New Layout, Softball, & friends

So I gave in to Abby's critique of my layout. She thought it was too dark. I liked it, but I finally agree that it probably was too dark to make reading comfortable.

Also, a new slow pitch softball season is starting up. I was on the fence as to whether I would play, but I'm now managing a team. Go figure. It should be fun though. Most of the guys from the fast pitch team are playing and we mostly picked up the better players from the previous slow pitch team. So we should be more competitive this season. The fast pitch league and this coming slow pitch season will be a good transition for me I think. The previous teams had been Calvary Chapel teams and the fast pitch team wasn't since we really needed more experienced guys. Since we're going to Immanuel Baptist now, this gives me an easy transition to break off that tie. Though I never got called by the guys on the team to do anything unless it had to do with softball anyways, which was the whole problem. I understand it with the older guys, I don't expect them to call me to hang out, but I had hoped playing softball would open that up more. I know I could have done more too, but, eh, it's past now.

It's the first season for these particular Rec Center guys to do the on-base softball league so we'll see how it goes. One of the guys I know from the indoor/outdoor soccer league we had that played on the outdoor roller hockey rink. He headed up the league and was very receptive to rule changes as he had not ever played indoor (or soccer in general I think). He was the same way tonight at the coaches meeting so I think it'll be fine. I just hope the umps show up this time around. We had trouble with that last season. We'd have an ump at one field and the other ump wouldn't show up to the second field.

I'm calling Parks & Rec back to see if they need help with refereeing the kids soccer league. Those games would be on Saturdays Fridays or Saturdays. Just talked with the guy heading up the refereeing. I'm going to go by the games on Friday night and talk with him. It sounds like they mostly have high school kids doing the younger games so we'll see what he needs me to do. I threw my name out there to be a coach, but they didn't call so I assume they got enough parents.

Abby and I went over to Eli and Erin's Sunday night for dinner. We had a lot of fun. I work with Eli on my current project and they go to Immanuel as well so we see them in Sunday school. We get along quite well with both of them which is nice, it's not that awkward couple thing where we like one but not the other or one of us doesn't get along with one of the others. We stayed over for about six hours. Erin made gnocchi and it was great. I had never had it before so that was fun. She also made a lemon/raspberry cake which was quite delicious. Eli brought some in to work today so we all got a treat.

Now we're off to watch Grey's Anatomy. It's a good show. There's some discussion about sex and sleeping around, but the characters are pretty interesting I think. We're only just starting season two though so it could change.