Dear dimwit on the phone

I will do it this week. It needs to be done.

Next week, she gets it.

 

KY - It doesn't work on my computer, unfortunately. I've tried with other PDFs in the past.

 

This site works good for converting PDFs into Word documents. I've used it several times. I don't think I've gotten any junkmail from them (leave that box for offers unchecked), but I still use my spam email account just in case.

http://www.pdftoword.com

 

Sounds good - thanks.

 

Dear local wrestling community:
Thanks for all the trophy and medal shots from the youth tournament. So tell me again why no one can send in the high school results?

 

Because there are no trophy or medal-winners?

 

In the same vein:

Dear Wrestling Mom,
Thanks for emailing us about the tournament going at your school this weekend. We had absolutely no frigging idea there was a tourney going on this weekend.

We've only known about it all season, and have been planning to send someone (me) to cover it.

But again, thanks for the email basically demanding media coverage of it.

KY

 

Yes, around here you have to know the secret handshake it seems to get any wrestling reports in the paper. All the coaches seem like nice enough guys, but getting them to report anything is near impossible. Seems like a dying sport would be doing everything in its power to get some media attention.

And the wrestling parents are among the worst.

 

Wrestling does seem to be a bit of an odd little clique. Being a great wrestler is no guarantee you'll be good at another sport - the top in my town does no other sports, and the other is a very poor offensive lineman on a low-division football team - and all of the parents seem to know each other.

 

All the parents around here know each other, too. And what makes it worse is I've had people I don't know or don't know very well come up to me at a match and strike up a conversation like they've known me all my life.

As far as wrestlers playing other sports, most of the wrestlers around play football (obviously) and a good chunk of them are pretty solid in both sports.

 

The wrestlers at the main high school I cover fall into one of three categories:
1) I excel at this sport. This is because I participate in no others. (The wrestlers at 106, 120, 126, 138, 152, 160, 220 and 285 would be in this category).
2) I participate in this sport because I suck at basketball, the head football coach mandates that I go out for a winter sport and we don't have a swim team so this is it (132, 145, 182, 195).
3) I'm the assistant coach's son (170; Ironically each of the head coach's children are girls - they've all been managers).
* - No one's been able to make weight at 113 this year.

 

in my area the wrestling parents aren't bad. They yell and scream during matches and call the refs vile things, but you expect that. There isn't that cliquish behavior.
Swim parents on the other hand. . . yikes.
as for participating in other sports, most of the wrestlers around here play at least one other sport, and for probably 75% of them that sport is football (we do have a couple soccer players, including one of the two girls in the area that wrestles, and a fairly good cross country runner).
With the swimmers though, at the powerhouse school in the area only one swimmer between the boys and girls team plays any other sport. The rest are in the pool November-March with the school team and March-November with the club team that happens to practice in the same pool and have the same coach.