Showing posts with label San Marcos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Marcos. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Thirty Years
Good morning everyone. It seems like a good time to fire up the blog again. Well, yesterday seemed like a good time also, since it marked thirty years since I graduate from college. In the almost YEAR that I have taken off from blogging, it seems that Blogger has decided to transition to a new format. You can switch to the new format, or in the new future, Blogger will automatically switch your blog for you. At the current time, regardless of which format I try, I'm unable to upload photos (or at least unable to figure out how). When I tried yesterday, they uploaded as link text. I tried to figure out why, got frustrated, and gave up on writing. This text looks small as I type it, and I can't figure out how to adjust that either, but I'm going to publish this anyway, and see what it looks like. In the preview window it doesn't look horrible, but we'll see...
Obviously a lot has happened in the last year, with the presence of Covid-19. The virus was a major factor in my decision to leave my sportsbook position in Biloxi, Mississippi. I just recently moved back to San Marcos, America. My reasoning was that I didn't see team sports (especially football, which I wrote the most bets on at work, and bet the most myself)having much success in the near future. If there's not going to be much football, it makes more sense for me to be in Texas than in Mississippi, or in Las Vegas, etc. I think that the NBA has the best opportunity for success, because they have the smallest number of players, or they're keeping them isolated ("The Bubble," if you will). I think that the NHL has the next best chance for success, as they have the next smallest number of athletes, and are also staying isolated. Major League Baseball, and then football are next in the pecking order, and they have more challenges because of their expanded rosters and the traveling that they are doing. The Big Ten and Pac-12 just postponed their fall sports seasons yesterday, so it appears that my decision wasn't completely without merit (for any haters out there)... Don't get me wrong, I'm whole-heartedly hoping that we find a vaccine as soon as possible, and I want to see EVERYTHING played, but it wasn't worth the gamble for me to sign a lease in Biloxi til the end of next July based on the information that I had available to me at the time.
As for myself, I'm finally getting my sleep back on a normal schedule. Just this past week, I'm finally sleeping eight hours consecutively. It rained practically the whole week that I was preparing to leave Biloxi, and I wanted to leave the yard at my rental house as short as possible, so I was trying to find spots between the rain drops where I could cut my grass. Managing my yard came in addition to packing my stuff and cleaning the house of course. On the day that I did move from Mississippi to Texas, I woke up at 1:00 a.m., finished packing and cleaning until about 8:30 a.m., returned my cable box and internet modem, turned in my house keys, and then drove over nine hours to San Marcos, where I unloaded my stuff and ate my traditional "moving pizzas..."
The pizza is about the most unhealthy thing that I've eaten recently, as I've lost about 20 pounds from my peak weight this summer, and plan on losing about another 20-25 more. Maybe by then I'll figure out this photo-posting riddle, and I'll be able to give you some comparison pictures. Other than eating smaller portions, while also eating more healthy food, I've also been spending a lot of time playing DraftKings fantasy golf, while I slowly unpack and get my sleep schedule right. Until this last week, I had won money three weeks in a row, scrambling up a bunch of different lineups of golfers, and having a few hit each time. I'm also starting to watch more NBA and NHL, as they may represent the majority of team sports that we'll have for a while. I've also continued to play a bunch of free poker on an app called 'Poker Legends' that I found early in the spring. I'm thankful to have found it, because I was watching way too much t.v. when our sportsbook closed on St. Patrick's Day. NOT that the t.v. hasn't been on while I chip away on the poker site, but at least I haven't been glued to it nonstop... : ) I'm hoping to get this apartment in order pretty soon, and then to have some job information for you. Which reminds me, I was finally able to buy the car that I had been saving up for this spring, which helps tremendously on the job front (and many other fronts). ; )
Well, I have a day full of unpacking and watching hockey games ahead of me (did you see that FIVE overtime game yesterday/last night?!). I have stated before, I LOVE playoff hockey games with multiple overtimes, where it just becomes a battle of attrition. Oh yeah, I'm also putting a few bucks each day on the fantasy hockey, just to have action. : P Have a great week, and I'll see you soon!
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Hopeless
"You know it's hot when the highlight of your day is someone bringing you a freeze pop..."
-Destiny Perez-
Good afternoon everyone. It appears that this is going to be my SIXTH post since my entry on March 31st. I definitely have to start pacing myself... Ironically, this will also be the post where my total pageviews go over the 90,000 mark, which is an incredible milestone considering the fact that I don't write.
As a potentially classic Men's Final at Wimbledon plays out of the t.v. beside me, I guess that I'll write a little. I'll begin with work, which has been extremely busy since I took my new job at the start of March. In my job with ITS, we see a huge number of projects during the summer as you might imagine, because that's when the students are gone and we can do more work without disturbing them. We do work in preparation for their return to campus, in addition to everything that happens in and around the football stadium, for the return of Longhorn Football in early September. We already had several ongoing projects this year before the summer rush hit, so I've been working quite a bit. During the past week, I worked 3.5 hours of overtime on Tuesday and Wednesday, 3 hours on Thursday, and 2.5 extra hours on Friday. I also expect a lot more overtime before the students return to campus. Don't get me wrong, UT has summer school, but there are over 50,000 students wandering around here during the long semesters...
In the world of sports, I still plan on doing football picks again. These will be moved to one of my newer blogs (don't worry, you haven't missed anything - I don't write in my newer blogs either), Coach's Parlay Card. I believe that Joey still plans on making picks with me. I've barely cracked the covers on my college and pro football magazines, for what you'd expect from me anyway. In baseball, the Red Sox and Yankees will be on TBS in about five minutes. The Sox are 5 1/2 games back if I'm correct (the Yankees in first), so the whole division will be within 4 1/2 games of the lead at the All-Star Break should Boston win today. The Sox were favored to win the division (and more) coming into the season, so the second half could be very interesting... And of course, there's the Spurs offseason. It's interesting to see where free agents want to sign, and the jerks on the teams that they're deciding not to play with...
Despite the moniker of this blog, I've spent nearly all of my free time at home recharging from work, so I don't have tons to report about San Marcos or Austin. My friend Cindy from campus put her house up for sale recently, and has had people coming to look at it virtually IMMEDIATELY after it listed, so the housing/rental market here in Austin is still ridiculously strong, a fact that I curse every time that I write my monthly rent check. Following along on facebook, it seems that people were incredibly generous in the wake of the late spring flooding in San Marcos and Wimberley, as I saw that all kinds of benefits were held for victims. In some San Marcos and sports news, the Texas State Bobcats will be opening up their football season at Florida State University. That should be interesting... :)
Hopefully that's enough to tide you over for a week, or a month, or longer... :) Have a great week and I'll talk to again sometime... ;)
-Destiny Perez-
Good afternoon everyone. It appears that this is going to be my SIXTH post since my entry on March 31st. I definitely have to start pacing myself... Ironically, this will also be the post where my total pageviews go over the 90,000 mark, which is an incredible milestone considering the fact that I don't write.
As a potentially classic Men's Final at Wimbledon plays out of the t.v. beside me, I guess that I'll write a little. I'll begin with work, which has been extremely busy since I took my new job at the start of March. In my job with ITS, we see a huge number of projects during the summer as you might imagine, because that's when the students are gone and we can do more work without disturbing them. We do work in preparation for their return to campus, in addition to everything that happens in and around the football stadium, for the return of Longhorn Football in early September. We already had several ongoing projects this year before the summer rush hit, so I've been working quite a bit. During the past week, I worked 3.5 hours of overtime on Tuesday and Wednesday, 3 hours on Thursday, and 2.5 extra hours on Friday. I also expect a lot more overtime before the students return to campus. Don't get me wrong, UT has summer school, but there are over 50,000 students wandering around here during the long semesters...
In the world of sports, I still plan on doing football picks again. These will be moved to one of my newer blogs (don't worry, you haven't missed anything - I don't write in my newer blogs either), Coach's Parlay Card. I believe that Joey still plans on making picks with me. I've barely cracked the covers on my college and pro football magazines, for what you'd expect from me anyway. In baseball, the Red Sox and Yankees will be on TBS in about five minutes. The Sox are 5 1/2 games back if I'm correct (the Yankees in first), so the whole division will be within 4 1/2 games of the lead at the All-Star Break should Boston win today. The Sox were favored to win the division (and more) coming into the season, so the second half could be very interesting... And of course, there's the Spurs offseason. It's interesting to see where free agents want to sign, and the jerks on the teams that they're deciding not to play with...
Despite the moniker of this blog, I've spent nearly all of my free time at home recharging from work, so I don't have tons to report about San Marcos or Austin. My friend Cindy from campus put her house up for sale recently, and has had people coming to look at it virtually IMMEDIATELY after it listed, so the housing/rental market here in Austin is still ridiculously strong, a fact that I curse every time that I write my monthly rent check. Following along on facebook, it seems that people were incredibly generous in the wake of the late spring flooding in San Marcos and Wimberley, as I saw that all kinds of benefits were held for victims. In some San Marcos and sports news, the Texas State Bobcats will be opening up their football season at Florida State University. That should be interesting... :)
Hopefully that's enough to tide you over for a week, or a month, or longer... :) Have a great week and I'll talk to again sometime... ;)
Sunday, May 24, 2015
The Memorial Day Weekend Flood Of 2015
"The trick is to not let people know how weird you really are until it's too late for them to back out..." -via Bianca Edwards-
"Why can't taco rhyme with Waco?" -HalleyAnna Finlay-
Good afternoon everyone. I know, two posts in a month - somebody stop me... ;) The big news in this area today is the flooding that's taking place due to the recent rain that we've had. Thanks to my friends, I have several photos to share with you today. We'll start down south, with my sister Whitney...
This comes to you from Schertz, which is just north of San Antonio. Next we arrive in San Marcos, where all sorts of havoc has taken place. We'll begin with the photos in and around Sewell Park, which is the home of 'Bikini Hill.'
My friend Courtney shared this one, and yes, that is a regulation basketball hoop...
My friend Katie shared this photo earlier in the morning...
This a different vantage point of the park from my friend Alma. As we move around San Marcos, you'll see that there is no shortage of photos, and these are just a fraction of what I've seen on facebook today...
This shot comes to you from my friend Keith...
And this picture was taken by my friend Valerie in front of a strip mall that's just east of IH-35...
This photo from my friend Scott was one of the first that I saw this morning, and comes from a local apartment complex...
Cyndi's photo also shows another apartment complex in San Marcos...
J.J.'s picture shows us an access road submerged alongside the aforementioned IH-35...
Monica's shot comes to us from near Highway 80...
This picture was taken to the west of Austin and was shared last night by my friend Hunter. The Austin-area had several tornado watches and warnings last night, and this restaurant obviously experienced some of the strong winds...
And this morning at my own apartment complex, I saw where the storms were successful in snapping off a big part of this tree last night (the tree on the right, behind the blue dumpster)...
So yeah, the flooding is a pretty big story down here in south Texas. Before all of this happened last night and into this morning, the local graduations were the big story. My friend Lauren shared a pre-flood photo from Texas State (same Sewell Park) earlier in the week...
Several graduates celebrate by jumping into the river after the ceremony. You'll notice that you don't see any of the steps in the background in the previous photos, as they're all underwater right now... And this gem comes to you from Lubbock, where one of my former softball players received a bit of recognition from Texas Tech...
I may have gone to medical school if I would have known that I get could my name put up on the big screen after I finished. Well..., probably not... ;) Congratulations Amanda! I'll even spare y'all the story where I was pitching batting practice and as a freshman, Amanda NAILED MY THIGH with a line drive, giving me a bruise that I sported for well over a month. I'm SURE that the guilt from that experience encouraged Amanda to complete medical school... :D
To go along with that throwback story, I have a throwback photo of myself that I put on facebook earlier in the week...
This was taken just before the finish line at the site of my first marathon in San Antonio. I was a pound or two lighter back then... AND I've got a photo for you from Las Vegas...
A sneak preview from the upcoming World Series of Poker, as my brother is attending his new employee orientation today... I know that I haven't posted much lately, but when I do post, I make them count... ;)
I hope that all of you have a tremendous Memorial Day Weekend, and I'll see you soon (maybe)...
"Why can't taco rhyme with Waco?" -HalleyAnna Finlay-
Good afternoon everyone. I know, two posts in a month - somebody stop me... ;) The big news in this area today is the flooding that's taking place due to the recent rain that we've had. Thanks to my friends, I have several photos to share with you today. We'll start down south, with my sister Whitney...
This comes to you from Schertz, which is just north of San Antonio. Next we arrive in San Marcos, where all sorts of havoc has taken place. We'll begin with the photos in and around Sewell Park, which is the home of 'Bikini Hill.'
My friend Courtney shared this one, and yes, that is a regulation basketball hoop...
My friend Katie shared this photo earlier in the morning...
This a different vantage point of the park from my friend Alma. As we move around San Marcos, you'll see that there is no shortage of photos, and these are just a fraction of what I've seen on facebook today...
This shot comes to you from my friend Keith...
And this picture was taken by my friend Valerie in front of a strip mall that's just east of IH-35...
This photo from my friend Scott was one of the first that I saw this morning, and comes from a local apartment complex...
Cyndi's photo also shows another apartment complex in San Marcos...
J.J.'s picture shows us an access road submerged alongside the aforementioned IH-35...
Monica's shot comes to us from near Highway 80...
This picture was taken to the west of Austin and was shared last night by my friend Hunter. The Austin-area had several tornado watches and warnings last night, and this restaurant obviously experienced some of the strong winds...
And this morning at my own apartment complex, I saw where the storms were successful in snapping off a big part of this tree last night (the tree on the right, behind the blue dumpster)...
So yeah, the flooding is a pretty big story down here in south Texas. Before all of this happened last night and into this morning, the local graduations were the big story. My friend Lauren shared a pre-flood photo from Texas State (same Sewell Park) earlier in the week...
Several graduates celebrate by jumping into the river after the ceremony. You'll notice that you don't see any of the steps in the background in the previous photos, as they're all underwater right now... And this gem comes to you from Lubbock, where one of my former softball players received a bit of recognition from Texas Tech...
I may have gone to medical school if I would have known that I get could my name put up on the big screen after I finished. Well..., probably not... ;) Congratulations Amanda! I'll even spare y'all the story where I was pitching batting practice and as a freshman, Amanda NAILED MY THIGH with a line drive, giving me a bruise that I sported for well over a month. I'm SURE that the guilt from that experience encouraged Amanda to complete medical school... :D
To go along with that throwback story, I have a throwback photo of myself that I put on facebook earlier in the week...
This was taken just before the finish line at the site of my first marathon in San Antonio. I was a pound or two lighter back then... AND I've got a photo for you from Las Vegas...
A sneak preview from the upcoming World Series of Poker, as my brother is attending his new employee orientation today... I know that I haven't posted much lately, but when I do post, I make them count... ;)
I hope that all of you have a tremendous Memorial Day Weekend, and I'll see you soon (maybe)...
Saturday, March 21, 2015
South By Southswim
"If someone's not getting their face beat in, I don't stay interested long..." -Leanne Calderon-
Good afternoon everyone. I decided that I had to take a few minutes and make sure that I caught y'all up on things today. I've been so busy with my new job that I've been neglecting all of my blogs, but I'm going to post at all of them today. I already have my basketball picks for the day up at 'Coach's Parlay Card' , and I'll later be posting at 'Coach Goes Viral' and 'Three Chips Poker' As you could guess, I've already got the t.v. tuned into the NCAA Tournament, watching the media darlings in the Kentucky uniforms that are struggling with a #8 seeded Cincinnati team, IN KENTUCKY... Yeah..., they're gonna CRUISE to a 40-0 record - WHAT EVER... Anyway, that's for another blog, and some people CLAIM to have never even heard of 'March Madness...' My friend Leanne posted that as a status last night, which made me laugh and recount the tale of how when I used to coach softball in San Marcos, the umpires at our annual spring break tournament (Leanne played for us) would have the t.v. tuned into the tourney up in the hospitality room at our softball complex... :) That's where Leanne's quote from the very top of this page came from, as she's not so much of a basketball fan, but more of a fighter...
I still think that we could bring Calderon in to intentionally foul people, but I guess that we'll just let her keep training... :) I joked with Leanne about airbrushing muscles onto legs, and she said that would take more effort than the actual working out... :D I'm extremely proud of Leanne's dedication, and I have to get myself back into shape someday (a shape other than round)...
Speaking of friends and former student-athletes, and one who did play basketball for me, it's South By Southwest time here in Austin again, except that there is A LOT of rain in the forecast... We're actually under a flood watch until 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, and I'm wondering how much money that's going to cost the good people of our fair city. Well, the city is exactly fair... My aforementioned friend Jessica was in town to make some money this week...
Jessica does a little bit of modeling, and what initially got my attention from her facebook page this week was a hashtag to one of her statuses, where some genius evidently thought that her time wasn't worth any compensation... The hastag was #worthmorethannothing (which I really liked), and I chatted about this with Jess a little earlier today. I told her that I had planned on likening the situation here to one where a bar letting a drunk girl get up and dance on the bar was some sort of privilege, like letting Jessica work as a model at their event was doing her some sort of favor. Then Jessica told me that this genius actually told her that the models were not doing an actual job. Jessica replied, "It is a job. It's my job. If it wasn't a job, why can't any of you do it? Why do you even need us? Oh..., because you need someone else's skills to accomplish a task for your own personal agenda. That's called a job, buddy..." Yeah, I like Jessica... :D Again, #worthmorethannothing..., a very appropriate hashtag.
Like I said, a lot of rain forecast here, so I'm not sure how the rest of South By Southwest is going to play out, but I plan on watching a lot of basketball. Joey and I will be back with our predictions for the 'Sweet 16' over at 'Coach's Parlay Card' sometime before the games tip next Thursday, and we'll give you our picks for the rest of the tournament from there on out. Speaking of basketball, not everyone agrees with me about Kentucky, as Joey posted his "bracket" on facebook earlier this week...
Considering that the Wildcats are letting Cincinnati hang around, I still think their prospects for sweeping the rest of the tournament are pretty bleak, but we shall see...
I never did make that crawfish boil last Sunday, which was a mistake considering how this weekend is getting poured on, but I still have these 14+ basketball games ahead of me. I hope that all of you enjoy the rest of your weekend and the start of spring as this tournament kicks into full gear, and I'll see ya soon...
Good afternoon everyone. I decided that I had to take a few minutes and make sure that I caught y'all up on things today. I've been so busy with my new job that I've been neglecting all of my blogs, but I'm going to post at all of them today. I already have my basketball picks for the day up at 'Coach's Parlay Card' , and I'll later be posting at 'Coach Goes Viral' and 'Three Chips Poker' As you could guess, I've already got the t.v. tuned into the NCAA Tournament, watching the media darlings in the Kentucky uniforms that are struggling with a #8 seeded Cincinnati team, IN KENTUCKY... Yeah..., they're gonna CRUISE to a 40-0 record - WHAT EVER... Anyway, that's for another blog, and some people CLAIM to have never even heard of 'March Madness...' My friend Leanne posted that as a status last night, which made me laugh and recount the tale of how when I used to coach softball in San Marcos, the umpires at our annual spring break tournament (Leanne played for us) would have the t.v. tuned into the tourney up in the hospitality room at our softball complex... :) That's where Leanne's quote from the very top of this page came from, as she's not so much of a basketball fan, but more of a fighter...
I still think that we could bring Calderon in to intentionally foul people, but I guess that we'll just let her keep training... :) I joked with Leanne about airbrushing muscles onto legs, and she said that would take more effort than the actual working out... :D I'm extremely proud of Leanne's dedication, and I have to get myself back into shape someday (a shape other than round)...
Speaking of friends and former student-athletes, and one who did play basketball for me, it's South By Southwest time here in Austin again, except that there is A LOT of rain in the forecast... We're actually under a flood watch until 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, and I'm wondering how much money that's going to cost the good people of our fair city. Well, the city is exactly fair... My aforementioned friend Jessica was in town to make some money this week...
Jessica does a little bit of modeling, and what initially got my attention from her facebook page this week was a hashtag to one of her statuses, where some genius evidently thought that her time wasn't worth any compensation... The hastag was #worthmorethannothing (which I really liked), and I chatted about this with Jess a little earlier today. I told her that I had planned on likening the situation here to one where a bar letting a drunk girl get up and dance on the bar was some sort of privilege, like letting Jessica work as a model at their event was doing her some sort of favor. Then Jessica told me that this genius actually told her that the models were not doing an actual job. Jessica replied, "It is a job. It's my job. If it wasn't a job, why can't any of you do it? Why do you even need us? Oh..., because you need someone else's skills to accomplish a task for your own personal agenda. That's called a job, buddy..." Yeah, I like Jessica... :D Again, #worthmorethannothing..., a very appropriate hashtag.
Like I said, a lot of rain forecast here, so I'm not sure how the rest of South By Southwest is going to play out, but I plan on watching a lot of basketball. Joey and I will be back with our predictions for the 'Sweet 16' over at 'Coach's Parlay Card' sometime before the games tip next Thursday, and we'll give you our picks for the rest of the tournament from there on out. Speaking of basketball, not everyone agrees with me about Kentucky, as Joey posted his "bracket" on facebook earlier this week...
Considering that the Wildcats are letting Cincinnati hang around, I still think their prospects for sweeping the rest of the tournament are pretty bleak, but we shall see...
I never did make that crawfish boil last Sunday, which was a mistake considering how this weekend is getting poured on, but I still have these 14+ basketball games ahead of me. I hope that all of you enjoy the rest of your weekend and the start of spring as this tournament kicks into full gear, and I'll see ya soon...
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