random-rob-thoughts: may 4

:: jane has 2 new vocabulary words that she is working into her everyday speech. the first one is “certainly.” here is an example-
ME: “jane- those sunglasses are awesome!”
JANE: “they CERTAINLY are!”

her second new word is “actually.” here’s how that goes-
JANE: “they have a car like we do!”
ME: “yeah! we have a red beetle and they have an orange beetle!”
JANE: “ACTUALLY dad, its called a car.”

:: did you see this story?
“Sara Tucholsky, a softball player at Western Oregon, almost saw her first home run in high school or college be negated when she collapsed because of a knee injury as she rounded first base in a game against Central Washington recently.
If her teammates lent a helping hand, she would be called out.
If the coach put in a pinch runner, she would get a single.
So, asked opposing first baseman Mallory Holtman, what if the other team helped Sara around the bases?
There’s no rule against that, so Holtman and shortstop Liz Wallace put their arms under Tucholsky’s legs and carried her around the bases for her home run, gently lowering her so she could touch each base with her uninjured left foot.
Ironically it was Tucholsky’s three-run homer that provided the winning runs in a 4-2 game that ended Central Washington’s chances to advance in the playoffs.
“In the end, it is not about winning and losing so much,” Holtman said. “It was about this girl. She hit it over the fence and was in pain, and she deserved a home run.
“We started laughing when we touched second base. I said, ‘I wonder what this must look like to other people.’”
Wallace said: “We didn’t know that she was a senior or that this was her first home run. We just wanted to help her.”
heart-warming.

:: ok- I’m from san jose- so you would think that my favorite soccer team would be the san jose earthquakes. and they were- until I heard about THIS team!



RED BULL NEW YORK!
I love that team!
how could I work for them? or be on their team? do they get a lot of red bull?

:: my playoff bracket for the nba is all messed up. from this point on, I’m rooting for CP3, peja and the new Orleans hornets. the sharks came from 0-3 to force a game 6 tonight. go sharks! I’ve been watching a lot of sports this week- hockey, basketball and baseball. I love this time of year.

:: finally I can speak middle school with this middle school translator! here is the john 1 in middle school language:

"IN TEH BGINNG WAS TEH WORD AND DA WORD WAS WIT GOD AND TEH WORD WAS GOD!!111 OMG
H3 WAS WIT GOD IN TEH BGINNG!!!!!!1! OMG
THROUGH HIM AL THNGS WERA MAED WITHOUT HIM NOTHNG WAS MAED TAHT HAS B3N MAED!!!1!1! OMG LOL IN HIM WAS LIEF AND TAHT LIEF WAS TEH LIGHT OF MEN!11!1!1 TEH LIGHT SHIENS IN DA DARKNES BUT TEH DARKN3S HAS NOT UNDERS2D IT!1!!111 OMG"

finally i can be relevant!