the master

he did it again. tiger wins the Masters in a playoff...and i had fun watching it! due to my lack of cable, i had to walk down to thornton park and try and find a place where i could sit at a bar and drink and watch the golf on tv. i left my place with iPod in hand once tiger reached the 15th hole. i knew the last few holes were going to be exciting, cause when i left he was only leading by one.

now, before i go any further, let me make it perfectly clear TGC has not corrupted me. as a kid, dating back to 1986 when jack nicklaus won what is considered the greatest Masters ever, i have watched the Masters. every year. yup. it's my favorite golf event, and i was lucky enough to get to go there in 2001 (guess who won that year too?!).

i spent the afternoon with the golf barely coming in thru the rabbit ears on my tv, with me at my computer trying to figure out how to attach album artwork to my songs in itunes. yeah, i'm sure most people could figure it out easily, but the manual doesn't say how to do it. which was cool, cause i had to figure it out by intuition. what you have to do is get the artwork on amazon.com. anyway, it took some time, but i common-sensed my way to a happy conclusion. i then updated my ipod photo and most of the tracks now have album artwork appearing when i play a song from that record. :)

computers are cool like that. they sort of force you to think around 'problems'. (like this damn blogging thing...of course i needed the antiparticle for that, but hopefully i'll keep learning.).

i planned to go to dexter's to watch the end of the Masters, but i walked by hue, and saw they had it on, so i just grabbed a spot at the bar. i had never been there before, despite walking by it many times. there's always hot, leggy, short-skirted women there...upscale types that i likely would have little in common with, but are still nice to look at nonetheless.

i was at the bar by myself when two women sat right next to me. i never found out for sure, but i think it was a mother and daughter...the daughter probably early 20's and the mom in her mid 40's. i didn't find out cause i was actually MORE interested in the golf, and i was trying not to get pulled into any long conversations. that said, i think the mom (kathleen was her name) was interested in me once she started asking me questions about the golf and asked what i did. telling women you're a 'producer' sounds a whole lot more lucrative than it really is.

they left once the playoff ended, but by then the mom was definitely flirting with me. she was ok. nice legs with shapely calfs enhanced by her heels. her face was a different story; a touch weathered, if you know what i mean. but in all honesty, she was pretty hot for a forty something. and when she kept giving me those eyes, i liked her more and more. she probably wouldn't have left the moment the playoff ended, but the young girl wanted to leave. it's probably weird watching your mom hit on a younger man.

i'm soooo happy tiger won. there are so many people at work that root against him that if he was a pro wrestler, he would without question be a bad guy. and i love rooting for the bad guys!! tiger's the best, and it pisses off lots of my co-workers when he wins, so i naturally love nothing more than to see him prevail ;)

not only that, though, there's another reason i pulled for him. tiger's dad is really sick. his dad might pass away. tiger's inner circle is being very hush-hush with the details, but his dad wasn't at the course today...with his son trying to win the Masters!! after he won, tiger dedicated the win to his dad, and he got REALLY teary-eyed. tiger is only 29. i know what it's like to lose a parent around the age of 30 or so.

i'm glad he was able to win this with his dad watching on tv, and i hope his pop gets better...