Summer Plans

Cutter's Log - Stardate 1102.52.50
Current Song - American Boy (Kanye West/Estelle)

Dan's last day of school was a few days ago. Twenty years ago I was the first of the boys to attend school. If our family's life went by chapters, this would be the start of a new one.

As for yours truly, I find myself stuck in a muck of sorts. I'm hoping to get some sort of inspiration today. Busy day today. It's the wee hours of the morning, so I'll sleep in a little bit. Some errands, website work, and dinner with the grandparents.

Dan's graduation open house is on Sunday, and it's unfortunate that I have to work during it. But I'll visit in the couple of hours before. I'm working quite a few hours this week; 39 to be exact. I'll be around 31-32 next week, which is an improvement from the past couple of weeks. That will be good considering that the couple of weekends after this coming one will be hardball State Tournaments.

I'll need all the money I can get for the coming three weeks. After that, it'll be the end of the high school sports year. Hibernation mode for NISB? Don't count on it. I have something special planned. You'll have to wait until the State of the Site Address to find out what it is.

So during the summer I will still have some website work. That's coupled in with MLB Draft coverage, enrollment/classification coverage, and the usual publisher duties. But that's not all of my summer.

Since I won't be traveling to many places to cover games, I won't have the traditional "off days" from work that are reserved for sports (these are Tuesdays and Fridays). So I plan on working a little more often. Plus, I plan on re-restblishing the fill-in plan to some of the other stations. I put this on hold a few months ago because things were so busy.

To further armor myself for the upcoming school year, I have decided to make a couple of more changes to my usual summer stuff. Usually I will dedicate a couple of days for Illinois High School Glory Days expeditions. Won't do that this year; but it is because we're in a fine position at the moment with not a whole lot of general research to do. General research is compared to the personal research that is done by those connected to the schools, whereas I am nothing more than an outside historian. Plus, no long trips to places for fun or shopping with my own gas money. This may seem boring - but when you look at how much money you have saved after it, that is fun enough.

Can't wait for summer!