Random thoughts, updates and venting
I forgot to mention this after my "Recruiting Junkie" post, but FSU reeled in another top 5 class this year. They always seem to pull this off with big names in the last week, so I wasn't really surprised. I'm also pretty sure you don't really care.
Could someone please explain to me what's so hard to understand about a 4-way stop?! If you pull up and other cars are already there, wait for them (whether it's 1, 2 or 3 cars) to go and then it's your turn. Why do so many drivers in Tampa who come to the 4-way stop between Fletcher and Bruce B. Downs not get this??
On another "driver's ed" note, what's so hard to understand about roundabouts?? Cars coming up to a roundabout are supposed to yield to cars already in the roundabout, but 95% of the people that live in our complex have no clue about this. I couldn't tell you how many times I've almost had the front of my truck taken off by some idiot who doesn't get this. Can't we just put that clip from European Vacation ("Big Ben, Parliament...") on every state's driver's license test as a visual aid to explain this?
This past weekend I helped out with Impact, a football tournament for Jr. High/High School youth groups at Florida Christian College. This year, more than 70 teams participated in the event, which is now split up into "Fun" and "Competitive" divisions. It's funny to me how big this has gotten because it all began with a single game between two church youth groups that they called the Toilet Bowl.
One of our local Tampa news stations just said that there is actually the possibility of a brief snow flurry in our area tonight. Must be due to that whole 'global warming' thing I keep hearing about.
I never posted anything about it right after the Super Bowl, but the officiating in that and other playoff games was terrible. Mainly with football and basketball, I'm starting to turn into a mild conspiracy theorist when it comes to possible biases on the part of officials, the league (pro) or conference (college), and their influence on the outcome of games. Outside of deliberate bias, I think they get too caught up with pleasing the crowd. Think about the homecourt "advantage" in basketball. The number of fouls called on visiting teams and, therefore, free throws attempted by home teams is almost always higher and usually by a significant margin. Someone please do a study on this. I bet we'd see a similar trend with penalties and penalty yardage in football. You think that maybe the officials/refs get a little caught up in wanting to please the home crowd?? I say yes. Whatever the case it all needs to stop because they're ruining a lot of good games.
Finally, the Olympics have started ... and I didn't even know it until today. Someone tell me how we did when it's all over.
Could someone please explain to me what's so hard to understand about a 4-way stop?! If you pull up and other cars are already there, wait for them (whether it's 1, 2 or 3 cars) to go and then it's your turn. Why do so many drivers in Tampa who come to the 4-way stop between Fletcher and Bruce B. Downs not get this??
On another "driver's ed" note, what's so hard to understand about roundabouts?? Cars coming up to a roundabout are supposed to yield to cars already in the roundabout, but 95% of the people that live in our complex have no clue about this. I couldn't tell you how many times I've almost had the front of my truck taken off by some idiot who doesn't get this. Can't we just put that clip from European Vacation ("Big Ben, Parliament...") on every state's driver's license test as a visual aid to explain this?
This past weekend I helped out with Impact, a football tournament for Jr. High/High School youth groups at Florida Christian College. This year, more than 70 teams participated in the event, which is now split up into "Fun" and "Competitive" divisions. It's funny to me how big this has gotten because it all began with a single game between two church youth groups that they called the Toilet Bowl.
One of our local Tampa news stations just said that there is actually the possibility of a brief snow flurry in our area tonight. Must be due to that whole 'global warming' thing I keep hearing about.
I never posted anything about it right after the Super Bowl, but the officiating in that and other playoff games was terrible. Mainly with football and basketball, I'm starting to turn into a mild conspiracy theorist when it comes to possible biases on the part of officials, the league (pro) or conference (college), and their influence on the outcome of games. Outside of deliberate bias, I think they get too caught up with pleasing the crowd. Think about the homecourt "advantage" in basketball. The number of fouls called on visiting teams and, therefore, free throws attempted by home teams is almost always higher and usually by a significant margin. Someone please do a study on this. I bet we'd see a similar trend with penalties and penalty yardage in football. You think that maybe the officials/refs get a little caught up in wanting to please the home crowd?? I say yes. Whatever the case it all needs to stop because they're ruining a lot of good games.
Finally, the Olympics have started ... and I didn't even know it until today. Someone tell me how we did when it's all over.
posted by John V at 9:07 PM
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Aren't the Olympics supposed to be the world's greatest sporting arena? I'm trying to be a good American and catch a few minutes here and there between '24' and 'Lost' but all I really know is that Michelle Kwan dropped out. Something about a pipe to the knee?? Oh that was another skater? About 12 years earlier? They all run together. Just give me the medal count and wake me up when March gets here.
By the way, thank you very much for the study on Ephesians this summer. It truly touched me and I continue to learn something new each and every time I revert back to the book or flip through my notes. Thank you for being a vessel through which God continues to speak to me. It means more than words can express. As does the friendship that I have developed with you and Taryn. I am truly blessed.
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