Mr. P'body's Place

I have moved!

2007-06-17T00:26:42Z

I am now at mrpbody33.wordpress.com and soon to be at barryarnson.com Please update your links.

Contemplating a change in scenery

2007-05-22T23:30:48Z

I am seriously thinking moving this site to Wordpress. I have gotten tired of the countless spam comments I get everyday. All of my other blogger friends (and wife) seemed to have made the move over too. Plus my site is sometimes blocked as inappropriate because of its history as an E/N site for a short time. Yeah, I had some racy stuff on here at one time or another. A majority of my hits still come looking for all that old stuff.

I started this to really journal my life and I still want to do that. I am just looking for a change I guess.

20,000 Miles & More!

2007-05-15T12:36:25Z

20070510_48
Originally uploaded by hakeber.

So the truck reached 20,000 miles after coming back from the parent's house on Mother's Day. Of course most of the miles had been put on the week prior because we were on vacation in Daytona Beach. Well the real reason we were down there was for the graduation and commissioning ceremonies of Hakeber's cousin. Since commencement exercises were to be held on Monday we decided to make a week of it down in Florida. Now I must say this up front. We are not beach people. If given a choice between the mountains and the beach we will usually pick the mountains. So we stayed for the whole week and didn't once actually make it out on to the beach or even touch the ocean. We have nothing against beaches mind you, and a majority of our vacations happen at beaches.

Another highlight of the trip was going to Epcot Center. Now this year I had a mission in going there. I was going to attempt the World Showcase Beer Crawl. Starting in Mexico and then ending in Canada I was going to enjoy a beer in every country. I started around 11:30am and ended around 8:15pm. Now it wasn't a record setting pace in any sense because we still wanted to enjoy our time there and check out all the cheesy attractions. Among these attractions was Nelson. That's right, Nelson. Well more like this now. The played a lot of their dad's hits for a older crowd. Among the band members was also the drummer to Candlebox. I guess you take any gig at some point in your career. Although I am sure playing three sets a day for a week at Epcot might actually get you some nice sized cash.

Overall a good trip and I got to play some disc golf at the local parks in Daytona Beach area. I would go back for the disc golf, but not the beaches.

CNN - VaTech Shooting

2007-04-16T19:21:13Z

CNN - VaTech Shooting
Originally uploaded by mrpbody33.

Great Ad placement CNN!

GAC 2007

2007-04-14T12:35:31Z

Today is GAC 2007 and I will be driving all around town in a pimp of a minivan (as pimp as a minivan can be) searching for clue packets. Please do not call the police and/or bomb squad on us this year. That is all.

Atlanta to Paris

2007-04-12T13:11:15Z

Google Maps does something pretty interesting when you ask it to go from Atlanta, GA to Paris, France. No wonder it take almost 30 days to get there. Check it out! (hint: check out step 21)

Bowling Green Recap

2007-04-07T18:24:39Z

Thought I would give a "quick" recap of the Bowling Green Amateur Championships this past weekend. First off let me say it was the best idea to get out of town for the weekend, go to another state, and play some courses I have never even seen before. It really make you feel good about you abilities when you can do well at some courses you see for the first time.

]]> Driving up on Friday a little rough. Got a little later start than I would have liked and the Garmin led us astray because it was set on "shortest distance" rather than "shortest time". So took a short detour toward Murfreesburo, TN off the highway and headed back to the interstate when we figured out what was going wrong. We finally got up to Bowling Green around 6pm and headed out to Griffin Park to play one of the courses we would see the next day.

Players meeting next was at 7am and the local Knights of Columbus was taken over by over 700+ disc golfers. Our first round was at Miller Park which was nice tight wooded course. I practically threw my putter for most of the shots and weaseled out a one over par for the first round. I was on fire and putting game was on. Second round was at the course we practiced the day before. Didn't play as well as the day before because the wind had decided to start whipping up a storm that day. Fifteen to twenty miles per hour winds seem to the norm in Bowling Green from what I hear. I ended up shooting seven over par at that course which was still okay but not great.

Third round started at the probably the best looking courses in Bowling Green called Lover Lane. Nice open course with huge trees lining the fairways. The trees on this course had to be 5 to 10 foot bases that made them well over 100 years old. The course played long for the most part with some tricky lines. There wasn't much wind at dawn but quickly picked up as the sun began to heat the earth. I managed to keep score under 60 with the winds. The last round was at one of the most challenging courses I have ever played. It was just ridiculously tough. The winds seem to swirl on the open holes and the wooded holes were just insane lines. Two holes shot next to cliff that if your disc rolled out of bounds you had to take a drop and couldn't retrieve your disc until the round was over. If you lost your main putter on those hole well you out of luck the rest of it. I managed the tough holes and made couple birdies. But the wind kept my score high and even putting within 10 feet was a challenge. I ended with another seven over par to finish the tournament at +20.

Myself and the gang (Eric, Andrew and VD) went to the award ceremony course and watched the final round for the top in each field. I ended up being 10 strokes out of "cashing" at the tournament but I still felt I did good. Tieing for 138th place among 244 golfers in my division was a great win for me. Not to mention I beat everyone else I roomed with that weekend. Plus I do get to say I was part of the biggest PDGA sanctioned tournament ever. My only regret was not getting a chance to visit Clayton while I was up there.

Q100 Ditch Day Traffic

2007-04-05T13:19:50Z

Q100 Ditch Day Traffic
Originally uploaded by mrpbody33.

Off to Bowling Green!

2007-03-30T13:20:39Z

Well I am headed up to Bowling Green, KY for the weekend. I will be competing in the Bowling Green Amateur Championships. Last year this event was one of the biggest tournaments of the year and this year it is setting a new record for attendance at 746 players. So wish me luck and check out of the PDGA site for possible updates.

New and Improved

2007-03-28T11:36:11Z

Line Rider Beta 2

nuff said...

Line Ride

2007-03-23T19:16:29Z

Just too much fun not to share with someone else...

Line Ride!

Secret Squirrel Soiree 7

2007-03-20T01:00:07Z

Secret Squirrel Soiree 7
Originally uploaded by mrpbody33.

This weekend was the 7th Annual Secret Squirrel Soiree at Redan Park in Lithonia, GA. It was my second year at this event and I knew I was going to do from the fun I had the year before at it. Now last year the tournament was split into an AM weekend and a PRO weekend. This year they didn't do that because the tournament director's wife was due to give birth a few weeks before the tournament. I would have liked the field to be a little bigger for more competition but I digress.

The first two rounds on Saturday were a little rough due to the cold front that decided to pass through that weekend. Seventy degree temperatures several weeks leading up to the event and then it was lows near freezing, highs in the 50s and 20 mph winds. I didn't have much stable plastic in my bag to fight the winds so scores were pretty rough the first day. The second day disc golfing was a little better. I did miss a few easy birdie putts during the final round that could have bumped me up another place. I still finished strong though and took sixth place out of a field of fourteen in my division. I still think I could have done way better overall. Next on the schedule will be the Bowling Green Amateur Championships.

APWBWGTTD March Napkin

2007-03-15T13:19:12Z

APWBWGTTD March Napkin
Originally uploaded by mrpbody33.

An interesting question and very interesting night.

Public Service Announcement

2007-03-13T12:45:20Z

Don't forget ladies but tomorrow is Steak and BJ Day. That is all.

Breakfast For One

2007-03-10T16:00:08Z

Breakfast 3/10/2007
Originally uploaded by mrpbody33.

So Hakeber is off enjoying a meeting at her work on a Saturday. Yep, I said Saturday. At least it is not as bad as my old job where I was required to work all weekends. Which pretty much made it impossible to take vacations. But I digress...

I totally thought it was going to be raining most of the day but only woke up to find overcast skies which have now turning into partly cloudy. I had a few things planned to do indoors today because of the impending rain. Cooking breakfast wasn't really one of them just a bonus. I will go disc golfing tomorrow perhaps and hopefully it won't be raining.

Today's plan includes doing laundry, cleaning dishes, letting the Roomba clean the house, putting a new light fixture in the master closest, and starting the front page for the new discgolfatlanta.com. I really need to get started on the latter because the board of directors (yeah you heard me) really wants the new site to be launched by the end of the month. Of course I have known about this deadline for about two months now but am now deciding I need to take some action.

I have also started working on some new blog entries but they are just ideas at this point. I am trying to bring some humor back to this site like I had before. At least I think it had humor. Well I hear the Roomba needs to be rescued so I am outta here....for now.