Life as We Know It

Balls Magazine Year 2, Volume 3 (24 overall)

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Last time, I let you know about my first tournament win of the year and my lowest score differential ever. Today, I'm going to tell you about the very next time I played golf which was roughly three days after the tourney. I took off a Tuesday from work to play

Balls metaphorically shoots Franz Ferdinand

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I write this fully knowing the consequences. I apologize in advance for the blood about to be shed. However, I've held my tongue long enough. I'm only doing this for the good of society. Here goes: Girl Scout Cookies are tasteless saturated fat guilt bombs that prey on the weak and

Saturday Night Off-season Open Thread 3 and AFL Preview!

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In these Off-season Open Threads, I'll sum up the week that was, provide you with TMI-style information, and throw some random spaghetti at the wall and see if it sticks. Tonight is a bit different because I'm sticking my AFL season preview in this post instead of making it a separate

Balls Magazine Year 2, Volume 1 (22 overall)

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I just realized the last time I wrote about golf was back in September. A lot has happened since then. On that occasion, I wrote about the Senior Championship at my golf club which is open to anyone over 50. I ended up doing fairly well and scored some points

By Popular Demand: College Football Realignment

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Welcome to a new series in which I take your post ideas and run with them. Today's topic: College Football Realignment. I am nothing if not a people pleaser.  Due to popular demand (yes, Blax is popular!), I am presenting you with my HOT TAEK on college football realignment. As I was prepping

A Thursday Afternoon Carpenter Existential Experience!

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Greetings, hola, guten tag, ni how, and yadda yadda. I swear the month of February exists only to mess with people's sense of time, space, and perception. 2024 is already six weeks old, we never really had winter in Yinzburgh, and I can't tell if the days are getting longer (sort

Your “How the Hell Is it Mardi Gras?” Open Night Chatty-Chat

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Seriously. T-Swift can'y even stand yet after post-Owl celebrations her and Travis have been doing, and it's friggin' Lent tomorrow. On Valentine's Day! Anyway, it's Mardi Gras tonight, so NAWLINS had to have been weirder than normal this past weekend/week. I'm grew up Catholic, and now generously describe myself as "lapsed" at