I have … harsh feelings on adults coaching kids and the increasing focus on winning at the expense of teaching kids how to play the sport.
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Especially at middle school age, getting your whole team game-playing experience is more important than focusing on top 5 (or 7). Short-sighted on the coach’s part. Those on the bench could easily be HS starters one day.
Can you talk with the coach in a way that doesn’t come off as demanding or confrontational? How was playing time discussed if there were parent meetings at the start of the season? What did the coach say about their philosophy? If this is school-connected, is it public or private school? What does school’s overall athletic program philosophy?
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Someone just sent me a sort of financial model. I’m calling the Guinness people, I think this may be a record for the number of hard-coded values, what in the hell am I supposed to do with this??? It has about a dozen tabs and I’m not sure where any of the data came from or how it flows across this thing. It’s impressive, in a way.
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For personal finance or business?
On the opposite end, I adore my daughter’s field hockey coach. She praises the kids for effort and ideas, regardless of the execution. Did you try to pass to the open teammate? Then good for you, even if the pass sucked. I expect that by the time the girls hit high school, execution will start to matter, but at 5th grade it doesn’t.
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It’s a business model, but as bad as it is I’m wondering if the creator of said model is trying to make it personal.
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They’re probably really proud of how sophisticated it is, too.
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Snowblowed the neighbor’s driveway this weekend while they were on vacation. They would not have been able to get into their driveway.
Today, one of them managed to ram their van deeply into the side of the snow bank alongside the driveway. One hour of shoveling and pushing later…
Good workout, at least? I can’t be too upset because they needed to pick up their young kid. If they’re going to bother me during the workday, at least it’s really not for something trivial.
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At the 6th grade band concert. There’s a dad nearby whose son plays violin, but is too good to play with the school orchestra so he’s learning trombone this year as a second instrument, hence the dad being here tonight. I’m pretty sure I don’t need to know this.
Does he also play basketball?
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(also in the Happy Thoughts thread, but not for this piece). Returned from 2-week vacation in Punta Cana today. Have Global Entry, but for some reason it didn’t work for me, also for at least one other passenger on the flight. The computer couldn’t recognize that the picture the scanner was taking of me matched my passport photo. Baffled three different border control agents, but still I got through the inspectors before our luggage was on the carousel.
Been having other issues with Global Entry. GE is supposed to get you TSA recheck, but several times including this trip it hasn’t for me. This trip was especially weird. I had checked in online, and has a boarding pass in my apple wallet that said I had TSA precheck. For some reason, we couldn’t use automated bag check, and for bag check they had to print boarding passes. Wife’s showed her as having TSA precheck, mine didn’t, so I had to do the regular TSA check.
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Jeezus. Am I not speaking English here?
Clear directions on an easy task. Results have nothing to do with the task lol.
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I just spoke to them about stuff we were looking for. I can look at something and just from the title I can tell if it meets the requirements. 1 second and done, and about five seconds to skim the content and confirm.
I showed them what I look for, and they didn’t see it. Here’s the title, it obviously meets the requirements. Their response? ‘really, you can tell that?’.
So it wasn’t instructions, it was more fundamental than that.
Yep, still getting the “I don’t think we need to change this”.
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o m g if one more guidance counselor asks me about the missing semester grades that I fixed two asking-me-s ago 
I got the memo about the TPS reports!!
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Picked up a pizza from the Costco food court. I haven’t eaten anything yet today and the delicious aroma is killing me.
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I miss the Combo pizza.
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Annoying thought? I’d call that an aromatic thought.
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Well I can’t eat of it for dinner! It’s for the rest of my family. Smells only for me. Womp.
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Never had it, but Google tells me it had green pepper and onion, so I probably wouldn’t have ordered it.