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100 Years of Change in America
When you look at it like this the change is amazing, I love how is shows everything from Education to Technology and all in-between!
The Hold up (With Audio) with my Radio show, advice welcome
The Hold up…
Eddie http://bishoptatro.wordpress.com/ and I are still talking HARD about getting this up and running. With my pain and Eddie moving home and being in Hospital this wasn’t really the hold up. The hold up I am feeling is – What day and time to do this 1 hour a week, to start with, Radio Show. I have it all set up and ready to go here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/lifeandtimeschat < PLEASE FOLLOW!
For anyone who want’s to call in the Skype add is shaunsradio I have 30+ people added and ready to go, I have the software and all installed on 2 machines, my main room PC and the Kitchen Laptop and even my Samsung Tablet 🙂 But I can’t host from there. Also I am in Scotland, where rain was invented
So the QUESTION IS “WHAT DAY, WHAT TIME OF DAY” I am GMT 0, I am 5 hours behind New York and 8/9 hours behind California, so I am STRUGGLING to find a suitable day and time. I would be DELIGHTED if I could get feedback from people who just may listen, wherever you are in the World. This will be going out to American audience at their time as this is what was planned. I am an Owl as it is, so a 2am start here in the UK would be fine (9pm Eastern Sea board USA) Also being ideal for people from Australia and South Africa. I am thinking Saturday, Sunday would be hard with Eddie being a Bishop and with his Church duties, I don’t know if late Sunday would be ok. so still talking to be done as you can see
Any suggestions would help Eddie and I.
Remember:
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Add shaunsradio to Skype if you think you may call in. all lower case as it is. If I don’t accept in a day or two please don’t worry, you can add me here also shaunyg1973 This is my personal Skype for anyone who just fancies a chat. I DO NOT DO VIDEO THANKS TO A DIRTY WOMAN AND A BANANA WHEN MY KIDS WHERE AROUND!! Yeah…So Audio only 🙂
And follow this page http://prayingforoneday.wordpress.com/shauns-radio-show-coming-soon/ (It is on the top of my blog) for updated, I am HOPING before the end of the Month. I think the hold up is helping as it is getting the word out. But it is frustrating. I will be host, Scottish accent and all, Eddie is a Bishop from the USA so my hope is we can talk anything from God to string theory to ghosts and ufo’s to corporate greed in our World and all in-between. It is frustrating, but I am DETERMINED to get this going. I have all the programming done, pingbacks for nuisance calls and have tested it here, 5 minute system test
Please hang in there, I am CHOCKING to get this going, really exited, I love my own voice and will debate/discuss anything, within reason. I just needed to put a 5 second delay on live shows in-case any idiots call in, you know the story 😉
Any help, debate, ideas would be helpful
More love
Less hate
Shaun (And Eddie) 🙂
Planning to start an Under 21, East of Scotland Soccer side for 2014/2015 season
I coached kids as well as Adults in my decade and a half in Football (Soccer) And I had a good chance to go and take one of the best Under 14 sides in this part of Scotland for this season about to start, pre-season has started and teams are playing friendly games and training hard for the season that starts 3 weeks on Saturday
When I started out, about 4/5 years into my football career I was running my own club and Managing on a Saturday but also doing kids football on a Saturday morning my son was in the side with all his friends The way things work in Scotland is when a players leaves under 19s (Age 17 and 18 they play this level) they then go and play under 21’s for 4 seasons. Sadly a LOT of 1st year 21’s players, the younger players in this silly 4 year age bracket age level don’t get played. This season, all the kids within that age bracket I Managed/Coached when they were 9/10 years old are not getting game time, these are the players from 10 years ago; they are all 19/20 years old now
The last time I was with this side before they went to High School, my own son Ryan is 10 here with the red Arsenal FC strip on. Brilliant memories that year with the kids and the parents, same parents now speaking to me about this
We got to the Final of the only 11-a-side tournament in the City at the time, this was around 2002/2003, my son is bottom row, 2nd in from the right (he-he)
So I am walking through a Superstore the other day to buy something for my Daughter’s Birthday or something, I can’t remember. And I hear “Shaun” I look behind me and I see a woman, around my age, and I think “I know this woman, but where” Anyway, Dawn comes over and says “Hi you” to this woman, she was a parent of one of the kids in the above photo. We got chatting and she said she still speaks to a lot of the parents of the above kids, as she still lives in the area the kids are from, and were from in the picture. The parents had been trying to find Ryan my son or me, as they want me to re-start a side with them next season. A big smile came over my face, as this is was my very 1st team I EVER managed and I learnt a lot the 4 years I coached these kids, at first I was just a coach learning to be a coach, then I managed them and it was AMAZING, the kids were all brilliant and the parents were so helpful, we were a big “Team or a big “Family” and we all wanted the best for our kids.
So, next season, God willing, I may be taking an East of Scotland side. Very high level, I have had tentative talks with a few clubs about bringing 9 players from my 1st team and a few lads I know who are a year younger or older to a club next season. If I can’t get that done, I need a special football home, a proper football park with criteria to match the rules at this level, just a lot of rules to play this level, certain size of changing room for the Ref, a boxed off area for the Managers and dugouts for the Managers and coaches to sit down, and that would suit me as I could sit down.
So the football dream is alive. My son got back in contact with all his old friends from Primary School, and as things stand the players, who mostly all work now and the parents are happy to go ahead and pay to make this happen. I included. They all know my health issues, but one of them came up with an idea that the parents will just order me to sit down as much as possible, as I am a manager who coaches while standing up when my team is playing, the best time to coach young players, is during a game.
So, I won’t get carried away, it is 9 months away, it is my first every side, and I could go on and coach/manage them till they are 35 years old and ready to retire. So this is a BIG chance here to get back to my roots before Football got REALLY serious and Trophies HAD to be won! Should I take this side, that will be the deal from, they are adults now, young adults, trophies must be won. And I coached them as kids; their style of play is what I coached into them. So I will know them all.
I have the smile of a cat here, but feet on the ground. Might not happen, but this gives me 9 month to speak to my Dr, allow my hamstring and knee to rest or get operated on and maybe, just maybe, I am back doing what I miss most in life.
How brilliant would it be to go again with first every team of players I coached?
I will pray and try to get my mind and body right, I would love this, Life coming full circle
An AUDIO BLOG with pictures so funny, you may die! Be warned, T’is I speaking
An Audio blog about my Email issues, Football and a few other things. The pictures are like the one above.. Please listen and have a good laugh. This was the plan. 10 minutes of HARD CORE Scottishness is never a bad thing I am told. But then again I don’t get told much, so I don’t know what to believe. Anyway, have fun
Shaun >>> Audio Below >> *EDIT* I stopped speaking at 7 minutes 30 Seconds, but the video goes on with funny pictures till 10 minutes. No idea what happened?
🙂
Worst pain ever today……
I get pain all over my body, sometimes my knee, sometimes my shoulders, sometimes my hips, sometimes my ankles, even my feet, and many other places. Today it is lower back
I awoke and could walk, but every step was like an electric shock to the area, the pain was 10/10 I was in agony. I called my GP he just said “Take more pills, and use more gel on the area” So I did, and it took 20% of the pain away.
Lower back pain for me can be the worst of all pains, as that one area makes it hard for all your other joints to move properly. The cause is the way I slept last night, people usually sleep in one way, I slept in an almost foetal position, and I am told not to by the pain experts, but when asleep, you are not aware of how you will end up sleeping
Does me no good!
When I do sleep like this, it is feels like my lower back has fused and I can’t straighten up, and today, I spent 3 or 4 hours in agony after I awoke, trying to just relax whatever it was that needed relaxing. Even now, it is still sore, it was that sore leaning forward to drink a cup of tea hurt my back and my neck. This is Chronic Pain, I wouldn’t wish it on an enemy, if I had one, it is degrading and horrible and days like this I just want to stay asleep, as when asleep, there is no pain, and I did for a while, I just went back to bed and the pain and medication knocked me out
I just hate it, it sucks, its shit, it’s more that agony; I don’t have a word for this pain. Today is a day I needed to be somewhere and do something’s, and I couldn’t, so I let people down, and that brings guilt, but I was reminded by everyone and their dog’s today “It isn’t your fault
I promised myself I wouldn’t give into this bastard pain, and try and live normal, today?
Shaun 0-1 Pain
I lost. I had no choice, I just gave in. And as I sit here, I ask, is there more to come? Is the pain going to get worse? Is this for me? Or do I do what I preach and fight, do I lift myself up in agony and go, do I say “No” and just keep going? I am a fighter, give me a fight and I will win, it is in my nature. Today I lost, and that hurts my pride, but makes me want to fight harder to try and find ways to stop this pain.
I promise myself right now, I am not taking this, I won’t give up, I will fight, and I will do as I tell others. But today was awful. Really bad, and it’s days like this I wish I did not over do sport when I was 21 and younger, when I remember all my coaches from Soccer to Boxing telling me “Take it easy” I used to run, no, sprint up hills, I used to do extra soccer practice, I stayed behind in the gym and did extra in the ring with my coach, who was the Scottish Middleweight champion at the time. And even he said “Take it easy tiger”
I should have listened.
So if you are the same, you pushing yourself too far, to fast, to hard? Stop, please. It does come back to hit you, hard.
Slow down tiger
Shaun
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