Thursday, August 30, 2007

Yeah, I Know, I'm a Slug

I have needed to post for a while now, but just haven't really had the time all at once. The summer has been quiet and hectic all at once; no one played soccer, which was nice for us big people, but a certain 14yo hated it, especially as his middle school season ended sooner than he was ready for. Work has been a complete mad house, but I did survive another round of layoffs; the outlook is kind of grim, but the burden of it lies mainly on upper management, and I think everyone knows that now. There have been some unsound business decisions made in the last year or so, and I hope they get them fixed. I'm so far down the totem pole that I just keep my input to myself; large parts of the problems stare me in the face every day, but for some reason, we just don't talk about them. More of the unsound business decisions, is my guess.

A new school year has started, and a new soccer season has started. This Labor Day weekend is our third tournament weekend in a row; fortunately, the weather should be much nicer for this one, which is DH & Little Kid's. The last two have been absolutely miserable in the heat (100+ with heat index) and the smog, and no rain the entire month of August until the 1.4" we've gotten this week; now we're only under by 10-11". And all around us, people are under water; Texas, Ohio, England - it's just crazy. I just hope we've seen the end of the 100 temps, and I know my mother would crap to hear me say this, but we really could use a couple of non-devastating hurricanes to come to a halt over N. GA for a few days. Of course, that would probably only serve to increase the price of gas more....

Well, that's all that I have time for, for now. I need to write up some stuff about our new soccer team - The Dacula Danger U-15. It got off to a rocky start, but it is looking promising. More a bit later in the season, when we've actually played some regular-season games. Until later, everyone keep cool....