I am not a champion. The past few days a perfect examples of that. As you continue to get older and mature you learn things about your body that show up through repeated habits. After a long day of drinking on Saturday (I will add though that at no point was I out of control which is a wonderful improvement), the Shee and I decided to play golf on Sunday. Long days of drinking dehydrate your body and you don’t recover in a simple chug of a 32 oz Gatorade.

Golf started when I blasted a nice drive up the middle and then a sweet 4 iron to about 50 yards on a longish par 5. I found it odd that I was able to hit some good shots even though I didn’t feel full strength. After a birdie on 8 and a bogey on 9 I came in at 45 before things fell apart. I slammed out a 9 on 10 and an 8 on 11 to discombobulate the round. I just started completely sucking and didn’t even finish a full round because we left early due to slow play ahead. The point of this though was that I’m better than a 45 and far better than a 50+ on the back. The only way that happens is when my body is unable to perform physically. This is the whole point of the story. If you want to perform your best, your treat your body like it deserves to be treated. I can’t be surprised that I suck when I don’t feel well. I remember one time in Softball I was 0-8 for the day. Attribute this to alcohol abuse. It just doesn’t happen when I play at full strength.

The title of this posts explains why I’ll never be a champion. A champion doesn’t let himself fall into the trap of alcohol like I do. Now just to continue my realistic opinion of myself, even if it weren’t for alcohol, I would never be one of the top people in just about anything. After reading the Advanced Theory book and the authors ability to name about 100 so called advanced artists, you see the percentages are unlikely to really breakthrough and make a name for yourself. A great line from that book though was that usually the advanced are the people with the greatest talents and are the hardest workers. When I translate this to my life I find myself trying hard at various things and never really excelling at any one thing. Jack of all trades, master of none. There’s nothing wrong with it but it’s my self evaluation of myself. I believe a post like this is a realistic though.

I haven’t had a post in about a week and I think that’s a good thing. I’ve spent some time thinking of different posts that I think are way, way better than the bs I usually write about. For all those that tune in daily, I’m curious to know how the human brain works and why you continue to check back. How long would it take of no posts before you stop checking? My intentions though are to spend some time this weekend and just bust out about 5 entries and unleash them all at the same time. That way you get bombarded by my material and hopefully come out of that experience saying “those were pretty good.”

There’s honestly nothing going on right now to write about. Jeff returned from New Zealand which is somewhat newsworthy for people inside my family but not for my blog. I’ve been playing basketball a fair amount which isn’t exciting. I haven’t really been doing a whole lot aside from the normal day to day work, play, sleep. My mind isn’t coming up with interesting blog topics because I’m not devoting anytime to thinking about it. Normally things just pop in my head but that hasn’t been happening. It’s a server dry spell and I don’t even care. Readership might be dropping but I don’t think many people read it anyway. If I drop from 8 people reading to 7, I think it’ll be alright.

In a classic question by my Dad while reading a section on Tribute bands in the USA Today Life section, “which one of these guys is Freddie Mercury?” “Freddie Mercury has been dead for 20 years.” “He has?” Now for me this seems like pretty general knowledge that the lead singer from one of the top 25 rock bands of all time died from Aids. How you could have been alive since 1991 and not have had this little tidbit come up is astounding. After thinking about it for a few more moments, I began to think that maybe to someone who has no interest in music this could slip by. If you quizzed me on whether random politicians were dead or alive, I’m sure I’d look like a fool. Ted Kennedy? Yassar Arafat? It’s the same type of perception deal that comes along with most things. Just because you think it’s obvious because you know, doesn’t mean that everyone knows. JC couldn’t give one iota about music. I used iota, which is a very small quantity, because we were playing golf and the word jiffy was used, which is a very short time. To me it’s just one of those things that one of your goals in life is to gather (and retain) as much information as possible. In a sense you could say this post was used to call out my dad, but in reality it’s to point out that we’re all human beings and know things we care about.

I rec’d this message on Facebook (while I’m at work). This person is one of Sam’s friends. Any guesses?

tom
start blogging
i have a shitty job where i sit at a desk 8 hours a day and do 40 solid minutes of work

I have to imagine that this is probably the sole reason people check my webpage. I know I continue to disappoint with my lack of updates. As I was rolling through my archives I had some months I busted out 60 posts. Now I’m lucky to hit 20. It’s not that I’m not doing awesome things but they are just the same awesome things that I’m always doing. Which technically just make them less awesome. I have a few good ideas for posts but what’s been happening is I just sit down to write them and I find myself rushing through them (like this one except this idea for a post was pretty shitty). I do however take note of my poor effort and will do a better job moving forward. I want to point out that I like the addressing of me in the first message. It’s very pointed and direct. Tom. Start blogging. I probably would have capitalized it and used punctuation but kids these days. Who’s in for Trivia tonight?

A few things I’ve done:
Shot an 84 at Lulu Country Club (38 front with a breakfast ball on 1)
Shot Sam in the face with a Roman Candle after understanding the strength of Natty Ice
Rolled a 190 in bowling
Gained some thugs respect at Mondauk
Got a lap dance from a hot ass stripper named Patience who wants to be a CPA
Lost to Gourlay heads up in a poker tournament.

That’s been my life in a nutshell.

The one part of my life I haven’t been active with is this blog. I’m just not coming up with good material. That being the case (and still not having much material) I’ll give a run down of my weekend starting with my round of golf with Evan and Raven’s Claw. We played from the blue tees and there was almost nobody on the course because of the heat. I think we finished in just a shade over 3 hours. I finished with an 88 and probably drove the ball the best all season. I came home and went for a 4 mile run and was just toast. I passed out at 10pm only to wake up the next day at 8.

I then ran 8 miles down the powerline trails in Horsham which was a good start to the day. Next I went to Mondauk to play 3 competitive games of basketball and probably played the best I have all year. I wasn’t missing lay ups and even had a jump shot outside of 15 feet. After some relaxing by the pool with JKash, I went to PJ’s for the night which also turned out to be a pretty good time.

I woke up at 8 today to play a round of golf with CK4 at Bucks County CC. We teed off at 9 and finished by 1. I shot an 84 from the blues and Ck4 also had some memorable moments. The first being an unprecedented 6 putt on hole number 4. I started feeling bad after he was going back and forth 3 times but 6 was unheard of. Also he had a 18th hole debacle where I think he hit 7 or 8 balls off the tee and only the last one went found. I also failed to mention that he lost a sleeve of balls on hole number 1 which was a fantastic start. We had a good time though. I carded 2 birdies and even had a 3rd opp on 15 from 10 feet where I got a bogey. I could have easily been in the 70’s for the round.

I crashed after that and just woke up half an hour ago. I figured I’d update this blog even though I myself find this entry pretty pointless. Hopefully you don’t.