Sorry for My Poor Communication of Late

Sorry for the late notice of no practice this weekend.  I really should have got this word out sooner so you could have all made plans for an open weekend.

My lame excuse is that I am a CPA.  Although I no longer work for a CPA firm and am just an in-house guy for one company, my day job was CRAZY this week.  We had to wrap up our 401K audit and finalize the form 55oo and have them completed by Friday, Oct 15.  That and I still do the returns for myself and about three deadbeat friends ALL of whom wait until the last minute and give me a shoe box full of receipts and expect me to work a miracle and get them a refund.  My wife is self employed and her idea of getting me her tax information is that she has until 8:00 pm on the 15th, since I have until midnight to file.  And I am even powerless to snoop and just take it over as her business and all her information is in French and as you all have come to realize by now; I struggle with English!

That said, I love her dearly and worship the ground she walks on, but grrrr her sense of time and her bookkeeping skills cause me internal strife.

As we begin our winter workout - with an official real dependable schedule that will only be changed when you least expect it - you will note that we will go once a week hitting at RIPS (which is out in Burien) for two hour blocks of time.  Our times will vary between Noon to 2:00 and 2:00 to 4:oo.  Most likely our time will coincide with Seahawk games which will be either good or bad news (it is too early in their season to know just yet).  And we will go three weeks on with one week off on a four week rotation.  I thought it would be nice to have a weekend off every so often.  

Again this will start 11/7, we will shut down the week of Thanksgiving and start up again the second week of January.  We will repeat this three weeks on one week off until March and then we brace ourselves for Seattle weather and start practicing on a diamond a couple of times a week.

We will be having a mandatory parent meeting on November 7.  Jamie and Karen will be in town.  They would like to meet you all, discuss expectations of parents and players and do an  overall welcome to MBC.  The time of this meeting and its location will be know soon.