TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
CONFIRMING AMATEUR STATUS
So, I play golf today, not well, but I played. Let me clarify.
We played the Back 9 on the Champ and then our 9-hole Links course to make 18.
Both 9s are par 36...
On the front 9, I blew up and shot a 51. Haven't done that since the first year I played. On the Links, I shot a 37, one over par.
And to fully appreciate my day, I had an Eagle on the par 5 #9 hole on the Links. I would be most pleased with that, first one for me, but another guy got an albatross.
Later Peeps,
Off to the gym for stretching
Golf at 0915 this AM
LIFE BE TOUGH, STAY IN IT!!
Peace Love Dove Golf peeps
COSO MonMorn theme, The Weeknd / Daft Punk style
Starboy
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MIN'S WORD OF THE DAY
USE THIS WORD AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TODAY
Will make for some PRETERNATURAL joy.
pre·ter·nat·u·ral
[ˌpredərˈnaCH(ə)rəl, ˌprēdərˈnaCH(ə)rəl]
adjective
beyond what is normal or natural:
"autumn had arrived with preternatural speed"
Similar:
extraordinary
out of the ordinary
exceptional
unusual
uncommon
rare
singular
signal
peculiar
unprecedented
outstanding
remarkable
phenomenal
abnormal
anomalous
inexplicable
COSO BRINGS PRETERNATURAL JOY.
It's a good time to limit my Chocolate habit...
Does this mean chocolate could get more expensive?
Actually, it already has. Prices for chocolate products at US retail stores grew 11.6% in 2023 compared to the previous year, according to market research firm Circana. And going forward, confection companies Hershey and Cadbury-maker Mondelez warned they’ll have no choice but to pass on higher cocoa costs to consumers.—NF
S: Morning Brew
Knowing your bracket is doomed to fail, why not bet on the power of spite? Although he was fired last Monday, Long Beach State head coach Dan Monson led his team to a conference title and punched a ticket to the men’s tournament. Monson will coach Long Beach State through the end of the season, and he’ll be using timeouts liberally so he can focus on scrolling through LinkedIn.
S: Morning Brew
Good morning. March Madness is here, but the real madness is believing you have a chance at filling out a perfect bracket. The odds of that are 1 in 9.2 quintillion if you were to pick each of the games via coin flip, but if you know something about basketball, they improve to a mere 1 in 120.2 billion.
S: Morning Brew
MARCH MADNESS...
Let the CRAZY begin.
HERE'S HOPING YOU ARE NOT A YANNI FAN
ON this date in 1997 - Yanni became the first western composer/performer to play at the Taj Mahal in India.
Booking agents, Bun Man and Mr. Purple, were pissed.
They wanted The Moody Blues to be there first, but Yanni had more appeal.
To appease the Boys, Yanni did 'Nights in White Satin' and totally butchered it; but then he butchers most of the crap he records anyway.
ON this date in 1965 - Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to spacewalk when he left the Voskhod II space capsule while in orbit around the Earth.
He was outside the spacecraft for about 20 minutes.
Trained by Bun Man and Mr. Purple for the famous walk, Alexei walked backwards and lifted each leg in a synchronized fashion just as his training taught him.
Years later, Bun and P would teach Michael Jackson the 'moonwalk' and Michael would make it work for him too!!
THAT MR. P AND HIS LIKES
ON this date in 1881 - Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opened in Madison Square Gardens.
Bun Man and Mr. Purple, B&B roadies, were enamored of the show and the stars.
Bun fell for the lady on the flying trapeze while Mr. Purple fell for the Bearded Lady.
What can I say, P likes 'em hairy...
True story...
Critical readers read backwards..
They check the references of what an author writes and then they evaluate it against their own beliefs/principles...
But then I'm one of those geeks who once read a book entitled "How to Read a Book"
Bun Man told Mr. Purple "This will not end well..."
Mr. Purple countered "Hey, Caligula does throw some wild parties, the people will be partying too much to notice all the shenanigans..."
And so it goes, and so it goes
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ON this date in 0037 - The Roman Senate, save for Progressive Senators Bun Man and Mr. Purple, annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
Apparently, the Senators were Republicans and they simply decided that there was no obligation to follow any governance from before and that they could do whatever the hell they wanted to do.
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TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017