This whole Masterpiece Theatre thing has invaded my life. I mean a good invasion, like vanilla ice cream being invaded by spicy chocolate sauce. Oh no, stop! You hearing me? Good invasion. Gail and I lap this crap up like fools. I mean, we need something to hold us over until season four of Downton Abbey.
I blasted through The Glen Club with one of the best rounds of my life. I actually can’t recall the last time I played so well on a course of such quality. For some reason, I had a feeling of calm and confidence the whole round, which resulted in a lot of memorable shots and a great afternoon of golf. Everything just came together perfectly.
Gail and I celebrate our anniversary and July/August birthdays all at once. We haven’t exchanged gifts for years, but we do do outings. This year we went to Kohler. We did spa stuff and I played golf.
I’ve started to pile up Elmore Leonard paperbacks because they’re so reliable. Leonard employs this tactic of having multiple main characters. This book was an ensemble of quirky and interesting men and women, each of whom you got to know very well. Maybe one character got a little extra time, but barely.
Gail brought this little gem to my attention and I decided to use it as a test of the Amazon Prime free book option. I’ve been a member of Amazon Prime for about two years now and have not availed myself of the their free book-borrowing service at all. What a fool I am! It was a piece of cake.
I have some big problems in my golf game. I’m probably not going to do anything about it besides recognizing it, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating. My frustration is mitigated because I figure that it’s a streaky game and I’ll just come out on the other side soon. That’s the way it’s been most of my life so I just roll with it.
I read every Louis L’Amour western novel over the course of about five years as a kid. It took me from maybe 6th through 10th grade. Hondo was L’Amour’s first and one of the earliest ones I recall reading. I grabbed it at an Open Books member half-price sale earlier this year, and I’ll certainly be on the lookout for grabbing more that way because it was a fun read.
I play this course multiple times a year because it is such a great bargain. I played it a few months ago and was highly satisfied.
Just a little post-golf breakfast on the way back from Countryside on a beautiful 4th of July. Two eggs are really four small eggs at Elly’s Pancake House Mundelein, but it’s really not that confusing. The sausage patties are huge and the hash browns nice and brown. The line may look daunting and the parking lot may be full, but they churn people through quickly while retaining solid service.
We’ve had some bad weather here in Chicago. Bad weather means more movies for Gail and I, which often means bad movies (translate: fun movies). You got an issue with that? In terms of summer blockbusters, I’d rank this behind Fast and Furious 6 because the chases and fights were better there. That’s all.