You're not biasedI got a job alert that Frontier is hiring again. I texted my friend who works there and she told me she is convinced that I am getting declined straight out of the gate because they don't want my social work experience. They want straight CS experience. That's fine. AA and UA didn't have an issue with my social work experience and hopefully, they will be hiring soon.
Frontier can hire baristas over me. I think I bring more to the table than a barista does. But I am biased.
No kidding! He HAD to know it was meant for dessert after the big meal. It's partially about the presentation...no one wants to be served food that's already been cut into/served....it's like presenting leftovers. Even if you don't have guests, you've spent all that time making something special only to find it not-so-special anymore. What did you say to him?
Wow....softball is not really a sport where you think of injuries due to contact so much...that must have been really scary! I mean, things like soccer, basketball, football..you're all running in the same small space going after the same ball, so it makes sense that there will be collisions and whatnot, or someone throwing an elbow, or a misplaced kick and you get in the way of the ball. It's not what you expect with softball, when you're all spaced out over the field and depending on where the ball is, it's up to one specific person to go after it. It seems like kind of a fluke to take a knee to the throat! I hope she's feeling better soon!
I only played one summer, and I think I was only 10 at the time....we didn't have much instruction or anything. It was just through the rec center and they weren't even sure they'd get enough girls to form a team. We did, but the only game I remember actually going to, I didn't play. My friend had injured herself, and had to sit by herself in the dugout...I felt bad for her, and I wasn't very good and didn't particularly enjoy it, so I sat with her. My mother was livid that I had chosen to sit out. But I really was not an outdoor kid....Apparently I passed out in practice from the heat a week or so before that game. I don't remember actually passing out, but my mother said I did, and I DO remember her coming to pick me up because I wasn't feeling well and needed to leave practice early, so it's possible that I did and just don't remember. But I don't remember anyone ever having anything worse than a twisted ankle from running bases, or me passing out from the heat. I guess a bunch of 9 and 10 year olds in small town Wyoming playing for something to do in the summer aren't as aggressive as this is.When you get into the more competitive stuff, there is a lot of physicality in the base running, especially scoring plays and stolen bases. The pics below are a play at the plate with one of Sam's teammates. This is not an uncommon thing to see. Depending on the way the kid slides and the player(s) coming in for the tag, you could have a really brutal play at the plate. My mom wanted to debate me on sliding head vs. feet first or sliding in general, but this isn't recreational ball and next year, they're going to start having metal cleats coming at them in slides. View attachment 547257View attachment 547258
This is one of my daughter sliding into second while trying to steal the base. She came in under the tag and was safe, but the second baseman should be swinging her glove hand back as quickly as possible to make the tag, so I could see hit to the throat potential in this play. Not with the knee, like the one at home had, but still contact injury risk. In the tag where she was injured this week, I believe the girl was squatting into the tag and the neck and knee just happened to be in the same place at the same time.
Aside from being stepped on (we've seen a number of broken hands and wrists from this), getting hit by a line drive is usually the biggie for risk...and it happens a lot. Softballs aren't soft in any way, so when you consider exit velocity off of a bat from a 50-60 mph pitch...that's a ball that could do a lot of damage. I make my kids wear infielder's masks, but we've seen girls take balls to the face and require major reconstructive surgery. One of the scariest I saw was a line drive back at the pitcher...nailed her in the chest...and knocked her out for a while. If you're hit by a wild pitch, that can also do some damage. We had a player hit in the spine the other week and it did a number on her nerves for a while.
She's thankfully feeling much better and sounding almost normal.
Yeah, we didn't have the really competitive sports at all growing up. But in Wyoming, we don't get much nice weather until June. We don't have baseball/softball through the school, and our small school was even more limited with sports. Through the school, we had basketball, volleyball, wrestling, football, cross country and track. That's it. We didn't have a pool, so there was no swim team or diving. No tennis courts. Our track was ripped out to put in a new one and then they used the money to replace one in the bigger town where it would "be used by more kids" so ours was just covered with shale and left...we couldn't have track meets because we didn't have the facilities. We didn't have a golf team, though they might now...we never had soccer. Through the rec center, I had t-ball, then we had little league. One Summer they did the softball, but I think it was only the one summer and then they didn't have coaches. They offered tennis one summer...there were only 3 of us. We did soccer one summer, but we didn't even have enough kids for a team, so we just learned to dribble. We didn't have a field, even if we had had enough kids. So the really high quality didn't exist, and we wouldn't have been able to afford it if they had offered it. It blows my mind what I read about some of these kids being able to do, from a young age. I have never been particularly coordinated or athletic, so it's all very much beyond me!
It almost sounds like a little kid...asking to open presents and eat cake, etc. Not much patience. I think I'd get so frustrated, I'd tell my husband it was for dessert and if he asked again, he wasn't getting any at all!