Coaching 13-14 year olds has been better than I thought it would be this year. We only have one player on the team who has some attitude issues that he brings to the field, but I have been trying to help him as best as I can.
Anyway, provided we don't get rained out for tonight - this is going to be a close game. They beat us 6-5 a few weeks ago as our top pitchers were on rest days. We have 2 of our top pitchers ready to go for tonight and 3 in reserve which should help our chances.
I may have to do some grunt intervals today to blow off steam and calm down for the game...
Okay, I went out with the dogs and my FS (Sugar 293) to Lake Ahquabi and did my grunt intervals up and down Whitley Monument Hill. I only saw one soul out there today (typical day at this State Park on the trails) and he was not happy my dogs were off leash. I've gotten so used to running them on the bike trails off leash most of the year due to so little people using the trails that I need to stop going out there with the dogs now that summer is rolling in and park users will be increasing. Anyway, he was ticked and told me to keep my dogs away from him. Picture two social labrador retrievers wagging their tales and just wanting to say hello to the guy in the parking lot. No vicious vibes from the dogs at all, but it was my fault. They invaded his space and are supposed to be on leash. My bad. Ride was great though. My legs were finally under me again after 3 consecutive days of bike path paved riding. I might use the Sugar on Saturday for the Lewis and Clark race. We'll see...
Harmless trail runners:

Good news on the teaching position salary. I got a letter yesterday from the Academic Dean identifying me as one of the recipients of a salary increase based on a year long study of our faculty and staff salaries. They had a fund of $50K to use this year and the first group addressed included raising the floor of salaries in one group (I think that only included a few people) and then my group which included 6-7 people in each rank who were farthest from the projected "mean" for our number of years of service, rank and degree. It will be retroactive for this past year which means extra cash this Thursday in my paycheck.
So, here's to a step towards the "mean"!
Edit: The "big game" was canceled tonight due to the monsoons that blew in at 3 pm. Rescheduled for Sunday night.