For the uninitiated, the Wachovia Championship is the PGA golf tournament in Charlotte this week. This is the 5th year and I always get 2 tickets for the whole week. Of course when I purchased mine last fall I didn't know I was going to prison this year.
My favorite day is the Wednesday Pro-Am because I can bring my camera and I like to follow Tiger the entire round (he always seems to get the 7:30a tee time) and then send the pics to the 2 amateur partners.
This year, they paired Tiger with Michael Jordan and Skipper Beck (who owns the Mercedes dealership that gives each player a car to drive for the week). I spent my day weedeating the stormwater drains of an old Navy airfield when I could have been following Tiger and MJ around!
Friday, June 1, 2007
American Idol - Down to 4
Well, I think I got the final 4 right in my predictions several weeks ago although I didn't get the order of elimination for 5, 6 and 7 correct (Sanjaya, Chris and Phil).
Too bad Gina Glocksen could not have been around for Bon Jovi night.
When Sanjaya was eliminated 2 weeks ago, the inmates erupted. Loudest cheers I've heard yet!
Final Four Review
Blake's "You Give Love a Bad Name" rendition was amazing. The inmates loved it.
Jordin is amazing for 17 but had some problems singing a "boy band" song.
I had never heard the Bon Jovi song LaKisha sang. I wish she had picked a more well-known song. The Simon kiss was cute.
Finally I didn't like Melinda as much as the others tonight. "Have A Nice Day" is a defiant, almost contemptuous, kind of song that I can imagine Tina Turner pulling off but Melinda can't generate the kind of edge that Jon Bon Jovi did with the song. She is just too nice.
I think LaKisha goes this week.
After that it's really tough to predict whether Blake or Jordin will face Melinda in the finals. Normally, when it gets to the final 3, each judge picks a song for a contestant. Jordin and Blake are so different.
The only shocker would be if Melinda doesn't make it to the finals.
Too bad Gina Glocksen could not have been around for Bon Jovi night.
When Sanjaya was eliminated 2 weeks ago, the inmates erupted. Loudest cheers I've heard yet!
Final Four Review
Blake's "You Give Love a Bad Name" rendition was amazing. The inmates loved it.
Jordin is amazing for 17 but had some problems singing a "boy band" song.
I had never heard the Bon Jovi song LaKisha sang. I wish she had picked a more well-known song. The Simon kiss was cute.
Finally I didn't like Melinda as much as the others tonight. "Have A Nice Day" is a defiant, almost contemptuous, kind of song that I can imagine Tina Turner pulling off but Melinda can't generate the kind of edge that Jon Bon Jovi did with the song. She is just too nice.
I think LaKisha goes this week.
After that it's really tough to predict whether Blake or Jordin will face Melinda in the finals. Normally, when it gets to the final 3, each judge picks a song for a contestant. Jordin and Blake are so different.
The only shocker would be if Melinda doesn't make it to the finals.
Promotion
After 4 weeks of raking leaves and picking up trash, I finally got a promotion -- junior weedeater specialist!
FPC Pensacola is next to an old Navy airstrip which I am told they are going to start using again to train Navy pilots flying prop planes. The runways have been cleaned and repainted.
The last two days I have been cutting the overgrown weeds around all the large stormwater drains. We use gas-powered Husqvarna weedeaters. I probably cut about 4 hours/day. Unfortunately there is not much shade and the heat radiates off the ground.
Initially I was using it improperly because I preferred to cut with the backside of the weedeater. However this sprays all the debris right back at me. I finally figured out how to use the front side at the correct angle. Nonetheless, after just two days (that feels like a week) my shoulders and neck are sore and I am physically drained at the end of the day.
Hopefully I will get another promotion soon -- I don't know if I can do this for 8 more weeks unless I figure out how to work smart (looking like I'm really working but not really working). It seems like all the other inmates have the smart work routine down pat. One guy collected 3 cups of blackberries yesterday while weedeating.
Paul and Joe supervise the work details. They ride around on a little 4x4 John Deere Gator checking on the different crews (there are maybe 30 inmates at this work location). Joe is a big guy and reminds me of a circus bear on a tricycle!
Both guys are pretty cool. They assign tasks to each person in the morning but they treat everyone no worse than a foreman for a company would. In fact, they are probably more lenient since the work doesn't require a great deal of productivity.
Hopefully, I won't get reassigned to one of the off-base details. I save at least an hour on bus rides by staying at Saufley Field. I would however like to get promoted to a new task. I want to be the guy that signs the equipment in and out to the inmates! Unfortunately that job is taken and he's not letting go.
FPC Pensacola is next to an old Navy airstrip which I am told they are going to start using again to train Navy pilots flying prop planes. The runways have been cleaned and repainted.
The last two days I have been cutting the overgrown weeds around all the large stormwater drains. We use gas-powered Husqvarna weedeaters. I probably cut about 4 hours/day. Unfortunately there is not much shade and the heat radiates off the ground.
Initially I was using it improperly because I preferred to cut with the backside of the weedeater. However this sprays all the debris right back at me. I finally figured out how to use the front side at the correct angle. Nonetheless, after just two days (that feels like a week) my shoulders and neck are sore and I am physically drained at the end of the day.
Hopefully I will get another promotion soon -- I don't know if I can do this for 8 more weeks unless I figure out how to work smart (looking like I'm really working but not really working). It seems like all the other inmates have the smart work routine down pat. One guy collected 3 cups of blackberries yesterday while weedeating.
Paul and Joe supervise the work details. They ride around on a little 4x4 John Deere Gator checking on the different crews (there are maybe 30 inmates at this work location). Joe is a big guy and reminds me of a circus bear on a tricycle!
Both guys are pretty cool. They assign tasks to each person in the morning but they treat everyone no worse than a foreman for a company would. In fact, they are probably more lenient since the work doesn't require a great deal of productivity.
Hopefully, I won't get reassigned to one of the off-base details. I save at least an hour on bus rides by staying at Saufley Field. I would however like to get promoted to a new task. I want to be the guy that signs the equipment in and out to the inmates! Unfortunately that job is taken and he's not letting go.
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