Balderdash and I succeeded in capturing 2nd place in golf league last night. It was a nail biter but we won 16.5 to 13.5.
Now that it's over, it's bowling time. I'll be starting 2 leagues next week.
Tonight starts the home stretch for hockey. 3 more games until the playoffs. I think we're probably in last right now. Time to turn it on! Last time we played tonight's opponent they beat us 7-2. We have some payback to give.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Last night of golf league
It appears that the rain may be done for awhile now and we should be able to get in our last night of golf league. Balderdash and I are playing for 2nd place. One team won both halves so there's no first place playoff.
Tonight also marks the beginning of bowling league. We switched leagues and moved from Bowl-a-vard Lanes to Dream Lanes. I'll have to miss the first night because of golf.
I hate this time of the year, feels like my golf season is slipping away and snow can't be far down the road. Bowling season may be the longest season ever, running well into April. In addition to Wednesday league I'll also be bowling half time on Thursdays in the company league and every other week on Saturdays for couples league. After getting my 300 last year finally, my goal this year is to get an 800 series. Closest I've been is 787, I think.
Saturday marks the kickoff of Badger football. We're going to the game, which is against Washington State. I have experience in booing Wazzu from my years in Seattle going to Husky games. Should be a blow-out in favor of the 7th ranked Badgers.
I'll spend Sunday and Monday of the holiday weekend putting in new laminate flooring that we ordered Monday from Drexel Interiors. I'll be doing our master bedroom this weekend and at some point doing both rooms and the hallway upstairs. Hardest part of the whole thing is getting the furniture out of the room and putting it somewhere else. Not sure where we'll sleep Sunday night if the bedroom isn't done...
That's it for now, enjoy the coming sunshine!
Tonight also marks the beginning of bowling league. We switched leagues and moved from Bowl-a-vard Lanes to Dream Lanes. I'll have to miss the first night because of golf.
I hate this time of the year, feels like my golf season is slipping away and snow can't be far down the road. Bowling season may be the longest season ever, running well into April. In addition to Wednesday league I'll also be bowling half time on Thursdays in the company league and every other week on Saturdays for couples league. After getting my 300 last year finally, my goal this year is to get an 800 series. Closest I've been is 787, I think.
Saturday marks the kickoff of Badger football. We're going to the game, which is against Washington State. I have experience in booing Wazzu from my years in Seattle going to Husky games. Should be a blow-out in favor of the 7th ranked Badgers.
I'll spend Sunday and Monday of the holiday weekend putting in new laminate flooring that we ordered Monday from Drexel Interiors. I'll be doing our master bedroom this weekend and at some point doing both rooms and the hallway upstairs. Hardest part of the whole thing is getting the furniture out of the room and putting it somewhere else. Not sure where we'll sleep Sunday night if the bedroom isn't done...
That's it for now, enjoy the coming sunshine!
Monday, August 27, 2007
Oh Come on already!
This is just getting stupid now. Forecast for today was sunny and 84. So, what happens? A huge storm rolls through this morning and once again we have pouring rain to soak an already saturated landscape.
To make matters worse, almost all the golf courses are closed again. League tonight was canceled again and with more rain coming tomorrow and Wednesday it doesn't look good for Wednesday night either.
I did get out and play 18 Sunday morning at Door Creek but it was soaked. Squish, squish, squish on every step. And with all the rain, the fairways and rough hadn't been mowed in over a week so they were really long and thick (that's what she said). I shot an 89 which could have been better and could have been worse. Nothing really affected by all the water much except the 3rd hole when I pushed my drive into a very wet tree area and had to try to chip out twice from the puddles and mud. That was fun...
On a downer note, we put down our cat, Morticia, Saturday. She was 17 and her health was failing quickly. She was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism a month ago. We got medication but it didn't do anything. She ate and ate and defecated everywhere, loosing weight till she was down to 4 lbs. I decided that enough was enough, she wasn't enjoying life any more and constantly having to clean up messes was wearing on my patience. That's 2 animals this year, hopefully no more for another 7 or 8 years!
Work is really busy so I'm not sure how often I'll be posting. As you can tell by the time on this post, I didn't get around to my normal morning posting...
To make matters worse, almost all the golf courses are closed again. League tonight was canceled again and with more rain coming tomorrow and Wednesday it doesn't look good for Wednesday night either.
I did get out and play 18 Sunday morning at Door Creek but it was soaked. Squish, squish, squish on every step. And with all the rain, the fairways and rough hadn't been mowed in over a week so they were really long and thick (that's what she said). I shot an 89 which could have been better and could have been worse. Nothing really affected by all the water much except the 3rd hole when I pushed my drive into a very wet tree area and had to try to chip out twice from the puddles and mud. That was fun...
On a downer note, we put down our cat, Morticia, Saturday. She was 17 and her health was failing quickly. She was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism a month ago. We got medication but it didn't do anything. She ate and ate and defecated everywhere, loosing weight till she was down to 4 lbs. I decided that enough was enough, she wasn't enjoying life any more and constantly having to clean up messes was wearing on my patience. That's 2 animals this year, hopefully no more for another 7 or 8 years!
Work is really busy so I'm not sure how often I'll be posting. As you can tell by the time on this post, I didn't get around to my normal morning posting...
Friday, August 24, 2007
Winning Streak ends at 1
That's really not much of a streak. We followed up our good play from last week with another really good game. Unfortunately their goalie made the big saves while ours didn't. That's pretty much how our league goes. If you have the better goalie you'll win. We out shot the other team by at least a 2-1 margin but every time they had a shot close in they scored.
My line continued to get better as we scored all 4 of our goals in the 7-4 loss. I had another goal on a backdoor tip in off a pass from the left defenseman. I had a backhand rebound chance that rang off the pipe, at least the 4th pipe I've hit this season. That's pretty much how we go, no luck.
I was lucky to escape injury too. I was crashing the net for a rebound when the defenseman caught me under the chin with his stick and snapped my head back. To add insult to injury, they ended up with a breakaway and scored while I lay face down behind the net. No penalty called because they couldn't tell what happened from the angle the closest ref had, even though the defenseman was telling them he hit me in the face with his stick and was telling them to blow the whistle. I'm feeling a little sore today but otherwise fine. I know the defenseman that did it and he would never intentionally do something like that and was very apologetic. I'm just glad it wasn't any worse.
Apparently after today the rain will stop for 3 days or so... we'll see.
My line continued to get better as we scored all 4 of our goals in the 7-4 loss. I had another goal on a backdoor tip in off a pass from the left defenseman. I had a backhand rebound chance that rang off the pipe, at least the 4th pipe I've hit this season. That's pretty much how we go, no luck.
I was lucky to escape injury too. I was crashing the net for a rebound when the defenseman caught me under the chin with his stick and snapped my head back. To add insult to injury, they ended up with a breakaway and scored while I lay face down behind the net. No penalty called because they couldn't tell what happened from the angle the closest ref had, even though the defenseman was telling them he hit me in the face with his stick and was telling them to blow the whistle. I'm feeling a little sore today but otherwise fine. I know the defenseman that did it and he would never intentionally do something like that and was very apologetic. I'm just glad it wasn't any worse.
Apparently after today the rain will stop for 3 days or so... we'll see.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Ok, this is just ridiculous
It won't stop raining! Golf league canceled again last night. Looks like the rain that started last Saturday won't stop till some time Friday.
The funny thing is that we're getting brief respites that make you think it might be over then it just hammers you over the head again. I was able to get out and mow the yard quick Tuesday before another storm rolled through. And yesterday was pretty nice for most of the day but all hell broke loose around 3:30, dumping almost 2 inches of rain in a half hour. It let up by 5 or so but the damage had been done, everything was under water. Every stream, river, pond and lake is flooding over. The low lying golf courses are under water. It's not good.
And to top things off we had a scene right out of Final Destination last night. A bus stopped to let off a mother and her young daughter and just as they were stepping off into a puddle lightning hit a power line and knocked it down into the puddle where the 2 were electrocuted. A man on the bus tried to save them and he was electrocuted as well. Unreal...
Another storm is rolling through now, adding to the mess. They're saying the weekend should be nice but who knows how long it will be until the water has soaked in enough to get back out on the course. This totally feels like April, not August. The dogs are going nuts not getting their normal play time outside.
The funny thing is that we're getting brief respites that make you think it might be over then it just hammers you over the head again. I was able to get out and mow the yard quick Tuesday before another storm rolled through. And yesterday was pretty nice for most of the day but all hell broke loose around 3:30, dumping almost 2 inches of rain in a half hour. It let up by 5 or so but the damage had been done, everything was under water. Every stream, river, pond and lake is flooding over. The low lying golf courses are under water. It's not good.
And to top things off we had a scene right out of Final Destination last night. A bus stopped to let off a mother and her young daughter and just as they were stepping off into a puddle lightning hit a power line and knocked it down into the puddle where the 2 were electrocuted. A man on the bus tried to save them and he was electrocuted as well. Unreal...
Another storm is rolling through now, adding to the mess. They're saying the weekend should be nice but who knows how long it will be until the water has soaked in enough to get back out on the course. This totally feels like April, not August. The dogs are going nuts not getting their normal play time outside.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Waterlogged Club Championship
6 inches of rain do not help golf tournaments... or anything else for that matter.
Around 9am Saturday morning the rain started and it still hasn't stopped (other than a few brief moments). We played round 1 of the club championship in a constant rain and it didn't go well for anyone in our 4-some (or most of the players). It was a very long, slow, wet day that featured rooster-tails on the greens, soggy shoes, wet grips and general malaise.
I started out ok and probably would have had a nice front 9 if I hadn't made a couple mistakes and blew up on 2 holes (7 over for those 2 while the remaining 7 consisted of 5 pars and 2 bogeys). In the increasing rain of the back 9 I pretty much fell apart. I ended up shooting 93 (44/49) which put me tied for 3rd to last in the 1st flight.
Afterwards they still held the long drive contest (though fewer people participated than usual due to the rain). In the preliminary round I placed 2nd (274 behind a 281). It just happened to stop raining for about 15 minutes while we were hitting. That qualified me for the final of my flight. Of course, that was 2 hours and 5 beers later. By the time we got out there at 7:30 it was almost dark and completely pouring. You couldn't even see the drives after about 20 yards. The first person missed the fairway all 3 times. The 2nd guy (the 281 guy) went and missed on 2 but hit the fairway once with a nice drive, but it only went 221. I thought I would win easily. I can hit my hybrid that far... I hit my first 2 left but my last one I hit really well down the middle. I thought I would win easily... until they radioed in the distance. 2 - 1 - 9. 219! That's it!?!?!? I guess pouring rain will do that to a ball. I lost by 2 yards and missed out on the $75 prize.
The 2nd round was canceled as I knew it would be since at least 3 greens were under water when we left Saturday night. Oh well. I think most of the courses in the area are closed and it's not supposed to stop raining until Friday or so. Doesn't feel like mid-August, it's more like October. That's the first time it's rained in the CC for at least 10 years.
Around 9am Saturday morning the rain started and it still hasn't stopped (other than a few brief moments). We played round 1 of the club championship in a constant rain and it didn't go well for anyone in our 4-some (or most of the players). It was a very long, slow, wet day that featured rooster-tails on the greens, soggy shoes, wet grips and general malaise.
I started out ok and probably would have had a nice front 9 if I hadn't made a couple mistakes and blew up on 2 holes (7 over for those 2 while the remaining 7 consisted of 5 pars and 2 bogeys). In the increasing rain of the back 9 I pretty much fell apart. I ended up shooting 93 (44/49) which put me tied for 3rd to last in the 1st flight.
Afterwards they still held the long drive contest (though fewer people participated than usual due to the rain). In the preliminary round I placed 2nd (274 behind a 281). It just happened to stop raining for about 15 minutes while we were hitting. That qualified me for the final of my flight. Of course, that was 2 hours and 5 beers later. By the time we got out there at 7:30 it was almost dark and completely pouring. You couldn't even see the drives after about 20 yards. The first person missed the fairway all 3 times. The 2nd guy (the 281 guy) went and missed on 2 but hit the fairway once with a nice drive, but it only went 221. I thought I would win easily. I can hit my hybrid that far... I hit my first 2 left but my last one I hit really well down the middle. I thought I would win easily... until they radioed in the distance. 2 - 1 - 9. 219! That's it!?!?!? I guess pouring rain will do that to a ball. I lost by 2 yards and missed out on the $75 prize.
The 2nd round was canceled as I knew it would be since at least 3 greens were under water when we left Saturday night. Oh well. I think most of the courses in the area are closed and it's not supposed to stop raining until Friday or so. Doesn't feel like mid-August, it's more like October. That's the first time it's rained in the CC for at least 10 years.
Friday, August 17, 2007
The Streak is Over!
We finally busted our 5 game losing streak in hockey last night with a 6-3 victory. It helped to have a real goalie but we came out on a mission and pretty much dominated.
I finally got off the schnide too scoring a pair of goals. First one was a big slapshot from the top of the right circle that beat the goalie inside the far post. Honestly, I never really aimed at anything. The puck was dumped up ahead of me and I was just skating as fast as I could to get to it with a defenseman angling towards me. I just wound up and hit it as hard as I could. Luckily it was towards the net. :)
The 2nd goal was with less than a minute left as we were hanging on to our 2 goal lead. My center intercepted a pass just inside our blue line and caught me on the fly from the right wing and I went in alone. The goalie decided to come out and poke check me. It actually caught me by surprise, just as I looked up to see where he was I saw him coming at me so I just flipped it through his legs and cut left to not get creamed.
Afterwards a bunch of us went to Beef O'Brady's (a fairly new sports bar near the Sun Prairie rink) for some brewski's. We started with the Hopalicious from Ale Asylum followed by pitchers of Smithwicks, Island Wheat, Spotted Cow and more Hopalicious. Got home around 11 and needless to say I have a whopper of a headache this morning.
They have some pitchers that I'd never seen before. They're bigger and have a cylinder in the middle that they fill with ice to keep the beer cold. I, of course, questioned them to make sure we weren't getting screwed out of some beer.
I'll have to leave work early today to try to get the lawn mowed. That recent rain has brought the grass back from it's slumber with a vengeance. It's grown about 4 inches since Saturday morning when I mowed. We're golfing at 5:30.
I finally got off the schnide too scoring a pair of goals. First one was a big slapshot from the top of the right circle that beat the goalie inside the far post. Honestly, I never really aimed at anything. The puck was dumped up ahead of me and I was just skating as fast as I could to get to it with a defenseman angling towards me. I just wound up and hit it as hard as I could. Luckily it was towards the net. :)
The 2nd goal was with less than a minute left as we were hanging on to our 2 goal lead. My center intercepted a pass just inside our blue line and caught me on the fly from the right wing and I went in alone. The goalie decided to come out and poke check me. It actually caught me by surprise, just as I looked up to see where he was I saw him coming at me so I just flipped it through his legs and cut left to not get creamed.
Afterwards a bunch of us went to Beef O'Brady's (a fairly new sports bar near the Sun Prairie rink) for some brewski's. We started with the Hopalicious from Ale Asylum followed by pitchers of Smithwicks, Island Wheat, Spotted Cow and more Hopalicious. Got home around 11 and needless to say I have a whopper of a headache this morning.
They have some pitchers that I'd never seen before. They're bigger and have a cylinder in the middle that they fill with ice to keep the beer cold. I, of course, questioned them to make sure we weren't getting screwed out of some beer.
I'll have to leave work early today to try to get the lawn mowed. That recent rain has brought the grass back from it's slumber with a vengeance. It's grown about 4 inches since Saturday morning when I mowed. We're golfing at 5:30.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Not a good tune up
Well, I totally don't feel ready for the club championship now. I didn't play worth a crap last night. Only hit 1 fairway and 2 greens. About the only thing I did well was chip and putt. I seem to have lost the draw on my drives so I kept missing right. I also hit a few really bad iron shots. Maybe I just got all that out of my system. We shall see...
Retro played very well after the 2nd hole (the first 2 were ugly). He ended up hitting 6 fairways and hit his irons as crisply as I've seen and putted pretty well too. He still shot a 48 to my 43, not sure how that happened.
I've got to figure out a time when I can mow my yard again. I just mowed on Saturday for the first time in nearly 2 months but with all this rain we've had I could have mowed again on Tuesday. And I should have, since I had golf last night, hockey tonight, golf tomorrow night, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Looks like maybe Tuesday now but it'll be 3 feet high by then. I'll try to get off at noon on Friday and get it done before we go golfing. It's the only chance I'll have.
And then there's the Brewers... I guess this was to be expected with such a young team. They're feeling the heat of a pennant race and not responding well. The pitching staff is getting beaten like a rented mule and the offense only seems capable of hitting a few solo homers each game. Mean time the Cardinals have come alive, like a defending WS champ should and have closed to 3 1/2 games. Some people said I was nuts when I said "don't count the Cards out yet" when they were 8 1/2 back a few weeks ago. Who's nuts now? Brewers are in a must win situation today, with Dave Bush trying to get the first win by a starting pitcher since August 3rd today at 1pm. If there's a silver lining to any of this it's that they're still in 1st and the Cubs truly suck.
Gabe Gross was called up yesterday and Chris Spurling sent down. Look for Gross, who hit .355 in 20 games at Nashville, to be in the starting lineup today. Also, Prince Fielder was suspended for 3 games for his ejection/tirade in Houston Saturday. He has appealed.
Think happy thoughts and have a great Thursday.
Retro played very well after the 2nd hole (the first 2 were ugly). He ended up hitting 6 fairways and hit his irons as crisply as I've seen and putted pretty well too. He still shot a 48 to my 43, not sure how that happened.
I've got to figure out a time when I can mow my yard again. I just mowed on Saturday for the first time in nearly 2 months but with all this rain we've had I could have mowed again on Tuesday. And I should have, since I had golf last night, hockey tonight, golf tomorrow night, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Looks like maybe Tuesday now but it'll be 3 feet high by then. I'll try to get off at noon on Friday and get it done before we go golfing. It's the only chance I'll have.
And then there's the Brewers... I guess this was to be expected with such a young team. They're feeling the heat of a pennant race and not responding well. The pitching staff is getting beaten like a rented mule and the offense only seems capable of hitting a few solo homers each game. Mean time the Cardinals have come alive, like a defending WS champ should and have closed to 3 1/2 games. Some people said I was nuts when I said "don't count the Cards out yet" when they were 8 1/2 back a few weeks ago. Who's nuts now? Brewers are in a must win situation today, with Dave Bush trying to get the first win by a starting pitcher since August 3rd today at 1pm. If there's a silver lining to any of this it's that they're still in 1st and the Cubs truly suck.
Gabe Gross was called up yesterday and Chris Spurling sent down. Look for Gross, who hit .355 in 20 games at Nashville, to be in the starting lineup today. Also, Prince Fielder was suspended for 3 games for his ejection/tirade in Houston Saturday. He has appealed.
Think happy thoughts and have a great Thursday.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Rain Rain...
Go away! Just fuck off already! Why can't it just be nice? Let's just go from 90 and super humid to t-storms. What ever happened to just being 75 and sunny? Oh yeah, global warming, that's right. We're all gonna die... I think Al Gore's jet just went over my house. I hope he turned the lights off at home before he left.
Today looks horrible for golf. Hold on, album over, need to pick a new one to listen to on my ipod. I still need to sell this thing so I can justify an iPhone. Anyone want an 80 gb ipod video? Only a year old, perfect condition. New $350, yours for only $275. What a deal... email me.
Ok, Audioslave over, Black Crowes now.
Where was I? Oh yeah, rain bad... golf league tonight. Last night of regular season. Not sure what would happen if we got rained out. We typically don't make anything up.
Did I mention I want the rain to stop? After golf today, I'm also golfing Friday night (9 holes with Cdubya and my sister and her husband), then Saturday and Sunday we have the Door Creek Club Championship. Forecast for Saturday is 69 and rain. Sunday, 76 and rain. Not ideal conditions. Maybe I have an advantage in the rain though, considering my 15 years of golfing in Seattle where if you don't golf in the rain, you don't golf.
Then Monday I'm subbing in the company league again. Cdubya is showing considerable patience with the amount of golfing I'm doing. She hasn't complained once. Could be that she just enjoys me not being around. I find that hard to believe as I am quite charming and a joy to be around. :) Shut up, you know it's true!
While I was bbq'ing last night I saw Retro out in his backyard practicing his chipping towards a bucket. He must have been out there an hour, still in his work clothes I might add. I asked him this morning if he's got it all figured out now. His reply: "no, i'm no good at this game." I see he's finally reached the knowledge the rest of us already knew. It's probably good that he realizes that 3 days before the club championship. Still time to give up and focus on buying a new minivan for his ever increasing family. :) (Just kidding Retro, you can do it! You'll win, I know it! hahahaha, sorry, couldn't say that without laughing, I'm soooo funny)
Jeez, I'm rambling so much this is starting to feel like a Grinder post (without the "special" spelling).
Ok, I'm done. I need to update another dozen sequence diagrams for these lazy motherfuckers... it's killing me.
Later.
Today looks horrible for golf. Hold on, album over, need to pick a new one to listen to on my ipod. I still need to sell this thing so I can justify an iPhone. Anyone want an 80 gb ipod video? Only a year old, perfect condition. New $350, yours for only $275. What a deal... email me.
Ok, Audioslave over, Black Crowes now.
Where was I? Oh yeah, rain bad... golf league tonight. Last night of regular season. Not sure what would happen if we got rained out. We typically don't make anything up.
Did I mention I want the rain to stop? After golf today, I'm also golfing Friday night (9 holes with Cdubya and my sister and her husband), then Saturday and Sunday we have the Door Creek Club Championship. Forecast for Saturday is 69 and rain. Sunday, 76 and rain. Not ideal conditions. Maybe I have an advantage in the rain though, considering my 15 years of golfing in Seattle where if you don't golf in the rain, you don't golf.
Then Monday I'm subbing in the company league again. Cdubya is showing considerable patience with the amount of golfing I'm doing. She hasn't complained once. Could be that she just enjoys me not being around. I find that hard to believe as I am quite charming and a joy to be around. :) Shut up, you know it's true!
While I was bbq'ing last night I saw Retro out in his backyard practicing his chipping towards a bucket. He must have been out there an hour, still in his work clothes I might add. I asked him this morning if he's got it all figured out now. His reply: "no, i'm no good at this game." I see he's finally reached the knowledge the rest of us already knew. It's probably good that he realizes that 3 days before the club championship. Still time to give up and focus on buying a new minivan for his ever increasing family. :) (Just kidding Retro, you can do it! You'll win, I know it! hahahaha, sorry, couldn't say that without laughing, I'm soooo funny)
Jeez, I'm rambling so much this is starting to feel like a Grinder post (without the "special" spelling).
Ok, I'm done. I need to update another dozen sequence diagrams for these lazy motherfuckers... it's killing me.
Later.
Monday, August 13, 2007
New Favorite Show
A couple people mentioned they really liked "Gene Simmons: Family Jewels" in the past couple weeks and I found 4 episodes back to back on A&E last night so I thought we'd give them a try. And wouldn't you know it, the show was hilarious! It's my new favorite and I'll be setting up the tivo to record as many as I can. If you haven't seen it, give it one episode, it's only a half hour, and you'll be hooked.
Rock of Love is very close to being cut from my rotation. There's one woman on there that I like (Jes) and in no way would I want her to be in a relationship with Brett Michaels. For one thing, she's not a party-girl type and for another she's young enough to be his daughter and it makes me ill to think about it. The rest of the women are just bitches who cuss like sailors (or strippers of course). I think Brett should end up with one of the strippers since that fits his personality better and he'll just cheat on her anyway.
I watched Ghost Rider Saturday night (instead of suffering through a Packer pre-season game). It was ok, kind of interesting and pretty good special effects but one thing bugged me that I couldn't get out of my head. In the movie, Nicholas Cage is a stunt bike rider and he attempts to jump a football field from goal post to goal post (ramps on the outside of the posts). After he does it everyone keeps saying "300 feet, a new record!" Well, according to my memory the goal posts haven't been on the goal line in some 25 or so years. They're at the back which adds 20 yards to the jump. It was 360 feet you idiots. For some reason that kept bugging me.
I finished the last Harry Potter book yesterday. Best book of the series, by far. Great story and the finish kept you on the edge of your seat. Loved it.
In the world of golf (no, not the PGA with Tiger winning again) we played a free round at the Oaks. After complaining about how crappy our round was last time (5.5 hours with no beer cart service) the head pro gave us a chance to do it again. This time the course was dead (sunny Sunday morning at 9am and it's dead?) and we played in 3:45. Much better. I played up and down, hitting some good shots and some terrible ones. Shot a 90 (45/45). Not sure if I'm ready for this weekend's club championship at Door Creek or not. My goal is 160 for the 36 holes. I would pretty much have to shoot my best round 2 days in a row. Not likely to happen.
Rock of Love is very close to being cut from my rotation. There's one woman on there that I like (Jes) and in no way would I want her to be in a relationship with Brett Michaels. For one thing, she's not a party-girl type and for another she's young enough to be his daughter and it makes me ill to think about it. The rest of the women are just bitches who cuss like sailors (or strippers of course). I think Brett should end up with one of the strippers since that fits his personality better and he'll just cheat on her anyway.
I watched Ghost Rider Saturday night (instead of suffering through a Packer pre-season game). It was ok, kind of interesting and pretty good special effects but one thing bugged me that I couldn't get out of my head. In the movie, Nicholas Cage is a stunt bike rider and he attempts to jump a football field from goal post to goal post (ramps on the outside of the posts). After he does it everyone keeps saying "300 feet, a new record!" Well, according to my memory the goal posts haven't been on the goal line in some 25 or so years. They're at the back which adds 20 yards to the jump. It was 360 feet you idiots. For some reason that kept bugging me.
I finished the last Harry Potter book yesterday. Best book of the series, by far. Great story and the finish kept you on the edge of your seat. Loved it.
In the world of golf (no, not the PGA with Tiger winning again) we played a free round at the Oaks. After complaining about how crappy our round was last time (5.5 hours with no beer cart service) the head pro gave us a chance to do it again. This time the course was dead (sunny Sunday morning at 9am and it's dead?) and we played in 3:45. Much better. I played up and down, hitting some good shots and some terrible ones. Shot a 90 (45/45). Not sure if I'm ready for this weekend's club championship at Door Creek or not. My goal is 160 for the 36 holes. I would pretty much have to shoot my best round 2 days in a row. Not likely to happen.
Friday, August 10, 2007
From bad to worse
Our hockey losing streak has now reached 5 straight after a 7-2 drubbing last night. Once again (2nd week in a row) we were stuck with Roger in goal. I don't want to say he's bad but... yeah, he's downright awful. I swear he has no peripheral vision. Shit that had no business going in continues to go right by him. It wouldn't be so bad if there was another crappy goalie to match up with him but he's far and away the worst there is. We lose by 5 but dominated the game. How in the fuck does that work? We hold the puck in their zone for minutes at a time peppering their goalie but we can't get one by him. They finally get the puck out, skate down, take a weak ass shot and score. And once again, he gives up 2 goals in the first minute of the game so we're automatically playing from behind. That's disheartening. We were down 3-0 and staged a mini-comeback getting it to 3-2 and then they got a breakaway and it was the turning point in the game. If Roger makes the save we gain momentum and possibly catch them. However, Roger couldn't come up with it and that was all she wrote.
Strange drive home after the game too (10:45pm). The temp was 71 and the dewpoint must have been the same because the air was so thick you could hardly breathe. There was a ton of fog and I could not keep my windshield clear despite all the windows open and the a/c cranked and on defrost. I'm sick of the humidity!
Strange drive home after the game too (10:45pm). The temp was 71 and the dewpoint must have been the same because the air was so thick you could hardly breathe. There was a ton of fog and I could not keep my windshield clear despite all the windows open and the a/c cranked and on defrost. I'm sick of the humidity!
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Not that bad
I'd have to say that the weather was not that bad last night. In the midst of having an awfully humid week it turned out to be slightly less humid and with a nice cloud cover and light breeze it was quite tolerable in golf league.
I played just ok. 3 pars, 5 bogies and a double (on a par 5 I should not be doubling but I hit a horrendous drive and couldn't recover) for a 43. That's about average for me I guess. Not sure how we did as a team but probably not very well and Balderdash hacked his way through the first 4 holes at 11 over and finished with a 50. Man, he is getting heavy... I don't think a 170 lb man should have to carry a 290 lb man. Just not fair. And to make matters worse, next week is the end of the 2nd half and I'm pretty sure we don't have a chance unless we maybe win 20-0, which is pretty much impossible.
I think I have found my proper number of beers per 9 holes as well. The number is 4. At 4 I was hitting my drives and my irons nicely as I was properly lubricated. And after beer 5 I was still doing that but unfortunately the fine motor skills were impacted and I couldn't chip or putt properly. Gotta remember that.
Even got Retro to have a few beers but of course, being the lightweight he is, he was hammered after 3 and started getting pretty loud and loopy. I think his beer number is 1. :)
I played just ok. 3 pars, 5 bogies and a double (on a par 5 I should not be doubling but I hit a horrendous drive and couldn't recover) for a 43. That's about average for me I guess. Not sure how we did as a team but probably not very well and Balderdash hacked his way through the first 4 holes at 11 over and finished with a 50. Man, he is getting heavy... I don't think a 170 lb man should have to carry a 290 lb man. Just not fair. And to make matters worse, next week is the end of the 2nd half and I'm pretty sure we don't have a chance unless we maybe win 20-0, which is pretty much impossible.
I think I have found my proper number of beers per 9 holes as well. The number is 4. At 4 I was hitting my drives and my irons nicely as I was properly lubricated. And after beer 5 I was still doing that but unfortunately the fine motor skills were impacted and I couldn't chip or putt properly. Gotta remember that.
Even got Retro to have a few beers but of course, being the lightweight he is, he was hammered after 3 and started getting pretty loud and loopy. I think his beer number is 1. :)
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
First Eagle
I had my first eagle ever last night, subbing at the Oaks. It was on the first hole we played which was the 4th. It is an uphill par 5, usually playing 526 from the black tees but the tees were up yesterday, probably only playing about 480.
I hit a fairly good drive that must have caught a downslope and rolled quite aways. I ended up just on the right edge of the fairway, about 186 yards out. I took out a 5 iron and hit it nice and smooth. I knew it had a great line on it but since the green is so much higher and has bunkers in front of it I couldn't tell where it ended up.
As I walked around the bunkers I saw a ball on the green and as I got closer I realized it was actually pretty damn close to the pin. Ended up only being 3 feet away. Buried the putt for a 3. Not too long ago I gagged one from similar range so I was happy to get that one down.
Of course, from that point on I was mostly crap. I ended up 3 putting for double from short range on the next hole, then falling apart on the next for a snowman. I ended up shooting a 50 taking double, triple and quad on the par 4's while going bogey, double and triple on the par 3's. I was -1 on the par 5's (eagle, par, bogey).
Oh well, those greens are really tough and I 3 putted 3 times. I also 1 putted 4 times so it wasn't really a putting problem as much as putting myself into some bad situations and losing a couple balls.
And while I realize that 85 is not a hot temperature, the humidity and lack of any breeze at all made it miserable. We were all completely soaked after 2 holes. No matter what you did you couldn't dry off. Made it difficult to hang on to the club because you couldn't keep your hands dry. Might have been better to wear two gloves but it was so hot I could barely stand having one glove on. Oh well.
The Brewers and Cubs both lost last night, while the Cards won again to cut the Brewers lead over them to 7 games. I don't think the Cards have enough pitching to seriously make a run but I thought the same thing last year, even when they had Chris Carpenter still. I guess I can't count them out as they are the defending WS champs.
I hit a fairly good drive that must have caught a downslope and rolled quite aways. I ended up just on the right edge of the fairway, about 186 yards out. I took out a 5 iron and hit it nice and smooth. I knew it had a great line on it but since the green is so much higher and has bunkers in front of it I couldn't tell where it ended up.
As I walked around the bunkers I saw a ball on the green and as I got closer I realized it was actually pretty damn close to the pin. Ended up only being 3 feet away. Buried the putt for a 3. Not too long ago I gagged one from similar range so I was happy to get that one down.
Of course, from that point on I was mostly crap. I ended up 3 putting for double from short range on the next hole, then falling apart on the next for a snowman. I ended up shooting a 50 taking double, triple and quad on the par 4's while going bogey, double and triple on the par 3's. I was -1 on the par 5's (eagle, par, bogey).
Oh well, those greens are really tough and I 3 putted 3 times. I also 1 putted 4 times so it wasn't really a putting problem as much as putting myself into some bad situations and losing a couple balls.
And while I realize that 85 is not a hot temperature, the humidity and lack of any breeze at all made it miserable. We were all completely soaked after 2 holes. No matter what you did you couldn't dry off. Made it difficult to hang on to the club because you couldn't keep your hands dry. Might have been better to wear two gloves but it was so hot I could barely stand having one glove on. Oh well.
The Brewers and Cubs both lost last night, while the Cards won again to cut the Brewers lead over them to 7 games. I don't think the Cards have enough pitching to seriously make a run but I thought the same thing last year, even when they had Chris Carpenter still. I guess I can't count them out as they are the defending WS champs.
Monday, August 06, 2007
Rollercoaster ride
The Brewers are fucking with my emotions big time. Saturday night was one of the greatest comebacks of the year. Down 5-1 against Cole Hammels and the Phillies the chipped away to get it to 5-4. Then with 2 outs in the bottom of the 8th Prince Fielder crushes a Tom Gordon fastball 400 feet to give them the lead. Then in the top of the 9th Corey Hart leaps high above the right field fence to rob Taguchi of a game tying home run. Amazing...
Fast forward to Sunday. They jump all over the Phillies from the start, scoring 4 in the first and 2 more in the 4th. Staked to a 6-1 lead the Brewers coasted in, until the 9th... Matt Wise in to close it out gave up a runner and a 2 run homer to make it 6-3. He hasn't been the same since hitting Cinci's Pedro Lopez in the face a couple weeks ago. Yost summons Francisco Cordero from the pen to close it out. He gets 2 outs but then a couple hits. Ex-Brewer Wes Helms dumps one down the right field line for a double that makes it 6-4. A grounder that gets past rookie 3b sensation Ryan Braun (E5) ties the score. Cordero gets out of it but in the 11th the Phillies score twice off rookie Manny Parra with 2 outs. The Brewers get guys on 2nd and 3rd with 2 outs in the 11th. Yost goes to Estrada and he's intentionally walked to get to Craig Counsell, a career .411 hitter with the bases loaded. He smokes the first pitch he sees from Jose Mesa but it's lined directly into the Taguchi's glove at 2nd to end the game. A foot to the left and we're all tied up again. What a horrible way to lose.
Luckily Tom Glavine got his 300th win in Chicago as the Cubs stayed a game back. Now comes a tough stretch where the Brewers are back on the road (in Colorado to start tonight). The Cubs are going to have to deal with their own adversity as well as stud LF Alfonso Soriano injured his quad and is out 2-4 weeks. That won't help them any. It's going to be an interesting last 2 months of the season for sure.
Fast forward to Sunday. They jump all over the Phillies from the start, scoring 4 in the first and 2 more in the 4th. Staked to a 6-1 lead the Brewers coasted in, until the 9th... Matt Wise in to close it out gave up a runner and a 2 run homer to make it 6-3. He hasn't been the same since hitting Cinci's Pedro Lopez in the face a couple weeks ago. Yost summons Francisco Cordero from the pen to close it out. He gets 2 outs but then a couple hits. Ex-Brewer Wes Helms dumps one down the right field line for a double that makes it 6-4. A grounder that gets past rookie 3b sensation Ryan Braun (E5) ties the score. Cordero gets out of it but in the 11th the Phillies score twice off rookie Manny Parra with 2 outs. The Brewers get guys on 2nd and 3rd with 2 outs in the 11th. Yost goes to Estrada and he's intentionally walked to get to Craig Counsell, a career .411 hitter with the bases loaded. He smokes the first pitch he sees from Jose Mesa but it's lined directly into the Taguchi's glove at 2nd to end the game. A foot to the left and we're all tied up again. What a horrible way to lose.
Luckily Tom Glavine got his 300th win in Chicago as the Cubs stayed a game back. Now comes a tough stretch where the Brewers are back on the road (in Colorado to start tonight). The Cubs are going to have to deal with their own adversity as well as stud LF Alfonso Soriano injured his quad and is out 2-4 weeks. That won't help them any. It's going to be an interesting last 2 months of the season for sure.
Friday, August 03, 2007
Golf/Brewer Day #9
Yesterday was the 9th annual Bubba/Adubya golf/brewer extravaganza. We left Cottage Grove at 5:45am heading for DeerTrak Golf Course just north of Oconomowoc. After a 10 minute detour due to some poor navigational skills by Bubba we made it to the course a little before 7. Lucky for us the course was pretty empty.
The course is pretty nice looking, enough trees, ponds, blind shots, etc to make it interesting but not super tight or long to make it too difficult. Only thing that bugged me constantly was the lack of yardage markers. I never saw a 200 marker and I think the longest mark I saw was 176. They did have 150 and 100 yard markers but that was about it. Many times we were left guessing the yardage.
I played ok in spurts and terribly at other times. Ended up shooting 43/47 for 90 while Bubba went 50/50 for 100. He probably would have beaten me on the back had he not had a nuclear meltdown on the last par 5 and took an 11. Or if he hadn't missed a half dozen short putts just to the right.
I had a couple nice shots. On a par 4 where you have to lay up short of a creek I hit a 6 iron from 178 yards to a back pin that stuck about 5' from the hole and I made the birdie. Almost had the chip of my life on another hole. After thinning a lob wedge from about 30 yards clear over the green and under a tree, I punched out into the rough above the green. It was a 2 tiered green with the pin down on the lower tier. I chipped just to the edge of the green and it barely made the down slope and turned and went right at the hole and missed by a fraction of an inch. I made the putt to salvage a bogey.
I putted pretty well with the new putter, 1-putting 4 times on the front 9. I did have a couple of 3 putts, one where I was about 100 feet away and the other where I rammed it past the hole too far. All in all, I'm pretty excited about it.
We finished golf about 10:30 and our plan was to head to the game and eat at Friday's grill at Miller Park. Unfortunately we hit some traffic on the way to Milwaukee (opening day of the state fair) and didn't get there till 11:45 and by then Friday's had a 45 minute wait so we just ate from the concession stands (polish and a hot dog). We grabbed a beer and drank it but it was so hot that even beer didn't taste good (oh my god, did I just say that?), so we pretty much stuck to water.
Craig's choice of seats, while a good thought, was not comfortable. We were 8 rows from the field just past 3rd base, which is directly under the sun the entire game. I don't think I've ever sweated so much just sitting still before. And to make matters worse we were situated amongst dozens of Mets fans, including one woman I referred to as "the stalker" who was alone, in all her Mets gear with a sign that said "The Future Mrs. David Wright." As the game wore on she kept getting closer to the field. I was certain she would be running on the field at some point to attack Wright. She didn't, but I'm sure she was waiting for him at the team hotel.
As for Wright and the rest of the Mets, they put an ass kicking on our Brewers, 12-4. They are really looking like the pressure is too much for them. Lots of pop ups in clutch situations, bad pitching, Hardy made an error on a ball that didn't look that tough, and then Yost and Estrada get into some fight in the tunnel after the 7th inning. I still don't know what that was about. They need to get their shit together and soon.
We left in the bottom of the 9th and lucky we did. Traffic was awful when we left but half way home we heard a traffic report that said Miller Park to Moorland Road (8 miles) was taking 73 minutes. Phew, I didn't have enough left in me to handle that. We got back to Cottage Grove by 5:30.
I laid around for a couple hours then it was time for hockey. By the time I got to the game at 8:30 I was ready for some serious nap time. I ended up volunteering to go back on D since I knew I wouldn't have the energy to play up front. We ended up losing 8-3. Our goalie didn't help matters at all, allowing 3 goals from behind the goal! He's really bad and I pretty much gave up trying to hard by the beginning of the 3rd period.
Got home around 11, quick shower and straight to bed. Usually I can't sleep after a game and have to stay up for at least an hour but not last night.
We'll see if I can make it through a full day of work today.
The course is pretty nice looking, enough trees, ponds, blind shots, etc to make it interesting but not super tight or long to make it too difficult. Only thing that bugged me constantly was the lack of yardage markers. I never saw a 200 marker and I think the longest mark I saw was 176. They did have 150 and 100 yard markers but that was about it. Many times we were left guessing the yardage.
I played ok in spurts and terribly at other times. Ended up shooting 43/47 for 90 while Bubba went 50/50 for 100. He probably would have beaten me on the back had he not had a nuclear meltdown on the last par 5 and took an 11. Or if he hadn't missed a half dozen short putts just to the right.
I had a couple nice shots. On a par 4 where you have to lay up short of a creek I hit a 6 iron from 178 yards to a back pin that stuck about 5' from the hole and I made the birdie. Almost had the chip of my life on another hole. After thinning a lob wedge from about 30 yards clear over the green and under a tree, I punched out into the rough above the green. It was a 2 tiered green with the pin down on the lower tier. I chipped just to the edge of the green and it barely made the down slope and turned and went right at the hole and missed by a fraction of an inch. I made the putt to salvage a bogey.
I putted pretty well with the new putter, 1-putting 4 times on the front 9. I did have a couple of 3 putts, one where I was about 100 feet away and the other where I rammed it past the hole too far. All in all, I'm pretty excited about it.
We finished golf about 10:30 and our plan was to head to the game and eat at Friday's grill at Miller Park. Unfortunately we hit some traffic on the way to Milwaukee (opening day of the state fair) and didn't get there till 11:45 and by then Friday's had a 45 minute wait so we just ate from the concession stands (polish and a hot dog). We grabbed a beer and drank it but it was so hot that even beer didn't taste good (oh my god, did I just say that?), so we pretty much stuck to water.
Craig's choice of seats, while a good thought, was not comfortable. We were 8 rows from the field just past 3rd base, which is directly under the sun the entire game. I don't think I've ever sweated so much just sitting still before. And to make matters worse we were situated amongst dozens of Mets fans, including one woman I referred to as "the stalker" who was alone, in all her Mets gear with a sign that said "The Future Mrs. David Wright." As the game wore on she kept getting closer to the field. I was certain she would be running on the field at some point to attack Wright. She didn't, but I'm sure she was waiting for him at the team hotel.
As for Wright and the rest of the Mets, they put an ass kicking on our Brewers, 12-4. They are really looking like the pressure is too much for them. Lots of pop ups in clutch situations, bad pitching, Hardy made an error on a ball that didn't look that tough, and then Yost and Estrada get into some fight in the tunnel after the 7th inning. I still don't know what that was about. They need to get their shit together and soon.
We left in the bottom of the 9th and lucky we did. Traffic was awful when we left but half way home we heard a traffic report that said Miller Park to Moorland Road (8 miles) was taking 73 minutes. Phew, I didn't have enough left in me to handle that. We got back to Cottage Grove by 5:30.
I laid around for a couple hours then it was time for hockey. By the time I got to the game at 8:30 I was ready for some serious nap time. I ended up volunteering to go back on D since I knew I wouldn't have the energy to play up front. We ended up losing 8-3. Our goalie didn't help matters at all, allowing 3 goals from behind the goal! He's really bad and I pretty much gave up trying to hard by the beginning of the 3rd period.
Got home around 11, quick shower and straight to bed. Usually I can't sleep after a game and have to stay up for at least an hour but not last night.
We'll see if I can make it through a full day of work today.
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