Central Arkansas Christian/Levy Trail North

I walked Levy Trail North yesterday morning in 33:41.
Late this afternoon, I walked the Maple Street Loop in 31:03. Finally, late in September, it is no longer hotter than two motherfuckers in Levy every goddamn day. Truly, I agree with Greta Thunberg's message the same as I did with the Comedy Channel fellow's take on whatever he fussed about last July. It's just, fuck, is that what we've become, a nation that relies on children, comedians, and reality-TV stars to direct us?

"Why can't adults believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, and that people will agree to quit burning fossil fuel before it's all the fuck gone?" 

On the other hand, even if we have, I remain confident we'll remain fine in general.

Rebsamen Golf Course

John Czarnecki and I played Rebsamen Golf Course this morning and afternoon. I scored 92 and John 96. I had nines of 45 and 47, with 6 pars, 7 bogies, 2 doubles, and 3 triples. I used 32 putts.

Levy Trail South/golf practice

I walked Levy Trail South this morning in 32:41. It was nearly out and definitely overcast and damp.
By late afternoon, it was sunny, so I drove over to Rebsamen Park Golf Course and played a random ten holes, as Nos. 10, 11, 14-18, 1, 2, and 9. I had 2 pars, 6 bogies, 2 doubles, and 1 triple, or close to spectacular for the first day of golf in exactly three weeks. I hope I play that well in the morning.

QUESTIONS OF THE DAY
Considering all the potential, lucrative by-products, even with the obvious risks involved, why don't more parents encourage their children to become political activists?

Levy Trail South/DFL

I walked Levy Trail South this morning in 34:08.
The DFL Green Bay Packers lost to The Get Down Boys, 126.53-99.19, and fell to 2-1. The good news is that our fifth-round draft pick Daniel Jones, a rookie for the New York Giants, made his NFL debut Sunday as Eli Manning's replacement, and it was spectacular. He will play his first game for the DFL Packers next weekend when he will replace Aaron Rodgers, whose fantasy football relevance is practically done. Jones outscored Rogers this weekend, 46.20-19.05.

"I'm giving it my best, motherfucker. You fantasy football pricks can drop dead."

Rodgers, on the other hand, is playing in favor of his team's defense, its new strength, which Bart Starr did the same throughout his Hall of Fame career. Despite Rodgers' lackluster statistical output, the NFL Green Bay Packers beat the Denver Broncos, 27-16. Consequently, the slightly more important Packers, at least to me, are 3-0.

War Memorial Stadium

I walked out and back, with a bit longer return trip, from War Memorial Stadium to the defunct golf course, where I hit full swings with a gap wedge for about half an hour. Those were my first swings of any sort since Ed and I last played seventeen days ago.
Now I'm back at the stadium to watch Little Rock Parkview host Rogers.
By the way, Parkview defeated Rogers by a score of 84-40, which ties this game with the second-highest scoring I have eyewitnessed. Last season I watched Little Rock Christian defeat Maumelle, 87-68. Back in, I believe, 2015, I saw Central Arkansas Christian beat someone, 66-58.
Later that same season, on the same field in torrential rainfall in the playoffs, CAC tied Pea Ridge in regulation, 0-0. The Christians lost in overtime, 3-0. That was the night I perhaps became the first person to have ever watched two 0-0 regulation ties in their lifetime, to beat a horse now four years dead. Way back in 1977, as a freshman at Wyoming, I watched Wyoming tie Air Force, 0-0. There have since been two college games tied at 0-0. I have since asked dozens of coaches who have told me they have never seen a 0-0 high school game, probably because there hasn't been one in years and years. I know I have never heard tell of one.
The last NFL game to end 0-0 was played between the New York Giants and Detroit Lions in 1943. It is not difficult for me to imagine no one else alive has seen more than one or anyone else alive would give a fuck one way or the other. It's just kind of cool for me to think—borderline believe—I'm the only one.

Levy Trail North/DFL

I walked Levy Trail North this morning in 36:00. My left foot hurts, almost as if someone stomped on it near the toes. It has hurt since yesterday morning.
The DFL Green Bay Packers defeated the Carpetbaggers, 106.07-55.45 and are 2-0 and in second place our fourteen-team league. The NFL Packers defeated Minnesota, 21-16, to begin their season 2-0.

UCA/Levy Trail South

I walked for a little over thirty-eight minutes around the UCA campus Saturday before the UCA Bears beat the Abilene Christian Wildcats, 31-30.
This morning, I walked Levy Trail South in 33:39.

Levy Trail South/DFL

I walked Levy Trail South this morning in 34:10.
By the way, the Democrat Football League Green Bay Packers defeated the Sherwood Shigellas, 141.92-101.32, to begin the 2019 season at 1-0 last weekend. The NFL Packers defeated the Chicago Bears, 10-3.

Maple Street Loop

I walked Maple Street Loop this evening in 33:48. We had a big storm here Monday night that blew down one of my backyard Bradford Pears. John Czarnecki and I spent three hours cutting that motherfucker up and pulling it off my house. It took a bizarre quirk of good luck for it not to have damaged any part of the homestead. I will spend the next couple of weeks dragging wood from my backyard to the street.

Levy Trail South

I walked Levy Trail South late this afternoon in 34:10.

Levy Trail South/Joe report

I walked Levy Trail South this morning in 34:57.
Joe had his first birthday three days ago, and I'm pleased to report that his tornadic traits are on the wane. It's been several weeks since he last climbed into one of our living room bookcases and thrown books all over the fucking place. He rarely wakes me much before seven a.m. I could go on and on, but other than his tendency to tear toilet paper rolls to shreds, he's OK. There's a pretty good chance I will not return him to the Little Rock Animal Village.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Does it seem to anyone else that Serena Williams played better tennis when she was not built like Oprah Winfrey?

Tolliver's Body Shop

I took the long way on a walk to Tolliver's Body Shop on Friday afternoon. It took me 37:42 to get to my Crown Vic, now painted and ready to go.

Levy Trail

I walked about two miles on the Levy Trail this afternoon in 36:26.

I PLAN TO STAB...
...the next motherfucker who says anything negative about how much any U.S. president golfs. The brainwashed conservatives wouldn't get off President Obama about golf, and now the brainwashed liberals won't get off President Trump about it. We should encourage our presidents to golf, to play a game that is good for them in every way. Doesn't anyone remember this unfair criticism of our last president? Besides, with this new fuck, what's the point?

Rebsamen Park Golf Course

Ed and played the front nine at Rebsamen Park Golf Course on Tuesday morning. Ed scored 46 and I scored 50, with 2 pars, 3 bogies, 2 doubles, 1 triple, and 1 quadruple. I used 17 putts and was so disappointed that I immediately declared I would take two weeks off, a game-improvement technique that has rarely failed to help in my thirty-three years, four months of golf. I will take no full swings but will chip, pitch, and putt quite a bit, I hope.

Hash

I walked for about an hour on a run with the Little Rock Hash House Harriers yesterday afternoon. We went from a house near Dickey-Stephens Park through downtown North Little Rock, across a bridge to the Clinton Libary, back through downtown Little Rock, and across another bridge back to the house and the swimming pool.