Work was the usual mess last night when I got there... I'm getting used to it being that way with so many new people working evenings. It'll get better, I'm sure.
But, in the meantime, it's a full time job cleaning up other people's messes.
Last week there was a boy playing high-school football in a town near here who collapsed and died from a brain hemorrhage. Earlier this month, there were two HS boys in the southern part of the state that collapsed and died, most likely from the excessive heat that they were practicing in.
What this means is... when a kid gets his bell rang, it's onto a spine board and to the hospital for him. Which is OK, better safe than sorry... but it means lots more work for yours truly. And, once again, I don't mind working... it's what I love, it's what I get paid for.
But this is a fucking game that these kids are dying for. OK, I'll admit, there are things even stupider than that that people die for... but it's senseless. OK, there are a lot of things in this world that appear senseless, and that people die for.
But if I were a parent of a kid that wanted to play football, that kid would find some other way to occupy his time. Sorry, but I love my kids, I don't want them exposed to danger for a game. Other parents obviously don't feel this way. Fine, I guess that they may entertain themselves any way that they want to.
But my kids won't get sacrificed to the football god. Although, I must admit, at the time when they were of the age to be playing I didn't really feel this way. Luckily, they chose other options to amuse themselves.
Speaking of kids, Tyler is on his way up here, JD said to expect him about noon. Knowing Tyler, I'll expect him about 18:00, or maybe tomorrow morning. He was going to stop off in Arlington to visit a friend... time before last when he headed home, he stopped to visit this friend and didn't make it home for three days or so...
I slept for about two hours when I got home, then got up. It's a pretty day, even though it's going to get up to 90F or so, and I've got things to do. We've got some friends coming over tonight and Brian is here for the weekend... the normal chaotic weekend.
So I'm trying to get stuff cleaned up a little bit. We so seldom have people over; we should more often, it gives us the impetus to straighten stuff up... otherwise, we generally don't care.
Pretty bad, huh. Most of the world is like that, I think.
Gee, I wish that I would've slept another coupla hours... starting to feel it now that I'm sitting down.
And I really liked the black background for my daily pix... these white venetian blinds bug me. I need to start using more imagination on these, or it will continue to be boring.
Enough for today... I need to get to work again.