1) Well, it has been tough to sit in front of my monitor typing out my usual bunch of garbage lately, if you haven't noticed, now that MSG is back on the air AND the Sabres actually playing like they should have been for the entire year and being worth watching. Miller has been a rock and the FES line of Stafford, Foligno and Ennis has been amazing. Watching them now begs the question "Why the three month period when they played like absolute crap??" I still think Ruff should go but this hot spell again will probably save his job. Look at St. Louis for example because after 13 games they sucked, trashed their coach and now have the best record in the whole bloody league. Man, I wonder what coach Ken Hitchcock could have done with the cast of players that Buffalo has. The Sabres are still too small, suck at faceoffs and need better centers. Ville Leino has been playing so much better lately so why now? His paycheck was the same size back in November as it is now. The trade of Kassian for Hodgson and Sulzer is looking decent so far but we do miss the Goose at the faceoff circle. They are two points into eighth place right now and they have a tough schedule finishing up. Well let us hope that they make it.
2) It is always nice having someone who is used to drive fast doing the driving to Myrtle Beach. We shaved at least an hour each off the trip down and back and that includes lengthy stops for chow. For the most part we ate rather well down in Myrtle. That is until someone saw a Ryan's buffet and recommended it for dinner and so we pulled in. OK. Your King did not travel 850 miles to eat at an Old Country Buffet but that is what we were stuck with. It was not bad but not what I want when I go to Myrtle. We made up for it the next day when your King treated the guys to a Calabash Seafood Buffet. The crab put up a valiant fight but in the end it was massacred. And we had an extra plus too with a hot Russian waitress taking care of us. She did have a fine butt but I am happily digressing. Man, I love these buffets but I think my days of getting my money's worth are coming to an end as I cannot chow down like I used to. What I did to the crab at the Seafare Restaurant only a few years ago is stuff of legends. It was such a massacre that they moved the restaurant far away from where I normally stay. Cowards!
3) The gorgeous spring weather that we had has now disappeared. For two straight weeks in March we had high temps of 60 or higher. I cannot recall in my whole life a stretch of weather like that. Now the weather has returned to normal and it sucks but I still may have to mow my front yard this weekend. Amazing.
Oh well, that is enough for tonight. I just wanted to type a bit to let you all know that I haven't died, much to your chagrin I bet. Man, it is 9:16 and I am almost ready to head for bed. Too many long days at work are taking its toll on me but I will try to get some exercise this weekend to try to get back into better shape this year so I can feel stronger when I have to put in long hours. No more riding carts for your King as I am walking the course this year! And it is about time!
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Your King Returns From Spring Training
It has been rather quiet here in Moronica for the last few weeks. I just haven't had much to write about and when I did I was just too lazy to do it. So I may as well write about my spring training golf trip to Myrtle Beach that I just returned from. Three friends of mine and I traveled to Myrtle to play four different courses this past week to get in some preparation for this year's upcoming golf season at the Livingston Country Club. The courses were, Heather Glen, Glen Dornach, Kings North and Long Bay. All four courses were great to play on with the best by far being Kings North.
Heather Glen featured 27 holes with lots of sand, water and waste areas. I played rather well on the course and shot a 91. On the third nine I shot a 41 and if I had only putted so-so for the whole day my scores would have been much better. I was constantly on the green in regulation but could not connect for birds, let alone in some cases pars. The greens were very fast and it was tough to get the speed right. It is a great course and I recommend playing it if you head down there.
Glen Dornach was a challenge. With more water and sand but fewer waste areas it was a tough but fair challenge that your King was not up to. I guess I was a little stiff from the day before and it showed as I played like I never held a club in my life. The last three holes on the course could be summed up in one word - bitches. With water, sand, waste areas and the intercoastal waterway coming into play they were three picturesque holes but a bitch to play. Not a good thing when you are playing badly. We played the back nine for our replay to get our extra nine in for the day and I played them marginally better finishing with a great par on eighteen.
Kings North, located at the Myrtle National Golf Course, was a treat. A truly beautiful and well maintained course with fairways that made it seem like you were playing on AstroTurf. I played much better and I was happy to shoot a 92 for my first eighteen holes. The course had many holes where you had to play shots over large expanses of water but I managed to stay dry. This course is a must play if you go to Myrtle. For our extra nine we played the front nine of the South Creek course. It was nowhere near as nice as Kings North but still presented challenges. It was here where I bagged my first 'house in one'. The hole's left side was lined with homes and as I hit my tee shot I cringed as I hooked it a bit left and plunked a house loudly. I did not look for that ball and moved quickly along feeling great shame.
Long Bay was probably the weakest of the four courses that we played but it was still an outstanding course. It featured a Jack Nicklaus designed hole from hell. Hole number ten featured a peninsula fairway surrounded by a waste area with lots of 'moguls' if you hit it outside of the waste areas. I guess I do not need to tell you where my first shot ended up now do I? I had moments of brilliance on the course but had too many nightmares leading to a below average round. My crowning achievement for the day was parring the tough eighteenth hole. It is a 380 yard long hole that had tons of water on the right all the way to the green. I blocked my tee shot a bit to the left leaving me 205 yards to the green from the left rough. It was not a pretty sight checking out my next shot and seeing the trouble surrounded the green so I took out my trusty seven wood, which showed up to play all week, and laced a fantastic shot to the middle of the green. I had a forty foot putt for bird that I just missed and tapped in for par. A great finish to my spring training trip as we then hopped in the van and headed for home after finishing up.
All in all it was a great trip as we ate well and had a good time, especially for your King as my wallet had a bit more moolah in it since I pretty much cleaned up on all of the side bet games that we played and I only lost one ball into the water. That in itself is amazing considering the amount of water I had to play over and around for the week. It was a lot of golf. ninety nine holes worth, crammed into a four day period. I am now almost ready for the season but I will need to work on my putting big time as the touch I had in January was nowhere to be seen in Myrtle. I will get to Livingston early tomorrow and spend some time chatting with my putter. If I can get that working, along with the few little changes I have made with my swing maybe I can show some serious improvement this season. I am tired of playing like an eighteen handicapper and I know I can knock that down a few pegs as I need to become more consistent. There is a bit more to write about the trip but I will save that for another posting.
Heather Glen featured 27 holes with lots of sand, water and waste areas. I played rather well on the course and shot a 91. On the third nine I shot a 41 and if I had only putted so-so for the whole day my scores would have been much better. I was constantly on the green in regulation but could not connect for birds, let alone in some cases pars. The greens were very fast and it was tough to get the speed right. It is a great course and I recommend playing it if you head down there.
Glen Dornach was a challenge. With more water and sand but fewer waste areas it was a tough but fair challenge that your King was not up to. I guess I was a little stiff from the day before and it showed as I played like I never held a club in my life. The last three holes on the course could be summed up in one word - bitches. With water, sand, waste areas and the intercoastal waterway coming into play they were three picturesque holes but a bitch to play. Not a good thing when you are playing badly. We played the back nine for our replay to get our extra nine in for the day and I played them marginally better finishing with a great par on eighteen.
Kings North, located at the Myrtle National Golf Course, was a treat. A truly beautiful and well maintained course with fairways that made it seem like you were playing on AstroTurf. I played much better and I was happy to shoot a 92 for my first eighteen holes. The course had many holes where you had to play shots over large expanses of water but I managed to stay dry. This course is a must play if you go to Myrtle. For our extra nine we played the front nine of the South Creek course. It was nowhere near as nice as Kings North but still presented challenges. It was here where I bagged my first 'house in one'. The hole's left side was lined with homes and as I hit my tee shot I cringed as I hooked it a bit left and plunked a house loudly. I did not look for that ball and moved quickly along feeling great shame.
Long Bay was probably the weakest of the four courses that we played but it was still an outstanding course. It featured a Jack Nicklaus designed hole from hell. Hole number ten featured a peninsula fairway surrounded by a waste area with lots of 'moguls' if you hit it outside of the waste areas. I guess I do not need to tell you where my first shot ended up now do I? I had moments of brilliance on the course but had too many nightmares leading to a below average round. My crowning achievement for the day was parring the tough eighteenth hole. It is a 380 yard long hole that had tons of water on the right all the way to the green. I blocked my tee shot a bit to the left leaving me 205 yards to the green from the left rough. It was not a pretty sight checking out my next shot and seeing the trouble surrounded the green so I took out my trusty seven wood, which showed up to play all week, and laced a fantastic shot to the middle of the green. I had a forty foot putt for bird that I just missed and tapped in for par. A great finish to my spring training trip as we then hopped in the van and headed for home after finishing up.
All in all it was a great trip as we ate well and had a good time, especially for your King as my wallet had a bit more moolah in it since I pretty much cleaned up on all of the side bet games that we played and I only lost one ball into the water. That in itself is amazing considering the amount of water I had to play over and around for the week. It was a lot of golf. ninety nine holes worth, crammed into a four day period. I am now almost ready for the season but I will need to work on my putting big time as the touch I had in January was nowhere to be seen in Myrtle. I will get to Livingston early tomorrow and spend some time chatting with my putter. If I can get that working, along with the few little changes I have made with my swing maybe I can show some serious improvement this season. I am tired of playing like an eighteen handicapper and I know I can knock that down a few pegs as I need to become more consistent. There is a bit more to write about the trip but I will save that for another posting.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Patience Pays Off!! And Other Things of Relative Non-Importance
1) Well I waited until February 29, as Santa told me, and my patience paid off. I left my stupid tree up and this morning I found that he left me a new golf wheelie push cart and a new pair of golf shoes. It was exactly what you King needed and wanted. I may have had to wait for two months for Christmas but the big guy really came through for me. I thank him profusely.
2) Is there anything more annoying than British soccer announcers? Man, I love the sport but they drive me nuts at times. If a team or a city has an 'A' at the end of their name it suddenly becomes an 'R'. For example the soccer club Aston Villa becomes Aston Viller or the team from Italy called Roma becomes Romer. Another thing about these announcers is their frequent way of making a point and then ending that point with a question that really does not beg to be answered. That leads me to believe that some of these announcers are Welsh as that is a mannerism of theirs, isn't it? Whoops! There I go and use one of their mannerisms. So sorry. But I still enjoy their commentary even with their annoying habits. But then again they probably find we colonials just as annoying.
3) Well, in regards to my last blog about the missing BVDs I have to say that the order I placed Saturday evening from a site called 'His Room' arrived yesterday. I have to give this place a pat on the back for getting me exactly what I wanted so quickly and at a very reasonable price. AND since my order was just large enough shipping was free and that is a big bonus for your financially strapped King. I now have 15 pairs of BVDs for less than three bucks a pair. I guess I will be in good shape for quite a while.
4) In a big shake up at my place of employment your King has been moved from his cube that has been his residence for the past five years. It looks as though I have been exiled to Elba...or in other words, the far side of the building and I do mean the FAR side. At first I thought it was to isolate me from the rest of the general population of the place, probably to keep me from spreading the propaganda of my Kingdom, but after getting settled I think I scored big time. I still may have been exiled but it is a nice exile. I still have a bit of organizing to do but I think I will be a more productive happy cat. At least I won't have to breathe in the fumes of burnt popcorn from the break room anymore and strive to keep myself from passing out by inhaling them. That has to be one of the most obnoxious smells ever and it takes forever for the fumes to dissipate. UGH!
5) We have now reached calendar Spring, that is March, April and May, in Moronica. It has been a rather quiet winter and that is an understatement. While it may still deliver us a wallop before it is done the next ten days look very springlike for my Kingdom per the Weather Channel website. Maybe now the Town of Gates can fix the craters on the road to Moronica, especially around the curve in the road just before you get to my Kingdom. I can only pray, when I head home, that there is no one coming the opposite way when I take that curve so I can veer around the craters, since your King does not drive a moon buggy.
6) A new film is being released by Moronica Pictures very soon. It is about the sculptor's travails, design and the creation of the statue "The Venus de Milo". The movie is called "A Farewell To Arms" and will be in theatres shortly. Be the first to see it!!
Well, I have run out of nonsense for this evening, and I bet you are all happy about that, so I will end this post. Have a nice evening my friends!
2) Is there anything more annoying than British soccer announcers? Man, I love the sport but they drive me nuts at times. If a team or a city has an 'A' at the end of their name it suddenly becomes an 'R'. For example the soccer club Aston Villa becomes Aston Viller or the team from Italy called Roma becomes Romer. Another thing about these announcers is their frequent way of making a point and then ending that point with a question that really does not beg to be answered. That leads me to believe that some of these announcers are Welsh as that is a mannerism of theirs, isn't it? Whoops! There I go and use one of their mannerisms. So sorry. But I still enjoy their commentary even with their annoying habits. But then again they probably find we colonials just as annoying.
3) Well, in regards to my last blog about the missing BVDs I have to say that the order I placed Saturday evening from a site called 'His Room' arrived yesterday. I have to give this place a pat on the back for getting me exactly what I wanted so quickly and at a very reasonable price. AND since my order was just large enough shipping was free and that is a big bonus for your financially strapped King. I now have 15 pairs of BVDs for less than three bucks a pair. I guess I will be in good shape for quite a while.
4) In a big shake up at my place of employment your King has been moved from his cube that has been his residence for the past five years. It looks as though I have been exiled to Elba...or in other words, the far side of the building and I do mean the FAR side. At first I thought it was to isolate me from the rest of the general population of the place, probably to keep me from spreading the propaganda of my Kingdom, but after getting settled I think I scored big time. I still may have been exiled but it is a nice exile. I still have a bit of organizing to do but I think I will be a more productive happy cat. At least I won't have to breathe in the fumes of burnt popcorn from the break room anymore and strive to keep myself from passing out by inhaling them. That has to be one of the most obnoxious smells ever and it takes forever for the fumes to dissipate. UGH!
5) We have now reached calendar Spring, that is March, April and May, in Moronica. It has been a rather quiet winter and that is an understatement. While it may still deliver us a wallop before it is done the next ten days look very springlike for my Kingdom per the Weather Channel website. Maybe now the Town of Gates can fix the craters on the road to Moronica, especially around the curve in the road just before you get to my Kingdom. I can only pray, when I head home, that there is no one coming the opposite way when I take that curve so I can veer around the craters, since your King does not drive a moon buggy.
6) A new film is being released by Moronica Pictures very soon. It is about the sculptor's travails, design and the creation of the statue "The Venus de Milo". The movie is called "A Farewell To Arms" and will be in theatres shortly. Be the first to see it!!
Well, I have run out of nonsense for this evening, and I bet you are all happy about that, so I will end this post. Have a nice evening my friends!
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