It’s HOT…

Well, the Beltway is melting today… It was 95 degrees at 1000 when we teed off this morning and it only got worse. By the 9th hole, it was 97, and when we finished at 1400, it was 99. Of course this is not ‘really’ hot, but the humidity is sitting on 60%, which makes for a nice sauna.

Three of us old farts played with a young gorilla (all shoulders, no waist) today, and he did something I have never seen. He it a drive and literally buried it in the side of an Oak tree about 60 yards off the tee box! Now granted, the ball hit a spot that was obviously a little rotten, but in 35 years of golf, I have never seen anything like that. Of course, we made him play it where it lay…

So I go to the range to try to cool off… Boy did I ever… You win Scully, you’re a better shot than I am!

But I still like my BHP– so there…

Anybody out there ever read S. M. Stirling? I’m reading one of his books called Dies the Fire, and it has some interesting twists including an EMP that also makes gunpowder unusable.

It’s interesting to note how much Mother Teresa still affects us today. I have seen a number of blogs commenting on her just released letters and how she questioned her faith. It was also interesting to note how many blogs admitted they too have questions about their faith. I think all of us do, but it takes someone like her admitting it to prompt us to open up about our own fears…

I think one reason we do open up, is the relative anonymity of the blog sphere; out here, for the most part, no one ‘really’ knows who you are. You can blabber away and never really face any repercussions like you would among friends and family, or worry about someone going it to work and saying, “Did you hear what (your name here) said?”

Now having said that… There is also a significant downside out here- I know what I mean when I type something. To me it may be perfectly innocuous, but to someone else, filtered through their eyes and lives, it can be everything from irritable to viscious depending on how they interpret it.

Also there are trolls, probably as bad or worse than on most of the forums. A troll can be bounced pretty easily from a forum, but out here, it’s not that easy as AD points out in his post On Courtesy I often wondered is it envy, do we have something they don’t? Is it fear, that they might be seen as less than us? Or is it just that they want to stir shit up? I dunno…

Ah well… I’m gonna go soak my head and get ready to be stoopid again tomorrow and go to the rifle range…

Comments

It’s HOT… — 3 Comments

  1. I’ve read his The Nantucket Trilogy. . one of the better “time travel” books out there.

    Every blog will have it’s troll. I had mine, without warning after several nice comments he laid one on me that all airline pilots are #&@* (except he spelled it out) bus drivers and we deserve ALL the bad stuff that happens to us.(yes sir. . we WANT to have our throats cut and then be flown into a building). And then he laid into my shooting claiming I “held the gun up to the paper”. I think the guys at the range would disagree. In any event, he didn’t have the balls to post his own name, so I just don’t allow his mean spirited anonymous blatherings. It really hurt me though, more than I let on. Maybe he just thought he was being funny, but it had me in tears all night.

  2. Trolls should remain under their bridges, that’s for sure.

    And by the way, NFO…I read your e-mailed story. Serious props, dude. A few minor typos, but good writing.

    I forwarded it to Matt, but knowing how he procrastinates, he probably hasn’t read it yet.

    When he finally does, would you post it if we pimp it for you?

  3. Thanks Scully- I ‘need’ some more airplane books, since I’m back on the road next week. I’ll try to find them. There are those who can and do; there are those who can’t and troll…

    Thanks AD, I never said I could spel… 37 years of tech reports and yellow sheets, I’m lucky if I can write a complete sentence 🙂

    I wasnt trying to horn in, but sure I’ll post if Matt approves. I did almost 10 years with the VFD and that was the one perspective that didn’t get covered.