A Brief Respite

After a crazy summer, I've finally been given two weeks to do NOTHING. Work ended last week, and other than playing a couple rounds of golf, I've been basking in my own laziness. Time to recharge the batteries for the upcoming school year. I'm already getting emails on first-day reading assignments, and the anticipation fills me with dread. After returning to the real world this summer (okay, semi-real world, but still), it's hard to muster the motivation for 2L.

At least I'm distracted by our new 52" HD! Arrived today, just in time for the Olympics. Once I get it set up, we'll have folks over for some serious Wii playing (straps now required). The thing is humongous!

I have another round of golf scheduled for tomorrow, with my brother and his in-laws. We tried for Stanford, but it was all booked up, so we're headed to Shoreline instead. Steve and I played a round in Castro Valley on Wednesday, and we shot matching 97s, with a couple of mulligans mixed in for those WTF tee shots. Steve was way longer than me off the tee, but my short game saved me. I managed to get up and down in two or three whenever I was in pitching range, which helped me card some nice pars. I took a one-stroke lead into the par-5 18th, and I thought I had him when I hit a testy 6-footer for bogey, but he managed a tap-in par to pull even. Not bad for a guy who hadn't swung the sticks in 15 months.

Okay, I'm off to play with the new toy. I want to see every particle of that China smog tonight.