General Jackassery

Why is it that when you’re stressed out and tired the people you have the least amount of patience with are the ones that you love the most. I’m not saying that I will never set foot in Johnson Research Center again, but I DO hope to sell my truck this evening and I hope to not have a vehicle that has the capacity to pull that trailer ever again. There are several people that are still in the club that are going to need help to be able to produce another boat next year. It’s not that I don’t think they have the capacity to actually do that, but I don’t believe they can do it by themselves without making way to many sacrifices. So, if I’m wanted I will help them from time to time, but, I won’t be staying up all night with them, I will not be there every night and I probably will never spend another dime on the club. Sarah, however, will have a hard time leaving it alone. Both of us love the club and it’s taken me two years to get out of it after I was president. We also have the club to thank for us being together. So I think it’s going to be hard for her to let it go. I made her promise me that she wouldn’t allow herself to get wrapped up in it though. I don’t know that we’re welcome there anymore anyway.

How amazing is that? The people who single handedly carried/drug a team kicking and screaming the entire way to a 3rd place finish at Nationals are not welcome. Part of me wishes that Gilbert and Toutanji had gone ahead and paid for Amber and David to go to Nationals. They seem to believe that if Amber and David had come that we would have won. The best time David and Jordan are able to run in a sprint was a 1:23 give or take some. The fastest time in the sprint at Nationals was a 1:07. It didn’t matter if David was there because they might have been 4 seconds faster, but they might have done a lot more damage to the boat. They certainly would not have helped the presentation as that was weakened by the fact that Dr. Gilbert couldn’t make the time to help the team practice questions.

I guess I’m still at a loss for words. I can’t see how anyone could be so blinded by trying to win that they can’t see the consequences. Gilbert was quoted as saying that certain people should have swallowed their pride and allowed David and Amber to go to nationals. If they had come we could have won. We took third without them and on the shoulders of the people who worked to make sure that the technical aspects of the competition were solid. It’s simply amazing to me that anyone could look at our team after taking third place and say, “well I guess that’s okay.”

What a SCHMUCK!