Levy Trail South

I walked Levy Trail South this evening in 34:03.
I ran a 590 calorie deficit today.

Levy Trail Loop/First Tee

I walked the Levy Trail Loop this morning in 34:11.
After I visited Dr. Bill, John and I played one loop of First Tee this afternoon. John scored 47 and I scored 49. I had 1 par, 6 bogies, 1 double, 1 quintuple, and used 20 putts.
I ran a 700 calorie deficit today.

Lakewood Lake No. 3

I walked for about an hour and twenty minutes with a bunch of other Geezers around and about Lakewood Lake No. 3 this morning. We poked along the whole while and I was glad for it. My legs are deader than those dead garlic festival fucks. I believe Elaine's watch said he went something like 3.6-3.8 miles.
My plan is to eat a bunch today. I have a considerable cushion built up in this attempt to maintain an average daily calorie deficit of five-hundred, so I just finished a big stack of homemade pancakes (something I learned to make a few weeks ago). I'm already up to a surplus of a couple of hundred. I think I will dessert on some fried chicken.
I ate a surplus of 700 calories today. After two weeks, I'm down 8030.

Levy Trail North/Levy Trail South/Rebsamen Park Golf Course

I walked Levy Trail North this morning in 34:16.
Early this evening, I walked Levy Trail South in 35:03 and then played the front nine at Rebsamen Golf Course in 47, with 3 pars, 2 bogies, 3 doubles, and 1 triple. I used 14 putts. I fell apart late, but generally drove and chipped about as well as I ever do.
I ate 840 fewer calories than I burned today. My calorie deficit after 13 days is 8730.

River Trail

Fellow Geezer Larry Clarke and I walked the 6.75 miles out an back from the Clinton Library in downtown Little Rock to the skateboard park in North Little this morning in 1:59:30.
My calorie deficit today was 510. Yesterday's was 790.

Levy Trail North/First Tee

I alternated four-minute walks with one-minute runs and jogs to complete Levy Trail North this morning in 28:35. I didn't see that coming (meaning that I felt great, almost fit). I hope it carries over to yet another golf attempt at First Tee. John and I are scheduled to tee off in sixty-eight minutes.
I scored 47 at First Tee. John scored 48. I had 1 par, 5 bogies, 3 doubles, and used 16 putts. We also played the Par 3 course. I scored 31 and John 36. I had 5 pars and 4 bogies.
Early this evening, I walked Levy Trail South in 31:49.

Burns Park/Pam's Path

I walked about three miles around the Par-70 golf course and on the River Trail in Burns Park this morning for 48:54.
This evening, I walked Pam's Path in 1:07:23.
My calorie deficit today was 520. After 10 days, I am at 7110.

Tolliver Body' Shop/First Tee/First Tee/Levy Trail Loop

I walked an elongated route from Tolliver's Body Shop to my house this morning in 35:22. I took the Crown Vic there to get the paint touched up. Tolliver's is, by the way, about a quarter of a mile north on MacArthur Drive from the old Honey Hut.
John, Ed, and I played one lap of First Tee this morning. I scored 46, Ed 47, and John 48. I had 5 pars, 1 bogie, 2 doubles, 1 pentagonal (with a 10 on No. 8), and used 16 putts.
I jogged for a total of seven minutes and otherwise walked the Levy Trail Loop this evening in 29:44.
I ran a 960 calorie deficit today. Through nine days, I'm down 6,070 calories, which means I could fail to run any deficits at all for the next three days, and I would still be 70 calories ahead of pace. I have a big blowout or splurge day waiting for me.

Levy Trail North/Rebsamen Park Golf Course

I walked Levy Trail North this morning in 33:07.
John and I played Rebsamen Park Golf Course this morning. I scored 94 and John 103. I had nines of 45 and 49. I had 1 birdie, 5 pars, 6 bogies, 2 doubles, 3 triples, 1 quadruple, and used 30 putts.
Last night, the Reds led at Milwaukee 4-1 in the eighth inning. Milwaukee scored four in the bottom of eighth to lead 5-4 and I fucking went to bed. I came in from my walk this morning and tuned into the ninth inning. With two outs and no one on in the top of the ninth, Nick Senzel hit a single, and Eugenio Suarez hit the next pitch halfway to Heidi's house and the Reds won 6-5.
My calorie deficit today was 800 and is 5,110 after eight days. One week into my diet, I weigh 196.5 pounds.

I PLAN TO STAB...
...the next person who says anything about our founding fathers, since there is no way any of those long-dead motherfuckers ever dreamed our president would be a former game show host and the most influential man in Washington a former Comedy Channel star
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OVERHEARD
"I got PowerAide on me, and, man, it is cold."
—Eugenio Suarez in a post-game interview after his game-winning home run and a grown man named Yasiel Puig poured a big bucket of PowerAide on him

Lakewood Lake No. 3/First Tee

Six other Geezers and I walked from Lakewood Lake No. 3 this morning. Ron and I split from the group early and were out for 1:11:04.
This afternoon, I played First Tee from the front tees. Counting my putter, I carried seven clubs, with a 7-wood, 5-, 7-, and 9-irons, and two sand wedges. Since I was trying to get in some work with my irons, I played with a stipulation that I could use the wood no more than once a hole, even on Par 5s. I scored 47, with 3 pars, 2 bogies, 3 doubles, 1 triple, and used 20 putts.
Today's calorie deficit was 620. That's 4310 for the first week, which should have led to a weight loss of approximately 1.23 pounds.

Hash/Rebsamen Park Golf Course

I was out for nine minutes, eight seconds on a run with the Little Rock Hash House Harriers n Cammack Village this afternoon. The longest anyone was out was for somewhere in the neighborhood of fifteen minutes. The shortness of the run was in deference to about thirty Hashers who ran the Full Moon 25 or 50K last night.
Afterward, I played the front nine at Rebsamen Golf Course in 44. I had 3 pars, 4 bogies, 2 doubles, and used 17 putts.
I ran a 700 calorie deficit yesterday, a 510 deficit today, and am down 3690 after six days.

Levy Trail Loop/Levy Trail South

I walked the Levy Trail Loop this morning in 32:22 and time it such that I walked in as J.B. Holmes and Shane Lowry were walking from the tee box onto the No. 1 fairway. Unfortunately, I have volunteered to help Susy Chandler load ice for the Full Moon races at 1:37:50 p.m. over by the two-old-ladies bookstore, so I'll probably miss the last couple of holes.
This evening, I walked Levy Trail South in 34:30.
Yesterday, I ran a 570-calorie deficit, good for 2475 through four days. By the way, my goal here is to maintain an average deficit of 500 a day. As such, I could, for instance, run no more than a 25-calorie deficit today to meet that goal through five days.

Levy Trail Loop

I walked the Levy Trail Loop in this evening in 33:58.
I ran a calorie deficit yesterday of 660 for a three-day total of 1905.

Levy Trail

I walked on the Levy Trail with several other Geezers this morning for 1:10:21.
Yesterday, I ran a calorie deficit of 645. I'm at 1250 after two days.

Pam's Path

I walked Pam's Path this morning in 1:07:44, with two-mile splits of 34:25 and 33:19.
It's been a year or more since the last time I counted calories, but my weight has gotten a bit out of hand, and it's time to either cease concern about it or attempt to lose some of it. Yesterday, I started counting and ran an approximate deficit of 605 calories. I, by the way, don't know what I weigh, but I was at c. 197 in late March. I'll establish a baseline weight a week from yesterday, a practice typical of my past weight-loss efforts.

Levy Trail South

I walked Levy Trail South early this evening in 33:35. Hurricane Barry has finished with Little Rock. It stopped raining at about 9 a.m. today. I guess it rained like two motherfuckers in southeast Arkansas this morning. Someone on the radio said they closed I-30 on the inexpensive side of Texarkana.

Levy Trail South

I walked Levy Trail South in 34:46 beginning at approximately 4:30 p.m. Monday.

McCain Mall

Hurricane Barry struck the Little Rock metro today with approximately two inches of rain and twenty mile-an-hour winds. After I delivered goods to a baby shower for Susy and her wife Cat near McCain Mall, I walked through the mall for 34:12.

OVERHEARD
"We travel into space to find out more about ourselves. We want to know what our place is in the Universe."
—some woman's comment on a PBS special about Voyagers I and II entitled The Farthest — Voyager in Space, which to Pete sounds somewhat poetic, even lovely, but at the same time like utter poppycock. He just wants to ask her, "Do what? That's the reason?"

Levy Trail South

I walked Levy Trail South this morning in 33:43. I'm sure it's clear I am no longer in training for anything. For the time being, I plan to begin work toward an ability to walk eighteen holes of golf in 100°+ heat indexes without asking my partners whether or not they have cell phones with them.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
What is the over-under year for the end of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's political career?*
*Pete's best guess is somewhere between 2020 and sometime after he fucking dies, and he swears nothing will surprise him. He, however, hopes hers ends on or before President Don Trump's so that those self-absorbed goddamn showboat motherfuckers aren't around for more than another one and a half to five and a half years

First Tee

John Czarnecki and I played First Tee this morning. Maybe three rounds in a week are too many. We both scored 52 for nine holes. I had 3 pars, 3 double bogies, 2 triples, and 1 quadruple, and I used 16 putts. We also played the nine holes of the Par 3 course.

Rebasmen Golf Course

John, Ed, and I played Rebsamen Golf Course this morning. Ed scored 90, John 92, and I scored 94, with nines of 49 and 45. I had 3 pars, 9 bogies, 5 doubles, 1 triple, and used 33 putts. We walked off the course an hour ago. At 1:15 p.m., it is 97°F with a heat index of 108. It was like a fucking death march out there the last four or five holes.

Levy Trail Loop

I walked the Levy Trail Loop late this afternoon through roaring heat in 34:43. At 4:45 p.m., it's 97°F with a heat index of 107. It should be perfect weather for golf in the morning.

Rebsamen Golf Course

John, Ed, and I played Rebsamen Golf Course this morning. Ed scored 90, I scored 97, and John 104. I had nines of 49 and 48, 5 pars, 5 bogies, 5 doubles, 3 triples, and used 31 putts.
I woke up Wednesday with a right groin strain and should not have golfed that day. This morning was the first time it was pain-free.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
How does anyone say, "Freedom isn't free," and keep a straight face? I heard something like fifteen people say it on television last Friday. You know, as if people weren't fucking aware of this: "Oh, c'mon man, you're pulling my leg. You mean, someone has to pay for all these battleships and B-52s and shit?"*

I PLAN TO STAB...
...the aforementioned fifteen motherfuckers and *the first person who says anything about all the dead people and the role they played in the cost of our freedom because that goes as much without saying as the cost of canteens and camouflage and shit. Bring that up next Memorial Day, and we'll talk

War Memorial Park Golf Course

John, Ed, Steve Grace, and I played War Memorial Golf Course this morning and early afternoon. Steve scored 75, Ed and John 83, and I scored 84, with nines of 43 and 41. I used 35 putts in what was most likely my final round at War Memorial.
It was hotter than two motherfuckers.

Skateboard Park

Five other Geezers and I walked the Skateboard Park Loop this morning in 1:28:51.

QUESTIONS OF THE DAY
Why have the Women's World Cup announcers not said anything about how much the U.S. team needs at least a few better-looking players before the next World Cup? Lavelle's pretty, but she is absolutely it. This is another example of how our nation has lost sight of what's truly important

Did you know that Mike "Sandcat" Moustakas has made the National League All-Star team as a Milwaukee Brewer? He needed out of Kansas City for an obvious reason

Hindman Park Golf Course

I drove to Hindman Park Golf Course this morning with an idea of playing the entire course with a 7-iron, sand wedge, and putter, but there was a guy on a bulldozer digging up tee-box signs, and someone had already pulled the plastic cups out of the holes. I played Nos. 16 and 17 and drove home.