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[Nard_S]

31 minutes ago, bladehunter said:

ives like he’s going to live 20 more years ( and I hope he does ) I used to say I didn’t know where he got the energy. But in hindsight I do.  He has me to do the heavy lifting.  While he rides around and smiles 🤣…

That's funny, he probably will too. 

 

I used to care about score, was dying to break 80, then did it several times, and came away ''meh'' on it because I knew it was on a house of cards, and besides, the dog still ate panties and my wife still had the list. I'm the happier for it too. Nice to play well or over my head, but nicer to be more grounded about it and enjoy any time I can dedicate to chasing a ball. Live to make that my biggest problem someday, chasing a ball in a better manner. i can dream.

 

[Soloman1]

22 minutes ago, Double Mocha Man said:

 

I am Soloman's agent.  Please send me the $200 for the lesson and I will send a small portion of it to Soloman.

 darn hollywood types.

[Double Mocha Man]

9 minutes ago, Soloman1 said:

 darn hollywood types.

 

Have your people talk to my people.

[Double Mocha Man]

13 minutes ago, Soloman1 said:

I am Soloman's agent.  Please send me the $200 for the lesson and I will send a small portion of it to Soloman.

 

I see what you did there.  Sorry, but my agent's commission is 100%.  You get the kudos; I get the buckos.

[scotee]

So I set out this morning to have a go at shooting my age on my 72 birthday and sure enough I was well under that. Sad to have to confess I only played nine. Most of the regulars went to play in Spokane so there were only 2 of us and he comes back to play a Wed. nine for league play so only plays nine. Nice day and hit some good shots. Hit some stinkers as well. Well not as well but worse but you know what I mean.

[mshills]

1 hour ago, BIG STU said:

On the golf I can relate.

Now I never kept a handicap because I turned Pro early on in life. When I played or practiced all the time I would say I was around +2 or so. When i quit playing golf full time and started trucking and racing I was still shooting Par maybe 2 or 3 over with no warm up no practice.

When I moved to the beach I started playing back regular and playing local Mini-Tours I would say I got back to my old self. I decided I needed to go back to work and earn real money. I still played on the weekends some and sometimes during the week and never practiced. I still shot around par golf.

When I retired at 62 I was still long especially for my age and was still playing from the mid tees shooting anywhere from Par to 5 over. In fact the league guys told me to play in their league I had to move to the Senior tees and there I would be scratch which was too low for their league. 

April 30 2020 everything changed for me. That was the day of my accident. To be honest the Docs were not sure if I would ever be able to play again. I worked hard sometimes too much. I had to overhaul my swing. In your world it would be equal to a body off of frame full restoration. I do not turn like I did and get off balance. I had to figure out how to swing and stay on balance and to play pain free. I also had to learn to plot my way around the course. That was never my style. I was always hit it WFO find it and figure out how to get out of the mess I created. In the day I could get out of jail with the 5 iron and was a good wedge player and stellar putter. I also lost like 50 yards off the tee no joke. With my nerve and eye issues I am no longer as good of a putter as I once was. A lot of it is also age progression and I know that

I really got frustrated and was going to quit the game period. I had a good soul searching as in what could I do. Messing with race cars was out. Riding Harleys even 3 wheeled ones was out. Driving trucks even part time was out. Fishing was out because I got too bored unless I was drunk and I do not ever want to do the drinking drunk thing again. Golf basically was it. I ended up working on a way to play and not strain myself. After shortening my swing and getting used to it I have found I am a better ball striker than I have ever been. I have learned to build off of that. Now days I hover around 10 to 14 handicap with the league with scores posted every day. I have learned to accept the fact I will never be a shell of the player I once was. I have to remind myself that I am lucky to be playing at all and not in a wheelchair or walker. Yep I have 70 somethings from the same tees blast it by me. I have learned to accept that also. Yep I joke around now and tell people I am 66 with an 80 year old back. Funny but it is a fact.

Bravo man. We can both attest to the following:

 

Golf is hard. 
Post-injury golf is really hard. At least 10 strokes harder. 
The game is different than it was, but it’s still fun.

Grateful beyond measure to still have the game accessible.

[RoverTiger]

4 hours ago, bscinstnct said:

 

Can you do your program at home? 
 

@Petethreeput reminds us that training at home gives no excuse to not be able to “not make it to the gym”

 

I train 6-7 days a week at home

 

3 HIIT workouts that I customized off 40 minutes YouTube interval formats 

 

And 3-4 days of just 15 minutes of heavy (8-12 rep range) strength training with a 60lb weighted wear and a pull-up bar. 
 

Training at home is a game changer. And if you gotta spend some money to get the gear you need, what could be more important to spend your money on?

My wife and I got this about a year ago to go with our exercise bike, and it's been an absolute godsend.

 

I had been a member at a gym that's only about ten minutes away from our house, but I constantly had to dig deep to get up and in there at 5 A.M. before heading to the office. Going after work was always a no-go for me due to it being way more crowded and my energy level approaching E.

 

Sure, the machine we got won't necessarily be adequate if you're trying to get swole (as they say), but it is more than enough for the overwhelming majority of people. Having it just in the other room is also nice for those days when I'm not necessarily feeling it, but still know I need to do something. I wouldn't have even bothered going to the gym for an abbreviated 20-minute workout, but I will do it when the equipment is under my roof.

Edited May 15 by RoverTiger

[bladehunter]

1 hour ago, Double Mocha Man said:

 

Bless your father-in-law's heart, but I hear that too often from older friends.  Get with the program,  Unleash your inner artificial intelligence and get your Chat GPT working.

 

I have a golfing friend who I had to train.  Phone calls are so 1970's.  I had to get him to learn how to text to set up our golf tee times.

 

Now if I can just get old-fashioned Larry in L.A. to stop  doing a phone call every 10 days that lasts almost 3 hours.  Bring back landlines and steep long-distance charges!

Oh he’s like larry.  That’s why I mentioned  it had to be a call. A 10 minute call with him.  Is very rare. If you get off in 30 min it’s good. But most likely it’s 45 min to an hour.  Up to 3 or 4.  
 

he and his brother , I think they protest new phones. They both still have flip phones.  Refuse to get smart phones.  But yet they’ll ask you to “ look this up “ every 5 minutes. 
 

if he texted it sure would be easier. 

[BIG STU]

51 minutes ago, scotee said:

So I set out this morning to have a go at shooting my age on my 72 birthday and sure enough I was well under that. Sad to have to confess I only played nine. Most of the regulars went to play in Spokane so there were only 2 of us and he comes back to play a Wed. nine for league play so only plays nine. Nice day and hit some good shots. Hit some stinkers as well. Well not as well but worse but you know what I mean.

Happy Birthday

[scotee]

46 minutes ago, RoverTiger said:

My wife and I got this about a year ago to go with our exercise bike, and it's been an absolute godsend.

 

I had been a member at a gym that's only about ten minutes away from our house, but I constantly had to dig deep to get up and in there at 5 A.M. before heading to the office. Going after work was always a no-go for me due to it being way more crowded and my energy level approaching E.

 

Sure, the machine we got won't necessarily be adequate if you're trying to get swole (as they say), but it is more than enough for the overwhelming majority of people. Having it just in the other room is also nice for those days when I'm not necessarily feeling it, but still know I need to do something. I wouldn't have even bothered going to the gym for an abbreviated 20-minute workout, but I will do it when the equipment is under my roof.

 

Looks like a nice machine. Use it well.  Makes me think of this😁

 

 

[BIG STU]

29 minutes ago, bladehunter said:

Oh he’s like larry.  That’s why I mentioned  it had to be a call. A 10 minute call with him.  Is very rare. If you get off in 30 min it’s good. But most likely it’s 45 min to an hour.  Up to 3 or 4.  
 

he and his brother , I think they protest new phones. They both still have flip phones.  Refuse to get smart phones.  But yet they’ll ask you to “ look this up “ every 5 minutes. 
 

if he texted it sure would be easier. 

I hate texting but for reasons you can not imagine. I have Banana fingers. My trigger finger the end will barely fit inside a 1/2 12 point socket. As far as a stylus I can use one but tend to lose them. For that reason I prefer calls. On my keyboard It probably takes me twice the time to type something out compared to most of you. Part of it is my hand eye coordination since the concussion during my accident. If I do one of my long winded posts it may take me 20 minutes or more

[Double Mocha Man]

35 minutes ago, bladehunter said:

if he texted it sure would be easier. 

 

And quicker!

[Double Mocha Man]

1 hour ago, scotee said:

So I set out this morning to have a go at shooting my age on my 72 birthday

 

Congratulations, Happy 72nd!  It'll be a lot easier to shoot you age when you're 95.  Or indulge in more martinis...

[Soloman1]

3 hours ago, bladehunter said:

That’s what I’ve become too.  I’m still stuck around 0.5 to 1.4   That’s my floor.  But it’s particularly frustrating when your known ceiling was once +2.8 while playing large qualifiers all over.  I cared a lot about my game until I just couldn’t.  It was killing me.  Literally.  I would come home so angry because I couldn’t play well , that  it just was unhealthy.  I know folk will roll their eyes at the context of me saying that while still retaining a 1 handicap.  But you just cant unsee what you’ve seen.  
 

 

It’s a lot like my track days.  My mind can still see a 48-49 second 400 meter. But I’m afraid to ever put the shoes on because I don’t want the updated memory of not breaking a minute.  Not breaking a minute is laughably slow in the world. Used to run in.  Like can’t get in the field slow.  
 

.  At least with golf it happened gradually.  Which has tricked me into continuing to play once a week. At the time I was at my best , I said aloud “ I’ll quit if I get to where I can’t be consistent “.   And if it had happened cold turkey. I would quit.  as it is I’m rethinking what I enjoy.  And it’s just about like you say 4/5 hours once a week. That’s it. If I get 2-3 hours total to practice. That’s a lot.  I can get more practice time. But I’m so tired. It takes a 12-14 hour day ( up at 6 and dinner by 8 ( hopefully ) to survive these days.   And I’ve learned to not practice when I’m tired. It’s counterproductive.  As in it hurts the confidence more than it helps  

 

tale today for instance ….father in  law has called , informing me that he’s having a dealer text me sprayer info , because he doesn’t “ do email “ on his phone 🤣.  That meant a text was coming my way.  I was to then decide what I thought.  Let him know , ( which has to be a call not a text ) and then if the deal made sense , hook up a trailer to a truck. Load a tractor to take to lift a sprayer  , and go pick it up.  This while I’m trying to paint a booth full of small parts hanging up , and I work on a 520  deadline for pickup of the kid from track practice.  While juggling calls , texts, people who show up , and lately , thunderstorms of epic intensity.  It’s a crap show. 

I was born old.  So I don’t mind that.  I’ve never been a young thinker.  Or a carefree person.  But I used to rest on the weekend, and not count pennys , or choose thrifty options at the grocery store too. The hustle was 5 days. Not 7.    It’s frankly getting old.  Margins have to come back into spec , or im one of  the early checkout folks.  Stress will kill you. And I have no stress free activity.  
 

sorry. I shouldn’t say half that.  I’m waiting for a cloud full of lightning  to pass so i can load the tractor up to go.  So I’m just caught up , for a minute. Anxiously waiting.   The Sprayer deal is done.  We have 10 acres of Johnson grass that won’t die.  And we’re expanding sunflowers to that field …. So have to have something to kill it with.  At this rate of equipment influx I need a new building about 200 foot long to get it all inside.  I’m not complaining about that.  But it’s jist one more thing on my list.  I think my father in law is pushing  to set me and my son up for a farming future.  And I appreciate it.  But it’s sure extra at the moment.   He lives like he’s going to live 20 more years ( and I hope he does ) I used to say I didn’t know where he got the energy. But in hindsight I do.  He has me to do the heavy lifting.  While he rides around and smiles 🤣…

 

an anxiety alert just popped up on my ipad. don’t want to preach, but you could use a day soon with your phone off, no work, no doing anything for anybody, but yourself.

 

the world won’t collapse without you for one day. you always sound like a guy who’s always doing for others. let others do for you one day. 😉

 

 

 

[aenemated]

There're only two phone calls I'll answer - Ms. ae and Mama ae. Hell, if your number isn't in my contacts (a delightfully short list); it's set to not even ring and go straight to voicemail. Which I usually don't even listen to and just immediately delete. 

 

When I split LA, I dumped the 213 I had for 14 years for a good ol' 702. Entirely too many women of ill repute had that 213 so it's surely saved me some trouble. 

[RoverTiger]

41 minutes ago, scotee said:

 

Looks like a nice machine. Use it well.  Makes me think of this😁

 

 

Placing it in the study has helped it avoid that fate thus far. 😂

[mshills]

1 hour ago, aenemated said:

There're only two phone calls I'll answer - Ms. ae and Mama ae. Hell, if your number isn't in my contacts (a delightfully short list); it's set to not even ring and go straight to voicemail. Which I usually don't even listen to and just immediately delete. 

 

When I split LA, I dumped the 213 I had for 14 years for a good ol' 702. Entirely too many women of ill repute had that 213 so it's surely saved me some trouble. 

Bingo. I have every work contact possible saved as a contact. Not a contact? Welcome to VM … I might listen when I get around to it.
 

Area code…404 for life!

 

 

[Soloman1]

nobody ever calls me.

 

[bscinstnct]

3 hours ago, RoverTiger said:

My wife and I got this about a year ago to go with our exercise bike, and it's been an absolute godsend.

 

I had been a member at a gym that's only about ten minutes away from our house, but I constantly had to dig deep to get up and in there at 5 A.M. before heading to the office. Going after work was always a no-go for me due to it being way more crowded and my energy level approaching E.

 

Sure, the machine we got won't necessarily be adequate if you're trying to get swole (as they say), but it is more than enough for the overwhelming majority of people. Having it just in the other room is also nice for those days when I'm not necessarily feeling it, but still know I need to do something. I wouldn't have even bothered going to the gym for an abbreviated 20-minute workout, but I will do it when the equipment is under my roof.

 

You can get some serious workouts on a home bike, I did them on a road bike, but you ever do “interval training”?

 

Warm up to a good cadence for 10 minutes then sprint hard for 45 seconds, and I mean hard so you’re practically gasping for breath, then slowwww down for 3 minutes or so, then repeat that a few times. Obviously, you gotta be cleared by a doctor and be relatively good shape to do that.
 

I stopped cycling as my main cardio because it’s such a linear motion and uses no upper body. Theres tons of excellent cardio/HIIT workouts by top instructors on YouTube that incorporate lateral motion and upper body (boxing, mountain climbers, burpees) and you can put in whatever moves you want into the different intervals structure People say they have to go to a class to workout but I really think either you have the motivation or you don’t. 
 

Got wife into it slowly, 15 minutes, twicee a week. Now she’s doing 45 minutes three times a week. 

[Soloman1]

2 minutes ago, bscinstnct said:

Got wife into it slowly, 15 minutes, twicee a week. Now she’s doing 45 minutes three times a week. 

 

sounds like fun.

 

what? what did i say?

 

 

Edited May 15 by Soloman1

[bscinstnct]

5 minutes ago, Soloman1 said:

 

sounds like fun.

 

what? what did i say?

 

 

 

[RoverTiger]

7 minutes ago, bscinstnct said:

 

You can get some serious workouts on a home bike, I did them on a road bike, but you ever do “interval training”?

 

Warm up to a good cadence for 10 minutes then sprint hard for 45 seconds, and I mean hard so you’re practically gasping for breath, then slowwww down for 3 minutes or so, then repeat that a few times. Obviously, you gotta be cleared by a doctor and be relatively good shape to do that.
 

I stopped cycling as my main cardio because it’s such a linear motion and uses no upper body. Theres tons of excellent cardio/HIIT workouts by top instructors on YouTube that incorporate lateral motion and upper body (boxing, mountain climbers, burpees) and you can put in whatever moves you want into the different intervals structure People say they have to go to a class to workout but I really think either you have the motivation or you don’t. 
 

Got wife into it slowly, 15 minutes, twicee a week. Now she’s doing 45 minutes three times a week. 

Did some interval training in conjunction with playing a good bit of soccer in a previous chapter of life. Need to revisit both.

[Double Mocha Man]

54 minutes ago, Soloman1 said:

nobody ever calls me.

 

 

I recommend posting your number on social media.

[braincramp52]

4 hours ago, bladehunter said:

Oh he’s like larry.  That’s why I mentioned  it had to be a call. A 10 minute call with him.  Is very rare. If you get off in 30 min it’s good. But most likely it’s 45 min to an hour.  Up to 3 or 4.  
 

he and his brother , I think they protest new phones. They both still have flip phones.  Refuse to get smart phones.  But yet they’ll ask you to “ look this up “ every 5 minutes. 
 

if he texted it sure would be easier. 

I text a lot for an old fart but if it's a lot of info that needs to get passed on I'm gonna call. I don't do long texts. 

[BIG STU]

1 hour ago, Soloman1 said:

nobody ever calls me.

 

Looks like one of our Frenchie's looks when he is told NO! or does not get his way

[BIG STU]

3 hours ago, aenemated said:

There're only two phone calls I'll answer - Ms. ae and Mama ae. Hell, if your number isn't in my contacts (a delightfully short list); it's set to not even ring and go straight to voicemail. Which I usually don't even listen to and just immediately delete. 

 

When I split LA, I dumped the 213 I had for 14 years for a good ol' 702. Entirely too many women of ill repute had that 213 so it's surely saved me some trouble. 

If it is not on my list it does not get answered period. If they think it is important they can leave a message. If I think it is important MAYBE I will call back. Most of the time it is not usually someone trying to sell you something or scam you. Now on some calls my phone will say Potential Scam and immediately dump it to Lord only knows where

[braincramp52]

2 minutes ago, BIG STU said:

If it is not on my list it does not get answered period. If they think it is important they can leave a message. If I think it is important MAYBE I will call back. Most of the time it is not usually someone trying to sell you something or scam you. Now on some calls my phone will say Potential Scam and immediately dump it to Lord only knows where

Yup, if you ain't in my contacts you won't get an answer out of me without leaving me a VM.

[Soloman1]

windows security people called me. they said i have a virus and will help me fix it. i just have to download something.

 

i’ll do it right after i finish signing up for an extended warranty.

[Double Mocha Man]

10 minutes ago, Soloman1 said:

windows security people called me. they said i have a virus and will help me fix it. i just have to download something.

 

i’ll do it right after i finish signing up for an extended warranty.

 

That's a phone call I would listen to half of the voicemail message and delete it. Not a fan of Microsoft sales techniques.

[Soloman1]

if this woman was in arizona or florida, they'd give her a license.

 

warning: music is dreadful, so turn off sound.