This is going to be the first of a couple of post that should have happened a while ago so prepare yourselves.
The Gatesville Hornets made the basketball playoffs this year. We ended up second in our district so we played the 3rd place team from district 18. That team ended up being Hutto. We went to watch them play a play-in game on Friday the 16th. They beat Rockdale by about 25-30. On our way home from that game we ( the coaching staff) were talking about what we were going to need to do in order to get ready for out second round opponent. Not that we were over confident but we wanted to be ready should we beat Hutto. We knew that our next opponent would be a Pollok Central. We like to pronounce it Polock but I don't that is how you really say it. Anyway, they were playing a warmup game the next day in Tatum, TX. We decided that if would be a good idea for us to have practice at 7:00 am that Saturday morning and then drive out to Tatum to watch them play Roosevelt. If you don't know where Tatum is, I suggest you look it up.(Yahoo maps) Needless to say it is nowhere near Gatesville ( 4 hours away one way).
The plan was to watch the four films that we had on Hutto on the trip out there and back. We took my 13" TV/VCR combo and a power inverter. Once we got into the van we realized that the power inverter-TV setup was not working. After the game we stopped at a Wal-mart and got another Inverter. It didn't work either. So we went back into Wal-mart and bought a power inverter that you can hook up to a car battery and we bought a car battery. We thought that this was about the most redneck thing we could think of. Once we got it out to the van it didn't work either. Just as we were about to give up, our head coach took the first inverter plugged it into the second inverter and hooked the second inverter up to the car battery. For some unknown reason this worked. We got to watch all of the video on the way home. I actually took a video of it on my phone just to make sure people believed the setup that we had going. This was just the first scouting trip we went on. I think the second one was better.
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A Quote from Marianne Williamson
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, To appreciate beauty, To find the best in others, To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition, To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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