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What's been happening, you say? Well, Fall Ball has been going pretty well. There's four games down and 8 to go. So I'm almost halfway through this experience. After our last game on Friday, which ended at around 6:40ish, I said good game to my kids, had them grab their stuff and sent them out to get their snacks. Meanwhile, the other team, who is comprised of mostly 6, 7, and 8-year-olds, is sitting on the bench while the assistant coach is telling them all the different things that they need to work on and that there will be a practice on Wednesday. This is in addition to the games on Monday and Friday of this week. Then, since they must not have been getting the message about their performance at the game, he had them run around the warning track. At least twice, this is after 7 now. The game has been over for at least 20 minutes, I've loaded the van up at this point and started driving away. And they were still running. Keep in mind here, that during this fall ball league, there's no umpires, no score kept, no stats, everybody hits every inning, so there's not really even any outs. The teams play without a catcher because it's coach pitch. And he's running them in the dark. Crazy stuff.

Yesterday, my lovely wife took the kids to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, formerly known as Six Flags Marine World, formerly known as Marine World Africa, USA. I didn't go as I had a tee time with my brothers and a couple of my brothers friends to play at Eagle Vines Golf Course in Napa. It was a great round and we had a blast, and I had three legitimate shots at an eagle, but missed them all. One was a par 4 that I drove the green on. That was a great drive, and a horrible putt that followed. But before I left, T wanted to know if I'd be accompanying them on their trip to Marine World. I told him I couldn't and he asked if I'd ridden the spinny roller coaster yet. I said no, and I'm not sure which one he's talking about, but he asked if I knew how it was built. Since I didn't he told me, and because I know you're curious, I'll tell you.

They go to the roller coaster store and buy the coaster in a big box. Then when they get it to the park, they take it out of the box and look at the picture of the finished coaster that's on the front of the box. Then they try to match the picture on the box with the pieces that came in it. Then once they have it all put together to match the box, they ride it. It's just that simple.