Had an overnight trip to Korralbyn to play golf on Anzac day. 6 of us played in the Copperhead challenge from the back tees and it was pretty tough. Some info about the course and how tough it is can be found here. The weekly copperhead challenge from the back tees that we played in gives away a dozen balls just for breaking net par 72 but since 1984 when the comp started they have had just 2% of players collect the free balls!! None of us collected either.

I enjoyed the golf but it was bedlam when we got back to the resort and started drinking. These days I like to control the rate I drink and keep control of my senses. Bad stuff happens when I don't :)The downside of this is that when everyone else is getting plastered and going mental it can be a little testing on your patience. Maybe I'm getting old! One of the guys managed to break the glass top of a coffee table which cost us $50 but it's amazing that was the extent of the damage. The unit looked like a bomb site when I got up next morning!!

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I got Robbie Slater's auto-biography for my birthday and have really enjoyed it. The guy is a bit of a big head plonker and I was expecting not to like the book that much, but he has a really easy to read style that has a lot of interesting behind the scenes info about his time at West Ham and the other clubs he played at.

I'm starting to amass a bit of a sports biography collection. One day I'll collate a list.

Long time no post.

Recent DVD's added to my collection :- 4 disc Spiderman box set, King Ralph, Band of Brothers box set - which I picked up for $36.95 AUD since it was mis priced. What a gritty emotion packed series.

I hit a guy with a golf ball the other day - from 250 metres away it hit him on the ankle on the full..it had to hurt. He was amazingly understanding about it..I would have been way pissed off since he was standing in the middle of his own fairway when it happened. Carded a 90 with 36 stableford points.

Won tickets to see Bruce Springsteen's Brisbane concert last month. Carole is the big fan and wanted the tickets bad, but I had a great time. The Boss just didn't stop for 3 solid hours. He puts so much energy into his concerts it is easy to see why he is still one of the biggest selling live acts around.

Discovered geocaching the other day. Basically people hide stuff and post the gps co-ordinates on the net, you load them into your gps receiver and go find them. Generally each cache has several things in it (with only a small $ value), and you take one thing out and replace it with something you took with you and fill in the log book. Lots of fun. Carole in particular has got right into it.