finish framing around the one garage window (framed into the block wall) and some of the framing seemed wet. Poke around and find some is rotted. Poops. Think it weeped/wicked from the block. So I spend hours drilling/chiseling/prying all of the framing below the window out. Waiting for it to dry out then will reframe with treated stuff and spay foam to isolate better from the concrete better. Good news is the window itself wasn't rotted. Issue is likely the stucco over the concrete block which soaks through.
Could have been worse. I could be using yellow paint.
I was a soccer ref back in highschool and I remember I believe it was the WDSM Soccer Club hosted tournament that paid out 45 for center and 35 for linesman for a u12 game. That was some good cash right there
I was a ref in the west Chicago suburbs. I did the Best of the Midwest tournament a couple times and got paid decently for those. I don't think it was anywhere close to what you were saying. Since the games for a tournament were shorter, you made less money per a game, but I think on an hourly basis, you would make more.
I am complaining because I pack the food cooler for the weekend. So I am usually up before both of them. Because I am that nice.Are you complaining on behalf of your daughter, or are you complaining because they keep waking you up?
And games this week of course are over an hour away . . . .
Isn't insurance great? You pay a lot for it and hope you never use it. Then when you do you get punished for it. Even when it wasn't your fault.Mine went up this month, thanks to that hit and run.
We used to do processing for one insurance company and had to verify their quarterly numbers at certain points in the processing before continuing. The $ coming in compared to the $ going out was incredible.
My boss has that bumper sticker. Has another that says "I'm not tailgating, I'm drafting"I saw a bumper sticker the other day that I want.
Pickup with a topper, several Nascar number stickers in the rear window, and a bumper sticker that read: I'm not speeding. I'm just qualifying.
I had one on Baby (my 280ZX) that said "I don't drive fast. I fly low." It was inside, on the glove box. Didn't want to attract additional attention from the boys in blue.
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