What kind of errands....

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Registered: 08-27-2005
What kind of errands....
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Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:41pm

Do you run on a daily basis? Weekly basis? Monthly basis?

I've often heard people say that they need a lot of time during the week to run errands and that those errands would otherwise take up their evenings and weekends if they had to WOH ft. It made me curious because I just don't seem to have many errands to run at all. Are we just lazy :-)?

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 12:06pm

He wasn't being asked to tryout. He was being asked to play on the competitive team. It wasn't elite baseball, which requires individual tryouts. Competitive teams here are the level between recreational and elite.

We don't find recreational baseball unappealing, or haven't yet, anyway. My son is in his 8th season of play.

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Registered: 09-08-2003
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 12:08pm
Okay I will sure give that a try:) Thanks! I guess I was just looking for an answer as to whether it was easier to ski because you had more money or because you had kids, or if was easier to ski because you have kids or because you now have friends, or if having kids made no difference to your life or made your life easier, or if having kids increased your net worth or if that just happened because you got older, or if having kids has made absolutely no difference to your life at all. I guess one of us is just confused about cause and effect, must be me, thanks for your suggestions!!!
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 12:10pm
I just asked the school nurse. She'd rather have whoever comes quicker.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 12:18pm
So its a team for which people can sign up their kid, talent and achievement or anything else, other than possibly timely action, not withstanding?
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 12:19pm
I know people are making that point. I have no idea why they keep making that point to me.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 12:23pm
It's not uncommon in my demographic group. Or PNJ's. Which was our point in the first place. If something is common in my demographic group, I will find it common even if people who live 3,000 miles away from me don't find it common at all. And that is the only thing that is relevant. Or have you completely forgotten how this subthread started? I'll refresh you. PNJ and I were discussing how easy it was for us to find friends of a similar older yet childless age when we went skiing (or at least when I went skiing, she brought in other socializing too). To us, this is common because it is common in OUR demographic(s). That it is not universally ubiquitous has zero relevance to us finding lots of similar people. There was no reason for you to even bring it up since it was irrelevant to OUR personal experience, which is all we were discussing.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 12:24pm
No. She'd rather get in touch with the parent.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 12:25pm
I would go by the former. Because discussing the former was how this subthread started.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 12:28pm
You were on the other line? Or is this another one of those times when you think your goofy generalizations trump other people's actual experience?
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 12:29pm

There is a skills evaluation for kids on the competitive teams. But any kid can sign up for a team, and they are evaluated and given a score, and each team is then "balanced" in terms of skill with the idea being that the leagues will have teams of pretty near equal ability, with the expectation that no one team will naturally dominate the league but will experience both wins and losses over the course of the season. My kid did go to evaluations and was given a score. He just decided not to play (and the teams are being picked now for spring play, so there is a lot of practice and stuff).

Individual and team stats are kept and league standings are kept. There's an award banquet at the end of the season where trophies for first place teams in each age division are passed out and kids on each team get awards for stuff like best batting average, most valuable player, most improved player and I don't know what all else. All the league play is with teams within a thirty mile radius of here.

Elite teams are a whole 'nother division -- kids try out for individual teams and it is strictly the coach's decision whether the kid makes the cut and what position the kids will play. There is no attempt to balance teams. Play takes place, as far as I know, all over the state and even a few out of state tournaments. I think elite baseball starts at nine. I know elite basketball does.

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