Soccer for clueless Americans , The Oaks makes good,

 I'm always a little surprised when I look to see who in their right mind reads this meaningless blog about a little town in Wisconsin.  This is from the last 3 days 

 

Not many Russians anymore  LOL 
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Had an issue while golfing at The Oaks Wednesday night in league. The ranger REALLY pissed off our foursome and sort of ruined our rounds. I have been beat up a few times because I will not back down to bullies - dealt with that all the way through school and I WON'T TAKE IT ANYMORE.  

Well - I gave the owner of The Oaks/Kestrel Ridge an earfull with a few obscenities and they agreed with our complaint.  It's all good now but have you ever tried golfing when you are LIVID and want to beat up somebody?  LOL  ( drives went far). 

It's all been ironed out.  It had to do with 1 person in carts. There are 4 or 5 of us with bad knees or just old. We don't know who will be in our foursome from week to week so we can't really plan on WHO to share carts with.  WELL we were SCREAMED at for only have 1 player in a cart and what REALLY ticked me off was when I asked how to fix the GPS and the ranger said I DON'T CARE!   

AGAIN - it's all good now - maybe HE was having a bad day and wanted to share!  The owners of the Oaks and Kestrel Ridge are doing a MAGNIFICANT job on both course  truly.

The old owner of Kestrel was a slum lord who did nothing.  Now Kestrel is getting a VERY good reputation.   

BTW - Kestrel Ridge has a GREAT Patty Melt and really good cod with outside seating and music on Friday nights!!  

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We watched Ted Lasso and then watched Season 1 of Return to Wrexham.  I was NEVER a soccer fan - ZIP ZERO - but after watching these two shows I see it's NOT just 20 people chasing a ball - there is actually strategy for every position and every zone on the pitch (field).  It's more like chess actually. 

Check out Season 2 trailer 

     

You might say - I still have no clue about this truly beautiful sport - watch this vid before making a decision

It's opening day in the Premier League today - first game at 2:00  DJ and I will be in front of the TV!! 

BTW - "SOCCER" is NOT an American word - it's an English word for Association Football!! 

In the 1880s there was  Rugby Football (rugby) and Association Football (called Assoccer, which was shortened to soccer ) But when Rugby dropped "football" Assoccer became just "Football".  But when America combined rugby and assoccer they called it "football" and now Assoccer became soccer.   

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OK - mow the lawn day!!  Cheers  

I AM ALIVE!!!!

1,219,749 pages read - Grinders Island 

 OH YEA - still kicking - still complaining AGAIN about Columbus politics. But where have I been?  

The highlight of . . . . the last 3 days

LOL The city attorney ( who I have always appreciated) mentioned me in City Council last night with a disclaimer “Like him or not Rod Melotte ……”. I love that man!

Other Highlights - I cleaned up the house of all my shoes on the floor and tossed them on my "office" floor.  Then when looking for a donation I saw this framed glass image and thought THAT WOULD BE FUN - the "right" side would have a fit and the other side would be angry and also have a fit Columbus politics at it's best! 

So - I stepped over the shoes and with an evil cackle stepped backwards to get a better few.

My left foot stepped on a shoe and as I was losing my balance my other foot stepped on another shoe and in very slow motion I was now falling backwards.  My brain was going through what my head was going to hit. . the printer? the side of my desk  NOOOOOO!! 

RIGHT THERE (arroe) with the back of my head - BAM!!    STARS - BUZZING - DIZZY  RINGING - zero pain.  I'm on the floor my eyes are rattling around and the only thing I hear is a LOUD ringing. 

Trip to the ER - get a brain scan and they kept saying "WE SEE NOTHING".  The story of my life. 

I ask if the VERY loud ringing will go away - they say if it's there in a few weeks see a doctor.  I did - Doctor LITERALLY made it worse and hurt my ear looking in there. SO - I have an appointment with ENT - IN FREAKING JANUARY!   

Meanwhile I have Tinnitus which I can hear ALWAYS  I can stand next to I90 at the Oaks  ringing loud and clear.  sigh!!  

Let's see what else - I had crypto coins stolen TWICE from Coinbase - got the money back with help from the Columbus Police and dumped bitcoin.  One cool thing - I put coin in BETUS a sports book and got a 150% bonus when Crypto was at $56,000 just before it crashed   Winner winner

hmmmm - OH  purchased 7.5 acres of boreal forest in Door County - something like this 

House going up as I type - not moving - a legacy house cabin for vacations and future generations.  We are on the 3rd squiggle on the left 

This is the entrance as of a few weeks ago - cabin comes in 4 pieces and a crane will have to get in there

 ODDLY - a very good friend from High School will be a neighbor. And even MORE oddly at the end of this access road was a old fire pit and a old picnic table. I was talking to a golf league friend (who has a lifetime membership at Hawks Landing :-) )  and he said "Oh we used to camp just a short ways from the ferry 20 years ago".

WHERE Exactly?  "oh we would remove a old chain and walk back on the road and camp" was there a old firepit?  "yes" maybe a picnic table?  "yes how did you know   O M G!!!  We bought that land!!  

hmmmmmm - what else 

OH - I am OBSESSED with pro soccer/football!  seriously I bet I have watched 20 soccer matches in the last 2 months.  LOVE LOVE the sport!! Once you understand it, the rules, the positions the strategy - it's not just 20 players running around with no clue. 

OBSESSED!! 

Don't get me started on Columbus Politics - you should see this letter I typed up - WOW!  I was PISSED OFF!! I still have it.  Worked on it for weeks.  I cannot remember ever being so pissed off. 

  OK - I'll be back - this was fun - maybe I can roast Columbus politics again.  I do know a good number of people that will run next year for Council this group has pissed off so many people.  

Did I mention I lost 25 pounds in the last year?  ON PURPOSE!!  

One last image to burned into your brain 

     Cheers -  GHOST concert this Saturday!!! 

 

  

Winner winner A1C, Cat's Cafe and Tequila

FIrst of all - My brother got his first copies of his new book Cat's Cafe which is an historically accurate fun read about the expansion west to Idaho Falls (then called Eagle Rock).

If you liked Deadwood or Hell on Wheels you will love this book.  Its a fun easy read with a TON of history and references if you want more information.  I am totally impressed even though I hate to admit it (he IS my brother so . . . ).  I'm not a huge fiction reader typically and especially westerns but I do live historically accurate "fiction" and I gotta say - I read the prolog and first 3 chapters and LITERALLY look forward every day for a few more chapters.      

He even has a trailer from the book.  Honestly, DJ and I were watching youtube and this came on randomly out of the blue and DJ said  "Oh that looks like a good movie,   WAIT! - is that Ralls'es (?) book?"   

     

So yea - I'm impressed.   PLEASE help - Can you all just click on his website. The publishers want to see a following to see if there is mass market appeal and one way is clicks on his website 

RallsMelotte.com   just look around a few pages.  Get those numbers up.  It really is a good fun read full of history.  

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Second of all  I had my first A1C (blood sugar) test after I was diagnosed with Diabetes three months ago when I came in at 7.8 and as you see on the scale it's not great.  Of course I went through the 5 stages of being diagnosed, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.  

  At the acceptance stage I cut out all (most) beer and snacks and replaced all my snacks with an assortment of nuts and peanuts (not a nut but a bean actually),  I have nuts everywhere. Nuts are a super food. I also stopped eating the ENTIRE pizza and watched my portions and started looking at carbs in food.  The goal is to stay under 150ish a day.

WELL - I dropped 20 pounds (from 172 to 152), worked out 3 times a week and of course was taking 2000 then 1500 mg of metformin a day. 

A few days ago my A1C test (which is a 3 month average) is down to 5.4 and was told to drop the metformin to 1000 and maybe 500 mg a day and keep doing what I'm doing.

WINNER WINNER.  I'm normal.   

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So it's all good here in the coming winter of Tequila.   Yea - Tequila.    We had the summer of Rum and then got married.  We had the Covid induced winter of Vodka where we tried all sorts of vodkas to see differences and now - we're looking into the winter of tequila and yes - clothes really do fall off with tequila. 

We have tried 5 now and so far The Rocks tequila REALLY is smooth!  The ones we have tried.

Jose Cuervo - not bad at all actually  

Milagro which is nice and "smooth"er 

Espolon which is from Agave grown in the highlands and is MUCH more citrusy and made for mixed drinks - a little harsh but a lime will take some of that harshness away 

1800 an excellent goto tequila 

And a new favorite - The Rocks, Teremana - ACTUALLY smoothest we have tried yet   VERY smooth.  The others have the word "smooth" but come on man  smooth?  This one is. 

 

Have not tried George Cloony's yet which most people say is one the the smoothest.  What an amazing plant Agave is  - we have watched a lot of videos about tequila :-)    it's going to be a long winter. 

BTW - Tequila, Rum and Vodka have zero sugar and actually will bring down you blood sugar (a lot of testing on that one).  Although while your blood sugar lowers your liver and kidneys have to work a little harder.      

Carry on!