Tuesday

Seriously.  I can't remember my 30th birthday.  1979.  Chicago.  It was a snowy, cold, bad Winter in the Windy City.  Beyond that, nuttin' honey.

So we honor here 3.1 as Son-in-Law of the Day as the Birthday Boy.  Here he is last weekend, working his magic at the rooftop kitchen at the EVSC.  The meal was a big hit.

The golf outing yesterday was actually a lot of fun.  Decent weather.  A good foursome with friends.  At a course I could walk to.  And the 19th hole was fun as well.  My pal Roy hadn't played a full 18 since Scottsdale in January 2014.  Even my back survived (with the help of drug therapy).

All of that said, I don't plan to play in any more charity golf outings until this one next year.  There are similar outings almost every Monday at one or more of the local courses.  Chambers of Commerce, Junior Achievement, Big Brothers, this foundation, that civic group.  The list is almost endless.  I learned decades ago that a check to the organization was my limit.  5-6 hour death marches on the course just didn't cut it for me.  Worse, you always had some enthusiasts that actually wanted to "win" the outing.  Each putt became the U.S. Open.  Yeah.  Not so much for the LtPC.

Speaking of golf, the PGA tournament this week is "match play" at a course in San Francisco.  This is mostly a man-o-mano event where there is player-against-player competition.  Its the only time outside of Ryder or President's Cup events where this format is used.  They've changed the format slightly by having round-robin contests in four-man pods the first two days rather than start eliminating players the first day.  The biggest problem with a match play tournament is that you end up with only two guys playing that last match, and that generally makes for lots of open air time on the telecast.  We'll see.

An interesting factoid on this tournament is that it has moved locations from a course in the foothills outside Tucson to this SF track.  A lot of players just didn't like the Tucson course and would find reasons not to play that week.  (Doubly so if they had not had much success in the match play format.)  I'm curious if the loss of the tournament will eventually impact the Ritz Carlton resort that was part of the build-out for this planned living development.  Probably not.  If someone wants to get away, this could be the place.  Its probably got a target market in the Midwest for folks who want to get away from the cold.  (Although they are high enough to get some snow there.)

In other news, the first decent evening here produced the opportunity to try to fire-up the patio heaters again...actually, kinda of for the first time this year.  Not only were we unsuccessful on Good Friday for FFF, but they had also failed to light Sunday night when some friends stopped over after I got back from NYC.  Even my pal Ron couldn't get a flame going.  But tonight, I followed the instructions on the pole...and with no one around to appreciate the results...both heaters lit on the first try!  The MCSC will be ready for the next gathering of the tribe.

I feel bad for the Cardinals and Adam Wainwright.  He's out for the season with a torn Achilles tendon.  The Cards will still compete, but Waino is a team leader...and he did win 20 games last year.  What a bummer to be done for the year and it isn't even May.  We really need to get back to StL for a weekend.

For the record, my attempt to get to Lake Tahoe will be that first week of August...get there Thursday afternoon...and leave Sunday.   Barrett Jackson auction on Friday afternoon in Reno.  No airline tickets yet...

Hope it is a good Hump Day in your neighborhood.


BCOT

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