Today was fun. I got to the drop zone about 9:45 and there were already a lot of people there. The little building was filled with people, mostly family watching a few people doing tandem dives, and some were hanging out outside. I brought over the leftover carrot cake I had made the day before,…
Author: Bob Baddeley
Welcome Back to Softball! WHACK
We had our first softball practice of the season yesterday. Everyone wants me to be pitcher again. This year Nick is playing with us, which should be great. He seems to be a great hitter and he’s awesome in the outfield. Plus, he wants to practice pitching, so I can catch some relief occasionally and…
Sleepless in DC
For the last week and a half I was in the Washington D.C. area for work deploying some software. Some of it still hadn’t been written yet, some of it required that I be there to work on it because it was on a different network that I couldn’t interact with unless I was there,…
Flying and Climbing and Rappelling
Saturday was so much fun. We started off at 9am at the Richland Airport. 11 of us met there. We had three planes between us, so we split up and got in. After a little difficulty getting two of the planes started, we were in the air and away towards Wenatchee. Our plane was the…
Jumps 13, 14, 15, 16
Sunday was beautiful. There were only a couple thin clouds in the sky, the wind was very light, and I felt good. It was a great day to go skydiving. I showed up at about 10, but everyone else had partied a little too much for St. Patrick’s Day, so we didn’t get rolling until…
Jumps 10, 11, and 12
A little over a month ago I jumped from 5000 feet and had about 10 seconds of freefall. I thought it was awesome. Every little step that I make in learning to skydive is fun and exciting, like I’m a baby who’s aware of my progress growing and learning to walk and talk. Yesterday, though,…
Soreness is how your body remembers fun.
Sunday was a good day of skiing. I went to White Pass with two friends. I felt a little bad because I said I wanted to leave at 7:30 fully expecting that both of them wouldn’t be ready that early, but if I had said later, it wouldn’t have mattered. On the other hand, I…
Cooking is all about the timing
And getting the timing right on dishes you’ve never made before is TOUGH. Tonight I tried three things I’ve never done, and somehow it all managed to work out. The first part was the pork loins, which I had never done in the oven on broil before (I recently got a broil pan, so I’ve…
Have I Seen This Before?
Lately I’ve been watching the original Twilight Zone episodes. They were created by Rod Serling from 1959-1962, in black and white. I don’t think that I’ve seen any of them before. It’s possible that I saw some rerun episodes when I was very young and don’t remember them. The crazy part is that I know…
Surgery on my baby
Yesterday my projector was acting up in a very unfriendly way. There was something wrong with the lighting. It was uneven with a couple lines through it. Worse, when I moved the projector, the lines moved, and I could hear a part moving around inside. Eventually, percussive maintenance no longer affected any change in the…