gregorylee
I'd rather be napping!!
So today, since I am sure you all missed me so much....
I bought a pitching machine for the kids (
)
I had talked to a few BPers about this in the past, but had not purchased because, well, they are fucking expensive.
I saw one on ebay last week, that was being sold, but didn't make the reserve. I broke the rules and emailed the guy, and ended up with a steal. $200 gas powered single wheel machine. Bummer is, it's pickup only, and it's in Clinton Indiana (about 15 miles north of Terra Haute). Jesus effing lowered!
Got up this morning threw the kids in the car and off we go at about 7:15. Nice thing about Sunday mornings on the freeway, not a lot of traffic, set the cruise at around 73 and off we went. The cool thing about indiana (when they win more than 2 big ten games I will start to capitalize it). The speed limit is 70, cruise adjusted to 77, and were makin some time, what the fuck is up with indianapolis?!!??!? Is there a road there that isn't under construction? Police, seem to only be interested in truckers that didn't figure out that they had to take the outerbelt around Indy and weren't allowed through. 50 mph pffft, cruise at 70. Stop at Denny's grand slammin! indiana people are funny, dude at table a couple over from ours is enthralled with a lesbian couple he seems to have meet this past weekend and goes on and on about "carpet munchers", come on now, this is the new mellinium.... They are linoleum lickers now!!! More toast please!
Back on the highway, is indiana the camper capital of the world? For gods sake get out of my way.
Get to TH, make right, call dudes wife, she gives directions to his shop where he and the pitching machine are. 20 minutes or so, here we are. He is a nice older gentlman, demonstrates the machine, I say "cool!" drain the gas, and commence to disassembling it. Get everything into the car, pay the man, apologize for the imediate jettage, and jet. It took over 4 fucking hours to get there, and I still have to get back.
Get home, and would have made record time (was that a Dairy Queen?!?!) if not for some clueless asshole towing what else, a fucking camper.... going about 1/2 a mph faster than the semi trucks that he was passing (at 65.5 MPH) asshole. 20 miles and 6 or so semi's later, I flip him off and were out. Get off me, my hand was out the window and over the roof, the kids didn't see a thing.
Get home about 5, dear god this thing is heavy. Throws well (cracked my fence). Now I need to start with the cage, and some sort of storage where I don't have to drag this effing heavy ass motherfucker out of the garage and into the back yard.
I bought a pitching machine for the kids (
)I had talked to a few BPers about this in the past, but had not purchased because, well, they are fucking expensive.
I saw one on ebay last week, that was being sold, but didn't make the reserve. I broke the rules and emailed the guy, and ended up with a steal. $200 gas powered single wheel machine. Bummer is, it's pickup only, and it's in Clinton Indiana (about 15 miles north of Terra Haute). Jesus effing lowered!
Got up this morning threw the kids in the car and off we go at about 7:15. Nice thing about Sunday mornings on the freeway, not a lot of traffic, set the cruise at around 73 and off we went. The cool thing about indiana (when they win more than 2 big ten games I will start to capitalize it). The speed limit is 70, cruise adjusted to 77, and were makin some time, what the fuck is up with indianapolis?!!??!? Is there a road there that isn't under construction? Police, seem to only be interested in truckers that didn't figure out that they had to take the outerbelt around Indy and weren't allowed through. 50 mph pffft, cruise at 70. Stop at Denny's grand slammin! indiana people are funny, dude at table a couple over from ours is enthralled with a lesbian couple he seems to have meet this past weekend and goes on and on about "carpet munchers", come on now, this is the new mellinium.... They are linoleum lickers now!!! More toast please!
Back on the highway, is indiana the camper capital of the world? For gods sake get out of my way.
Get to TH, make right, call dudes wife, she gives directions to his shop where he and the pitching machine are. 20 minutes or so, here we are. He is a nice older gentlman, demonstrates the machine, I say "cool!" drain the gas, and commence to disassembling it. Get everything into the car, pay the man, apologize for the imediate jettage, and jet. It took over 4 fucking hours to get there, and I still have to get back.
Get home, and would have made record time (was that a Dairy Queen?!?!) if not for some clueless asshole towing what else, a fucking camper.... going about 1/2 a mph faster than the semi trucks that he was passing (at 65.5 MPH) asshole. 20 miles and 6 or so semi's later, I flip him off and were out. Get off me, my hand was out the window and over the roof, the kids didn't see a thing.
Get home about 5, dear god this thing is heavy. Throws well (cracked my fence). Now I need to start with the cage, and some sort of storage where I don't have to drag this effing heavy ass motherfucker out of the garage and into the back yard.
