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On the green

June 26th, 2008 11:31 pm —  86 views

It was a hot, humid, stormy, sunny day filled with creative thinking, reading, and interaction.

My alarm went off at 2:40 AM1 which I promptly reset for 4:402. Then my watch alarm went off at 2:45 AM which was in my closet and too far away to turn off. I just let it go. It didn’t seem like W. heard it though3. When it was finally time to get up, I put in my 3 miles on Octane then had breakfast with W.

Work was quiet for the most part. I spent most of my day answering emails. Some questions require a lot of thought, research, then careful articulation before you can hit “send.” Such is work.

Toward the end of the day I wrapped up a meeting and headed to the golf course. There was a crazy storm following me. Once at the clubhouse it hit and we had to hang out drinking Two-Hearted (so delicious) until it passed. And it did pass. I shot a 48. My partner shot a 39. I lost about 5 balls…maybe more. But it was a beautiful night so what the hell.

After the round we hung out on the deck at the clubhouse and had dinner. For some reason my blog came up and I mentioned it to K4. The blogosphere still fascinates me and I’m always curious to learn what people think about it. It is kind of crazy. Mortimer knows what I’m talking about as he got a look at my blog because he was confused.

So here it is, after 11 PM. I don’t normally stay up this late but I figured I’d pound out a post before I crashed. W. is probably asleep by now and my cats are waiting for their late-night snack so they can curl up and crash when I go to bed…which will be any minute.

My golf game started out crappy. Toward the end I picked it up…even had a couple pars. Overall I golfed just okay. I realize it doesn’t matter how I golf. What I appreciate is the interaction with people in the league and the people that run the golf course. A big thanks to the ranger at the first tee that just smiled and laughed instead of giving us a hard time. Maybe it isn’t so much about the game but who you play and how you get along that matters. Maybe how you play matters a little, but not that much.

Image: This is one of the many pictures I took tonight. Every week I take a couple dozen pictures of the round and the group we’re playing and post them to a private golf league site.

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  1. This is when I got up on Wednesday for a release at work. [↩]
  2. This is when I normally get up. It’s kind of sick, no? [↩]
  3. Sorry if it woke you up W. [↩]
  4. This one’s for you K. You know who you are. [↩]

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  1. Dawn on June 27th, 2008 11:09 am

    I don’t play golf…so I wonder…how do you keep track of who should be putting which golf ball?

  2. Spike on June 27th, 2008 4:41 pm

    There are many brands of golf balls so most people just keep track of which brand and type of ball they’re playing.

    Some people make a distinctive mark on their ball with a permanent marker or stamp.

    But it can be confusing sometimes if you’re playing with a common ball like a Nike or Titleist . I’ve had people on other holes mistake my ball for theirs and play it or pick it up as a “lost ball.”

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