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I lost a golf friend today to cancer

At 3:30am this morning my good friend Bobby Drabner lost a 2.5 year battle to cancer. I’m paying a little tribute to my friend here. I’ve known Bobby for many years. He’s about 20 years older than me, but we…

Category: Life, Miscellaneous

Decent news from the doctor

After some extreme pain in my pectoral region following several snowboarding crashes, I got checked out by the doc. I feared that I’d cracked or broken ribs and that I was looking at 12 weeks of recovery (and 12 weeks…

Category: Hackers, Life, Miscellaneous

I’ve hurt myself

I played 18 today. For December 28th that is darn near a miracle in these parts. I even birdied the hardest hole on the front 9. But by the back 9 I was in extreme pain in my right pectoral…

Category: Hackers

Golf on December 26th

I played golf today. It was 18 great holes of hackin’ the ball around. Didn’t play well but I’M very happy to play one day after Christmas. That just doesn’t happen around here. Last year I was shoveling three feet…

Category: Hackers

Quick pre-round post…

Happy day after Christmas. It is unseasonably warm here right now. Last year at this time I was getting 3′ of snow dumped in my driveway. But today I’m going golfing. The temps in the last week here have been…