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(Adrian’s K850i POV)

(Sam’s W810i POV)

(Gabe’s W810i POV)

Yes, that’s 3 different perspectives for one Slapbet. Ponder and enjoy as you may.

Well, the 2008 CCSA season any way. Being the second year of coaching, I have learned a lot myself by leading and by watching the game in a whole. It has been a year of hardship and a year of blessings and encouragement in more ways than I could have imagined, reminding me what CCSA is truly about (even though we forget now and then). Individuals who remind me how great this league include:

Heavenly Hosts - Head Coach
Ravens - Head Ump, Assistant Coach and Assistant Governess (at least that’s what I think they are :P)
Floodgates - Head Coach
Slingers - Team in General
Seraphs - Team in General
Alpha & Omega - Umping Team

May God continue to bless your ministry in softball in the years to come.

…begins with a highlight of almost getting ran over by a teal sedan at 8:50am. If you thought dodging a bicycle coming at you was hard, try a vehicle going at approximately 60km/h. Not fun.

Update:
The time is now 10:37am and I’ve returned from a second round of flagging traffic (and much safer this time around). A slightly amusing incident did occur where a driver yelled “I’m UNSTOPPABLE” out the window (of course, not when i was stopping traffic). Silly man.

Update: The time is 12:00pm. Lunch time! Had to use the bathroom upstairs and was reminded of the one co-worker who always likes to leave the vacant bathroom door CLOSED. Curse you.

Final Update: Its 4:00pm now, and I did end up flagging traffic one more time (even though it just had to rain on me before I finished work here). And now its done =)

(more as we continue with this day)

How Can We Be Silent by Barlow Girl: (General Ratings)

1) Song For The Broken (Excellent)
2) I Believe In Love (Excellent/Album Favourite)
3) Here’s My Life (Good)
4) Keep Quiet (Not Good)
5) Million Voices (Excellent)
6) Sweet Revenge (Good)
7) One More Round (Good)
8) Take My Chances (Good)
9) That Guy Song (Not Good)
10) I Don’t Regret (Good)

Overall: A hint better than Good. Definitely a good album, in par with all of BarlowGirl’s other albums, and definitely worth the purchase.

Now I know a lot of people make analogies about literal stop signs and “stop signs” from the big guy above. But I’ve come to realize just how many people do not obey the physical stop signs. By not obeying I don’t necessarily mean rolling stops, but actually driving right past the intersection (or in my case, right by me almost into a MACK truck).

The reality is this. Sure, running the first stop sign won’t kill you. The second one won’t kill you either. Maybe on the third a pretty Asian cop in an undercover vehicle will pull you over. But the reality is (as well as the probability) eventually you will crash and burn.

So please, the next time you see a stop sign, figuratively or literally, please stop in the name of love and all that is real and sane.

That’s the official title of that portion of my new job. In this job I wave my “flag” (my hand) and proceed to bring vehicles to a halt. This includes regular vehicles, trailer trucks, fedex delivery cars, and pedestrians to avoid any plausible injuries (although typically they have eyes to see). The point is regardless of who you are, I am legally entitled to stop you, with the exception of emergency vehicles on emergencies. Highlights of stopping traffic include:

Stopping a regular Toronto Police Vehicle
Stopping an undercover Toronto Police Vehicle, with a female Asian driver (looked like she was having an awful day, hope you’re having a better one)
The company boss, right before the parking lot
Plentiful of TTC buses who give a kind gesture when you release traffic (you guys/girls rock)

I had some extract to discuss about how stop signs come up in life, but I’m way too tired for it, so wait for it in the next post.

So I was submitting some scores on the CCSA website, and browsing the whole site in general, and then something dawned on me. So I went and confirmed, double-confirmed, and triple-confirmed the reality that I had come to. In 28 years of CCSA history, there have been absolutely no Alliance Churches in the final round (Champions and Runner-Up). *Cough* =D

First and foremost, I would like to say the dot com played really well today, and as their coach I am proud of their performance! Even though we did lose (my second career loss to BASIC, currently sitting at 10-3) they gave it their best and that’s what most important! =)

Well done Children. Well done.

Okay, maybe I didn’t flag you, but you definitely drove by when I was flagging (in other words, stopping traffic). Or maybe you saw me, who knows! So far so safe with the traffic stopping =)

One morning when I was getting up for work, and my mom had made me breakfast, she asked me “What are you gonna do when I go to work in the morning? not eat breakfast?” To that I simply replied “I Love You, Mommy” and consumed the breakfast.

She’s the best =D