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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

O'Boy - a new obsession!!

Posted on 8:00 AM by Unknown
To answer a question yesterday.  I'm not sure if my brother can actually arrest anybody, even if he is an historical reconstruction architect, but I was hoping the authoritative figure in my face would not know that.

If that didn't work I was going to tell him my best friend AND Governor of the great State of Wisconsin, Scott Walker was about to BUY the Springfield Power Plant and move it to Wisconsin be cause we are open for business now.  

I'm pretty sure that would have gotten a reaction.

an artist rendition of the Springfield Power Plant 

OH WAIT - WHAT IS THIS???  Something I found     ON THE INTERNET!!


OH - the gauntlet has been thrown - Game on!
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Disc Golf - oh lordy!

So yesterday I went and played ROUND TWO of my new obsession - Disc Golf and even though I pulled my Teres Major muscle a little by not properly warming up (I was so excited) I had a blast for 18 holes.

I throw like an old man but I'm using some muscle groups that have not been used for 30 years so I'll get my distance up.   I put away my driver disc for the time being as they are too hard to control and I only get an extra 30 feet out of them.

But I'm hooked.  Right now Marshal has a really nice course and Beaver Dam has a good 18 hole course.  Waterloo and Horicon have nice courses and of course Madison has a few sweet ones.

I played 18 holes in Springfield ILL at the Lincoln West course.  It was about noon and I drove up and thought I would play a round. Problem was one of the last things I did was remove my 3 disc's into the garage so . . I had no discs.
 
I went to Scheels which is like a Dicks Sporting Goods on steroids. I mean, you enter and walk under a huge aquarium with schools of fish and they have a full size farris wheel in the middle of the store - IT'S HUGE.

I purchased a Mid Range disc for $7.99 and drove back.  I had a Shark 4402 already (4402 is how it's rated) so I bought a Buzzz. 
      
4 for speed - how it cuts through air (1 -13)
4 for glide - hot it maintains loft (1 - 7)
0 for high speed turn -  tendency of a disc to bank to the right during the initial part of the flight (+1 - -5).
2 for slow speed fade - tendency to hook left at the end of the flight (0-5).

So - I found hole #1 and took off.  Trying to desperately throw the disc more then 160 feet (a good young pro can throw a driver 450 feet). My Shark is rated at 230 feet.

ANYWAY - I got done about an hour and a half later with a horrible 83 and looked around and my car. It was nowhere to be found.   In fact I didn't have a clue where I was.   It's a big park and I was more concerned with looking for baskets and not where I really was.

I started walking where I THOUGHT my car was but then I walked past a basket that  I had not played.  WTF?  are there two courses??  Did I play the right baskets?  Where is my car?  Man I'm thirsty.

I walked a ways and knew I parked near some building.  About 15 minutes later I found the building and my car - WHEW!! 

And that is my golf story.
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