2nd Annual White Paper Recycling Golf Tourny

The old saying "Once a salesman, always a salesman" simply isn't true!

I love golfing with boys!
I got a little tired after 11 or 12 holes, but I never get
tired of watching the artistry and strategy of the game.

Some take the game more seriously than others...
This one doesn't take it very seriously...
I learned something new during this game. When a man

tees off, if he doesn't drive it past the women's tee box
he has to pull down his pants.

What happens on the golf course

stays on the golf course... :)

I also learned there is no twirling on the green. It's hard on the grass.

Next time I promise to get a picture of my putter. It's a very old (vintage) putter that was my dads. I think he gave it to me when I worked at the Radisson Arrowwood in the early 80's. By today's standards it looks like a stick with a rock tied on the end - something Fred Flintstone would putt with. I love it!

The weekend in "Dat Killa Chi!"

I like Chicago or Chi-town or the Windy City or Dat Killa Chi (that one comes from Chicago gangs, or so I've read).

I'd kinda like to try living like this...

I think the little rounded balconies are kinda cool, it's in a great location (just a block off Michigan Ave) and well...it does have a great view. (Lily could learn to pee on a mat or something)

Shut Up Rush!

I'm pissed. Elizabeth Edwards...attorney, author, wife, mother...has suffered the loss of a son, is terminal ill with breast cancer, is in anguish over the recent news that her husband cheated on her - and now has to endure the horror of being the butt of another Rush Limbaugh joke. Someone really ought to punch that guy in the mouth! What makes big, fat, stupid Limbaugh think it's funny to spew out ignorant comments about what she could be doing with her mouth (besides talking) to keep her husband from cheating on her? How do you come to terms with the Rush Limbaugh depth of meanness? The sad thing is the so called "ditto heads" are probably cheering him on for his callous remark.

I'm not a conservative, but Rush has to be a huge embarrassment for the 'family values' party. What's next for the pill popping, three time divorced gas bag with teeth? Poking fun at sick babies? Laughing at flood victims? Tripping someone on crutches?

There are certain subjects too shallow to spend any length of time on and blaming the intelligence of a woman for her husband's infidelity is one of them.

I spent the weekend in Moorhead, MN at a conference - Lily spent the weekend at a dog boarders in the country. It was her first time as usually Stacy watches her when I am away over night. It's hard telling if she is tramatized by it. She lives in the moment so if she had food and a comfortable bed she probably won't have any lingering issues. I wish it were that simply for us humans. I had more than enough food and a comfortable bed too so I'll leave it at that.

I like the Olympics, but have not been able to watch much this year so far. I especially love the sappy human interest stories designed to really get you emotionally involved. If I could...if it were socially acceptable...It work didn't get in the way...I would stay in my jammies and watch around the clock. Michael Phelps just broke the world record by almost a second. Love my big, flat-screen TV and HD from Direct TV too. It makes for a pretty damn good picture and great Olympics watching. No matter which country wins the gold, the awards ceremony makes me cry everytime. You just can't help but get a little choked up watching them standing there representing their country.

I've got a couple more trips to take. Moorhead was just the warm-up for me and Lily. I love being out in the world, as much as I love being home with my little doggy so it's important that she has a good place to be when I'm gone. I'm off to Chicago, then New York, then Nashville - all in the next 6 weeks so Lily will have a home away from home at Wells Creek. I try not to think about it too much.

Do you have a man cave?

During a vendor presentation today, the presenter referenced his man cave several times. Not having lived with a man lately, and not, well, being a man - I wasn't exactly sure what a man cave was and if every man has one. The demo we were watching was on a VOIP telephone system that had some very cool features, not the least of which was how you could use a telephone switch to broadcast emergency response messages. Let's say during a hurricane or something a message could be sent out to allow all the residents on the system to press a button that would either let the police know they were a.) okay or b.) needing help. When a question was asked how a resident might use this kind of technology, the 'dude' said he could program a 'send beer' button so that his wife would bring beer to his man cave. I'm pretty sure she wasn't invited to drink one with him, just deliver it and leave. Yeah, okay...he was probably joking around but I thought it was really stupid. Now, I don't think the idea of a man having his own cave is stupid (if that's what he wants) but it seems strange, in mixed company, to female bash by using an example of a programmable button to alert your wife that you need more beer in the man cave. Do you think that's stupid or have I just been single too long?