[MO Kansas City Newsletter] Week 4 / Issue 2

Issue 2 of the MO Kansas City kickball division's newsletter is available. I tried some new formatting with this one, specifically with the recaps since I really didn't like how they looked in the first issue.

[MO Kansas City Newsletter] Week 4 / Issue 2

[MO Kansas City Newsletter] Week 3 / Issue 1

Like I mentioned last week, I decided to take over the newsletter for the division because:

1. No one was doing it.
2. Divisions without newsletters are lame.

After a week of working on this thing, I think we're ready for prime time.

[MO Kansas City Newsletter] Week 3 / Issue 1

Rain, rain, go away!

It's been raining a lot the last few days. So much so that kickball got cancelled this week because it has rained non-stop since I woke up this morning. How disappointing.

Team Fingerbang had a double header last night and won both games to the tune of 3-1 and 5-0. Fielding and kicking were a little off for everyone because of the heavy rain we experienced Wednesday and yesterday morning. I found pitching to be particularly difficult since it's hard to throw the ball when it's slick from the rain. It wasn't nearly as bad as last week, though, since the rains stopped early yesterday morning rather than raining through the games like it did a week ago.

I managed to achieve one of my goals for the season last night: hitting a player with a pitch and having the ball go fair. Some of the girls on the other team thought I was "mean" and "scary" for whatever stupid reason. I'm the only one in the division that throws full overhand, so maybe that has something to do with it. It's not even like the full overhand is that effective since the grass on the fields is 4 inches thick and the ball slows down significantly on the first bounce.

I have 5 more games to reach my other goal of striking someone out. Hopefully we'll get a rain-free couple of days so that I can show everyone what real pitching is.

Dear World,

Sorry for not writing. My laptop has been on the fritz for a few weeks now and I like to keep my writing saved in one place... my laptop. Sure, I could update from anywhere since this website has a web interface, but it was easier to just not write rather than have to save everything on a thumb drive and transfer it over when I got my laptop up and running again.

Just to keep you up to date, I sent my laptop off to Apple a couple of weeks ago because smoke started coming out of the air vents and the screen's backlight wasn't turning on. 3 days after I got my laptop back from DHL, the hard drive started clicking. Noisy hard drives are bad and my drive stopped working soon after the clicking started. Fortunately I had a backup so I didn't lose much of anything and certainly nothing important. I am very comfortable opening up laptops, so ordering a new drive and putting it in myself wasn't a big deal. I got my drive on Wednesday this week and was up and running that night. Hopefully I won't have any more issues with this thing because dropping $400 total on it for repairs wasn't very fun.

The only saving grace about the situation is that I purchased an iPhone last month. The day I was screwed out of my first N+ exam, I went straight to the Apple store and bought an 8GB iPhone 3G. It's a phone, first and foremost, so I haven't loaded it with tons of music (besides, Simplify Media has built an app that lets you share music libraries wirelessly), but the calendaring and internet functions have been extremely useful. My only major complaints about the phone are that native apps, like Safari, crash far too often and the GPS functionality is still really limited. I am willing to give it some time, though, since Apple is really good about fixing obvious bug issues.

Update: I've gone back and added a few posts for the time I didn't have my laptop. -JM