I Got The Heat Stroke, Or Something

Top amatuer golfer Michelle Wie, who is both young and athletic, provides proof that I am not a total wuss. Here Michelle quits her round after suffering heat exhaustion. Even I finished.


















I'm pretty darn sure that I gave myself heat exhaustion today. The signs of heat exhaustion are;

* dehydration - got it despite drinking an entire gallon of iced tea.
* fatigue - my normal condition
* weakness - ditto
* clammy skin - if by clammy, you mean revolting, then yes.
* headache - I had a big old headache.
* nausea and/or vomiting - negative
* hyperventilation (rapid breathing) - yep
* irritability - chronic condition.

Well, I may not have actually have heat exhaustion, but I feel crappy enough to qualify for it.

It is all the fault of the Seafood King, who despite being short and stout, insists upon walking the golf course. That is not so bad, except that we played at this god awful hilly course today, and it was hotter than hell. By hotter than hell, I mean it was 104 F., with 25 percent humidity. I walked the first nine holes up hills and down hills, sweating like a pig. Do pigs actually sweat?. I doubt it. I actually sweat. A lot.

At the tenth hole, I revolted and told him I was getting a cart. The back nine holes were somewhat more tolerable. The Seafood King finally gave it up at the tenth hole and rode in the cart with me for the rest of the way. I am not walking in the damn heat anymore.

I had my first golf lesson yesterday. As it turns out, I do plenty wrong. I won't bore you with the specifics, but suffice to say, I have issues. I went to the driving range to practice the corrections the pro told me to work on. I have forty years of doing things my way, the wrong way, so changing is tough. I hope it works out for the better.

In other news, a couple of jackasses here in our fair city got into a dispute over some sort of driving disagreement. They got out of their cars at a stop light and proceeded to beat up one another. One guy got into his car and attempted to leave, but the second jackass pursued him and forced his car head on into a wall, killing the driver. Now one guy is dead and the other is in custody. Two lives shot to hell over nothing. Brilliant. Smile and wave is a better strategy.






Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky