This month eBay charged ME $16.02 for having two vintage discs in a dormant store.
If I’m going to be charged for a store that has been inactive for about 6 months at least I paid $16.02 for a cool little coincidence that I can post to by blah blah blah’g. Can I write that off now?
Miniac PDGA #1602
The grounds crew at Turkey Lake made another pass through the new fairway #1 of T2 and I’m starting to think that I’m not going to be (perceived as) nearly the jerk I was expecting to be. The 2nd leg of the fairway is starting to take an interesting shape. I’d say we need one more 2 hour work day to clean up a few more airborne vines and at least the same amount on the ground and we’ll have a first hole to remember. As I’ve said before, it is a more aggressive challenge than I would like for the first hole, but I think it is evolving into a pretty tasty fairway. Shown is the green (novice) tee. A good first drive from the red or blue tee will land you in this area.
I’ve got a proposal to split into two for a project in S. FL, a Grand Opening to plan in Mt. Dora, an informal experimental temp course event to plan, parks to look at, meeting follow ups, attempts to fix problems with courses we started and the client finished, grant applications, book keeping. Discs to order.
Startin to sound like a real job? Believe it! We have all this without the benefit of getting paid for most of what we do.
12-25 Christmas Day
I drove the 2 hours down to Sarasota to have brunch with the family. After everyone else bailed out, I stuck around at my bro’s place long enough to check out his new BMW Z4 that he bid for on eBay and unintentionally won it. Woops!
I detoured north to Clearwater to find T Murph who dyed a few discs for me. I only had his home # and he wasn’t there. So I stuck around Cliff Stevens dgc long enough to try out the new Innova Katana. Yeowww, Now THAT’S my kind of disc! Very fast and a very neutral stability level. A very long straight flyer. (rubbing hands together…) excellent!!!
It was after dark, and I still couldn’t reach Murph. I knew there was a player Christmas party nearby but could not remember where the house was. Finally a player that I know, Don Rowden, dro
ve by me and recognized the World Champion Disc Golf Design logo on my van and stopped to talk to me. He gave me directions to the house. Whew!
Murph was playing a kind of card game called “Apples to Apples”. Oh, and he forgot to bring the discs. When the game eventually ended, I drove him to his house and picked up the discs. They looked great, so I gave him 3 more to do, took him back to the party…ate a little more finger food and drove the remaining two hours home.
12-26 Jam Time!
A left coast (WA) freestyler by the name of Rick Sader was in the Orlando area visiting family and we convinced him to come into town for a jam. He has a very solid counter game and can also handle clock very well. We played 3 hours without a break before his family came to pick him up.
To say I was sore afterward was akin to saying that Climo is a decent disc golfer. I did the yoga thing and substantially less Aleve than I wanted, then more stretching. I was afraid to lie down because I didn’t want to cramp up. Eventually, I went to bed around 2AM. At 4:30 am I decided to try a sleep aid.
12-27 Date Night
The sleep aid may have worked but it was hard to tell. Around 9:30 AM I figured I may as well get up and go to play some Ultimate, since a little “hair-of-the-dog” treatment for my screaming legs and hips was about the only way to get them to loosen up.
Our Sunday AM league is a pretty laid back game of Ultimate since most people just want to throw the “hail Mary” pass, instead of, as one Ultimate player pointed out, working through it and feeling the pain and suffering that Mary did.
Shortly thereafter, I personified that statement by laying out for a dive catch and tuck roll. The roll wasn’t as smooth as in years past and it hurt quite a bit, but at least my next throw scored on the play. Mercifully, the game ended a couple of plays later.
I got a call from Chad, my WCDGD partner, whose father plays disc golf and is in town. We considered going out to Turkey Lake for a round, I was thinking it might be a good way to cool down from Ultimate without just lying down and cramping up. But the weather forecast called for rain and they moved on to other diversions. Instead, I stretched a bit, did some emails and fell asleep in my big fat chair after incessantly beating on my glutes and hips with my “thumper” vibrator.
Getting out of the chair was more strenuous than the horizontal layout had been earlier in the day. I went for a short walk and decided to take a longer walk and work on my mini airbrushing since I am to be doing a segment on minis at Jam Camp, which was only a few days away. Airbrushing wasn’t too painful. Picking up the mini when I dropped it… was.
Got a “jones” for Chicken Lasagna, so I went to the local grocery store and picked some up. Once it went in the oven, I decided to make a massive batch of gorp (nuts & dried fruit) for the upcoming trip. I was shaking a container of dates to break up the clusters and the lid came loose. I spent the next 20 minutes picking up tiny pieces of date all over the kitchen and dining room. (Wow, that could be taken out of context) That’s about the closest thing to a “date night” I’ve had in a while.
(Hey J.T. SHUT UUUUUUP!)
Tomorrow: Cleaning up my room and van so I can actually FIND the stuff I need to pack for Wednesday’s flight.