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Topic: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
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Kris60 · « **Reply #154 on:** September 29, 2023, 11:02:50 PM »

Quote from: WhiskeyM on September 27, 2023, 10:48:13 PM

I just noticed this thread and caught this tonight.

Would you mind elaborating on this?

I have a 9 year old daughter that just started playing fastpitch softball this spring with the cities in house league (it's her first time playing any kind of softball). She ended up starting at 1st base and batting #5 in the order.

Her in house coach also coaches the city clubs travel team and invited her to try out for the fall season.

She made the travel team (10U). This is our first year doing anything like this, so I'm curious what I should expect. First tournament is this Saturday!

My daughter started playing travel softball at the age of 8 and is still playing at age 15. Yes, there will be obnoxious parents on your own team and on the teams you play. There will also be times you see calls so bad you will bite through your own tongue to keep from being lumped in with those parents.

We’ve played tournaments where there were snow flurries and ones where the temperature was in the triple digits. We’ve played in tournaments where the championship game ended after 1 am and tournaments where the kickoff game of the tournament started at midnight.

If she stays with it it will be expensive and a hassle. When my daughter was younger I really resented the travel and aggravation sometimes. Now that she’s older I view travel tournaments as a way to spend time with her. She’s a captive audience in the car with me and I get to talk to her, and hope she can get out of her phone long enough to listen and talk to me. She has a learner’s permit now so the next tournament we have she might actually be the one driving to it.

We actually have a lot of memories now built around travel ball. Make the best of it. Have fun with it. I didn’t always do that. View them as little weekend get aways. Find good restaurants. Get to know some of the parents (they aren’t all crazy), and try to appreciate the time you are spending with her. It’s cliche, but it really does go by fast.

But if you’re lucky she’ll hate it and you won’t have to mess with it long.

WhiskeyM · « **Reply #155 on:** September 30, 2023, 10:18:02 AM »

Thanks for the replies gentlemen.

So I guess I just got myself a new hobby. Not a fan of 800 AM games an hour from home, but such is life. I'm more of a night owl.

Seeding games today. We won our first game 20-0, the other team forfeited in the 2nd inning. I felt kind of bad for them.

The opposing first base coach got kicked out for commentary on an umps call, so a bit a drama already.

My daughter is a lefty and I can tell pitchers are having problems throwing to her. She got 2 at bats in 2 innings and was walked on both. She managed to steal 3 bases, so she was excited about that.

Brutus Buckeye · « **Reply #156 on:** October 29, 2023, 01:07:39 PM »

I picked up this electric scooter at a sporting goods store. Nothing special, 1000 W, tops out around 20 mph. But man, that thing's a tank. It can go really slow and maneuver through tight corridors. Or you can tear down a bike path. It's easy to ride on sidewalks, it climbs over mountains, it drives down a gravel road just as easy as a bike path, pretty much anywhere.

Now I'm eyeing one that's designed specifically for ATV trails and dirt roads. Lots of those around here.

CatsbyAZ · « **Reply #157 on:** October 30, 2023, 02:43:40 PM »

I travel a lot for work and take numerous weekend trips so I collect postcards as a slight hobby. But it's more than collecting.

I send out 1 to 2 per month, depending on the frequency of my trips, totaling about 20 postcards/year to various friends who've been along for the ride with me and are due for a thank you. But it's more than just sending postcards.

Years ago I started a detailed spreadsheet tabulating 1) postcard origin, 2) recipient, and 3) my personal note. Over the years my Postcards spreadsheet has turned into an appreciation of whom I've held long term friendships with, the various places I've traveled and lived, who's unfortunately passed away (i.e. stopped getting a postcard from me), and 4) lively reminders of times gone by.

Some examples:

January 2016 - Hawaii - To the Gallagher Family:
"Just returned from work at Pearl Harbor. The Navy Lodges were booked, so I ended up 4 nights at a Waikiki Hilton resort. Wonderful to be back in Hawaii, away from the East Coast winter, and giving a few afternoons to relive my long ago enlisted days. My old barracks were torn down so I made up for it by drinking at the enlisted club, where finally I was old enough to buy for myself."

January 2019 - Tucumcari NM - To Uncle B & Aunt A:
"Good visiting you & the boys again! After Indianapolis one of my overnight stays was Tucumcari NM, still boasting the colorful motels of its Route 66 yesteryears. Beyond Tucumcari begins the true West as far as the eye can see, the horizon extending from ten or twelve miles away to thirty or forty."

March 2019 - Vail CO - To Ben:
"Great to see our friend Myles off to a great career start! Visiting him in Colorado detoured us through Vail, priding itself on the global skiing and snowboarding destination its winter slopes afford the many Euro accents and ski-bumming seasonal workers happy and high on the lifts riding over its resort villages."

June 2021 - Landers CA - To Uncle K:
"Deep in the Mojave Desert is the unpaved town of Landers, home to the Integratron, a domed Sound Bath spa. Unfortunately closed, I drove several more dusty miles to visit Giant Rock, North America’s largest freestanding boulder, where Integratron’s founder once lived beneath and hosted UFO Conventions. California's deserts are full of entertaining Alien lore; leaving is a sad farewell to the weird, backcountry America that dissolves as soon as the Interstate looms ahead."

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Topic: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?

Kris60

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