Monthly Archives: May 2010

The week

Tired. Christien, get those teeth in!

Thankfully, Christien is going to stay at Grandma’s tonight. So, I am taking Olivia out on a date to play mini-golf and then to Boston Pizza where we will hook up with Mommy. This should be fun.

I called her over lunch hour to ask her out on the date. She just loved it. Then, at the end of the conversation, she asked me how I can hear her voice over the phone. After giving her a hint about the poles she sees at the side of the roads, she proceeded to answer the question herself:

“Oh, those are telephone poles. Can we hear each other at the other end because our voices go over those wires?”. Man, oh, man. She’s light years ahead of me when I was that age. But I already figured that out when she started reading books that I wasn’t even opening until grade 1.

Last night was the opening night for the golf league. I played poorly. A 43 on a nine where I’m usually 38 or better. The good news was that I chipped in a couple of shots. One on the 9th to ‘save’ a bogey and stop the bleeding. The other was on the 18th where I chipped in on the short par 5 for eagle, my first of the year. That saved me a 39 so things are looking up.

I think this is going to be a good year score-wise. I’ve relaxed my <60 yard wedge shots and am opening the club face on the backswing which is forcing me to make a body turn. It's less 'arm-wristy' and more of a one-piece body movement. This has allowed for cleaner contact which has taken some getting used to. My same length of backswing is now resulting in about 10-15 yards of further distance. But I'm getting that figured out and I've already noticed my shots from 120 and in are starting to get very tight. This has been my glaring weakness for years and has prevented me from scoring rounds under par. I'm hoping this new-found swing will get me even lower in my handicap.

Echo (again)?

Before I forget, I must post that yet again, Sean and I went to another Echo concert. This time at the Phoenix in Toronto. I’m not certain, but I think this is the first venue I ever saw the band about 12 years ago with Greg. I must say it hasn’t changed much. But that’s OK because the site is a great one to have a concert of this size.

As Sean can attest to, the band was on. I would sum up the performance as ‘aggressive’. Rapid rhythms and hard guitarwork. They played some great classics that don’t come up live very often: The Back of Love & Rust.

The highlight for me was when they cranked out Never Stop, The Back of Love, the Killing Moon and the Cutter before ending the set. I haven’t seen that much energy from them.

The encore was a great extended version of Lips Like Sugar. But I must admit my disappointment that they didn’t play Ocean Rain. Up until then, I hadn’t seen them live without that song being played. Although Greg had told me that they don’t often play it I couldn’t believe that since I’ve been so fortunate.

Anyway, a great concert and a great night out even though we didn’t get home until 2am.

Hey Sean, if they ever come back we’ll need to finally man up and by one of those awful T-shirts….maybe the one with Einstein.