Juiced

Today was the first day of the baseball season. Not enough good things can be said about that. But that's about the highlight of my day.

I spent most of my lunch arguing with my mother's cell phone company. Some time ago I ordered her a phone and setup her account and I do the online management of it, but since I'm not actually on the account they didn't want to talk to me "for security reasons", when all I wanted them to do was have them turn on voicemail (which should already have been done anyway). They finally conceded, but they said they were going to "watch" that account for several days to make sure nothing abnormal was going on with it. Yeah, I'm a voicemail hacker. Com'on.

When I picked up the kids from school after work I had a not so great surprise, which was Shelby's first two-tally day in about a month. She had really gotten her disciplinary act together, even going like two weeks with no tallies, but otherwise just getting one here and there. Hopefully she's not reverting to her previous bad self.

Also, today was report card day. Shelby doesn't get real grades yet, just N, S, or S+. She had all Ss, which is typical for her. Darby's grades are down noticeably from her last report card, but they're still honor roll worthy, so it's difficult to get overly onto her about it. But she has very little room to slip further without falling off the honor roll and she has been so advised. For that, as well as the fact that 35 tallies YTD is just too much. She's supposed to be "the good one" darn it.


After soccer practice we stopped by Wal-Mart for some batteries. I usually have a small stockpile, but I've been low for some time and finally ran out of several sizes in the last week or so. Battery buying always sucks, because they're not cheap. I have lots of rechargables, but those don't always cut it. You still need conventional batteries, too. I ended up buying over thirty bucks in batteries, and that's not even the high dollar variety.

So, like the players, bats, and balls of the MLB, I am adequately juiced up. Play ball.