Monday, May 20, 2013

JT 4th Grade Track Meet Video 4

My plan was to come back to the track meet in time to see the tug of war tournament and get some still pictures. Unfortunately, they were running ahead of schedule. When I got there they were just starting their last pull of the day. For a minute, I thought they had it but then things went downhill.


JT 4th Grade Track Meet Video 2

Some classes had more children than others, so to make a race Jeremiah got to run another 50. Apparently he had heard the news story several times about the high school kid who got DQed for pointing towards heaven at the finish line and he thought it would be a cool thing to do. We had a little talk about that and about not looking in other lanes but focusing on the finish line.


JT 4th Grade Track Meet Video 1

Every student gets to run a heat of the 50 yard dash. Here is JT. He was so upset that he did not finish closer to first, but I thought he ran well.

JT 4th Grade Track Video 3

Jeremiah was very excited about this relay race. He had three really fast guys in his class that he got to run with. He kept wanting to practice all the time the week before the race. Their strategy worked out really well. The lead off gave them a lead. Leg two held it. Jeremiah lost it, but kept it very close so that the anchor was able to win it. I was proud of JT, he ran a really strong race and was able to keep up a fast pace the whole 100.


Monday, May 13, 2013

Things get a little too complex for this simple mind

I really can't keep up with all this technology. I have a blogger account, three e-mail accounts, an amazon account, LifeWay account, etc. Never know which e-mail and password to use when I sign in to one of these. Trying to sign in to one a few minutes ago, I accidentally created a new one. Good grief.

The smart thing to do would be to just get rid of all of them, but I'm apparently not smart. I just can't bring myself to do that. Someone will say, "Just write it all down."  Two problems with that. One, I would forget where I wrote it. Two, what's the point of having a secret password if it is written down. Then it is no longer a secret?

We had a pretty good weekend. I spent eleven and a half hours on Saturday doing job related stuff. However, I got to have cake and ice cream twice this weekend so that kind of balanced everything out. Yay.

That's my life in a nutshell for the past 12 months. Now it's about time for another elementary school track meet video.