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I spent the weekend prepping for golf and patio season even though I didn't pick up a golf club
Did I want to organize the laundry room on a Saturday in March when there was a ton of college basketball on and Diesel was holding an indoor golf tournament? Did I want to be holed up in the basement on Sunday organizing and cleaning the workroom?
Not exactly.
But I'm hoping the weekend I just experienced will pay dividends here in about nine weeks when I want to play 18 with the boys and then sit on the patio with the family while listening to the sweet sounds of Yacht Rock over a nice meal on a beautiful mid-May afternoon.
It was like an NFL mini-camp. Do NFL guys necessarily want to be putting in even more reps in the offseason? Absolutely not, but they understand if they're going to make a championship run, they need to put in the offseason work.
Other weekend accomplishments and observations:
• I bowled a 158 in front of my 11-year-old son after not picking up a bowling ball in approximately 15 years. I thought that was pretty good since I've rarely bowled since high school. I watched these guys in lanes next to me who had their own balls and shoes bowl in the 170s, so I thought this was a decent day at the office using a bowl off the Interstate Lanes ball rack.
I'm also proud of my son for his 79. He'd never touched a bowling ball.
• I felt bad for the guy running the Interstate Lanes bar. He said people rarely sit in his bar to drink. They come in, grab a beer and head back out into the main hall. America, we need to protect vintage bowling lanes bars. We need to frequent these bars. We need to get the guys together at these bars.
Not to go all Jon Taffer on this specific bowling alley bar, but the Keno machine was all the way on the other side of the building away from the bar. What are we doing, Interstate Lanes? Get the Keno machine into the bar, build the ambiance, make it a destination for gambling $20 and post-bowling bullshitting.
• Like hunting down vintage Pizza Huts, I feel myself tinkering with the idea of searching out awesome vintage bowling centers, especially the bars to feel the vintage, the nostalgia. Toledo is a bowling hotbed, so I like my chances of finding more diamonds in the rough.
• I read nearly 100 pages of Major Dick Winters' book Beyond Band of Brothers and I'm still processing how Winters parachutes into France without a weapon besides his ankle knife and hours later he's leading a mission that is now taught at West Point.
• Some people get a shot of dopamine from gambling on Missouri Valley basketball games. I determined my dopamine these days is throwing out stuff that's been in the workroom for 5-8 years and hasn't moved. Do I need 30 90-degree angle LED strip light elbows that likely outdated technology at this point? No, I don't.
How to fund prom in 2024
• Nite Rider writes:
Wondering what kind of funding model gets used for prom out in the various regions of your readers.
In our local news this morning, our regional high school is looking for help to fund prom for the graduates. If I recall correctly, the committee did so last year as well. Starting last year, the school division cut back on the amount of money allocated for grads.
Would you put this into the same category as travel ball, or is this a one-time special community event that all kids deserve? Personally, I think they should look for ways to cut back. Maybe prom doesn't need to be as fancy as it has traditionally been. Here are a few excerpts from the article:
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They are looking for both financial support and donations as ticket sales will not bring in enough money.
"As everyone is aware, the price of everything's going up, but we really wanted to be able to keep the price of the tickets affordable for the students because prom is just one piece of a very expensive graduation experience."
"We have these hospitality baskets in the bathrooms the night of prom. There are sewing kits for the dresses and the suits that end up getting torn over the course of the day, Tylenol and Advil for headaches or sore feet. Hairspray, spray deodorant, makeup touch-up supplies, flip flops for the girls who have sore feet from wearing heels all day, band-aids, toothbrushes, travel-sized toothpaste, small bottles of mouthwash."
They are also looking for candy, food for their night lunch, and decorations.
The last thing they are raising money for is students who may not be able to afford the entire graduation experience. "It's expensive to pay for the outfits, the hair and the makeup, the shoes, the tickets to the grad dinners and the farewell and the prom, and the pictures, it's a lot."
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Thoughts?
Kinsey:
The constant drumbeat in this country of someone else should pay for my experience, my vacation, my travel ball, my student loans, etc. is sickening. Listen to all the stuff the prom committee is expecting out of donors and/or local companies.
Parents and kids need to figure out what their breaking point is. How much am I willing to spend before I say screw it, I'm throwing my kid on a flight to Tampa so he and his buddies can blow that same money on a week-long summer trip enjoying the Gulf.
That's an interesting place to take a nap
• Dale A. in Orlando writes:
Dealing with the time change at an all day youth sports event.
High school sports ethics question for the ADs and coaches out there
• AD Mark writes:
I'm an athletic director at a small high school. I'm sure that you saw the story out of New Jersey about the high school basketball team that lost an opportunity to play in the state championship over an obviously incorrect call.
I think most feel bad for the school that "lost." In the spirit of "do hard things," my question for the Screencaps community is the following: What would you do if you were the coach/AD/principal/superintendent of the school that got to move on knowing that your team actually lost the game?
The easy thing would be to accept the win and move on. But it is ethical to accept the win when you clearly lost?
What did you eat this weekend?
• Travel Ball Hardo Chris B. in Houston writes:
Venison backstrap + bacon wrapped mourning dove with jalapeño & cream cheese.
They're going to mess around and bring Slots-A-Fun back from the dead
This is a great sign for America.
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That's it this morning. Let's get the week rolling. Let's get into Championship Week. The sun is out. It's going to hit 70 this week and I just might get to play golf. Fingers crossed.
Let's get after it.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com