Hooks Galore

Now that I am back in Corpus and ready to go, I am working once again with the Corpus Christi Hooks, AA Afiliated with the Houston Astros. I worked here last year with onfield entertainment and promotions and after a successful summer I was invited to come back and work in the office with sales. So I descided to take one more summer back home in South Texas and take the job.

But before that I had jury duty. Yes, jury duty, and it was aweful. I got back from the Roadtrip on Sunday and the next day was jury duty. It was, well, haha. The room was loaded with people. I got there early but still it was loaded with people. Then they told everyone who was feeling sick to come up to th efront and get signed off in case of the swine flue. So a few people went in. The dude standing next to me didnt want to be there either and after thinking for a while said the heck with it, and descided to go report sickness just to get out of it. Then I stood there for 3 hours waiting my name to be called as if I was in a concentration camp, waiting for my fate. Finnally I was called on the second chair of this jury. Then we got this peice of paper with a phone number to call in to find out about our case. Well thankfull when I called it at 5pm my case was cancelled! Thank God. Now I dont have to convince the attorneys to put me down!

That night I helped my dad take his stuff out of the office with carlos. Took forever but we got it all with the frame and everything in the suburban and into the office here in the house. Get this-- we loaded and unloaded the frate elevator and loaded the suburban in less than 20 minutes and then unloaded it in 8. Now that's efficiency. 2 of the boxes weighed 60lbs plus. And I I didn't bring my boxes fat I used to ship from Michigan we would have been screwed. So that worked out.

But then the Hooks started and I worked and worked. I lost one of my positions but was given another one. So currently I work in sales and with sponsorship promotions. So it is a lot of work, a lot of hours in the office and in the humid air but I am enjoying my time so far. Its good to see old faces and fun to meet to the new ones!

First Saturday off in forever. Slept in alleluia. Dag holes for plants in the morning. Read 100 plus pages to finish Cinderella man. I really enjoys that last section. Man I love boxing and I love joe louis. Then went to play tennis with mama papa an skunk. Won the match 6-3, 6-4. The second set we were down 3-0 and won 4 strait. We would have won the fith strait as well but in duece skunk hit it out but it hit the score cards and bounced back in. Since it is attaché to the court it technically counts and they won two points to win the game. But I won my serve and gallantly defended against papa's massive serve to win the set and match.

Then we went I heb plus an got parties and brawlrths and glory road on blue ray. Cinderella man comes out on blue ray in 3 weeks so we are gonna wait on that. I had some problems setting up the ps3 into high def an when all hope was fading carlos fixed some settings and it worked. We watche the movie and it was very fast pace. Kinda scrible over the characters; no character development. Apparently they scribbled over a lot of facts of the true story but at the end I really liked it and man I can see myself coaching after that one. Lately I have been thinking of that dramatic comeback I made coaching after coach long got liked out and how much fun I had leading the team as a coach on the side lines. I can see myself doing it. Anyhow it was very cool and I want to buy that book and read it during the summer.

Saturday the 16th sucked. And let me tell you why. I got up late and tired. I ate with Ed and made some sandwithces. At 12:50 I try to leave and the bmer wasn't working. The engine wouldn't even attempt to start. So I had to wait for carlos to come get me. I had to do the prize wheel with katylin. Its liek this spin wheel. YOu pay $1 and get to spin with a guaranteed prize, and most of these prizes are pretty good, which is insentive for people to come over and over again. It took a lot of preperation. Almost all of the day. Then there was fear of rain. Then we opened the gates at 5:20 with 2000 people oustise ready for the camo replica jersies and then there was us, on the prize wheel. Then they pulled out the tarp beforethe game and people were all ready waiting 45 minutes to play the wheel. So many people! Then tv wind was blowing insanely strongand everything was falling over of flying away. So we got moved to a corner where there was no wind. But people kept comming and comming because there was rain and no one knew when the game would start. Well they didnt and I was getting really dehidrated hungry tired and dizzy. But we kept going. Finally at 9:40 we are told that they will call the game and shortly after they said it on the PA and then we soon closed. We ran out of so many things and had to restok on so many things. Most nights we make between $150-250 dollars. $300+ is a really good night and those only come on Fridays or Saturday. The record is just over $500. Well, we made $704. No joke. We blew everything out of the water. We made so much! Cause there was nothin to do! But I was beat and had to wait for my mom to pick me up.

QUOTE of the WEEK:
Quote of skunk on 051709:
"I told you already, I am going to bench 480lbs. I already bench 115lbs and I'm 13. When I turn 15 I will be benching 180...with my eyes closed and making pethitos...with a closed grip...and one handed! Take that!!!" ...yeah, right....

School starts

Well, people, I have been busy as heck. Unforturnately I havent been able to keep you posted of my world. But I am here at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and ever since school started the 2nd of September, my life has been going full speed. How? I will breifly touch in a few spots.

First of all, my room. The Penta-Dude, standing for the 5 guys that live in the quad here on 8th Hubert in South Quad. This was the first thing to be introduced in my second life. Awesome guys, David, Brad, Ben, and Mark are. Pete, my room mate from last year, and his roomate, the freshman Joey, live just a few doors down on our hall. So far we have had everythin in our room, from morning prayer, to football gamedays, to halo3 parties, to Lord´s day celebrations, to movie night (fearturin Hurcules, Borne Ultimatum, and of course, The Office), so mini workout seccions, to push-up and pull-up contest, to eating get togethers, to study seccions, to even...sleeping. Yes, we do sleep in here too, incase you all though we only had fun in our room 24/7.


Second of all, Basketball. Belein and the other coaches can only hav e a grand total of 3 hours with all the players a week till October. So they usually break up into 3 groups and have 3 one our seccions throughout the week. Besides that they still have conditioning, lifting, open gym, open shooting, and agility workouts. So its not so light for the players and us managers, but it is definately not going to get any lighter. We have had these basketball tailate parties for the home games so far for the recruites too. Last week against Maiam of Ohio, us managers actualy (yes, pop, actually) got to eat. We ended up winning an ugly victory, but at least we won. I have no idea what the future of our football team for this season is. Our quaterbacks are weak and we have virtually no offensive line, and because of that, our small, inexperienced running backs suffer, and our lousy quarterbacks dont have enough time to make descent passes to open running backs which makes our punter and defence be on the feild way more than they should. Anyhow, now that I get this off my checst, we will see what happeneds against Notre Dame on the 13th.

School...yes, school. I did come here for school. Thats too bad, because after all the fun at the welcome week and after meeting people from all over, you get reminded that the whole reason you came to Michigan in the first place is because of school. And this school...is hard, hard as climbing a steap cliff ful of broaken class bottles with your hands tied and blindfolded, only to fall off the cliff because only 1/4 of the climbers are gaurenteed to make it, just like only 1/4 of the students who take econ are gaurenteed to make an A, only to watch the rest either bleed to death in thier frutless yet vain effort or faint in disbeleif of the hardship and just tumble down the cliff into obivion. Yes, that is the situation we have here at Michigan, where every one of our programs is in the top 10 percent. Yeah, enough said.

Church. I have been busy with many of what Nacho would call, "churrchy aporrrtunitees." I have done a lot for both University Christian Outreach and St Marys Student Parish combined. I have invited people from from UCO to St Marys and St Marys people to UCO, and people to both of them all over. I have also attended a modern non-denominational church one sunday with two new great friends that also are Will from Atlanta and Ashley from North Carolina, who are now both in the UCO/St Marys loop with me. Wahahaha. Anyhow, I have meet so many people from everywhere, including...


The Table Tennis Club. Thats right, I am appart of the table tenis club, and I will tell you what, they will rock your socks. Like literally. You will be so up in arms in their goodness, you will just want to take off your socks and throw it at them to stop them from spinning the ball everytime. I mean, you do want to actually touch the ball when you swing it, instead of completely missing and looking like a fool on crack every time you play! Baaa. But those guys are aweome. Probobly one of the nices sets of athletes, and quite humble for that matter, are table tennis players. I brought my racket and my confidence from winning that IM TACUCC tournament but it was useless. Haha. these guys are good. And they are from all over. Bobby, Andy, David, Wimpao, Tai, Wang, Clemons, Mike, and a few other dudes with names I cannot pronounce were there. I had one grand of a time, and I will hopefully be able to hit 1 or 2 of there 3 times a week meetings. Awesomeness.

I also started to read a book called Beyond Glory. It is the epic story of Joe Luis and Max Schmeling´s boxing battle of the world in 1938 when all Nazi Germany and all the about to be conquered world watched as the 2 went head to head for one of the most important sports contest ever. It is ranked in the top 5 sport contests of all time. Wow. Yeah, so I am attempting to read it, slowly, but surely. And I hope to be finished with it some time in March. If I finish before that would be a bonus, but I have to keep my goals realistic here, haha.


Well, for right now, that is all that is occupying my time. I could go into how hard the romance language department is too get a spanish class moved from one time to another, but I will save you guys from that pain that I had to suffer physically and that you in no way want to experience by reading about it. I am currently taking a spanish class, an econ class, two philosophy classes, and a sport management class. Yes, very varied, but that kinda helps too. Unfortunately I have 3 classes on friday which blows compared to my 0 classes on friday last year. But its all good, just keep me more busy!

People, stay in touch, leave comments. Please pray fro a successful year in the class room and on the basketball court for my men. Also, keep prayers for the Overton case which is going through some considerations for another trial, and for the Hurracane Ike which is supposed to hit South Texas. My family lives in Corpus Christi on the Gulf of Mexico and my cousins and grandparents live in Houston. So we will see what happeneds. Anyhow, leave me a message and cheers! -DP