It Still Hurts

     It still hurts!  I know it is a sign of getting older, but that doesn't make it any less painful.  Your body starts hurting in places that you didn't know you had and those pains come more often.  Your best friend priorities list changes from spouse/significant other (wife, girlfriend and since it is 2012 domestic partner), golf buddies to health care provider--in my case, chiropractor.  He plays golf by the way and is very good, a single digit handicapper who is a member at a local exclusive country club. I know, I have payed his dues recently with my office visits and my sciatica pain.
     My friends list has taken on a different look.  Top of the list is my chiropractor and health care provider, significant other and then --sorry guys--my golf buddies.  Guys, I love you like brothers but when I am in pain decisions have to be made. Bottom line is I have to rest my back so it doesn't hurt.  I am not going to play tomorrow to rest it.  Besides, I am down on quarters and have to do my wash.  Me not playing is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you.  Actually, I'm not playing so it won't hurt.  Look out for Monday--I hope.

   
     See what a sciatica problem will do to you.  This was me before I  went to the chiropractor yesterday morning.  Ice and bed rest and I will feel like myself again. Off to the couch to sit with an ice pack on my back.






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Pain

     No golf today or Friday.  For an explaination of this, please go to my other blog http://davidralliswrtes.blogspot.com.  Owwwwwww!!!!!!!

Darn!!!!!

     Today is Wednesday.  That shouldn't come to a shock to any of you.  However, it is not going to be golf day for me.  Since I retired, Monday, Wednesday and Friday are golf days and the days that I play in the seniors quarter skins game.  I can't do that today, I have to be mature and actually work on one of my other business opportunities.  I am stuck with a very difficult decision, that of taking quarters--more like donating quarters--in the skins game and possibly making $2.00 or working and earning $300 and eating.  It is a hard choice, but I think I made the more mature--I hate that word--decision.
    Don't pity me or feel sorry for me.  I want to assure you that I will be back at it on Friday and play.  Sometimes the boy has to become a man.

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Its a Tough Life, But Someone Has To Do It

     Please don't think any less of me.  Its not like I chose what I do.  It kind of fell in my lap.  Playing golf courses and traveling sort of just evolved.  Sometimes life steers you on a course that you just can't alter.  That is how it has been with my golf writing.  When the road opens up a hole in front of you that you just can't go around, you just have to fall into it.  That's what happened here. Don't get mad at me, I had to do it and had no choice.
    I tried, I really did try.  I gave up golf for almost a year.  I suspended my blog http://davidralliswrites.blogspot.com for almost a year.  As you can see, that did not work and I have started playing again as well as starting two more blogs, this one and http://travelthewestwithdave.blogspot.com.  Am I a glutton for punishment?  I guess it is my destiny. Don't envy me, pity me.  I am stuck.  You don't know the burden that has been placed on me of being brilliant and entertaining.  It is almost a curse.  Sometimes, as those of you know, I hit it out of the park and sometimes I foul out on the first pitch.  Hmmm...another blog on baseball?  Nahhhhh....
     I hope you understand that what I have said here is all tongue in cheek and I am not trying to boast or blog.  Those who know me understand that I am a very humble person who is very uncomfortable tooting his own horn.  Also, I don't just play golf and write about it.  My life is full of other things as well.

     What time is it by the way?  I don't want to miss my 7:30 tee time.  Oh, its late and I must go. It is a tough life, but somebody has to do it.  Enjoy these pictures in the meantime.