Jon A thon

Got my offer in February the spring semester that I graduated and worked for the same company ever since.

I literally work on just twisting my hips. No weight shift, or even club swing at first. Just twisting around the center. Belt buckle really shouldn't shift forward or backward (in direction of aim). I like to think that in my back swing, my right pocket (I'm right handed) moved more toward the target as I twist around my center. Let's say at the top of my backswing, that pocket is now 6" closer to the target than it was at set up

Then the next step is that when I start the down swing, that pocket doesn't move back 6" (away from the target). As I untwist, I have to shift a little forward so that it can "stay in the same place". It's obviously not perfectly doing all that, but it's my swing thought on the range. I end up with a shift of weight forward just focusing on the twist, not a shift of weight back and forth.

Hard to think like that in full swings, but will focus on it with half swings trying to get timing all aligned if something is off.

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Yeah, the only time I ever get close to the tee box when the group in front is on it is if I need to move away from the previous green to get out of the way of the group trailing me.

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I'll play by myself often. I think I also tend to play fast and not good at just sitting in the cart. So, I'll get out and swing or stretch my legs at my ball while waiting. But never expect to play through unless it's an obnoxiously slow group (looking at you Friday evening couples scramble night). On those few holes where I clear the green and have to pull up relatively close to the next group on the tee, I usually let them know I'm in no rush and apologies if it feels like I'm looking impatient. If it get's to a point where the group behind me is now up on me and causing a traffic jam, as a single there's usually just a chance that I join up with one of those groups.

Now people that feel like they deserve the right to play through just because they caught up to you with no understanding of the rest of the traffic on the course can kick rocks. My club is inexpensive compared to surrounding courses and has a lot of members for 18 holes. You just have to deal with weekend traffic. No way around it.

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No kids

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Pretty much what my mom did

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Hmmm

I've got the Bergara in 6 GT as well. Damn near 0.5 MOA gun with hardly any reloading effort.

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Maybe the face, but not the strap. I can't stand those Omega straps. But those can be changed out.

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If I end up with a Seamster or Submariner, they are getting a black rubber strap immediately with a NATO strap to switch it up sometimes. It's a watch meant to be worn for outdoor activities like diving.

I don't like the bracelets on any watch personally. Leather for casual and dress watches.

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Miami did not support the event.

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Honestly, from my understanding that is all sporting events in Miami. They don't have huge support there because of a lot of transplants and people generally going do other things vs. watching sporting events. MLB/NFL/NBA games are notoriously low attendance.

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mean honestly, that probably was the American Dream for quite some time.

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My family was poor growing up, trailer poor, and we had rice and protein and bread with veggies or fruit with pretty much every meal. We certainly weren’t splitting a rotisserie chicken only

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My point was merely that affordable decent quality meals available for the average citizen is kind of the dream of society. American Dream never promised steak and lobster on the table every night for each blue-collar worker. We tend to move the goal posts when it comes to what a successful society looks like.

And I totally agree prices are out of control. I stopped at McDonald's with my son after a late baseball practice a few days ago and got a spicy chicken sandwich and did my old man rant on how I used to leave my baseball practice in high school and this cost me 99 cents that I'd scrape together from my console change :lol:.

It doesn't change the fact that our current society is leaps and bounds better than basically all of history in terms of affordable access to food.

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stay above deck as much as possibl

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I fished a lot when I was younger. Spent quite a bit of time offshore. Then went to work in the oilfield and had to go offshore for training. Spent time on several rigs in pretty rough seas. Never go sea sick.

Then one training job was on a jackup and I had to take a crewboat. Horrible weather, so I had to stay below deck on the ride out and probably 8'-10' seas. And then it came. Not so bad that I was throwing up, but I suddenly realized what other people felt. As soon as I got on the stable rig, it was gone. But man was that awful. I will always at the very least try to be in an area with lots of windows to keep my bearings in the movement and outside, if at all possible, in rough seas.

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Rhett Miller of the Old 97’s dated her briefly in the 90’s, and wrote a song about her.

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I was always a big fan of that song...didn't know it was about her. Know the roller skate skinny reference from The Catcher in the Rye.


I can tell I'm getting old getting sidetracked on this type of conversation in a thread like this :banghead: :banghead: :lol: