I successfully picked 85.8% of the NCAA tourney, the same as Dick Vitale and better than Stephen A Smith’s 74.7% and Hannah Storm’s 72.6%. More than Scott Van Pelt and Mike Greenberg and Jason Kelce. I picked the Final Four, though since all four #1 seeds advanced, so did over a million others. I am third in my office pool, out of nine. Both the guys ahead of me also picked Duke to win, so third is where I will finish.
Golf Saturday morning. I wanted to recap my round to remember all the good shots I hit. I’m improving right when the course is closing down. I teed off at 7 am.
1. Tee shot faded left. Great 6 iron. Chip took off right. Lag putts weren’t good. Double.
2. Decent 6 iron off tee. Poor chips. Double.
3. Mulligan got a great roll to the fringe. Lags weren’t that great. Bogey.
4. Great 6 iron onto the green, with a lightball ball (which doesn’t carry as far). Two putt for par.
5. Hit both my tee shots onto the green, both lightup balls. Glorious. Lags weren’t the greatest. Bogey.
6. Hit a great hybrid past all the rough, near the 150 yard marker. Flubbed two lightup balls with my 5 irons, then rocketed my third attempt to the distant fringe. I was putting for birdie. Missed, so I had to settle for a par.
7. Hit another good hybrid, most of the way up the hill. Then two 5 irons that weren’t the greatest. I was under a tree, so I pulled out my 3 iron to hit a low shot, knowing it was too much club. Hit a nice shot, but wasn’t surprised when it rolled off the side of the green. Call it a double.
8. Hit an okay drive. Hit an 8 iron onto the green, though it settled at the opposite end of the hole. Long lags. Bogey.
9. My tee shot felt good but I couldn’t find it. Two terrible chips. Lags weren’t good either, on the sloped greens. Double. Finished at 8:10 am.
Back home I puttered around the house. At 6 pm Ceil asked if I was ready to go. Where? I asked. I wasn’t ready to go anywhere.
Young Jimmy Ewing’s birthday party. They’re selling their house on River Springs Court, down the street from his dad’s house and Jim and Suzi Voyles. Mary Hurt was there. David Hurt had lost a tooth and didn’t come. When I told this to Ashley Corbitt, he said “So?” Ashley was talking mostly to older Jim Ewing, but I had a nice chat with Ashley’s wife Diane. Their condo in Vinings has a great view. I had forgotten that Ashley had gone into business with Steve Suggs and Steve’s friend Reid Meyer, who I’d worked with at Jim Suggs’ company.
Spoke for a while to Jim Voyles, who’s working on a deal to renovate five castles in Spain and Portugal. Suzi talked to Ceil and Mary. The Voyles' daughter arrived with her three daughters, who Ceil teaches at Veritas. Lots of good Jets Pizza to eat, those I ate only two squares. The Ewings are moving four miles south, still in Sandy Springs. Young George Ewing also made an appearance.
After church Sunday we walked to our cars with Scott and Robin Condra. Then we drove C to Costco, where we saw Kelly Curran. I grabbed a Costco hot dog and soda. Lazy Sunday after we got home. I did hit the gym this morning, and cranked the incline up higher than usual.
C spent Monday night at W&MCs to keep the girls. I went to CiCi’s Pizza for lunch. Shouldn’t have. But then I didn’t need supper.
The Six Players who can win the Masters. I shouldn’t share this.
Links to info on The Committee of 300, the World Economic Forum, the New World order, “overpopulation” control, etc. Scary stuff.
Article: phrases you say that tells others that you are out of touch – according to some kid just out of college. Thank goodness I already make an effort to refrain from saying them. Number one is sharing articles like this one. Just kidding. Number two is say “just kidding”. I need to compile a list of things that 20-somethings say that shows that they’re out of touch, but instead us older wiser folk just shake our heads, realizing that they’re just going to have to learn these things for themselves, since they’d never try to learn from an older generation (that’s #3 on this kid’s list).
Before Alfonso Soriano in 2000, MIKE GREENWELL [SABR Bio] was the last player to hit home runs for each of his first three major league hits, on 25-Sep-1985, 26-Sep-1985 & 01-Oct-1985. From 1985-1996, Greenwell played only for Boston. He was an All-Star in 1988 & 1989, and was a Silver Slugger in 1988. In 1997, he signed with the Hanshin Tigers in Japan — but his stint ended after seven games when he fractured his foot. He returned stateside, saying he’d had enough. He was replaced on their roster by Darnell Coles, playing the last professional baseball season of his career.
Denison: the less we understand God’s will, the more we need to trust it. Oswald Chambers observed, “Faith is not intelligent understanding; faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.” Bishop Charles Henry Brent agreed: “Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.” When our circumstances are most difficult, we are most likely to question the love and power of God in our lives. That we require his love and power the most.
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