38th Street Loop

I walked the 38th Street Loop this morning in 31:41.

Ghetto Cat Loop/First Tee

I walked the Ghetto Cat Loop this morning in 30:43.

This afternoon at First Tee, I hit two range buckets, then played the par-three course in 33, with 4 pars, 4 bogies, and 1 double, and used 16 putts, then the big course from the middle tees in 49, with 1 birdie, 1 par, 2 bogies, 4 doubles, and 1 quadruple, and used 15 putts.

Princess Kate looks like a beauty from cartoons or comic books.

Levy Loop/Levy Loop

I walked the Levy Loop this morning in 33:38, and again this evening, starting at about eight, in 29:45.

York Gary Loop/Chandler Street Loop

I walked the York Gary Loop yesterday morning in Nashville in 30:11, and walked and jogged the Chandler Street Loop this evening in 41:37.

York Gary Loop

NASHVILLE—I walked and jogged the York Gary Loop tonight in 25:53.

Ghetto Cat Loop/Old Center Point Road

NASHVILLE—I walked the Ghetto Cat Loop at about seven this morning in 30:13, and three miles on Old Center Point Road this evening, starting at six, in 46:44.

Old Center Point Road

NASHVILLE—I walked four miles on Old Center Point Road this morning in 1:03:43. When I do Old Center Point Road, I turn right from the driveway of mother's house onto Sunset, go about fifty yards, turn left on Fourth, go a little less than a half a mile primarily through an old and poor section of town, then turn left on Old Center Point, which veers to the right around the high school and Scrapper Stadium and winds for about five miles past shit loads of large cow pastures and a few wooded areas. There are lots of big friendly dogs and squirrels, a handful of rabbits, and occasionally deer. Old Center Point eventually turns to dirt, until it ends on the outskirts of the town of Center Point on the modern highway (Center Point has a restaurant built into the back of a general store that makes as good a BLT as I've eaten, served on buttered Texas Toast and with right-out-of-the-grease French fries).

OVERHEARD
"If I was built like Carmilo [Villegas], I would never wear a shirt. I would just have 'Srixon' tattooed on my chest."
—Graeme McDowell

York Gary Loop/Nashville Country Club

NASHVILLE—I walked the York Gary Loop this morning in 34:02.

I played the front nine of the Nashville Country Club in 47 this afternoon, with 2 pars, 3 bogies, 3 doubles, and 1 triple. I used 17 putts, but would way rather have run the girls 4.11 miles on Port Malcolm.

Ghetto Cat Loop/Old Center Point Road

NASHVILLE—I walked the Ghetto Cat Loop this morning in 30:49. Then I returned a call from my mother, who said she walked into her laundry room yesterday to discover $400 in twenties on top of her dryer, and that late last night someone called to say he would kill her is she didn't give him his money back.

This evening I walked the four miles out and back on Old Center Point Road in 57:23.

Chandler Street Loop/Levy Loop Classic

A storm knocked out power in Levy at about ten o'clock last night. It came back on at about eight this evening. I walked the Chandler Street Loop this morning in 45:50, and Levy Loop Classic this evening in 32:14.

38th Street Loop/Ghetto Cat Loop

I walked the 38th Street Loop this morning in 30:35.

You know, it's funny, for some reason I forgot to report we had a tornado somewhere around three o'clock last Friday morning. I slept right through it. I didn't know anything had happened until I drove through Park Hill on my way to have Bill Brass do my taxes, and saw trees down all over the place. This evening, I had to walk around a tree that fell across the street and into a house near the Dixie Pig as I walked the Ghetto Cat Loop in 33:08. I guess people who live on the Ghetto Cat Loop are less prone to fuss at the city about tree removal than those along the Park Hill Loop. It got up to eighty-seven today. They say a storm's coming tonight, and that tomorrow's high will be sixty-four. Maybe I'll golf.

Levy Loop

My shin doesn't hurt, but looks as if it has about an eight-inch-long zipper, a red badge of courage to display as I walked the Levy Loop this morning in 30:03.

Maple Street Loop/Hash

I walked the Maple Street Loop this morning in 30:40, and was out late this afternoon for a little over fifty-two minutes on the Hash run from the skate-board park on the North Little Rock side of the river. I went a little under four miles. I ran into a cable about a foot off the ground early in the run, fell flat on my face, and damaged the hell out of my left shin. It hurts, and I'm sure will look awful in the morning.

Hot Springs/Oaklawn Park

HOT SPRINGS—I parked on the street nearest the backstretch of Oaklawn Park about an hour and a half before the first race on Saturday, then walked all over the fucking place for 1:04:13 to cover a little over four miles. Then I lost $102.80, putting my season-ending deficit at $170.10. Darn. But there were precedents set today; the Miss Wherever Pageant was founded twenty-five years ago this spring at Mr. Burger in Fayetteville, and the current Miss Arkansas Derby became the first redhead ever to win any of them. She also was the only woman any of the judges (Basil Julian and and I) have seen who managed to look perfectly casual and comfortable wearing an ankle-length dress.

OVERHEARD
"We got this e-mail from Jeff O'Neil in Batavia: 'Would you please ask my wife to quit walking in front of the television.' "
—announcer from the Chicago Cubs game in Colorado on Saturday night

35th Street Loop

I walked and jogged the four-mile 35th Street Loop this evening in 51:14.

Oh. Yesterday my streak of walking at least two miles a day reached one-thousand.

Chandler Street Loop/Oaklawn Park

I walked the Chandler Street Loop this evening in 49:22, starting just after I returned from Oaklawn Park. I went with Tom Zaloudek, and left with a net gain of $1.60, to cut my deficit for the season to $67.30. I will go Saturday—the final day—for the Arkansas Derby, with an obvious goal of winning at least $67.30. Breaking even is a victory for gambling addicts. "Fuck, yeah. I went ten times, and all I'm out is a hundred dollars worth of gas, fifty-five dollars on Racing Forms, maybe eighteen dollars on programs, I think twelve on admission, and probably sixty dollars worth of hot dogs and tuna salads. It was a great year."

Ghetto Cat Loop

I walked the Ghetto Cat Loop this morning in 33:18.

OVERHEARD
"Something good's gonna happen to you, brother. Watch and see."
—Levy bum to whom I gave fifty cents

38th Street Loop

I walked the Ghetto Cat Loop late this morning in 32:29.

Sweetheart Loop/Levy Loop

I walked the Sweetheart Loop on Sunday at about noon in 47:34, and the Levy Loop starting at eight o'clock tonight in 32:03.

Levy Loop

I walked the Levy Loop this morning in 30:23.

I jogged and walked the Orange Street Loop this evening, beginning at about six o'clock, in plenty of time to get in to watch the Reds go to 6-2 with a 6-1 victory over Arizona, in 36:10.

Orange Street Loop

Starting at about eight o'clock tonight, I walked the Orange Street Loop in 42:33.

Orange Street Loop/Oaklawn Park

I walked the Orange Street Loop this morning in 47:10.

Okay, now we're talking. I went to Oaklawn Park this afternoon with Tom Zaloudek and Tiny Tim Biggs and left with a profit of $77.10, to cut my deficit for the season to $68.90. I plan to go next Thursday and the following Saturday, the final day, with the possibility of trip this Saturday with Tom and Corky. Obviously the primary goal is to win the track and rename it Blow Me Downs, with a secondary one of breaking even. We'll see.

Levy Loop

I walked the Levy Loop at lunchtime in 34:05.

Ghetto Cat Loop/First Tee

I walked the Ghetto Cat Loop this morning in 30:22.

Walt Webb released the final Arkansas Democrat-Gazette NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament bracket pool results. Out of forty-seven entrants, Pam finished ninth, Jo thirty-ninth, Pete forty-first, and Samantha forty-fifth.

I planned to play the par-three course at First Tee this afternoon, but it was crowded with Catholic middle-school kids, so played the regular course from the women's tee boxes with four clubs—an eight-iron, pitching wedge, sand wedge, and putter—in 41, with 4 pars and 5 bogies. I used 15 putts. I played No. 9 from the middle tees, because I ran up on and joined two young men playing them and would've been embarrassed to do otherwise. I parred it with an eight-iron, a chip from the left fringe, and a three-foot putt.

38th Street Loop

I jogged the 38th Street Loop this afternoon in 20:41, with splits of 10:27 and 10:14.

OVERHEARD
"Where the fuck they Kool-Aid?"
—woman talking to herself at Kroger

Marion Street Loop/First Tee

I walked the Marion Street Loop this morning in 46:30.

Here's heaven, in Levy. Following a slightly drunk drive home from Bob Marston's, serenaded all the while by Sarah McLachlan, I'm watching the final seventeen holes of the Kraft Nabisco, with Yani Tseng (pronounced Sin) two strokes ahead of Stacy Lewis, and a bunch of women closing. I might fall asleep before it's done, but I'm pretty sure no one will call to chat about the results. I missed Turd's run. Instead, I played First Tee with Randall Hunhoff in 97, with nines of 49 and 48, with 1 par, 10 bogies, 6 doubles, and 1 triple. I used 35 putts.

Ridge Road Loop/Levi Loop Classic

At 11:19 a.m., it's 68 degrees with a 1.5 mile-an-hour breeze from the south, and sunnier than two motherfuckers. It's too bad I have to spend the day inside watching golf, baseball, and basketball on television. I did manage to get out to walk the Ridge Road Loop in 1:04:45. A package of PowerBar Energy Gel kept me from wobbling the final mile.

This evening, starting at about eight o'clock, I walked and jogged Levy Loop Classic in 24:25.

Yani Tseng and Stacy Lewis are nearly tied as my second favorite LPGA members, and it was fun watching them in the final group for eighteen holes of the Kraft Nabisco's third round, though both are about two and a half cheeseburgers away from no longer being petepretty. They'll be in the final group tomorrow. Tseng trailed Lewis by three strokes this morning, but now leads at 12-under, with Lewis at 10-under.

Levy Loop/First Tee

I walked the Levy Loop this morning in 34:19.

I played two loops of par-three course, from both the boys' and girls' tees, at First Tee this afternoon. I scored an 11-over 65 from the back, with nines of 34 and 31, with 1 birdie, 7 pars, 8 bogies, and 2 doubles, and used 32 putts. I scored a 3-over 57 from the front, with nines of 27 and 30, with 1 birdie, 13 pars, and 4 bogies, and used 30 putts.

OVERHEARD
Announcer A: "Those are compression socks, not at all any sort of fashion statement."
Announcer B: "What does that mean?"
Announcer A: "I have no idea. She told me they were compression socks, and I didn't want to sound like an idiot, so I said, 'Oh, yes. Of course. Compression socks.' "
—announcers at the Kraft Nabisco, commenting on Ai Miyazato's long socks