Two stories.
1) Played golf Saturday. Started off with a birdie and two pars. Then came within about six inches of a hole in one on four.
I'm keeping up with distance with an app on my iphone. As we went to the fifth tee, it fell out of the cart. Didn't break or even crack a screen, but the golf app had to be restarted because it was frozen. The rest of the day I'm a club short. App says I'm 150 out, I know a seven usually hits right at 150, but I'm short of the green. Still I shoot low 80s, which is good, but the coming up short on every iron into the green is frustrating. It's adding strokes I don't need. And my driving seems off. My good drives are usually 260, I average about 220 counting the shit ones I occasionally bust out. I'm barely breaking 200. I've got drives that register 185 and 177.
Can't figure out what the hell is wrong with me. Why am I shortchanging the drives? I tinker with stance,grip, weight shift, trying like hell to get the pop back. I never do. Just doesn't happen.
This app emails me the scorecard and a hole-by-hole summary. I happen to look at it today? The fucking thing reset itself to the metric system when it fell out of the cart. All day I'm looking at metric distances. 150 is really 164. I'm going up to a six from that distance.
Fucking thing ruined my game. Probably cost me ten strokes. And has my driving fucked up unless I can undo all the tinkering I started doing from about hole seven on.
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2) Middle of the night last night this awful noise wakes me up. Sounds sort of like somebody is hammering at the door. Maybe I dreamed it. I dunno. Clock says 4:20. Nobody's home but me and my youngest. Check the house, nothing seems amiss. Check the front door. it's unlocked.
So I get the the baseball bat and go outside. It's dark as hell. I think I see something moving off to the side in the shadows. So I walk a little closer with that tingly feeling crawling up the back of my neck. It's nothing. A stupid ass dog cruising for garbage I guess.
And then I hear this hissing sound right beside me. It's like sssssss-ssssssssssss-sssssssskkkkkk.
I think "oh FUCK, I've walked out here in the fucking dark and am up on a motherfucking snake." It's pitch. I can't see what's there. With my nuts trying their best to crawl up into my guts I'm frozen in place trying to figure out where this fucking snake is so I don't step on it.
And then... Kaaa-sppppppppppissssshhhhhh-tktktktktktktk.
My fucking sprinklers come on. I get a face full of water. That's the "snake" I heard. The damn sprinkler priming up.
And it's 4:30ish, I'm soaking ass wet and my day has started off with a bang.