Last month the freshman had their class dinner at Coach Haus’ house, and tonight the sophomores had their chance to enjoy Mrs. Haus’ home cooking. On tonight’s menu was lasagna, salad and some of Coach Haus’ famous garlic bread. I say famous because Mrs. Haus showed us all a cookbook from the eighties where UNC athletes and coaches contributed recipes. In there was Coach Haus’ recipe for the bread, written when he was in school at UNC. Also in there was the recipe for I think crab cakes from some little known basketball player and UNC alum named Michael Jordan.
Before the dinner the sophomores thought about ideas for what the team should do for their next big trip. Before they arrived on campus as freshmen the team went to Japan the summer before. During their senior year, the sophomores will likely go on their big trip along with the rest of the team over summer. Ideas like Australia, southern France and Italy were all considered.
After the team left, I was suckered out of a dollar by Grant Haus, the youngest of coach’s four boys, for a raffle. I thought he was going to show me a magic trick but the only trick was making my dollar disappear. Seems the dollar was for a raffle at his school. Dave Lohse was also hit up by Grant and put in his dollar. I was mad at Dave, telling him he lowered the odds I would win the raffle with his extra entry. But knowing it was for a good cause, I could only be so mad.
I also showed Dave a prototype of the book I’m putting together. The content and design was thrown together so the point was to show Dave what the size of the book would be, and what the casing would look like. Coach Haus wasn’t allowed to see the book as I’m not showing any coaches or players until the final version is ready. But that didn’t stop his wife and kids from checking it out.In regards to layout, last week I purchased a copy of Adobe InDesign. I struggled with trying to learn the program when I initially installed it. There are some similarities to Adobe Photoshop, but plenty of differences to keep it interesting and confusing. For example. I looked and looked for how to change the background color of the paper. I expected to find a fill tool like Photoshop has but never found it. After much head scratching and even more Googling, I found the solution. With the basics now mastered, I’m having a great time learning the power of this program. I am trying to layout the book little by little as I go through the season so I’m not stuck with a lot of work to do in the summer. Given that I’ve probably spent 50 hours already in the past week working in the program, I’m glad I started now.