Tennis, Anyone?

So I went and played tennis this morning with my friend Amy. We tried to go early to beat the
summer sunshine. We had to wait about 10 minutes or so and then got onto a court. The other court cleared out after we had been playing for awhile.

Then I see I guy come and snag the empty court, he's smoking and standing around. Then I see that there are a bunch of kids in the parking lot and what appears to be an instructor and the kids' mother and a bunch of balls. They are still getting all their gear out of the car as a couple gets to the court directly behind the smoking man. So as the mother finally approaches the court, the waiting couple ask her, "what the hell, we got here before you ready to play and you sent your husband to snag the court ahead of us." (Or something to that effect.)

The woman replies, with a British accent, "we need to get the children playing before it gets too hot."

The man of the waiting couple then says, "everybody here is trying to do that."

The snotty Brit then replies, "the children are more important," and shuts the gate.

The man yells, "I don't agree with that." Alas, he is outside the court waiting and she is inside getting her kids ready to play.

So, I don't have too much of a problem with the husband snagging the court. It's a bit candyass, but the courts are "first-come, first-serve". I DO have a problem with people thinking their children are more important than anyone else in the world. Those kids could probably survive running around in the heat better than the guy who was waiting, he was probably late 40's, early 50's. It's symptomatic of our whole society's focus on children needing to be coddled and soothed and nutured until they're 25 years old and expect the same coddling in the workplace. I can't wait to see our all the full-grown babies in few years!

Oh, and this ultra-concerned mother? Yep, she lit up a cigarette while the kids were warming up.

That's pretty healthy for them.

Sea Monkeys!!

I got so excited when I found out that Mono Lake (it's a huge lake outside of Yosemite) is FULL OF SEA MONKEYS!!! I ran into the lake like a little kid and scooped up a bunch.

I considered taking some home for my fish to munch on, but didn't have anything to put them in and also thought, what do you feed brine shrimp. Aren't they already the bottom of the food chain? (Alright, all you biologists out there, I don't need to hear about all the microscopic organisms, I'm making a joke.) 

Fool for Electricity

So the power just came back up in my neighborhood, since going out at 10:30, about 10 minutes ago. That's the time it took me to start my computer, turn the air conditioning on and get some cooling salad from the fridge and write this desperate post after checking email.

My gosh, I didn't realize how much of a slave I am to Thomas Edison and all the computer geeks who make my life possible until today...

(Why didn't I just go to the beach??? I already went to the beach yesterday and had my mind set on being on the computer today. I'm such a FOOL!!!)