Monday, January 19, 2004

Free to Fast, Free to Fast...

Happy MLK day!
  As I mentioned yesterday, my wife has put us on the South Beach Diet. It's similar to Atkins but only gets real anti-carb in the strictest phase. The author recommends not exceeding two weeks on the strictest phase as you will likely get burnt out on just how boring the foods you are eating are and will throw the diet out the window. In the second phase the carb denial relaxes down from Nazi to Catholic Schoolteacher levels. If we stick with this I recommend looking in to lettuce futures.
  The book for this diet sucked. Lexie agreed, "What do editors do, anyway? 'Cause it sure isn't editing." The author repeats some ideas (read paragraphs) several times. He makes references to what he has already covered, but hasn't. He leaves a number of points unfinished and unsupported. It doesn't cover enough about what the diet will do to your whole system. Caveat Emptor.

  I did a little reorganizing in my comic boxes today. I made a little more room in the "live titles" boxes -- those for my current subs. Sometime I will have to get rid of some of that stuff. I just keep on figuring that Kevin will be old enough to have an interest in three to five years. Of course I'll have to do some age appropriate filtering at that point.
  I got a round of golf in again today. It was a little cooler, maybe 69 or 70. But there was no wind. I took the full bag of discs and had a great round. I tied my best round ever at two over.

Requested scoring discussion:
Instead of trying to remember eighteen different one digit numbers, I thought it would be easier to remember six numbers of up to three digits. I devised a little code that represents my variation from par. I hope never to be eight or nine strokes over par, so I use those numbers for eagles and birdies respectively. Today, I remembered my score as: zero, one hundred, ninety-two, zero, one-oh-nine, one-ninety. Here are the eighteen scores numerically: 000 100 092 - 000 109 190. In other words, I bogeyed baskets four, thirteen, & sixteen, double-bogeyed nine, and birdied eight, fifteen and seventeen.
  This was only my second time to birdie at fifteen. It's the only par four on the course. The first time was when I played with Dad when they were here for Christmas. Twice in a month is pretty cool.   When I went out with the preacher last week, I finally birdied eleven which made up for, in my mind, the lousy rest of the round.
  Kevin used the word "apparently" today. Kids really are biodregradable tape recorders, apparently.

Posted to Family and Home at January 19, 2004 11:01 PM
Comments

"biodegradable tape recorders" I must remember that.

Mine haven't degraded much. They seem to have the odd quality of upgrading themselves if you keep putting stuff in the little hole up front. We're at 15 years and still upgrading. I hear at some point they will break down and turn to dirt of all things.

what a weird world.

Posted by: Gordon at February 4, 2004 9:55 PM