The title might come across as a weird title but this blog is not premeditated at all. The only thing I ever have generally planned in any blog is a simple idea and the fact that I'm going to sit down and type it up. I had a dream the other day, and like most dreams I forgot most of it. All that I remember from the dream was that I had some form of list of things I've checked off that I've been...

We are still in Texas! We have been bouncing around Texas for awhile now and we had a few days off while we traveled all the way to Kansas and then back to Texas. In my last blog I mentioned we were in the Dallas/Arlington area and I did end up going and seeing Cowboy Stadium. We tried to see a Rangers game and check out the stadium as well but they were away and the stadium was locked up and not...

Although I put the title "Everythings Bigger in Texas" the only things that have been bigger are the camp sizes and the sizes of people. I don't mean height either I mean the weight. There have been a few camps that we've gone to where I'm handing out tee shirts and I'm thinking man I wonder what types of restaurants they have around here that they all are as round as Santa Claus.I'll start from...

We left the Virginia area awhile ago but our travel plans have been very badly scheduled. We drove from camps in West Virginia all the way to St. Louis for a few days and from there up to Milwaukee to do a camp at Miller Park, which was awesome, and then drove 13 hours all the way to Arkansas.I think the theme of this blog is reflection and frustration. The last time I wrote a blog I was in a very...

We made a trip into Virginia officially a few days ago. We stayed at a really nice hotel for two days. I wish we could have stayed there longer because we had a living room, kitchen, and even two solo bedrooms. I got my best night sleep there from this entire trip. We got to watch the NFL draft and had a good time watching the first round during the evening. I made sure to take advantage of the...

I can't even pretend this is going to be humorous or inspiring or anything. This is just going to be a rant mostly about what's been going on lately. As a matter of fact I'm going to basically steal the outline of one of CM Punk's promos. If you don't watching WWE wrestling that last sentence will go over your head. The last thing I ended on was being in the Greenville area in South Carolina.We...

I'm always a sucker for movies that are different and are based from books. It's also an added bonus when those stories are based on someone's personal experience that are real. I used to write only when I felt like I had something to say because I felt like if you said something it should have meaning. I've since changed that not only because I feel like some conversation are lost and needed to...

I feel behind on my road trip blogs again. We left Georgia after a few days in the Savannah, Georgia area. I was not expecting Savannah to be such a nice place but they have a great downtown area that reminded me a lot of a miniature New Orleans. We went down there during the day when it was less busy but I got a ton of photos of the bars and restaurants. I really enjoy finding new places and I...

I'm a little behind on my updates. Currently we are in Columbus, Georgia and are enjoying our first full weekend off. The last time I wrote it was the first night we were in Tallahassee, FL. It was a different style of hotel where laundry was free and they sold coffee. They had some nice ideas but I couldn't wait to leave that place. I got to cook some food but when I wanted to grill out some food...

I was having a conversation with my roommate about how it feels like the news has been traveling around with us. On the start of this work related road trip I had a stop in Ohio. I believe I stopped in both Toledo and Cleveland along the way and I saw on the news the story about the girl who was so drunk that she blacked out and was raped by two kids and how these teenage kids were tweeting about...

We finished up our last camp in the Orlando area on Wednesday, March 20th. It was later in the day but luckily we got rained out. I felt sick and had a runny nose and a soar throat. We got halfway through the first station before the rain started coming down really hard. Needless to say within ten minutes everyone who was a coach was soaked. We broke down the field as quick as we could but it...

We had a Sunday camp in the afternoon. We planned to leave at 9:50 but during the night some kid had messed with the fender on the trailer and it needed to be repaired. We left a little later than expected but still arrived to the camp in plenty of time. They had a really nice complex and we had two fields to use. The camp went well. By the end of it the kids usually get tired or get bored and...

After our second camp on a Thursday we were told we had an off day, essentially a travel day, and we wanted to make sure we maximized our time down in southern Florida. We had gotten back from our camp later than expected and I had two ideas put out there for the group of guys who wanted to do something. By now it felt like to me that two groups were forming. I had a group and then there was a...

The only downside of going to the World Baseball classic on the Tuesday night we arrived in Florida was that our first camp was the next day on Wednesday and we only knew who was in our group and which baseball station we were running. None of us had worked together before and weren't 100% sure what to do. We had to get together at 10:30 in the morning in what I'm calling an impromptu meeting. I'm...

It was still the same first weekend. I woke up on Sunday rejuvenated from my sleep depravity. We had training at 1 pm that afternoon that was supposed to last until 5 pm but some of the full-time staff said it would probably only last an hour or two. I talked with my roommate more and after we had picked each other by simply giving each other the "hang loose" hand signal and he didn't wake me up...

The beginning of this job seemed to creep up on me really fast. I was ending two basketball seasons and one was going to continue going on after I left. I had issued finding the best way to travel from the Chicago area to the Maryland area where our training was to be held. I knew if I fly it was going to be expensive and I'd have to pack less. I couldn't find a train station that had the right...

I feel like a little bit of recap is in order since I haven't posted a blog or anything on here in awhile. If it is the first time reading one of my thoughts or blog stories I really hope you can pick up on the sarcasm in my writing. I got a new seasonal job working for a retired hall of fame baseball player. I won't mention his name because I never really name names and I don't want to get in...

If you enjoy Youtube, and who really doesn't, then I highly recommend visiting my friends page MichaelDoesLife on youtube. He had decided he is going to fully dedicate himself this year to posting a lot more videos and if his subscribers continue to climb he will strive for bigger and better projects. Right now he has 90 subscribers as they continue to slowly climb. It's time for you to join the...

1) It has ruined Thanksgiving. With all the shopping specials that happen and now start on Thanksgiving this holiday has become overshadowed by Christmas. We are supposed to be thankful for what we have and friends and family and then hours later we are game planning for buying gifts for ourselves and for our friends that we don't need but we'd like to have at a bargain price. And even then a lot...

I think I'm growing up. I've finally gotten so disappointed in the lack of returned emails and job applications that I'm down to my last 5% of hope that I'll actually find something in sports that I'll like to do. Maybe that's part of growing up that realizing your dreams aren't going to come true anytime soon and might not ever happen. I think I'm just going to focus on getting a substitute...