Sunday Golf
I had one goal for today... not to suck as bad as I did last Sunday at Eaton. Yes it was that bad last week... the worst game I've had in more than a year. And I was determined to atone for myself. So much so I did some visualization last night while I went to sleep. I got through about 4 holes in my mind, visualizing really good shots until i fell asleep. Maybe not so shockingly, I shot a par on the very first hole today. We were at Altadena so this wasn't too surprising. And with that one hole, with that first 4 shots, I got to purge the crap memory of last week's terrible game. I actually did start strong just like I visualized. Almost tied for the second hole, and won the 3rd hole outright. And then it all fell apart on Hole 4. I don't know when the wheels fell off the cart exactly. All I knew was that I lost my focus, lost my concentration, and I reverted back to whoever that was last week that was attempting to play. It took 8 hacks before I even got to the green. I knew I had to buckle down. I knew I couldn't let the bad hole turn into a bad 2 holes and then have a bad rest of the game. And so I took some extra time and ended up swatting a nice first shot off the next hole. I whiffed the 2nd but still got to the green in 3. I 3-putted for a 6 so I didn't win the hole. I shot a 4 on the next one which was a bogey and lost out to Greg's par. I shot 2 more bogeys on the next 2 holes, tying for the win on Hole 8. At least I was competitive. I ended up having a terrible last hole again, leading me to conclude that the heat had gotten to me. Or that I simply didn't visualize how I wanted to play on the last 4 holes. Still, winning 3 holes today was not so bad and certainly 100 times better than last week. I went home and got me an Impossible Burger from the BK Lounge for lunch. I looked forward to an afternoon of... doing my taxes! Still on my have-to-do list this weekend. I only have a couple of days left. And so I didn't exactly augment my sleep with a nap this afternoon. And I didn't have any excuses. After all, I'm not seeing Johnnie today, he's in Pasadena with his mom celebrating his Uncle Joah's birthday.
But in the end I didn't take a nap because I just did the binge-watching this afternoon that I didn't do yesterday. And mid-afternoon as I mulled about my own procrastination habits, trying to get myself kick-started with doing my taxes at some point today, I distracted from that by thinking I needed to get a haircut. But instead of going to Supercuts like I wanted, I went to the bathroom... and gave myself a trim instead. And you wanna know something? It wasn't too bad at all! Maybe I simply didn't want to spend $30 on a haircut. In any case it felt good to a have a crisp free haircut. It took that and a some dinner before I finally started working on my taxes. At first I was starting to panic because I couldn't find the 1099s Lisa gave me for all those refunds she had gotten during the year. But eventually I did find them in my backpack. I think I remember working on the tax return the last week before we all got sent to self-quarantine. Those things were the only items that would have kept me from filing a pretty straightforward return. And so with TaxCut online I was able to get all my info in and I even ended up with a $1200 refund from the IRS! The CA State Franchise Tax Board however was a different story. I ended up owing $800. Amd with the $220 fee for tax filing, I ended up with a total minimal refund of maybe $100. So I essentially broke even, which is all I was hoping for. And so with that I sent off my taxes electronically and BLAMMO... taxes all done for 2019. Whew, what a relief it was to know I filed them and I didn't have to worry about them anymore. Next up was to work on the Tech Council presentation. But not tonight. Already I had missed Snowpiercer and NOS4A2. But it was very much worth it tonight. Mission accomplished. And the weekend was already a pretty big success.
I had one goal for today... not to suck as bad as I did last Sunday at Eaton. Yes it was that bad last week... the worst game I've had in more than a year. And I was determined to atone for myself. So much so I did some visualization last night while I went to sleep. I got through about 4 holes in my mind, visualizing really good shots until i fell asleep. Maybe not so shockingly, I shot a par on the very first hole today. We were at Altadena so this wasn't too surprising. And with that one hole, with that first 4 shots, I got to purge the crap memory of last week's terrible game. I actually did start strong just like I visualized. Almost tied for the second hole, and won the 3rd hole outright. And then it all fell apart on Hole 4. I don't know when the wheels fell off the cart exactly. All I knew was that I lost my focus, lost my concentration, and I reverted back to whoever that was last week that was attempting to play. It took 8 hacks before I even got to the green. I knew I had to buckle down. I knew I couldn't let the bad hole turn into a bad 2 holes and then have a bad rest of the game. And so I took some extra time and ended up swatting a nice first shot off the next hole. I whiffed the 2nd but still got to the green in 3. I 3-putted for a 6 so I didn't win the hole. I shot a 4 on the next one which was a bogey and lost out to Greg's par. I shot 2 more bogeys on the next 2 holes, tying for the win on Hole 8. At least I was competitive. I ended up having a terrible last hole again, leading me to conclude that the heat had gotten to me. Or that I simply didn't visualize how I wanted to play on the last 4 holes. Still, winning 3 holes today was not so bad and certainly 100 times better than last week. I went home and got me an Impossible Burger from the BK Lounge for lunch. I looked forward to an afternoon of... doing my taxes! Still on my have-to-do list this weekend. I only have a couple of days left. And so I didn't exactly augment my sleep with a nap this afternoon. And I didn't have any excuses. After all, I'm not seeing Johnnie today, he's in Pasadena with his mom celebrating his Uncle Joah's birthday.
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