Determining the Rendering Point

finally I have forced myself to write a much-needed post. a few things to go over:

Beer Belly 2-Mile Race (Sunday April 26 at Saucomo, WI)

• There were over 1,800 people this year
• My time was 14:26, beating my best 2-mile time of 14:47
• it was hot-- in the high 80s
• results and pictures not available yet

MJGA Week 3 (Monday at Wawanowin)

• Started out good, golfed terrible on holes 3-7, birdie on 8 and par on 9
• 57 on front, 55 on back
  
• took 3rd place in my flight (technically 2nd because two kids got a 50)
• it was hot-- in the 90s

Because I have not integrated the correct blog information hack into the template for this page, i am asking everyone who has read this to leave a comment, just so i have an idea if anyone reads this blog.

Entering Hexagon Twelve

As I am sitting here, at my cousin's house in DePere, WI, I am thinking about writing a post, so that's what I'm doing. How about Game 7 last night?!?! Go Spurs! On Sunday is a 2-Mile race in Green Bay that I'm going to. It should be fun, it's supposed to be in the 70's. Today is a high of 100. I went running at 8:00 this morning and it was in the 80's.
Ok now for what you all have been waiting for. Today's Thing You Should Not Do While Golfing is:

• Never arrive less than 10 minutes before your tee time is, you will risk missing it and therefore getting yourself into some trouble.

Some of the recent news headlines I have noticed are

• SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. (YHOO), the most-used Internet site, has shut down all its user-created Internet chat rooms amid concerns that adults were using the sites to try to have sex with minors.

They're just realizing this now?? Here's another one:

• DALLAS — Air traffic controllers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area routinely covered up errors and their supervisors failed to investigate cases that included airplanes flying too close to each other, federal officials said.

Supposedly in the near future Blogger will enable people owning SMS-messaging cell phones to use the phones to post entries onto a Mobile Blog. Right now it's available for Cingulair, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and a few more. And if you have a camera phone, you can take a picture and add that to the post.

This computer doesn't have AIM, and I don't want to install it right now, but I'll post again tomorrow.

The Mark of the Spotted Mongoose

Today I am in DePere, WI and it's already hot outside. Yesterday at the Homestead Golf Course I shot a 62. Here are my reasons for this bad performance:

1. Greens were extremely fast
2. Developed a bad slice with the driver on hole 2, couldn't hit the ball straight ever since that
3. My 4-Wood Hybrid was letting me down (like it always does)

So enough about that. Now time for Things you should not do while golfing:

• When you get mad from hitting a bad shot, never throw your club in the direction of people. Actually I shouldn't even list this on here, because you should already know this.

Standing in the Sun's shadow

Today I am starting something new called Things You Should Not Do While Golfing. Each new post will contain a valuable lesson that you should keep in mind while golfing.

Today's Thing you should not do while golfing is:

• When someone yells "fore", do not look in the direction that the sound came from, otherwise, you may get hit in the face, torso, hip, kneecap, or worse by a flying golfball traveling at a high velocity.

Tomorrow I will be leaving for Green Bay after golfing at the Homestead golf course in Harvey, MI (yes, I am in the Boys 250 Yard). Everyone that golfed the previous time at Red Fox Run were put in today's Mining Journal.

There and back again

Ok this will cover from Friday to today. Friday was a very busy day. In the morning I ran 4 miles down cooper lake road. It has to be one of my most disliked places to run but because of where I live it's the closest palce where I can run more than a mile without having to turn back or haveing to go a long ways just to go running. So after I went running I had tennis camp, which didn't go so well. One reason for this is while I was standing waiting for Jon Langness to finish doing practice serves, Jeremy Langness hit a ball as hard as he could directly at Jon's face, but Jon ducked and iti hit me right in the neck. After this I worked for a few hours, then played golf with casey. This started out very good for me until casey used the bathroom on hole 6 and i put his putter in my bag as a joke, and started walking along until after 5 minutes later and on shot 3, i realized casye wasn't following me. He was searching the previous holes for the putter. Oops... Anyways I didn't golf so bad (however i will refrain from reveiling my score). This all amounted to an exhausting day.
Saturday- Had to get up at 6 to drive to escanaba for aunt's rummage sale. I drove, but was kind of tired so i made a few minor judgemental mistakes. The turnout for the rummage sale was not as good as it was last year, but i still made $25. For two hours i held up a giant sign made of cardboard at the edge of the highway, it was pretty effective as far as i could tell. Well this is basically how the whole day went except afterwards we went to the Dairy Flo in Gladstone to eat. Later on went to grandmas hosue to sleep, thats about it.

And thus started today when I woke up on a matrice in the living room floor at my grandmas house. I drove back home, it didnt go as bad as it did on saturday (i had more sleep for one thing). I put in a few hours of work then we drove my dad to the sawyer airport because he's going to Columbus, Ohio for his job. And as of right now I am thinking about future plans for my secret website that only a select few people know about, (fyi i do have a normal website too, but it's still in it's early stages. ) For information about this leave a post or email me at jcarlson2007@gmail.com.

First Run

Today is Saturday, the day my summer training for cross-country begins. My course is cooper lk road which (down and back) is about 4.2 miles. It is also the first time in my life I have used Saucony running shoes. All the other running shoes were always New Balance. Not only am I training for cross-country, but I am training for a few road races this summer. Some of these include the Gladstone 5-Mile Firecracker Run on July 4th, a Negaunee 2-mile run on July 9th, and the Escanaba 5k Lighthouse Run (my favorite!) in August. Well I better go before it gets too hot outside.

I'm not drunk! I have no skills!

Two days ago I received my Level 1 Driving License, which enables me to drive with a parent. After driving a considerable amount with my mom i have come to the conclusion that most people on the road within .25 miles of my car think that i am not the least bit sober. Today, while driving on the highway connecting escanaba and gladstone, i was swerving around my lane quite notably, but not really enough to put anyone's lives in danger. So as i put my left signal to turn off onto a street, i decrease my speed to about 30 mph. (remember this is on a 55 mph highway!) and the car in back of me almost hits me, so i speed up but then notice i'll miss my turnoff so i turn left as the car in back of me holds his hand down on the horn for at least 5 seconds, i turn left and a car is coming straight at me on the opposite lane which i am now in. I step on the gas hard to avoid a collision and made it safely onto the street.

This certainly did not make for a good start of my driving career, but maybe you had worse, so please post!!!