So I haven't made a post in over a month, but thats because I suck at blogging. The good thing about this is that posts can have more content if you post less. At any rate, I broke ground on our house on Oct. 15th and a week later I had the basement foundation set. I had concrete schedule for this morning, but once the sub-contractor looked at this weather this AM, he wimped out and now the pour will hopefully be in the morning. If we get the basement floor poured tomorrow, we should have the first floor framed and sheated by the end of the week and be on track for dry-in by Thanksgiving. To the left is a picture on 10/15, then one from 10/22.
The basement walls are a product called "Superior Walls" which are pre-cast concrete walls that utilize steel studs and foam insulation with a concrete cast exterior. The walls weigh somewhere around 350lbs/lin ft. at 8'. The basement walls came out on two flatbed trucks and full size crane set them in place. The entire basement had walls up in under 6 hours. More on the house next time..
On the soccer front, the junior high season is over and so I am done coaching for a while. We ended the season with a home game where we tied a tough opponent. The official end of season record was 4-4-2 (W-L-D), which I am told is quite the improvement for the team over last season. The junior high season was a good time and definitely something different. We'll see if I can committ the time to that team again next fall.
As for officiating, the NCAA regular season is coming to a close. I have 3 regular season games this week as well as one playoff game. Then on Nov. 7th I have a double header - quarterfinal playoff games. By the end of this collegiate season I will have driven close to 6000 miles for games and officiated just under 40 games. This is great, but I hope to do close to 70 collegiate games next fall if life allows such. I've also been invited by US Soccer to attend their winter showcase tournament in Lancaster, CA. This opportunity allows me to officiate some of the top youth players in the country alongside many of the best up and coming soccer officials in the U.S. I plan to be in CA from Dec. 4th until Dec. 9th. After that point, I will look for a break from soccer for a while. On that note, I thought I'd post a soccer video from youtube:
-John
The basement walls are a product called "Superior Walls" which are pre-cast concrete walls that utilize steel studs and foam insulation with a concrete cast exterior. The walls weigh somewhere around 350lbs/lin ft. at 8'. The basement walls came out on two flatbed trucks and full size crane set them in place. The entire basement had walls up in under 6 hours. More on the house next time..
On the soccer front, the junior high season is over and so I am done coaching for a while. We ended the season with a home game where we tied a tough opponent. The official end of season record was 4-4-2 (W-L-D), which I am told is quite the improvement for the team over last season. The junior high season was a good time and definitely something different. We'll see if I can committ the time to that team again next fall.
As for officiating, the NCAA regular season is coming to a close. I have 3 regular season games this week as well as one playoff game. Then on Nov. 7th I have a double header - quarterfinal playoff games. By the end of this collegiate season I will have driven close to 6000 miles for games and officiated just under 40 games. This is great, but I hope to do close to 70 collegiate games next fall if life allows such. I've also been invited by US Soccer to attend their winter showcase tournament in Lancaster, CA. This opportunity allows me to officiate some of the top youth players in the country alongside many of the best up and coming soccer officials in the U.S. I plan to be in CA from Dec. 4th until Dec. 9th. After that point, I will look for a break from soccer for a while. On that note, I thought I'd post a soccer video from youtube:
<---- Insane stuff I never will have the skill nor flexibility to do.
-John
