Sunday, July 23, 2006

milestones ...

Some notable notes from the world of DZERLAND, for you three or four weekend readers.

• This is post No. 500. That's a lot, considering that I haven't been posting as often as I usually do, of late, thanks to online poker.

• A little earlier this month, I went over 40,000 visitors, at least according to my counter. That's almost as high as the number of people Madonna has slept with so far ... but she's in a monogamous relationship (one would imagine) so I have a shot to pass her!

• This month also marked a full year of blogging for me ... well, under this version of the Diatribe. I actually started in April or May, sometime around then, but ended up deleting the entire thing a couple months after that. As one can tell (one that isn't mindless, that is), I started up again a little while later.

And now back to the usual mundanity
Golf with S and the godsons was great, as always. Turns out it was a good thing that the only tee time S could get was 7:15 a.m. -- it started to rain on the 17th hole and we finished up in a light drizzle, which was followed by a day of persistent rainfall.

I played OK tee to green, but wasn't very consistent with my putting, which is why I only ended up with three pars on the day. But only one double and two triples too -- all the rest were bogeys. I ended up shooting 47-45 for a 92. Two birdie putts, one of 50 feet and one of 8 feet, died just short of the hole. Three par putts of less than 5 feet either lipped out or skirted the edge.

For some reason, I can't ever get all aspects of my game working. Last week, tee to green pretty much sucked, but I putted very well to make up for it. This week, it was the other way around.

One day, I'm gonna put it all together for a good part of a round and shoot super-low ... well, for me.

Rest of the Sunday was spent in my usual manner:

• Nap ... had to, thanks to My Favorite Person keeping me up past 3 a.m. ... not that I minded one bit. Any time spent with her is my favorite time. :) ... dozed for about 2 hours in the later afternoon. Wish it could have been longer, but then I'd never get to sleep tonight.

• Online poker. Hell-o? Have you read this blog this week? LOL

• Made myself some fried SPAM sammiches for dinner. I will SO write a detailed SPAM post this week, after seeing the wonderful canned luncheon meat besmirched and belittled on a few other blogs. Yes, that means yours, JMai!! LOL

• Watched "Blazing Saddles," as planned. Now just waiting for final round of British Open to start.

9 comments:

ArtfulDodger said...

How many of those 500 posts amounted to, "Bleh, I haven't done anything worth posting?" I wonder? :)

Anyway, congratulations on the 'sorta' one year anniversary, that is a big deal and worthy of celebrating, maybe some on-line poker?

Alright, I promise, no more cheap shots in this post. Seriously, congrats on all of that and try to stay out of trouble. Or get into more trouble?

The Savage said...

Congrats, Big Brother....

Natalia said...

Woohoo on the blog milestones... xoxox

I am tired right now...my comments suck. But I just wanted to say hi.

-N

JMai said...

Hey man -- I'm not the only one who thinks it's icky! But I can respect your spamlove. Maybe you and Chulo can share a can if a hurricane hits.

KJ said...

I like Madonna.........

Spam?

Spam?

Really?

Spam?

Madame X said...

Happy Bloggerversary!!

I like friend SPAM but I like it well done and crunchy and there used to be a SPAM spread that I liked.

RobynB said...

Congrats on the bloggin' anniversary!!!

spam? Just say no!

Much love
~RobynB

Grace said...

500 posts and 40,000 visitors? Oye, way to make me feel like an absolute loser...

Knight said...

That was a good round DZ. I played again yesterday myself (48-51) I had 5 pars, all 4 par-3's & 1 par-4. Really blew-up a couple times (8,9... a couple 7s.)

I struggled off the tee.