OK, time to rant for a bit.

This last weekend was the Mad City Open disc golf tournament. I've been looking forward to it for a long time. It's an annual event for me to go out and help spot and watch some of the best disc golfers in the world. It's always a great time. The players are cool and will stop and chat with just about anyone, and you can't help but have a good time with it. Until now. I'm fairly sure that I've seen my last MCO. I don't think it will exist after this year. Turn out was poor, but that was to be expected, because world's was last week, and that's a lot of golf to play, so I'm sure the players all wanted a rest, but we still had 29 men and 4 women competing, plus the advanced men's and women's divisions. At $100 a person to enter ($10 more if you entered late, which many do), it isn't a cheap tournament, but most supertour events aren't. However, when the top woman gets paid out $135, you know something is wrong. The top spot for men's paid out in the $900 range, which is decent, but the pay rapidly dropped off from there. Someone did some quick math, and based on the numbers reported, it looks like the tournament director didn't give 100% payout, which considering with sponsor help most tournaments pay out well over 100% of entry fees is very questinable. It didn't help that this TD had a reputation of being stingy with payouts. To top it off, they have a raffle every year, with lots of prizes of discs, tshirts, and other little things, and then usually one big one of a basket. This year, they did give away a basket, but it was only one of 5 prizes, and the others were cheap. They had tons of raffle tickets sold. Gotta wonder where all that extra money is going. They claim into the courses, but many of us no longer think so. It's a shame. The MCO used to be such a big event, and now even if they try to hold it again next year, I doubt any pros will come. Small field plus low sponsor support plus low payouts equals pissed off players who spread the word and don't come back. And I saw plenty of griping, pissed off players as I left. What a waste.

OK, end of rant. I feel a bit better now. 8-)

And I can't have a post be one big bitch session, so one quick bit of humor thanks to Will Farrell.

OK, so this blogger can be a bit frustrating at times. It doesn't do updates sometimes, and now one gets put in twice. Oh, well. For free I can't complain much.

Today is definitely a tired day. Still no vending machines at work. They're switching suppliers, and while the old one has removed their stuff, the new one still hasn't shown up yet. Definitely feeling a caffeine deficiency. And having OEC class last night right after work isn't helping much either. But class is going well, so that's a very positive thing, even if it doesn't get me much sleep. 8-)

And now for some random amusement:

Hummer vs. stump. Hummer loses, but a Jeep to the rescue!

Even bears know enough not to drink Busch.

WTF? Judge says I know you're guilty, but you're a football player, so the verdict is not guilty?!?

It's been a few weeks, so of course, it's time for another Paris Hilton naked story.

Wow, I thought this sounded so funny, that I had to post it right away. A possible return of Ash! Give me some sugar baby!

OK, the last attempt at updating this page didn't work, so just a small quickie in case this one fails too...

This weekend is the Mad City Open disc golf tournament. I'd love to be good enough to play in it, but it'll be fun to work as a spotter. You get to see all the touring pros go through and do things with discs that I usually can only dream of.

And while I'm thinking disc golf, Sheboygan's own Barry Schultz has won his second consecutive world championship! And Innova Disc's Team Champion took the top three spots! If you haven't guessed, I throw almost exclusively Innova, and so have to feel a little product pride, as well as Wisconsin pride for Barry!

Of course, being Wednesday, don't forget that it's The Onion day! Gotta have some stupid humor to help get over hump day.

I had a pretty decent weekend. Friday night was a free roll poker tournament at the Colliseum bar. I made a very good showing, but finished a bit out of the top five, so no free prizes. Still had a very good time, and for free the price is right!

On Saturday Josh's parents were in town, and they had me over for dinner. Josh always raved about his mother's home made spaghetti sauce, and he wasn't lying, it was pretty darn good. So after that, I had to come up with some entertainment for myself, since Julie was teaching an overnight program at the zoo. I sat back and said to myself "It's Saturday night, the wife is gone for the night. You've got to go out and do what any red blooded American male would do when the wife is gone and you're feeling the need for entertainment." So I went home and played Diablo II all night. Not a bad way to pass an evening 8-)

Sunday was a cookout at Josh and Andrea's. I guess they were designated host for the weekend. lol. It was a pretty fun time. Lotsa muchies. I brought out some salsa that I made from some peppers that I grew and that was pretty much a hit. The next version will be made with habaneros, so it should be interesting to see how many people still like it after that!

I had a pretty decent weekend. Friday night was a free roll poker tournament at the Colliseum bar. I made a very good showing, but finished a bit out of the top five, so no free prizes. Still had a very good time, and for free the price is right!

On Saturday Josh's parents were in town, and they had me over for dinner. Josh always raved about his mother's home made spaghetti sauce, and he wasn't lying, it was pretty darn good. So after that, I had to come up with some entertainment for myself, since Julie was teaching an overnight program at the zoo. I sat back and said to myself "It's Saturday night, the wife is gone for the night. You've got to go out and do what any red blooded American male would do when the wife is gone and you're feeling the need for entertainment." So I went home and played Diablo II all night. Not a bad way to pass an evening 8-)

Sunday was a cookout at Josh and Andrea's. I guess they were designated host for the weekend. lol. It was a pretty fun time. Lotsa muchies. I brought out some salsa that I made from some peppers that I grew and that was pretty much a hit. The next version will be made with habaneros, so it should be interesting to see how many people still like it after that!

They say anything in Australia can kill you within three days if you let it. They even have poisonous clams there. But this is the first that I've heard of ants on this kind of scale.

Thank goodness the New York City Education Department came out with these rules, otherwise who knows what may go on in those schools!

The funny thing is, my little brother has one of these things. I got a good chuckle watching him scoot around on it the last time that I was home.

Even a bear needs a sip of something fermented now and then.

This is the week for sports for me:

The NFL preseason has started.

The World Championships for disc golf are currently being played.

And there's still more new episodes of the World Series of Poker to be seen on ESPN.

Give me some Badger football and I'm all set!

Yesterday and today have been spent at a security lockdown conference. Lotsa good presenters, but some have made it very difficult to stay awake. I'm in the middle of one of those right now. Thank god for fully networked conference rooms and lecture halls! I'm not going to be behind at work at all when I get back on Monday, thanks to remote desktop!

Last night I was out playing poker again. I know I ramble on a lot about memorable hands, and well, I'll try to keep this one short, but it was likely the most memorable that I have ever played, and possibly that I ever will play. Three of us were left in a cash game, and preflop it was just myself and one other guy making strong bets. The flop came out 10-5-10. We both checked. The Turn comes out with another 10. He bets $3000 and I tell him "I don't think you have the 10, I call." The River comes out 5. A full house on the board. He bets $5000, and I go all in. He quickly calls, figuring that round of betting was pointless and it would be a split pot. The look on his face as I flipped the fourth 10 out of my hand was just priceless. My first four of a kind! To make it more interesting, we had just been talking 10 minutes before that that I had never had higher than a full house in live play, and that most of them had. Also, the lady to my left had won several hands with pairs of 10's, so the whole game we were joking that you had to be scared when a 10 hit the board. How true it was! OK, end poker ramble.

This weekend will hopefully be a quiet relaxing one. We have to go to Lancaster for Julie to have a dress fitting for a friend's wedding. One weekend of games and hot tubbing coming up!

This weekend was pretty fun. Got some work done on the deck on Saturday (thanks for the help Kevin!). Then it was off for a night at Maduro's, which was very nice. Excellent scotch selection! We wrapped the night up at the Great Dane for some munchies. We sat in the outdoor beer garden, which I didn't know they had. I still despise the West side location of the Dane, but the downtown one is ok. Great munchies at least.

On Sunday several of us hit the Milwaukee Zoo, and then we went to the Potawatomi Casino for a buffet and a little distraction. I had heard a lot of good things about their poker room, so I entertained myself in there for a bit. Made a whole whopping $10 at it. I should have made more, but the guy to my right stayed in on hands that he had no business playing and got the miracle river on me twice. That cost me a bit, but at least I left up. The amusing thing is that I was playing kinda distracted, because I may have had a friend of a friend at the table, and spent a good chunk of the time trying to decide if he was or not. I didn't want to disrupt the whole table by saying to the guy at the other end of the table "Hey, are you Waikan? You look like a guy I saw on John McCarville's website." It's always hard to tell when you're going off a memory of a picture of someone you haven't directly met. So John, If Waikan was playing 2/4 hold 'em on table 7 on Sunday night, tell him the guy that was shuffling the red chips the whole time he was there (about an hour) says sorry I took some pots from you! 8-)

And now, back to the weekly grind...

This weekend was pretty fun. Got some work done on the deck on Saturday (thanks for the help Kevin!). Then it was off for a night at Maduro's, which was very nice. Excellent scotch selection! We wrapped the night up at the Great Dane for some munchies. We sat in the outdoor beer garden, which I didn't know they had. I still despise the West side location of the Dane, but the downtown one is ok. Great munchies at least.

On Sunday several of us hit the Milwaukee Zoo, and then we went to the Potawatomi Casino for a buffet and a little distraction. I had heard a lot of good things about their poker room, so I entertained myself in there for a bit. Made a whole whopping $10 at it. I should have made more, but the guy to my right stayed in on hands that he had no business playing and got the miracle river on me twice. That cost me a bit, but at least I left up. The amusing thing is that I was playing kinda distracted, because I may have had a friend of a friend at the table, and spent a good chunk of the time trying to decide if he was or not. I didn't want to disrupt the whole table by saying to the guy at the other end of the table "Hey, are you Waikan? You look like a guy I saw on John McCarville's website." It's always hard to tell when you're going off a memory of a picture of someone you haven't directly met. So John, If Waikan was playing 2/4 hold 'em on table 7 on Sunday night, tell him the guy that was shuffling the red chips the whole time he was there (about an hour) says sorry I took some pots from you! 8-)

And now, back to the weekly grind...