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i ll publish the new link see you soon meanwhile you can try out the new site at http toccatamundi wordpress com let me know how you like it posted by toc at 1 25 pm no comments saturday july 2 2011 making peace through golf every year here in seniorland our street and the neighboring street celebrate the 4th of july by spreading it out over at least 3 days the first event is the golf tournament i will try to explain this grudge match and how i got involved believe it or not i was drafted not because i was going to be an asset oh no but because i was the worst player that could be found who lived on the street and didn t mind public humiliation last year a new resident not knowing the chiseled in stone rules for the tournament asked a friend who did not live on our street to be his partner this friend just happened to have a 3 handicap big surprise they won the win was contested of course it was the upshot was that the big prize of 36 split 4 ways was carried over and added to this year s winning team s purse an unfortunate grudge developed between the neighbor who had to forfeit his first place and his neighbor who was accustomed to taking first place but didn t because of the ringer sigh so this year the newer neighbor was on top of the hood politics he asked moi to be his partner thus guaranteeing a probable last place showing and giving his neighbor no more cause not to speak to him i agreed and comforted my coming embarrassment by buying a really cute pink golf outfit pink vest pink socks 2 pink golf balls getting an entire new hair style and fresh highlights these tournaments have some weird rules all involving math best ball gender distance from pin and how old your grandmother was when she died i never did figure out whose turn it was whose ball was being played where i was to put my ball or how anyone could keep score all i know that the 4 person team was required to use one of my tee shots as the tee shot on at least one hole in the tournament they were running out of holes to play when there was a group vote and my tee shot was offered up to satisfy the rules god of golf the only shot i actually remember was sinking one putt that seemed to count for the good of the team the winners were announced the next night at the neighborhood party my team came in 3rd from last unfortunately there was a 3 way tie for next to the last even more unfortunately the grudge holding neighbor was on one of those teams so the double money first prize went to someone new and the grudge continues oh well there s always next year posted by toc at 9 03 pm 1 comment monday june 27 2011 golf choirs and jumping out of swings i ve taken a break from worrying about my favorite topic body soul dichotomy in order to worry about a physics problem related to golf i ve grappled with this dilemma since i was a freshman in college taking physics for music majors you can imagine the level of physics in that class actually it was taught by the chairman of the department and i know the poor man tried so hard to reach us on any level he dressed up as a gorilla for the first class he filled a balloon with something and set it on fire so we got to see a suspended ball of fire he would spin the rotating lecture area around and around like a carousel just because we would applaud that particular stunt but he might as well have been speaking a foreign language it wasn t made easier that he also sang bass in the university choir and i sat either in front of him or next to him basses and altos are on the same side in a choir we soon got past that awkwardness by never ever mentioning anything to do with science you might wonder where this is going well one of the questions the prof asked us in lecture was this when you throw a ball up in the air does it have a moment at the top of the toss when the ball is neither moving up nor down i missed the rest of the lecture because i was transported into my rich interior life where a ball goes up and down of course it doesn t stop nothing can defy gravity that s why it s called the law of gravity something is either going up or it s coming down no suspension of the law of gravity for anything now hang in here with me i refer all such heavy topics to mr t who majored in physics and is the ultimate authority on all things to do with science math he told me that there actually is a point at the top of the ball toss when the ball is not moving up or down reality crumbled for me briefly i couldn t swing the club all i could do was focus on stopping the club at the top of my swing there i was forever frozen at the top of my back swing what to do so last friday at golf clinic johnny the pro was pointing out that my back swing is slow and i pause before beginning my downswing in fact i believe he pointed out i had time to read gone with the wind by the time i actually got around to making contact with the ball he said there should be no time between the back swing and the downswing http toccatamundi blogspot com 2009 06 if its friday it must be golf clinic html enter lady pro i begged her for help i begged her to give me an example that i could relate to i pleaded with her not to give me any sports analogies she thought about it she did not use the word hozzle she simply said did you ever jump out of a swing yes yes i ve done that do you remember that brief moment at the top of the swing arc when you knew it was the moment to jump out yes yes i remember that then that s the moment on your back swing when you start your hips moving with the downswing right behind that was beautiful i understood i can t do it but i understand right now i m at the place where i bring the club back think of my old physics professor remember singing in the university choir jumping out of swings forget to move my hips first then take a whack at the golf ball progress is being made posted by toc at 10 12 pm no comments thursday may 26 2011 a local multiverse vineyards old churches abandoned train depots train tracks that no longer go anywhere sonoma is a very old well preserved town you could fool yourself that it might be 1911 but don t look too closely behind the carefully landscaped wineries to see the state of the art machinery that puts out 300 000 bottles barrels gallons of wine a year giovanni the old winemaker isn t there but there s a wing of chemists and professionally trained tasters did you know that the roses planted so carefully along the edges of the vineyards are not to please the tourists they use roses much the same way miners used canaries in coal mines the first nasty mold virus or plague to come near the precious vines will be picked up first by the roses look closer and you will see train tracks running everywhere but going nowhere the depot has graffiti and is now used to store pesticides the nostalgia for all things trains can send one spiraling down pretty quickly good thing the irish pub is close by a new discovery today was an old pump organ in the local congregational church my years working for churches stood me in good stead as i easily found the weak link in the security system and was able to uh gain entry and snap some quick photos of a once grand instrument that is now replaced by a piano at least it was a real piano and not some appliance that pretends to be a piano dang but it gets harder and harder to sort out the fake from the real parallel worlds a multiverse indeed posted by toc at 11 08 pm 1 comment sunday may 15 2011 hey you get offa mah cloud i take my technical continuing education seriously so when amazon began the hard sell with its cloud i was curious after all cloud sounds like such a nice concept i was promised 5 somethings of free storage and if i bought even 1 mp3 album and put it on this cloud i could have 20 somethings free storage now i don t understand a word of this but i knew something had to be done about storing some music for our rv trips let me back up my 12 loyal readers will know that i have suffered with a pos dell laptop for 4 long years it was born a lemon and it stayed a lemon with no recompense from dell and left me with a lifelong determination to badmouth all things dell for the rest of my days i taunt you you dell people your mothers are hamsters and your fathers smell of elderberries http www youtube com watch v qso0duy7 9s feature related our last rv trip to arizona left something to be desired in the music department http toccatamundi blogspot com 2011 02 music left behind html so when i read about keeping music on a cloud and being allowed to play that music from a total of 8 devices i thought i should pursue this to sweeten the deal amazon went through a mad spree of giving away free mp3 downloads if they went onto the cloud the cloud is like a tv you don t have to understand it to use it the free part i don t believe but all the free music was too much to ignore then they added the hook to sweeten the deal the entire opera don giovanni for just 2 98 that gave me my 20 somethings of storage for an entire year at no charge now add a new laptop yes the pos dell is history and i m trying out a new sony vaio all the cloud settings have to be reset in the midst of doing this i saw that amazon was giving away a free album of gregorian chant somehow i ended up with the new computer playing i kid you not simultaneously a bach brandenburg concerto blessed assurance free daily mp3 download and the gregorian chant free album i was trying to upload to that cloud i couldn t find any off button for the cloud i could pause it but there would still be 2 of the 3 pieces going at once mr t was practically begging for whiskey lullaby i never did solve the problem i had to turn everything off and don t dare go back to my cloud to see what is happening speaking of clouds i will tell you more about this recent trip up to see the giant coastal redwoods it has not been our finest hour posted by toc at 10 17 pm no comments saturday may 14 2011 good taste above all else in the midst of trying to plan a 3 week rv trip and mr t deciding retirement wasn t exactly what he had in mind when he retired last year mah mama had a small stroke she is living in assisted living which is yet to become assisted living so i am keeping a closer watch on how she is doing they took in residents with the promise it was only a few weeks from being fully credentialed for assisted living and that was 5 months ago i don t want my blogging to turn into a depressing chronology of trying to provide care for an aging parent with dementia but it might unfortunately there s not much humor in dementia and watching the sad decline of a loved one but ah declar mah mama found it i d called doctors gotten ignored sat in the er for hours treated by doctors who looked barely out of junior high rounds of tests etc the medical conclusion is nothing can be done which might be true but not what i want to hear i hired a caregiver to come in each day just to make sure dah mama gets her meds and to take her down for at least one meal dm can find her way to the dining room she just usually finds her way there at two in the morning anyway i was helping her get dressed and we were doing pretty well translation she agreed to put on the clothes but then we got to the shoes i had pulled out some white sandals that i know don t hurt her feet stop the train no she was not going to put her bare feet into sandals she wanted to wear hose i talked her out of that by convincing her that it was acceptable to just wear sandals in may okay that might be alright she didn t think she d run into anyone she knew anyway stop the train daughter what are you doing those are white sandals yes mama they are indeed but daughter is it after easter i simply will not wear white shoes before easter now how can someone have dementia when they can remember one of the first rules of dressing like that true she didn t know easter was the week before but hot damn she remembered not to wear white shoes until afterwards things are not as far gone as i thought posted by toc at 11 35 am 1 comment sunday april 24 2011 toc is reprimanded yet again a refresher about my last encounter with the gardeners back in 2008 http toccatamundi blogspot com 2008 02 hall monitors html a tree is ailing at my mother s condo the wandering neighborhood gestapo wng makes its daily rounds under the guise of environmentalism what they really do is check and see if any resident has dared plant a new plant without filling out the forms submitting a request to the architectural committee and getting approval which is never granted like the rest of the country the hoa is feeling the financial pinch and there isn t a lot of money for new landscaping on any scale i feel my mother s property has gotten the short end of the stick in the communal landscaping general plan so i offered to pay and plant approved plants on her property i was turned down it seems that if people are allowed to use their own money then someone might have a condo that looks better than someone else s did these small potatoes terrorists take on line classes at the lenin landscaping and annoying everyone site i offered to buy a few rhododendrums azaleas and other matching plants and plant them myself apparently this would mean i would be violating the egalitarian nature of the hoa i wouldn t be offering to do this if the property didn t already looked like the poor stepchild logic is useless with this crowd all this is prelude to reporting that i dared to speak to the traveling ispies doing their snooping i saw that the owner of the landscaping company was accompanying them on their rounds and i wanted to ask about the tree in distress the poor man was obviously cowed by the committee because he pretended not to understand english and answered no habla ingles in the most awful spanish ever uttered sigh bullies are the same everywhere and they had him by the delicate parts i must admit i called out from the deck that i knew he spoke english and that he looked as mexican as prince william by now the wng was getting loaded for bear sure enough a week later i got a letter from their lawyers threatening me with liability if any of the gardeners quit and reminded me that i had already been warned not to speak to any of the gardeners i guess they didn t get my response about my first amendment rights i wonder if home depot has any rhododendrons in yet posted by toc at 8 18 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2011 13 july 2 blogger and i are having a trial separation making peace through golf june 1 may 3 april 2 march 2 february 3 2010 26 december 1 november 2 october 2 september 2 august 2 june 1 may 1 april 6 march 5 february 2 january 2 2009 65 december 7 november 4 october 2 september 3 august 4 july 10 june 8 may 5 april 6 march 5 february 4 january 7 2008 53 december 6 november 4 october 5 september 2 august 4 july 8 june 5 may 3 april 3 march 6 february 2 january 5 2007 84 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