January 31, 2005
Scott the Podcaster
Scott decides to amplify on Meg's flickerball story, and has some words of wisdom and jokes for his Uncles in his first Podcast.
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January 30, 2005
Happy Birthday Meg!
Welcome to double digits Meg! Whoo hooo!
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January 26, 2005
live museum
tomorrow is live museum (i hope i'm spelling this right). I am going to be Martina Navratilova or in Scott's case Martina Supernova. I'm very scared i'm going to forget my speech, but I don't think i will.
Keep your fingers crossed!
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January 22, 2005
our usual flickerball game
Since i have gotten what is believed to be shin splints I couldn't play in our usual flickerball game in P.E. Flickerball is a game played on the field at the school where everyone wears flags and tries to score on the other teams goalies. When your flag is pulled you have to do whatever exercise Mr. Peterson wants you to do (run the track, thirty push-ups, etc.)and throw the ball up in the air. Well something happened that wasn't quite normal in our little game. A guy named Blake accidentally clipped his flag to the zipper on his windpants and when the flag was pulled....WHOOPS! He was pouting for the rest of the day and I don't think Mr. Peterson was helping that.
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Way to go Bro' Mark!
This morning I just read my brother Mark's email recap of his Houston Marathon triumph where he "busted through" and achieved a long-sought personal goal of finishing a marathon in under 3 hours!
The timing of this email was incredible as we've recently discussed personal goals as Kate and Claire "age up" to join the ranks of thirteen and fourteen year old junior tennis players.
Marathon running like tennis, is an individual sport, requires personal goal setting and commitment to hard work and extra efforts in preparation for the big event(s), and often faces obstacles and disappointments along the way--until feeling the exhilaration of achieving one's goals.
The punch lines from Mark's email:
Final result 2:57:44, 2:47 PR, 85th overall, 16th in divisionThere are so many variables that go into our sport—training, family/work/running time balance, weather, injuries, sickness, race pace execution, euphoric periods during which you have to hold back, fatigue periods during which you have to kick yourself in the butt to get out of bed, …to name a few of the items that are mostly out of our control. All of those we are experiencing both individually and in the extended family training group make for a large number of unknowns. It's hard for an analytical guy like me to not be able to exactly quantify all of the inputs that go into the final result!
Why was today the day? Who knows! I guess the short answer is, the planets aligned and the variables all fell in my favor. I've toed the line in better shape in previous attempts, only to be denied painfully short of my goal.
Chicago 2002 – 3:00:46
Houston 2003 – 3:01:31
Austin 2003 – 3:00:32But today was the day and I am sitting here in blissful contentment with the realization of having achieved a challenging goal.
From all of us, congratulations in achieving your goal and thanks for sharing such an inspirational story!
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January 16, 2005
Laurel Mountain Elementary Mystery!
Just a routine evening of Scott and I playing baseball in the back yard led to quite a mystery. It started innocently enough when I pitched a hanging curveball to Scott, which he crushed over the backyard fence into the Laurel Mountain Elementary property.
As we searched around looking for the ball, Scott looked up a discovered what appears to be a very old bicycle wedged into a Live Oak tree. It looked fairly ancient as you can see in the photo.
The speculation began... how did it get there? How long has it been there? Who's bike was it? Why wasn't it claimed? Was it intact or as it now exists missing wheels, chains, etc?
Then the theories began... each more outlandish than the previous theory. Could it have been a boy riding his bike on the Laurel Mountain elementary roof top with wings trying to fly? As he peddles and flaps his wings gravity slowly pulls him down, right in the "Y" in thr trunk of the tree.
Scott doesn't think the angle of entry in relationship to the roof top supports this theory. Upon further review, it's hard to rebut this argument.
Your theories are welcome in the comment field below. Have fun!
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January 9, 2005
High Jinx in the High Plains!
Mark Nair, our brother-in-law and known affectionately as Uncle Just Mark by the kids (since my brother Mark is Uncle Mark), has perhaps the funniest blog in the in the Texas Panhandle, er maybe Texas, perhaps even the these parts of the Milky Way.
The origins of his nickname can be traced back to some derogatory comment from long go, that stuck, as these things tend to do, especially around the extended Cahill clan.
The kids, led by Kate, has taken it as a challenge to come up with funny stuff to try to hang with the master. Whoo hoo!
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January 8, 2005
blabbering
i think i might be typing for a while but then agian i might not. claire is going to take a shower. she needs to cuz she smells SO BAD.
blah blah blah i am blabbering on and on but i cant type too well cuz im on a laptop but that is no excuse to not type. lalalalalalala
YA MAKE ME WANNA VOMIT IN THE KITCHEN ON THE FLOOR!
o yeah LALA ASHLEE SIMPSON IS A STINKY FACE LIP SYNCING BAD GUY
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Welcome to the Cahill family blog site!
The Austin chapter of the Cahill family website is now officially open for business. We look forward to sharing the happenings from the greatest city in America!
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