Life Without School

I think it is safe to talk about being out of school now. I think all of my siblings are done with their respective school years. If not, so sorry. I am emmensely happy to be done with the school system for 2 months. The year ended on a much better note than it started.

Now, on to the world of bicycles. I am working at my dream job over the summer. The only draw back is that I am working six days a week instead of 5 and I don't get to leave until 5 or 5:30. On the otherhand I don't have to be there until 10 in the morning. I still get up early so I can ride though. Well, I'm gonna say TTFN.

No More Kids

The school year is over and we've got 3 days of post planning and I have to go to work right now so I'll write more later.

It's Here

The end is here. I had an exciting day today. We went to the park and walked forever (it seemed that far). We went back to school and one of the boys got sick and had to go to the emergency room. He wound up being alright, but the hospital is holding him overnight for observation. Only one more day and it is all over for the summer. I'm so exhausted I'm going to bed.

For those of you that aren't through yet, sorry. I don't make the schedule.

And for those that read Ice Water. We have a totally new A/C unit and it works great.

Four to Go

No one's counting though. This is the final countdown. I saw the new air conditioning unit going in yesterday afternoon. Maybe it will work today. I'm not holding my breath. But here's hoping. Actually, since the sun has already risen this morning we only count as three more days to go.

I'm a Wrench ... Again

Saturday I started at George's bike shop in Rome. It is Ordinary Bikes at the end of Broad St. I will be building lots of bikes and not wearing polyester soccer jerseys to work (no airconditioning). I also learned that I like building mountain bikes more than road bikes. Mountain bikes come partially assembled and road bikes don't.

Well, it is time to go to sleep and get ready for the last week of the school year. Lots of travel around town and bowling into the summer.

Got Ice Water??????????

Today was a hot one in the old town this morning. I started the day off sitting on our park bench in the back yard and watched the sunrise with a cup of coffee.

Then I got to school and learned how to lock my keys in the car even with the remote lock in my hand. Oh, and the phone was in the car. I had turned the key to the on position and plugged in the phone and then locked the doors and learned that with the key in the on position the remote lock won't work. Fun.

Next I walked in and discovered that the air-conditioning unit cooling my wing of the building had finally died. Not good with students that can't deal with the heat. We went to the mall and will probably do the same tomorrow.

Dealt with whiner that doesn't understand the concept of having lost.

Had a great time at the Soccer Banquet. Had great AWESOME BBQ.

Did I mention that the air conditioning didn't work and won't until next week.

Light at the End of the Tunnel

We got ten more days. Who's counting? Not me... ha ha ha. Of course the next day I go to work at the bike shop full time. I actually start this coming Saturday at the shop. Hopefully sometime this week I'll have a rideable bike again.

Tuesday we play the last softball game for the season. I had hoped that we would play the summer league, but not enough commitment there. I can understand that with everyone going on vacation at different times. If we had played this summer I was going to by baseball pants. Oh, Well!

Paperwork !Blech!

I'm finished with the evil troll of paperwork for this school year. Well, almost. I have to write it up and turn it in and then that will be it.

We will face Tucker first in the play offs. We will be nomads for the tournament. We're third in our region so it will be a miracle if we get to play at home at all. Even for the title. That will be a trip.

It's Saturday and I'm on the Computer

Howdy folks! I am just hanging out this Saturday and doing as little as possible. Unless it only involves my fingers (the computer).

Last night was a rough night for the Wolves. I'm travelling with the varsity team now that the JV season is over. We went to Dalton last night and lost a heartbreaker. The score was 2-3. We scored first and then gave up a goal later in the first half. Coming back in for the second half we went up 2-1 and immediately gave up another goal. Later in the second half the refs scored a goal for Dalton making it 3-2. Rome wound up 3rd in the region. We had to win by 2 or get a shut out to win the region.

Now we begin our March to State. It's a whole new season out there.

Now on to more fun things. We now have a softball team at WPC. Take a look at these pictures. I really want to play but I have to wait till the championships are over. I don't know how much of an asset I'll be but it will be fun.

I signed my contract this week. What a relief. One IEP and a Re-Determination and I'll be set.

Gooooooooooaaaaaaaaalll

The team played an awesome game last night. We won 1-0 against Southeast Whitfield. It was great. We ended the season 5-4-0. I am pleased with the outcome of the whole season.

One More to Go

Tomorrow is the last game of the JV season. We will be playing Southeast Whitfield. They are pretty much like us. We play up to our potential and we will win. A win tomorrow will give Rome JV a winning season. That would be a nice return to coaching.

Tomorrow will be a big day all around. Special Olympics is tomorrow. It'll be a big day for the boys. They be doing adaptive tricycle races, softball throws, and assisted wheelchair races.

It is a good Good Friday

We had the day off today. I am enjoying that. Sleeping late. I didn't get up until 6:45. Now, I stayed in bed until 11:00. Of course this is the last chance I get to relax much until five weeks from now. The rush is on to get to the end of the year.

Spring Break

I never thought I would want storms on Spring Break, but I'm dying here. This pollen junk is out of hand. I've been out once today and I ran back home. Rain would be a good thing and the size of these mosquitos? We could use a snap freeze right quick too.

Being inside I have decided that there is nothing really good on the tube during the day. Well, I've got a website to update. Talk at y'all later.

Hey Y'all Look at This

Check this out peoples. Rome soccer is #9 in the state of Georgia for AAAA. Checkout this site out Soccer Info and click on Georgia and type Rome into the little box and click on Rome. This should bring up our schedule.

Howdy Doody

Well, we have one week and counting to Sanity Break... I mean Spring Break. This weekend is a busy one. Kristi and I are hanging out with the nieces and nephews while Philip, Shelley, and Stephen are at the Busch Race. Tomorrow we will be celebrating my 36th a few days early. Crazy Crazy. That's all for now got a soccer game to go to.


TTFN

I Almost Forgot

With my birthday coming up I think I should let you all know what I want for my B-Day.

First Home Depot Card (any amount) larger the better
Second A stick for Mom's old camera (the biggest one you can find)
Third Marvel Mystery Oil
Fourth Anything you feel that I need and want

A little info about getting the home depot card; the more money on the card the more vegetables I can grow.

When It Rains It Pours

I like these rain metaphors.

My niece got to play a good chunk of time in her game yesterday. They won Sonoraville 3 - Woodland 0. Vanny is one of 2 sixth graders on the middle school team. I'm so proud of her.

We won, We won, We won. Rome 6 - Gordon Central 2. It is always nice when your team starts off good, but it awesome when they just keep getting better. Depth, oh yeah, that's a nice thing too. Maturity, now come on, this is JV you can only hope for so much before your just flat dreaming.

We were late and didn't get to warm up. We hit two half laps and then hit the field. Then we started hitting them and didn't stop. One of the refs felt that it was his job to call the entire field. (when there are two refs it is general custom for one to make the calls on one end and the other to make the calls on the other end)

Well, this see all, know all called tripping in the box on one of my boys. The problem was the infraction occured out side the box and the Tony award winning diver landed inside the box over a yard away. So GC got a pk (penalty kick) which our goalie SAVED. That rocked. I'll only give the details on the highlight calls. This genious ref later gives one of my players a yellow card because the kid he fouled had been fouled too many times. WHAT! Oh and he gave another player a yellow card for turning around and running into the guy behind him. Clutz not Yellow.

Oh and when we did get the call it invariably happened when we had the advantage. (we had the ball, it was under control, and we were going to the goal without immediate challenge). He did that five times.

Well, needless to say we are happy with the out come.

The Super Duper Up to Date Schedule

Feb 13 @Woodstock 5.00
Feb 16 Sonoraville 5:00
Feb 22 Calhoun 5:00
Feb 28 @NW Whitfield 5:30
Mar 6 @Armuchee 5:00
Mar 9 @Gordon Central 5:00
Mar 15 @Murray 5:00
Mar 16 @Calhoun 5:00
Mar 19 NW Whitfield 5:00
Mar 22 Armuchee 5:00
Apr 2 Murray 5:00
Apr 4 Coosa 5:00
Apr 6 @Coosa 5:00
Apr 10 @Christian Heritage 5:30

We Did It Again

We won again. It was a struggle seeing how little we've been playing till now. The boys didn't score at all in the first half, like the last game, and this worried me a little. Then we got our shots in and the defense stood strong yet again. Actually one of the shots was a gift. One of my boys took a shot and hit an Armuchee player and bounced the ball in.

We do it all again on Friday at Gordon Central. Everything is just cruising on along elsewise. My class will be making sausage balls today. Don't y'all wish you were up here.

A Little Rain Must Fall

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Well, the Elkins household got some not so good news Saturday morning. Ceasar was diagnosed with Feline Leukemia. Lexie is fine and has gotten her shots. We are going to continue as before just adding a little tuna to there diets to keep the protein up. We're not going to fret over it because that just won't do anything for us or Ceasar.

Happier news. I have been through my final observation for the year at school. I have my annual review on 3/14. Then I get my contract and its one big glide into the end of the year.

Last but not least the Varsity team won again on Friday night. 5 - 0 against Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe. My boys play again on Tuesday at Armuchee. That is pronounced Armurchee.

Well we'll talk at ya some more later.