...Maybe I'll try publishing a blog entry once per week. I think I can vividly remember seven days, don't you think? I mean I am getting pretty stinking old... 67, and that was over a month ago... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! For someone who always believed that he'd be dead before he turned 30, reaching 67 still comes as somewhat of a surprise.
Let's see, since Monday, August 16, 2018, I've played three rounds of golf, did some housework, played Lego City: Undercover for several hours, taken about three one-hour naps, cleaned my RAV4's headlight cover (by the way, if you're car's headlamps aren't really fogged due to oxidation of the plastic, you can keep them clean by taking Soft Scrub, water in a spray bottle, and two rags, infinitely cheaper than the $40 they charge at the car wash), sprayed all of the door and window edges with bug spray (now that Green Tree is no longer spraying, the bug population in Leisure Town has exploded), and a couple of other things that probably aren't appropriate for my blog.
In short, it's been a busy, yet enjoyably restful week. The three rounds of golf are becoming status quo for the "Three Amigos" (Bill Case, John Baranowski, and myself). Bill and I have a Monday, Wednesday, Friday rhythm going, John plays almost every day, somewhere, but he plays with Bill and me on Wednesdays and Fridays (mostly). John is 11 months and a day older than me, Bill is 16 months older, so I'm the young-un when we play. John is also an 8 handicap golfer, Bill is a 25, and I'm somewhere between 18 and 22. I was, long ago, a 9, but that ended with my stroke in '02. I forgot to mention that we've all known each other for over 50 years, much longer than I like to admit.
Lego City: Undercover is my little "secret pleasure". I can lose 2, 3 hours playing the PS4 version, trying to find places where the designers hid stuff. On the surface, I'm on Level 15, I have all of the people, with all of the skills I need to go anywhere in the Lego City complex, except the statue in the Harbor. I put it on mute, sometimes, and listen to some music, and have my characters run around, trying to find all of the little doo-dads. I'm supposed to be rescuing my old girlfriend, Natalia, but she's on a space ship, headed for the moon, and the ship can't leave until I get there. It's really good for hand/eye coordination (which helps in golf), and it keeps me mentally active, trying to figure out how to get to the items I find in the game. Seriously, if you're afraid you are deteriorating mentally, try gaming. Most of the games are violent, or have some aspect of violence associated with playing. Lego City allows you to stun people, and run over them with vehicles, but they get back up, or, since your character (Chase McCain) is an undercover policeman, get arrested. There are fights, where you must use your Karate skills to subdue gang members, but they must be arrested (handcuffed) if you are to proceed.
The one-hour naps are great. Usually done on golf days, because it takes a lot out of me to play 18 holes of golf anymore. I will play nine holes, very occasionally, like when I've been ill, or sore, or tired, or whatever, I'm not such a purist to only play 18 hole rounds. In fact, I am such a non-traditionalist, that I've created my own golf association, The "Old Hippie's Golf Association," or the OHGA.
The first rule of the OHGA is that if you aren't enjoying yourself, you should go and be miserable somewhere else. The second rule is that the Rules of Golf, as determined by the members of the Royal and Olden, and the USGA, are merely guidelines, as often, their use as a means of determining penalties violates the spirit of the first rule.
Now you know why I like to play golf. I'm not playing for anything, I don't report my scores to anyone, and I'm way beyond playing in tournaments. I used to play for the walking, but since I can no longer walk 7,000 yards anymore, I play because it's always been a part of me. People call what I'm doing "cheating," and I say, it's only cheating if the score really means something. The way we play, it's more like fun. After all, "If you aren't enjoying yourself..."
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