I’m happy right now
I’m usually happy though. Sometimes I have short term bouts of being in the 6-7/10 on the happiness scale. Yesterday I found out Matt Mays (Canadian musician, I <3 him) is playing 2 free shows in Vancouver on February 27th during the Olympics. I had told Kevin that I would probably be willing to fly back for a day or two if he played a Vancouver show and I could get a decent price on a plane ticket. Anyways I was super rattled that the show was on the 27th because my family is visiting me in Phoenix then… then I thought for a second and realized my Mom and brother fly out at 6:00 am… on February 27th. Thank you world. So it will be awesome, I’ll catch that flight with them and spend the night watching my favourite musician, twice, with my best friends. Today on the golf course I was thinking about all the awesome things I’m going to be doing on top of playing golf and poker every day, (jeep tour in Sedona, Grand Canyon, Phx zoo, California trip, Matt Mays, Canucks game in Phx March 10th) and it made me really appreciate how lucky I am to be able to do all of these things.
Since my low point on Friday morning, I have pumped out 1,000 games, made about $2400 and ran at $62~/hr before you include whatever few bucks/hr I make off FPP’s. “NEEDED IT!” I expect things to carry on in a similar fashion, but even if they do I have resigned myself to the May Q-School in Canada, and that’s fine.
The last couple weeks on the golf course I have started keeping track of my commitment over each shot I hit. A guy on 2p2 named Scott Fawcett who got his PGA card last year said that he started doing it, and during the 6 rounds in the final stage of Q-School he wasn’t committed over a shot 24 times. It’s hard to quantify how many shots that costs a player, but 5-10 is probably close. I wasn’t fully committed on 4 shots today. Wedge shot from a divot, a long putt, a short putt and a 3 wd on the very next shot. 4 was actually the best I’ve done in the 6 or so rounds since I’ve started tracking it, but at the same time it’s kind of inexcusable. The short putt was the only one that really cost me a shot, although the others decreased my chances of making the best possible score, so 4 cost me probably 1.5 shots today. On another day 4 could cost me a lot more than 1.5 so I definitely got a lot out of my round today (+2) on top of getting it up and down 8/10 times. I only hit 7/18 greens but I blame that on being a bit rusty from not playing the past couple days and it being super windy. I’ve been hitting the ball quite nicely lately, and now that my short game is back in form quickly I think scores are about to come. I’ve decided that I don’t want to consider playing the Canadian Tour unless I am at least a +3, so that as a minimum is my short term goal.
Just finished my first week doing TPI (m/w/f) and I feel awesome. I’m happy I quit P90X (sorry Kevin).
More good things to come.
January 23rd, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Can you tell me who did your layout? I’ve been looking for one kind of like yours. Thank you.