Rebsamen Park Golf Course

Ed and I played Rebsamen Park Golf Course this morning. Ed scored 85 and I scored 94, with nines of 49 and 45. I used 36 putts.
We heard bad news on the senior-pass front. To this point, they have replaced War Memorial and Hindman with both of the Rebsamen courses and First Tee. When our cards run out, they will only include First Tee and the short-nine at Rebsamen. So, two nine-hole courses. My card runs out in December, when I will buy the $400 annual pass to the two courses at Burns Park. I hope Ed and John do, too. I've been so lucky to have them as golf partners over the last three years.

OVERHEARD
"One of the worst things you can have is a dark landfall," CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said. "You hear things moving, you don't know where they came from. You don't how big that thing was that just crashed."
—Do what? Floridians should be particularly troubled by a hurricane hitting at night because they won't know where the thing came from or how big the thing was?

UCA/First Tee

CONWAY—I walked for 35:14 around the UCA campus Monday before my first of eleven fucking Bear Backers luncheons.
This morning, I played First Tee with John and Ed.
Ed scored 88. I scored 94, and John 95. I used 36 putts.

Levy Trail South

I walked Levy Trail South this evening in 35:15.

Levy Trail South

I walked Levy Trail South this morning in 33:50. It's overcast and almost cool in Levy. I didn't mention this yesterday, but the heat here broke the night before last. We were all comfortable as we golfed yesterday.

First Tee

John, Ed, and I played one lap of First Tee this morning. Ed scored 40, I scored 44, and John 46. I had 4 pars, 2 bogies, 3 doubles, and used 17 putts.

Levy Trail Loop

I walked the Levy Trail Loop this evening in 34:42 as a warmup for a full night of NFL football watching. The next five nights will feature, for me (unless someone nearly freakishly cute moves into dead Tom's house), my final analysis for the Democrat Football Leauge draft set for noon next Tuesday. Most teams play their projected starters through at least the first half of these Week 3 preseason games. I will watch every play, a tradition made easy over the past few seasons by nfl.com and enhanced by the Roku device I bought two falls ago.
As I watch, I will sit in my enormously comfortable, disintegrating recliner, and enjoy the aroma of slow-cooked ribs drifting in from my kitchen. I accidentally watched a rib video on utube a few days ago, so I'm going with a new dry rub to which I very hesitantly added a bit of brown sugar. Also, as recommended by the video, I peeled off the membrane and sliced the wrack into individual ribs before I put them in the oven, both for the first time. I hope to taste the result in a couple of hours or so. Of course, they smell like heaven.
I checked the internet today to see that indeed those big, ridiculous, Harry Caray-style women's sunglasses are not high on any search for women's sunglasses for sale. I do, however, frequently see them on women in the greater Little Rock metropolitan area and in photographs on Facebook. Sometimes it takes me a while to notice those sorts of things. For instance, it was years before I figured out that those one-size-fits-all truck-stop hats had become a cool thing for pretty women to wear. Please forgive my ignorance. Nevertheless, all those women from five years ago are gonna get fucking laughed at along with the millions of big-beard boys.

Tolliver's Body Shop

I walked from Orange Street to Tolliver's Body Shop and back a little past lunchtime today in 46:28, with about a ten-minute, air-conditioned interval as Mr. Tolliver explained to me when the fuck my Crown Vic will have its paintwork done (he promised I would have it no later than a week from Frida, which will make five weeks and two days since I dropped it off).

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Over the course of their 230 years in office, did the previous forty-four U.S. presidents combined use the word "nasty" in public as often as President Trump has since he was inaugurated two years and seven months ago?

OVERHEARD
"GET OUT OF MY YARD! GET OUT OF MY YARD! GET OUT OF MY YARD YOU GODAMN MOTHERFUCER!"
—Tom Zarlingo from his front porch, across the street and three houses north of Pete's house on Orange Street, in a last-ditch effort to qualify for admission to the University of Michigan on the grounds of cultural diversity. He somehow believes its definition of such is subject to the literal interpretation

Levy Trail

I walked on the Levy Trail at lunchtime today, primarily in the shade, for 34:42.
Someone on our Hash Facebook page asked about current fashion trends that our grandkids would laugh at us about. I wrote, "For women, huge sunglasses. For men, beards the size of Burns Park." And by the way, that was before I realized Heidi's husband has a beard the size of Burns Park.

First Tee

Ed and I played First Tee this morning. Ed scored 42, and I scored 45, with 4 pars, 2 bogies, 2 doubles, and 1 triple. I used 17 putts.

Levy Trail South

I walked Levy Trail South this morning in 33:28.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
If the Democrats can't make hay from today's President Trump-suggested Omar/Talib ban from Isreal—perhaps the most un-American-like behavior ever recommended by a U.S. President (or anyone else, for that matter)—then what's left for those motherfuckers?

Levy Trail South

I walked Levy Trail South this afternoon in 34:26.

Cooks Landing

Several other Geezers and I walked from Cooks Landing this morning. We were out for 1:45:14.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
When his presidency ends, will Republicans admit they were embarrassed for however many days President Trump was in office?

Levy Trail Loop

I walked the Levy Trail Loop this morning in 35:09. Ed and I plan to play Rebsamen Park Golf Course today. We have a tee time set for 9:10 a.m., a little over an hour from now. I hope to break ninety.
Heck, I was happy to break a hundred. Ed scored 90 and I scored 96, with nines of 45 and 47. I used 35 putts and had 3 pars, 7 bogies, 7 doubles, and 1 triple.

Levy Trail North/War Memorial Golf Course/Hash

I walked Levy Trail North in a little under thirty-four minutes and played nine holes at War Memorial Golf Course this morning before NBC began its coverage of the Women's British Open. I was the only golfer on the course but was joined by a young woman, her gorgeous, faster-than-two-motherfuckers dog, and a family of four on mountain bikes.
Morgan Pressel is on a bit of a run. I won't forget my first impression of her in early June 2005. She was right in the mix on the final day of the U.S. Women's Open. B.J. and I agreed she was kind of hot. It was early on the same day we had a Hash run from the deck of a house in Lakewood, one after which Kathy Bemberg served tacos from a Crockpot and during which a 14-year-old, overweight lesbian followed us throughout on a minibike.
I believe I went about three miles in a little over an hour on a run of the Little Rock Hash House Harriers from a neighborhood somewhat close to Tom Zaloudek's house.
I ran 600 calorie deficits yesterday and today.

River Trail

A handful of other Geezers and I walked this morning from the Clinton Presidential Library. I walked with the Geezers for about forty-five minutes and then alone for almost another hour. I was out for 1:42:30.

Later today, I plan to play War Memorial Golf Course, closed as that motherfucker is. It turns out, they're still mowing it and Hindman Park. Yesterday, I played a loop that included Holes 6-12, and it made for great practice. There were two other men out there. Two days ago, I used the No. 12 fairway as a driving range. There's no putting since the greens are a combination of dead and/or overgrown, but it is temporarily the greatest practice facility in the long and storied history of golf. I hope the two courses remain dormant through the fall and winter.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
How rich could I get off sympathetic liberals if I were to open a non-profit called Whole Wheat Pancakes International with stated objectives of ending childhood hunger and slowing the rate of climate change?

Pam's Path

I alternated one-minute jogs with four-minute walks to complete Pam's Path in 58:21, with splits of 14:49, 14:35, 14:45, and 14:12. I was disappointed by how hard those jogs were for the last twenty minutes or so.
My calorie deficit today was 630. Over the course of eighteen days, I have run a deficit of 10,390.

Pam's Path

I walked Pam's Path this morning in 1:08:12, with splits of 17:13, 16:30, 16:49, and 16:04.
Football season is scheduled to start today with an NFL preseason game between Denver and Atlanta. It's the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame game, first played in 1962 and as the preseason opener since 1970. It's part of the Hall of Fame induction process in Canton, Ohio, and has been through the bulk of my life kind of a big deal. I'm excited about it. NBC says it will televise the game beginning at 7 p.m.
I ran a 570 calorie deficit today.