Playing Umpire

At work today I finished up what I started yesterday. There was a question I got answered to know what way I needed to fix a stores procedure. It turns out I had it going correctly. But I love how I have to get from one value to another. I have the number of the loan application. From that I get the loan officer’s number. Then I use that to find the loan officers’ office. I use that number to find whether a certain value is a one or a zero. Depending on what it is, it will tell the system what E-mail we should send.

Jon asked if I could help him launch the boat. So I left work around three o’clock pm. We dropped the boat into Lake Washington. We cruised around for about ten minutes. Then we went back to Jon’s and had some dinner. Logan had a baseball game. He is in the first grade. They just got out of T-ball last year and now they have a machine pitch league this year. I was the base umpire.

I remember most of the things I had been taught. But I was dealing with first graders. So I was a little worried about how I should call things. Young kids seem to cry a lot. So in one inning there was a really close play at third base. When I was learning to be an umpire I was told that on the close calls you are loud and clear and I dropped the hammer and yelled “OUT!”. After the inning was over Jon came up to me. He held his heart and laughed. He said he thought that call would have caused the first grader to cry. I started to laugh. I guess that is because I am so evil.

After the game we went back to Jons. We had some ice cream and I hooked up the boat trailer to my truck and brought it to my moms house where I parked it by the shop. I went inside to watch CSI:NY.

During CSI I saw a commercial for Cold Case. I was thinking about how Cold Case uses popular music from the era when they do their flashbacks. It sort of goes along with that I wrote about earlier today.