Golf and Halloween

Golf Sunday was at Altadena at 8:40 this morning and it was just Scott and I per usual by now. I was wary about street closures this morning but I made it to the golf course half an hour before tee time just fine. We were joined by another guy and really the course wasn't all that busy, which made for a fairly leisurely game. I wanted to focus on my fairway shots this morning and see if I could straighten out the disconnect between what I want to be happening versus the whiffs that i invariably do. First shot off the tee went way wide right into the practice net. Ok then. I guess I needed to warm up. Fortunately we were joined by this other guy which gave me an excuse to start over. But I didn't do much better. Still I was right in front of the green after the 2nd shot. And THEN I whiffed LOL. Same on the next HOle 2. Ok first shot, decent 2nd shot landing me 50 yards from the flag dead center. And then I overhit it past the green. Sigh. 3rd Hole: A bomb on the tee shot. I'm 70 yards from the hole again. And then a whiff way wide right. How am I missing this ball? Clearly I need to make some adjustment. Clearly I'm not doing it. Ehh, might as well play through it to see if it gets better. It didn't. Long Hole 5 and all I will say is I did 2 whiffs before getting on the green in 5. What I must look like if I were watching myself? Hey is that it? I have to watch myself do the shot I want to do? Sadly, that realization didn't hit me until AFTER the golf game.  Hole 5 and I yanked it wide right again to the other fairway. HAd to do a mulligan. But at least I got to the fringe in 3. Where I then overhit it again. Finally I hit a bogey on the short Hole 6. And then I hit a pretty straight shot on Hole 7 but short. I did not do well on this hole because I don't even remember what I did. Hole 8 I yanked way wide left now. Man am I swinging wild or what?? Still I got it on the fringe on the next shot. And 3-putted from there. Sigh. Finally on the last hole I hit 2 bombs just like on Hole 2 to land me within 100 yards of the hole. And THEN i shanked it right. WHAT.AM.I.DOING??? At least I got out to play. Small consolation these days. And we got done before 11 AM actually. I went home with out a good feeling about the game today though. Sigh. Gotta keep trying... 

I got some lamb skewers from Crimson to console me for lunch and the rest of the afternoon. And finally my frustration vented out when I dropped my entire plate of lunch on the floor. Fuck!! Fuck!! Fuck!! It's good to vent my own anger and frustration at myself. But I also know it isn't going to make my golf game better. What will? Practice. Practice. Practice. Ok. I guess we will just have to do that then... So today is Halloween and last night Lisa let me off the hook from doing trick-or-treating with Johnnie. At first she asked me to pinch hit doing it with Simon and his mom but I couldn't tell her I wasn't comfortable doing that. I mean that's her thing and their thing. If I were doing it with Johnnie I would simply take him to my neighborhood where his classmates are doing trick-or-treating I'm sure. I ventured out after 6 PM to get groceries. Walked to Ralphs and there I saw some trick-or-treaters getting started. It was nowhere near the way it was 3 years ago when the streets were literally full and there was a street party a couple of blocks down. There were some kids, but not a whole lot really, but it was better than last year when it was downright banned by the city. Tonight was pretty quiet for me and I made myself some beef stew for dinner. It is starting to get cold again and next week it's already Daylight Savings time. Time to start doing my soups and stews for the weekends.  I watched the Rams demolish the Texans this afternoon and then the Lakers beat Houston, though not without looking like a raggedy team. I expressed frustration at that though I'm not all that sure it wasn't still about my own golf game today LOL. I actually did work some this evening. It's Town Hall week all next week. And I had some numbers I wanted to present for tomorrow morning at Echo Park. Still, I got done with that inside of 15 minutes. What I really wanted to do was to keep learning about the crypto world. Fascinating economy with seemingly different (better?? Easier??) way to make money and amass wealth. Got some learning to do...