I'm on a one night trip to northern Virginia so I'm just bored and not terrible inspired. I'm not a huge fan of company travel as it takes me away from my comfort zone.
Some things on my mind include a great sermon last Sunday on marriage, getting ready for a garage sale, work, etc. For now I feel a bit burned out on presidential politics. I just want more progress on Iraq and the news seems pretty good. I am skeptical that a new government can take root immediately as the Iraqi people continue to get over the habits of living under Saddam.
In the airport I picked up the latest US News and World Report. Two articles caught my eye; one on youth sports and one on Libya.
The story on youth sports is totally shocking. Children are devoting their whole childhoods to one sport. They play all year long; traveling all over on the weekends. What about family? What about church? What about letting a kid relax and do something different? Parents, if you want a good chance of your child resenting you and hating the sport you (yes I said you) love then keep them playing 100-130 games a year.
The other story about Libya is pretty interesting. The WMDs have been taken care of but there are still a tremendous amount of human rights violations.
Please foregive any errors as I'm using a WebTV keyboard and it's very unfamiliar.
Next week my wife has her birthday, I get to see Switchfoot (not the same day) and Little League finally ends. My kids really enjoy baseball but my oldest one will have had 21 games, plus practices. Heck, tryouts were in January and now the season is finally ending. My little one on the other hand wants more games. Instead we'll get out the bucket of wiffle balls and let them hack away at the old man's "heater".
I miss my family.
Posted by Tim at June 2, 2004 08:42 PM
