Monday, August 8, 2011

FORE!!! Your King is Constantly Hollering

After my last world hating tirade, as epitomized by my last ramblings, your King actually had a decent weekend...for once. So I am temporarily in a good mood until my next headache comes around the corner which, knowing my luck, should be rather soon.
I participated in a golf tournament down in Geneseo and my team, I hope you are seated firmly, actually won the bloody thing. It was the Superintendents Cup, which is a fund raiser for the course to make improvements, and we won going away. Second place was eight strokes behind us. It was funny as we are all about the same type of golfer, which is a stroke or two around a twenty handicap, we all seemed to gel on this day. It was a best ball tournament so we had to play our own shots and we all played well. With the type of scoring system that was to be used we were fearing the par three holes, where you had to take three of the net scores, but our fears were unfounded as we ate up the par threes. In fact our net score as a team was four under on the dreaded par three eleventh hole alone. Par for the tourney was 136 and we finished with a 104. Go figure.
We also played our little tourney within the tourney that we usually play on weekends and I finished with a twenty three which is a plus six in relation to my normal score. I thought I had a good chance for second place, as my team mate had a plus 13 and left me in his rear view mirror as he shot lights out for the day. Boy was I wrong, Our other foursome had three scores that equalled or tied it. I finally had a good day but others had better days. But we won the cup. I am happy with that as it was a team effort and I am all about the team. I then used my Pro Shop dollars and got myself another dozen of those great Titleist ProV-1 balls that do not go BOING when they land on the green. It is nice when you land the ball on the green and it sticks, instead of stinks.
How about that stock market!!! In my last blog I said it was just starting to head south. Boy was I wrong as it grabbed a flight out of NY this morning and headed straight for Antarctica. For that I thank the mindless stooges that we have elected to serve us in Washington D.C. They served us alright, right down the river as they only care about themselves instead of the good of the country. I guess I will now have to work until I am about eighty and with a little bit of luck I will kick the bucket a month after my retirement, which will be about as long as my 401Ks will last, thanks to the jerks in Washington, so I won't have to worry about running out of money.  I should not have written about the stock market as my pissy mood is quickly returning so I had better quit for the night. My only wish is for Washington D.C. to somehow magically disappear overnight. If we could only get that lucky. Good night.

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