ludington
It wasn’t great body surfing, but it was body surfing nonetheless. Three days in a row on three different beaches in Ludington, Michigan. Sweet.
It wasn’t great body surfing, but it was body surfing nonetheless. Three days in a row on three different beaches in Ludington, Michigan. Sweet.
Smalltown Fastpitch captures invite title
Smalltown Fastpitch of Benton Harbor beat the Munger Firemen 3-2 in the championship game of this weekend’s Rich Plangger Fastpitch Invitational.
The game was a rematch of last year’s Class D state championship, also won by Smalltown Fastpitch.
Browning Chabot was the winning pitcher, throwing a four-hitter with five strikeouts. Robby Prenkert’s RBI single in the top of the seventh inning drove in Brent Chabot with the winning run.
Smalltown was 4-1 in the tournament, losing to Munger in a pool play game on Saturday.
The team won its other two pool play games to advance to Sunday’s single elimination round.
Smalltown beat the Goshen Gators 3-2 in one semifinal and Munger beat DC Current of Bremen, Ind., in the other semifinal.
Rich Plangger and his son Rick were honored for their long time contribution to local fastpitch softball.
http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2010/06/22/sports/1519867.txt
Jamaica Gleaner News - Jamaica needs more, Bruce - Lead Stories - Monday | June 21, 2010
This is my friend Courtney, who speaks the truth with conviction. There is a serious crime problem in Kingston, but the solution cannot simply be “lock ‘em all up.”
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They’re supposed to be the two best basketball teams in the league playing in a seventh game for the championship. But they look awful on offense. They miss shots; they fumble the ball; they stand around; they dribble too much.
My assessment: The Lakers and the Celtics are tired of each other and just want this thing to be over with.
Crying out loud, it is the middle of June.
I blogged this from my phone. How cool is that? Call me Dr. Technology.
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http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/309295/may-13-2010/glenn-to-the-mountaintop
Two words….
GORAN DRAGIC.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20100502/News01/5020310/1129/News
I play softball against and sometimes with this guy.
http://http//laporteassemblyofgod.com/components/com_sermonspeaker/media/041810%20Jeff%20Kling.mp3
God is good.
R. is not an avid blog reader, but he does read one blog religiously. Not many days ago his favorite blogger posted the following brief entry.
"One difference between Glenn Beck and me: while we both assume people are greedy, I happen to think that greed is evil." (http://robbyprenkert.blogspot.com/2010/03/compare-and-contrast.html )
He--that is, R.--has been reading Nietzsche, as well. He thinks that he could write a reply. "One difference between Nietzsche and me: while we both assume people are greedy, I happen to think that greed (the will to power) is evil."
Which leads him to a related and obvious thought, of course. It is not so much the fact that Nietzsche and Beck share a worldview that troubles him. It is the masses of unthinking evangelical Christians who have so blindly devoured Beck's Nietzschean, 'anti-Christ,' rhetoric that worry him.
Four kinds of flowers, two ducks, new leaf buds, and two butterflies.
Morgan took a little dip in the Baugo Creek.
Sydney picked flowers for people she loves.
One difference between Glenn Beck and me: while we both assume people are greedy, I happen to think that greed is evil.
A bee gets nearly 5 million miles per gallon of honey.
If only my 1999 Ford Escort would run on honey.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123289433&ft=1&f=1025
Sydney has been teaching herself to whistle. Every so often I’ll hear an airy whistle from the other room. It usually takes me a second or two to realize that “hey, that was pretty good.”
I like that she keeps practicing and slowly but surely she seems to be getting better at it. Most of the time she just blows air out her (incredibly cute) puckered lips, and there isn’t much of a whistle. But every now and again she nails it. She’s not “working” at whistling–you couldn’t call something that one does with such a spirit of leisurely indifference, work. She’s just learning to do something for the pleasure of it, simply because she can. I don’t know why she decided she wanted to whistle. She never asked to be taught and never announced that she had a plan. She just started trying.
I love that.
Splendid news. A couple days ago I discovered that we actually get the SciFi channel. Call me “Mr. Observant.” Anyhow, the splendid news is that every few days this channel shows reruns of “X-Files.” So now I can DVR “X-files” and get my conspiracy theory/paranormal/“the truth is out there” fix every now and then.
On a related note, I’m also recommending my readers try tuning into this late night talk show called “Coast to Coast” sometime.
www.coasttocoastam.com
Not that I’m a regular listener by any stretch of the imagination–I think I heard a part of the show one time while driving home from New Jersey in the middle of the night many years ago. So “the truth is out there” but apparently so are the crazies.
It was this article that got me intrigued.
www.theatlantic.com/doc/20100…
Pull-ups are hard. Some varieties are easier than others, of course. Reverse grip chin-ups are, for me, easier than wide grip or close grip overhand pull-ups. Corn-cob pull-ups are brutal (pull up, chin to the left, chin to the right, chin away from bar, and then back down again). 
But I like them because they're hard and because after I have done six or eight sets of them I can tell I've done something good for my body.
A professional physical trainer once told me that if you could only do two strength exercises, pull-ups would be one of them.
Squats would be the other.
I can't say anything in praise of squats.
Man vs. Wild
Urban Survivor
TV-PG, CC
In a special edition of Man vs Wild, Bear Grylls finds himself in a new kind of jungle -- a concrete jungle. Bear uses the same wilderness survival techniques to stay alive in a city post-disaster.
So I wake up in the morning and I drink a cup of 1/2 water 1/2 acai berry juice. Eight ounces of this stuff has 1000% (that’s right, 10 times what you need) of your daily value of vitamin B12 and 200% of your daily value of Vitamin C–this among other things. Supposedly this stuff is loaded with antioxidants. Who knows. All I know is that I feel energized within a few minutes of drinking the stuff and hopping on the bike.
Here’s the downside of waking up each day, drinking a big cup of watered down acai berry juice, and then riding a bike for a half hour. Riding a bike in the morning makes me very thirsty, so I drink a lot of water while and after I ride the bike–which is healthy, yes, but drinking that much makes me pee a lot. A lot.
Like, I went to the bathroom four times between 7:30 a.m. and the start of my class at 9:00 a.m. In fact, I went to the bathroom at Syd’s daycare after I dropped her off around 8:25. I went to my classroom to log on to the computer and double check if the song I wanted to play would work from that computer, and by the time I finished that little test run and started to walk to my office I had to go again. After a few minutes in my office, I headed back to the classroom. On that walk I felt the urge again. Fortunately, this rate of bathroom visits does not continue throughout the day.
And so I would like to give a shout out to acai berry juice, a morning bike ride, and a lot of water. Flush the system, loosen up the creaky joints, crank up the metabolism, and energize my aging body.