Baseball

As the summer has officially arrived, I can spend some time focusing on a fantasy baseball team that I run in a league with some of my relatives and their friends. It's all in fun, but it still is an interesting challenge. The trickiest part is keeping on top of player injuries and streaks. You want the hot players in, and it's tricky sometimes to get the right mix of players, especially pitchers.
As far as real baseball goes, I enjoy listening to games. Lately, though, there hasn't been much excitement for Royals fans. The Kansas City Royals are the best AAA team playing in the Majors this year!

Summer Begins

With graduation yesterday--and it was a wonderful graduation ceremony...I will miss this class--the summer has officially arrived. Summer is always a bittersweet time for me, as it is for many teachers. It takes a while to adjust to the slower, less-structured pace of the season. Although I need it every year (as do my students, I suspect), I find that I also dread summer just a little. Perhaps it simply is because I am such a creature of habit. I like routine, and it's always difficult to adjust to a new one. Regardless of the cause, I am grateful to God that He stays with me throughout the challenges of switching routines. I couldn't survive the school year without Him, and I know I couldn't survive summer without Him, either.

Addendum: I just got home from the last graduation party, and I realized how much I'm going to miss this class.

More NYC Pictures

Below are a couple more pictures from the trip to NYC. My official duties for the school year end in two days, and I'm looking forward to having a bit of rest in the midst of an otherwise busy summer schedule.
A couple of captions are required. The first picture is of the side of one of the escalators in the Macy's on Fifth Avenue. Notice the number. :-) The second was taken in the Royal Suite at the Waldorf-Astoria. "The queen will see you now," says the Queen's Hong Kong secretary.

Life Right Now

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

And, continuing the trend, here are two more pictures from the New York Tour. The first is of an Arch on the northeast edge of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The other is of a fountain in Central Park. Both parks share the same designer: Frederick Law Olmstead.

I'm Back

The posts about NYC have postponed indefinitely. In the past week and a half, I have been attempting to survive sans computer. At this point, I still have not recovered all of my data from the spontaneous death of my previous machine. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to find someone who will salvage the old data or not. I pray that they will, but I have, in my attempt to recover the data, managed to do more harm than good.
Anyway, I will be posting again, and I pray that I haven't made too big a mess of things.

Picture from NYC, pt. I

A couple of photos from the recent trip to New York City. The first is of the arch in Washington Square Park, and the second is of one of the many colored displays in Times Square. More to follow in subsequent posts.