It’s taken 6 seasons of playing officially sanctioned tournaments as a PDGA member, but I’ve finally succeeded in finishing a tournament dead last. Well, dead last in my division any way; there was one male in M-4 who shot worse than I did and one male who started the tourney and did not finish.

I’d like to blame the wind, but 2 other guys in my division shot under par and another shot par. The truth is that I made some poor decisions, and my mid-range game totally abandoned me.

Interestingly, on the one hole that proved to be the most challenging (and to my mind basically pointless), I shot par on the first round and a bogey on the second. Better than some others. It’s small comfort.

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Drove to Dayton and back yesterday so that we could hear the immenently hummable GUSTER play a show at the University of Dayton. They handed out free chocolate soy milk at the door. Something I didn’t notice when we saw them at the Toledo Zoo is that the bass guitar seems to be the red-headed step-child* of the group. There was just the one instrument, but everyone–except the drummer–played it at some point; it just got passed around. The show was fantastic; the sound was well done; the crowd was very into it.

As a side note, in the “Never can eat too much pig” department: I enjoyed the pulled pork and ribs combo at Smokey Bones although next time I think I’ll just stick to the pulled pork.

Guster in Dayton

*For some reason I’ve been hearing this phrase alot lately. Don’t really know where it came from, and, apparently, neither does anyone else. It’s colorful and dismissive of groups of which I am not a member, so it must be ok to use. Right?

Birthday Lasagna!

Originally uploaded by TCTruffin

For her birthday supper, the Teenager asked Sherry to make her vegan lasagna. I got the bright idea to put candles on it since we’d forgotten the candles on the cake earlier in the day.

Quick note, candles can melt from the bottom as well as the top. There’s a reason birthday cakes are usually room temperature or cooler. Just a word to the wise!

Curses go out to The Broken Stove for bringing my attention to XTRANORMAL.COM, a site that allows you to create your own movies very easily. I just wasted, er, spent over 90 minutes goofing around with a first attempt. I started with some dialog from a story I wrote quite a while ago; then I ran into those problems you hear screenwriters talk about when adapting a book. The limitations of the system stripped away an important third character in the scene, so things got wonky. At any rate, it’s a fun place to go that will sap all of your time. Here’s my first go:

An Odd Meeting

Jaime in Red

Originally uploaded by TCTruffin

One thing you can do when you want to feel old is find a group of college students who think that your high school era is a cool, retro time-period and then create an event where everyone celebrates said era. Because Sherry and I like feeling old, 80’s Night with the English Enthusiasts has become something of a tradition at TU. Sherry takes groups of students thrift-store shopping in order to find vintage 80’s duds. This year, she also did many of the girls’ hair. Traditionally, we’ve read 80’s song lyrics in a dramatic fashion, which isn’t hard to do since most of the songs were overly emotional. This year we added the horror that is karaoke. For the record, I did succumb to the microphone and performed a rendition of “Sweet Dreams” by the Eurythmics.

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Oh, the red tinted singer is Jaime, this year’s Outstanding Student in the Field of English at Tiffin University.

And also, now those folks that wanted us to be blogging about TU can be happy.