If you took the time to analyze and understand my blog title then you have just had a predictably unpredictable experience. I often like to use terms that seem incompatible. I believe I am generally a predictable person with moments of unpredictability and hope that some of this comes out in this blog. The title was more chosen because of how much I can predict that unpredictable things will happen to me and I will be blogging about these events.
One such happened to me this past Saturday. I went to drop off my oldest son to play basketball on our churches young mens basketball team. I planned to stay long enough to be sure that the game was not canceled due to the snow. The coach of the team indicated to the boys there that they had to have five boys and one adult as coach in order to play. I was the only adult from my church there. So I stayed and became their coach.
And so I begin my blogging experience. I plan to blog about how my writing is going as well as about things in my life. I don't swear and plan to keep this blog a family friendly one. We all have negative and positive experiences in our lives, I plan to focus on the positive here and so the only real negative you will see me post is something that I feel I and others can learn from and these will even be portrayed in a positive way as much as possible.
So you know how little I know about basketball I had to confirm there were four periods and had to ask how many fouls a player could get before being out for the rest of the game. I am not a very vocal person so I was mostly just a figure head to allow them to play. We started with five boys. Another boy came later. At that point, one of the boys was trying to get my attention and during a brief break I was informed that I was the one that had to declare I was substituting a player. I told them that they would have to let me know when since I knew almost nothing about basketball. So they would tell me when and then I would substitute a player.
Later two other adults from my church came and they helped out with the coaching and one was more vocal than me and was giving them pointers while they were playing. I had to explain to him toward the end of the game when he didn't understand what they were doing is that they were purposely holding onto the ball and letting the clock run down. Our team did this after every period.
What surprised me more was that the boys would tell me I was doing a great job. I just sat there thinking that I wasn't doing anything. Maybe that is what they wanted.
I am happy to say that they won, the score was 23 to 35 and the only credit I take is that because I stayed as their coach they were able to play so that they could win.
