That double bogey on hole 3 should have been a par as well as the bogeys on holes 5 and 8. Don't ask me about the other double bogey on hole 7. Jeeeesh!
Here's my sad-sack tale.
Hole 3 was a par 5 severe dogleg right. I crushed my drive to the left edge of the fairway at
the turn and was looking straight down range at the green. It was about 290 yards away.
About 190 yards away a tongue of water from a nearby lake was nestled up to a minimal patch of rough next to the fairway. This, no doubt, was by design.
Don't believe me? Go look at what the folks at Crenshaw Golf might suggest to golf course owners the things they can do to torment golfers like me! Course designers put hazards where they know a large percentage of shots will land. I'm okay with hazards. It makes for interesting play.
As I prepare to hit my second shot I say
to myself, "No problem. I'll stripe the ball just past that inlet with my 3-wood leaving an easy pitch into the green."
I striped the ball alright. It soared through the air with a decent fade. The next thing I saw on the screen was a SPLASH.
Idiot.
Instead of the hero shot, I should have just hit the ball with my 5-iron.
That would have put the ball out on the short grass about 165 yards. I would then be left with a high-percentage shot of 125 yards to the pin. That's a piece of cake with my 8-iron. Once on the dance floor, a two-putt yields a par.
But no. I try the low-percentage hero shot and get wet.
The two bogeys were missed putts. The greens were tilted and I had to hit left of the cup to get the
ball to curve into the hole. Both putts missed the edge of the hole by 1 inch and then stopped around the corner about 12 inches from the hole. I tapped both into the cup.
How many times a day in the USA, perhaps the world, do you think golfers like me say Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda at the 19th hole? It has to be 50,000 times.
My partner Bill and I are in
third place at the midpoint of the season. Tuesday we'll discover if we vaulted into 2nd place with our best-ball score.
Yesterday I shared with Bill a video of Microsoft Golf I found on YouTube. This was revolutionary
software at the time it was released in 1992. Many years ago I played this virtual golf on my Dell computers.
I urge you to watch about 15 minutes of the video to give you an idea of how far computer graphics have improved. You'll love the soundtrack when the golfer makes both good and bad shots. Turn up your speakers as you can even hear the birds chirping on the course!
Mythical Loop Vents
"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two-and-a-half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge." J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings trilogy
Several days ago a Pennsylvania plumber hired me to draw a riser diagram for him. One of the fixtures was a small sink in a kitchen island.
I told him I'd be drawing a loop vent and he sounded perplexed. Believe it or not, he had not heard of one. He said he's always used an air-admittace valve (AAV) when a traditional vent is not possible.
I shared how AAVs are mechanical devices that contain moving parts. Anything with a moving part ALWAYS fails at some point.
Loop vents don't fail. Be SURE your plumber installs a loop vent in your new kitchen. It takes but an extra 30 minutes, if that. To install one after you get sick of your AAV failing, it might take days and cost THOUSANDS of dollars.
Getting Played - A Real-Life Example
You may be a subscriber that has a different
outlook on life than I do. For the first forty-five years of my life, I was oblivious to the propaganda and censorship that was surrounding me in my daily life.
I trusted what I saw in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
I trusted Peter Jennings and Dan Rather with their authoritative voices.
I thought every
article in National Geographic magazine was spoken into the ears of the editors by God Himself.
It turns out I was a FOOL.
I began to wake up when I started turning the pages of a life-changing book -
Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion.
One of the members of a secret mastermind group that I helped start back in 1999 shared this book with all of us in the mysterious cabal. As soon as I started to deploy a few of the examples in the book, the sales of my products rose
35%.
Powerful psychology is used by companies to sell you products.
It's employed by news outlets to mold your opinion about issues.
This mind magic is also wielded by countless others who want to influence or persuade you to vote for them or an issue that makes them money or gives them more
power.
One of the current issues is man-made climate change. Those farther up the food chain than you and me are doing their best to influence you to buy EVs.
You have no idea how much psychology is being used to formulate how you FEEL about man-made climate change.
Two weeks ago I shared in this newsletter a fact about EVs you probably had never heard before. When was the last time you saw something in the news or in an EV article about the
AMOUNT of electricity an EV pulls from the grid while charging?
Read my article about it now. It will open your eyes.
Don't you think
it's important to hear all the information about a topic, event, or a murder before you make a decision? If you're a juror in a capital murder trial, don't you think it's vital for you to HEAR the WHOLE TRUTH about what happened before you vote to send someone to the electric chair?
Why of course it's important!
This is why I've had to raise my right hand and swear the following
oath in the depositions I've given as an expert witness. I've lost count of the number of cases I've been involved with:
"I swear to tell the truth, the WHOLE truth, and nothing but the truth so help me God."
After all, a half-truth is a WHOLE lie.
Here's proof the people in New Hampshire are
being lied to. They're not being told the whole truth about EVs.
Five days ago I condensed my EV article down to 250 words. That's the maximum length a letter to the editor can be in most New Hampshire newspapers.
Just below is what I sent to the Laconia Daily Sun, the Concord Monitor, and the Union-Leader. The opening sentence in my letter to the editor
contains the most POWERFUL psychological switch of all. Do you know what that one is?
It was used on you day after day from March of 2020 until about 18 months ago. And most of you fell for it. Read this:
How would you feel if your electricity was given to someone else? Brownouts and blackouts are looming on the horizon for homes and businesses in
New Hampshire. It's all because of EVs - electric vehicles. Do you know how much electricity charging one of these cars sucks from the grid? It will astonish you.
The typical Tesla or Ford Lightning pickup truck might be at a high-speed charging station for about an hour. It's not unusual for the vehicle to pull from the grid about 137 kWh of electricity to recharge the battery.
Do you know how much
electricity the average house in NH consumes in that same hour? Check your utility bill and you'll discover about 1.5 kWh. That means charging one EV for one hour consumes the same amount of electricity that 91 houses use in that same hour. If 100 EVs pull up to the charging stations in and around Manchester and plug in, they suck the electricity that should be going to 9,100 houses.
What happens in a few years when 1,000 EVs driven by tourists and
locals are charging at the same time? They'll suck from the grid the power that was supposed to go to 91,000 houses.
The current grid and power lines can't handle this EV load. Your smart meter is going to turn off your electricity when too many EVs plug in. Get a generator now to keep your lights and heat on and food fresh.
Did you know that it costs next to nothing to publish a
letter to the editor on a newspaper website? I know this to be a fact since I pay the bills for my own server.
The above letter has yet to be published in those three left-leaning newspapers. Why do you think that is?
The newspapers CENSOR facts and truth about issues all the time. They control what you see to drive their
narrative.
They use the powerful psychological switch of AUTHORITY to control how you think about things.
How much truth is being withheld from you each day about countless topics?
Yes, you're being played like a cheap fiddle.
"You are the trailer park. I am the tornado." Beth Dutton