Levy Trail 5K

I walked the Levy Trail 5K early this afternoon in 49:20 and went through three miles in 47:49. It rained like two motherfuckers today.

I-49

SOMECOUNTRYFUCKTOWN, Mo.—I did not plan to exercise Sunday, but fifty miles south of Kansas City, Kan, on U.S. I-49, my Crown Vic ran out of gas at about 10 a.m. I walked and jogged for a total of 37:18 to a long-closed gas station and then back to my car, maybe half a mile south of exit 153. Somewhere around eight minutes from my car, I remembered something a North Little Rock policeman told me a year or so ago about the nearly infinite attributes of 911. I dialed it, right there walking south on a busy freeway, and within twenty minutes, a Missouri state trooper named Carl Smith handed me a one-gallon plastic gas can, drove me to a station about four miles away, and then back to my car. He was born and raised in St. Louis, so we talked Cardinals baseball right up until I was on my way again. I got to Rodney and Mary Gordon's house with about a half-hour to spare.
The Packers beat the Chiefs, 31-24.

UCA

CONWAY—I walked for 42:20 around the UCA campus before the UCA Bears beat the Sam Houston State Bearkats, 29-25, a game in which UCA trailed 22-7 early in the fourth quarter.
I plan to get up about five hours from now to drive to Overland Park, Kansas. From there, Rodney Up the Ass and I will drive to Arrowhead Stadium to eat food off of a grill the size of El Paso, Texas, for four hours of tailgating. Then we'll watch the Packers walk all over the fucking Kansas City Chefs.

Levy Trail North

I walked Levy Trail North this morning in 34:35.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Do the new multiple tailgate options on pickup trucks matter to anyone?

River Trail

I walked on the River Trail with several other Geezers this morning for 1:18:50.

Levy Trail South Loop

I walked the Levy Trail South Loop at lunchtime today in 32:32.
The DFL Green Bay Packers got hammered, 121.95-79.83, by the Cavemen. We dropped to 3-4 and into ninth place in our 14-team league. We're beat to pieces and in danger of not making the playoffs.
The NFL Packers beat the Oakland Raiders, 42-24. They are 6-1 and are likely the best team in the NFC.

Hash

I walked and jogged for right at an hour and a half with the Little Rock Hash House Harriers from Kanis Park yesterday afternoon.

Levy Trail South/First Tee/DFL

I played nine holes at First Tee this afternoon with Ed, John, and a guy we knew from War Memorial named Chris, who scored 45. Ed scored 47. I scored 48 and John 50. I used 14 putts and had 3 pars, 2 bogies, 3 doubles, and one quadruple.
This morning, I walked Levy Trail South in 32:31. I planned to walk Levy Trail North, but halfway to 47th Street, a skinhead-looking 25-year-old scrawny, filthy inbred fellow walked onto the trail in front of me from a fast-food parking lot. He had, no shit, an axe in his right hand. Even though he was walking in the same direction as I was, I thought it made sense to turn back south at 47th.
Man, my DFL Packers have never been quite this battered so early in a season. I have two key players who are idle due to injuries and a couple of others limping around, borderline useless. We lost last week to the Cajun Navy, owned by some fucking paper nerd I have never met, 133.07-89.90, to drop to 3-3 and into seventh place. My NFL Packers are doing much better. After a 23-22 Monday Night victory over the Detroit Lions, they're at 5-1.

Levy Trail South Loop

I walked a new Levy Trail-Levy streets hybrid that I will call the Levy Trail South Loop. I think the version I walked this evening is a bit short of if two miles. I'll need to get a Google Maps assist. After watching North Little Rock sophomore McKenzie Lee win the Arkansas State Girls Overall Golf Championship at Pleasant Valley Country Club this afternoon, I walked the loop in 33:08.

Rebsamen short nine

Ed and I played two loops of the par-32 Rebsamen short nine this afternoon. I scored 76 and Ed 84. It was the first time Ed had played in at least a couple of weeks.

Levy Trail South

  I walked Levy Trail South at lunchtime today in 34:20. As I walked, I wondered how many times in my life I have missed the start of NFL games with a noon Sunday start of my own volition since September 1967. I knew when I started I would get in about when I did, in this case at12:15 p.m.

  I'm putting the over-under number at twenty-three.

QUESTION OF THE DAY

Does anyone other than I think former SMU and current Arkansas coach Chad Morris looks somewhat like Morris the Cat?

Jewel Moore Nature Reserve

CONWAY—I walked through the Jewel Moore Nature Reserve on the southern edge of the Central Arkansas campus on Saturday afternoon before the UCA Bears football team beat the McNeese State Cowboys, 40-31. The entire loop, including a lap around the campus and a tour of the tailgating stretch, took 42:22.

Levy Trail North

  I walked Levy Trail North this morning in 34:12.
 We're having a weird-weather day. The high yesterday was 86°F. Our high today was 71 at midnight. A front ran through late last night and this morning, and the temperature has since dropped. At about 10 a.m., it's overcast and 54. Weather.com predicts a low tonight of 38. I walked in a sweater, and my hands got a bit cold.
 I remember back in the early 1990s telling Jenny Devine and Jen Reynolds how beautiful sunsets were from the Quigley Stadium press box at Little Rock Central High. Back in those days, I watched a lot of them. For the first time in years and years, I saw another tonight, and I was reminded they must surely remain somewhere in the neighborhood of the best on earth.

Levy Trail 5K/Rebsamen Golf Course/DFL

  I walked the Levy Trail 5K at lunchtime today in 49:12, during which I devised a plan to play nine holes and make it back to Levy in time to watch Game 5 of both National League divisional series (St. Louis at Atlanta and Washington at Los Angeles).

  If there were heavens, mine would include days like this, except Hazel would come over to clean my house while I golfed, and Ellen Page would drop by with a Kroger bag filled with chuck eye steaks, russet potatoes, and fresh asparagus in one hand and an eighteen-pack of Milwaukee's Best in the other (her choice; she, no fucking kidding, did not know my beer preference).

"Rock, I hope you don't mind Milwaukee's Best. I mean, I like it a lot, but I'd be happy to go back and get something else. Truly, just let me know."

  I played the front nine of Rebsamen Golf Course with two mid-sixty-something friends named Paul and Harold, the latter of whom was a junior transfer to the University of Wyoming during my sophomore semester there, the fall of 1978. He became the first fellow Wyoming alum I have ever met. Those two men each scored 39 and I scored 47, with 2 pars, 5 bogies, 1 double, and 1 triple. I used 16 putts.

  The Democrat Football League Green Bay Packers lost to The 546 Posse, 106.38-100.61, to drop to 3-2 and into fourth place in the fourteen-team league standings. The NFL Packers beat the Dallas Cowfucks, 34-24, and are currently 4-1.

Levy Trail South

Man, it's almost perfect outside. Cool, dry, the works. I walked Levy Trail South this morning in 32:55.

Rebsamen Golf Course

John and I played Rebsamen Park Golf Course this dry, coolish fall afternoon. I scored 101 and John 102. I had nines of 50 and 51. I had 2 pars, 5 bogies, 9 doubles, 2 triples, and used 36 putts. My game is somewhat close to good.

Rebsamen Golf Course

John and I played Rebsamen Golf Course on Friday morning. John scored 93 and I scored 103, with nines of 52 and 51. I played the first five holes of the front nine in four-over-par. I played the next three in eleven-over, typical of several short stretches my last rounds. I used 34 putts.

OVERHEARD
"You have to quit fucking up."
—North Little Rock football coach Jamie Mitchell to one of his players midway through the third quarter of his team's 17-7 victory over Conway at North Little Rock Stadium on Friday night

Levy Trail Loop/Rebsamen Golf Course/DFL

I walked the Levy Trail Loop late this morning in 35:05.
Yesterday, Ed, John, and I played Rebsamen Golf Course. Ed scored 84, John 101, and I scored 105, with nines of 58 and 47. The front nine was the worst I have played in nearly two years. It was kind of weird. I used 34 putts, with 21 on the front nine.
By the way, the Democrat Football League Packers defeated The Kruptilians (owned by Daniel Krupsaw) last weekend, 115.15-90.93. We are now 3-1 and in third place in the fourteen-team league.

Levy Trail South

I walked Levy Trail South at about 10 a.m today in 36:05. My goal was to finish with clothes dry enough to go straight to Walmart, and it was met.

I PLAN TO STAB...
...the next group of people involved in the production of local or regional television commercials in which pets owned by and/or children related to the owners play any role whatsoever*