If the World were flat........

And I was a real estate developer........

Or mebbe Mayor....   No, not Mayor.  Howabout President of Sertoma?  Yeah, that'd work.  'Cept I might rename it Sertomawa (Service to Mankind AND Womankind.).........

(Side note, which has not one damn thing to do with this blog, but... I liked.  Two older chaps were visiting... prolly McDonalds, I dunno, mebbe Trail's Inn or similar... one guy says "Were you aware Elks have sex six times a day?  Other old guy remarked "Damn, and I just joined the Knights of Columbus.")

I'm back.  Forget that story.  We're back to flat Earth... President of Sertomawa...  I would enlist good Samaritans..... (The HELL is that Victor?)   It's folks who act selflessly to benefit others, even if a total stranger......  and I'd equip 'em with shoulder pads, knee pads and elbow pads.

We'd call 'em "Sense-us takers"...  They'd go about the land...  They'd get free gas, donuts and coffee at QuikTrip...  and we'd have 'em weed out certain sorts.

Victor?  You JUDGING?  Whaddaya mean?

I'm so glad you asked.  Let's take tailgaters for example.  It ain't that we, the residents of Sertomawa are better'n em, its just there's a better place for 'em.  So, our Sense-us-takers find 'em, use their pads (shoulder, knee, elbow) to scoooch 'em over to the edge of Sertomawa, and push 'em off.

VICTOR!  You're killing them? Pushing them off into thin air?  Well, no, not really.  A bit below our flat planet of Sertomawa, there'd be another flat planet.  I'm the developer, so, I'm gonna entitle this land Don't-You-Know-Who-I-Am-ville.  Ya know, folks who cut in line during plane delays, demand "me first"... mebbe folks who kinda just think "I'm a tad better than you.." due to... much..    'I must demonstrate my superiority to feel more comfortable and to validate my self worth.'  'I'm entitled, you ain't.'

In the town of Don't-You-Know-Who-I-Am-ville there'd be streets....... Ego Avenue..    High Horse Way....   Attitude Alley...  Cockiness Causeway.....of course there'd be some high rises for these 'high risers'... The Loftiness Lofts..  Superiority Complex..  and for Senior Don't-You-Know-Who-I-Am folks, there'd be some ranchstyle Strut Huts.

Just below the planet Don't-You-Know-Who-I-Am-ville which is just below Sertomawa, there'd be a 'resort town' (kinda).. a big ole lake "Dirty Water", surrounded by jail-like homes for muggers and theives... and, swindlers, computer hackers..  able bodied folks that desire not to use those able bodies, instead, live off of others.  When our Sense-Us-Takers bump 'em over the edge, yes, there'll be a bigger, longer drop than those of Don't-You-Know-Who-I-Am, but, we'll equip em with floaties for their arms, land safely, then they can swim ashore from Dirty Water lake.

The streets are gonna be......Bilk Boulevard..   Double-crosser Crossroad....  Lazy Lane.....  Fox Freeway...   Rascal Road....  They are on their own for Infrastructure, Commerce, Public Safety, Trash Collection, yada.

Hey, we ain't named our own streets here in Sertomawa...  OK, thanks.   Charity Carriageway...  Pleasantness Parkway..     Tolerance Trafficway....  Understanding Avenue....

So Victor, you damn flatnose, biased, better than, uppity, judgmental idiot I don't believe you!

Eh, call me what you want. Just seems like it'd be a better World than the one we're wakin' up to today.  Say what you will........ I'm going to grab a bite.  Gotta urge for something flat.. Pizza..  Tortilla.. Waffle....  somethin.

Love, kindness, niceness, the Golden Rule, Sunshine, puppy breath, smiles, hugs, all that, make the World go round.  Or flat, 'pendin' on howya look at it.

By Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt and Rascal Flatts.......

Love, President Victurd

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life...........

Well, that's a tricky, individual, tough for some, impossible for some, seemingly cinchy for others.

My favorite customer service line.... "Are you on drugs?  You're always happy."

Sixty-three years ago things were a tad different...  Jimmy Soul, in his song "If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life" - replied with "Never make a pretty woman your wife, so for my point of view, get an ugly girl to marry you."   Wowzer, best left alone, to not comment.

I loved my boss when I was a kid.  He literally had a tough time reading or writing, entering our hours, adding them up -no reading into how he got there, who's fault, if anyone, was his incomplete education - but he was such a great teacher of "the right way to do thing/s."  Occasionally too, he would offer up a humorous idea on life......"Get you one (a partner) you don't haveta shake the sheets to find."  Again, we're talking the 60's...  around the time Buffalo Springfield told us "For What It's Worth."

The above two paragraph are both 'partner centered.'  I loved me some Logic class in college.  I think I even broke trend (C+ student) and got a B+ in the class.  Dr David was the prof, a gifted linguist, nice nice dude, and........ happy.  After going over something we kinda ascertained would be on the next test, or, was deemed "important in life, remember this" he'd turn, swivel his head left to right and offer "Dig?"

Logic, from the two previous paragraphs would suggest........ Partner = Happiness, or requisite of.

I ain't calling BS, but....... I ain't buying it.   VICTOR!  That reminds me of the jealous feller who didn't go for higher education berating someone who did.  Of, the assumption, someone with money automatically equates to snootiness, arrogance.

Forrest's mom would say "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get." Or mebbe want.

We all (that's not a good start to a sentence if one is being logical, but)... we all are different in our likes.  Who, what, where, when, we like.

Sure, a lot of people equate happiness to absolutely having a relationship.  I get it, er, Dig.  Maybe, maybe not there is jealousy involved when saying "I don't believe it's an absolute necessity."  Some choose alone.  Others, find themselves alone, desire not to be, yet, continue on the path of life, smiling, being nice, kind, ENJOYING.

People... people who need people.  Some ain't.  Some could live an entire life with earbuds in.  Then there's tweeners........ I like golf and maybe three people.

Happy is as happy does.

So Victor...... if you're so smart, and, if I were sitting in a logic class (blog) you taught, I would then gather "to have a good life you must be happy."??????

I kinda think so.  Things, any - things, having or not having, shouldn't stay in the way of happiness, the ability to attain it.

Like mosta the time, I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say... or why... but, I personally enjoy times of happiness.  Fer sure, it ain't possible 24/7, every single day, hour, second, phase, month, year, situation, flat tire, fork in the road ("Take it" says Yogi Berra).. 

If you'ns are like Forrest and Jenny "Me and Jenny was like peas and carrots"... or, ya feel like running (took Forrest 3 years, two months, 14 days and 16 hours before he figured it out.. or.. . "I'm pretty tired.. .I think I'll go home now."

"Always be able to look back and say, at least I didn't lead no humdrum life."  Forrest Gump.

Unless, of course, humdrum suits you.  Mebbe makes you happy.  Some are happy being the drink, not necessarily being the straw that stirs the drink.

It takes all kinds.  It takes a village.  Or not.  Homesteaders wanna be home instead.  Screw traffic, people, taxes, bills, hustle, bustle, do this don't do that can't you read the sign.

Give me your head with hair.  Logic say "Hair = Happy."  Eh, I dunno, Bezos, Bruce Willis, The Rock, Patrick Stewart, yada, may think otherwise.

"I don't know if we have a destiny, or, we're all just floating around accidental - like on a breeze.. but I think maybe, it's both.............. some people don't think miracles happen, well, they do...   Momma always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on....   You have to do the best with what God gave you......    What's normal anyways?....    What's my destiny momma?  You're gonna have to figure that one out for yourself. "  Forrest, and his momma.

That's all I have to say about that.

Don't worry.........  Be happy.

Dig?

Love, Victurd

TOURNEY TUESDAY!

 BRING: $30 CASH (Total to pay is $55.. $25 of which is payable to the course, cash or charge, then the $30 CASH goes toward prize fund and to Liberty Shop With A Cop

ALSO BRING: WATER!  Gonna be hot, course gives you one complimentary bottle, there is no water out on the course, additional bottles may be purchased for $1 per.  No outside alcohol permitted!

SHOTGUN START 9AM, plz arrive by 8:30am

2023 Champs:  Wepler and Wepler    2024 Champs:  Svetlecic/Kincade    2025 ????????

Will a ladies team finish in the money this year?     Stegall/Gibbs took 2nd both years, BUT, was two different Stegall/Gibb's..  who will win Family Feud this year, and, would Snuggy have anything to say about that?

Vic not playing, Tom Grimm has picked up Cary Wepler and paying him big time NIL money. In the mix?   If Rick doesn't "Moody" too many shots, can he and T Bird win bucks?  Any newcomers to be in the money?  Woolridge, Waters, Lowe, Kincaid, Pollard, Hall, Gourley, Grampp, Hensley... Bowles and Bowles - and, do the two latter know as much about golf as they do medicine?  (What's a Zizzer anyways?)

The Lund grudge match (Gary and Ron Drew... Greg and Mike Philpot)  Odds?  Anyone in the running in the BT/Jacques, Billy B/Smitty foursome?  Does Ford (Lee/Doug, Jerry/Bo <-- replacement from GM) have a better idea?  Did your name, team not get mentioned?  We're in Missouri, Show Me!

Ever have a vanilla phosphate at Beggs?  What drug store sold both TV tubes AND cinnamon oil?  How many drawers were there on the East Wall at Boggess Hardware?  You, you old fart, could you still make it up the steps to a JC Dance?  In 1961 how much was a Mugs Up root beer?

What city in Missouri was the very first Men's Collegiate Basketball game in?  What famous TV Game Show Host took ground school at WJC during WWII to learn to be a Navy Pilot?   Were you aware Carrie Nation lived within a literal stone's throw of where the Corner Bar is now?

Watermelon added to lunch this year (Hot Dog, Chips, Beans, Cookies)... Prizes, compliments of the Corner Bar (12 combined) closest to the pins and longest putts.  Trivia contest for each team to compete, winning team gets two complimentary 18 hole green/cart rounds (ie, one apiece) from Marimack.

FOURSOMES ARE NOT FINALIZED YET.  SEEYA TUESDAY!

Roger Svetlecic/Russ Kincade

Tim Haas/Stephen Hayward

Rich Gibbs/Vic Schultze

Jeff Gourley/Eric Grampp

David Gibbs/Justin Gibbs

Ryan Stegall/Jake Gibbs

Lee Schneiderven/Doug Jones

Bo McCauley/Jerry Hibbs

Denice Morrison/Al Stilfield

Larry Hall/Rick Wooldridge

Sandye Boyes/Shari Waters

Janet Maddox/Carol Lalumondier

Fieldon Houston/Tim Schoeller

Rick Lowe/Kevin Kincaid

Tommie Grimm/Cary Wepler

Gary Lund/Ron Drew

Bill Barnes/Steve Schmidt

Brian Thomas/Ted Jacques

Jim Cooper/Craig Davis

Barry Bowles/Dick Bowles 

Mark Pollard/Jesse Hall

Greg Lund/Mike Philpot

Mark Chambers/Chase Chambers

Rick Moody/Tom Riggs

David Gibbs/Justin Gibbs

Rich Gibbs/Ken Stegall

Ryan Stegall/Jake Gibbs

Lee Schneiderven/Doug Jones

Bo McCauley/Jerry Hibbs

Denice Morrison/Al Stilfield

Larry Hall/Rick Wooldridge

Sandye Boyes/Shari White

Janet Maddox/Carol Lalumondier

Fieldon Houston/Tim Schoeller

Rick Lowe/Kevin Kincaid

Tommie Grimm/Cary Wepler

Gary Lund/Ron Drew

Bill Barnes/Steve Schmidt

Brian Thomas/Ted Jacques

Jim Cooper/Craig Davis

Barry Bowles/Dick Bowles 

Mark Pollard/Jesse Hall

Greg Lund/Mike Philpot

Mark Chambers/Chase Chambers

Rick Moody/Tom Riggs

Roger Svetlecic/Russ Kincade

Jeff Gourley/Eric Grampp

Tim Haas/Stephen Hayward

Marty Hensley/partner

 

Greg....... any twosome on this list you'd like to team up with?

 

Roger Svetlecic/Russ Kincade

Greg Lund/Mike Philpot

Mark Pollard/Jesse Hall

Tim Haas/partner

Marty Hensley/partner

Jeff Gourley/partner

Test teams.....

David Gibbs/Justin Gibbs

Rich Gibbs/Ken Stegall

Ryan Stegall/Jake Gibbs

Lee Schneiderven/Doug Jones

Bo McCauley/Jerry Hibbs

Denice Morrison/Al Stilfield

Larry Hall/Rick Wooldridge

Sandye Boyes/Shari White

Janet Maddox/Carol Lalumondier

Fieldon Houston/Tim Schoeller

Rick Lowe/Kevin Kincaid

Tommie Grimm/Cary Wepler

Gary Lund/Ron Drew

Bill Barnes/Steve Schmidt

Brian Thomas/Ted Jacques

Jim Cooper/Craig Davis

Barry Bowles/Dick Bowles 

Mark Pollard/Jesse Hall

Greg Lund/Mike Philpot

Mark Chambers/Chase Chambers

Rick Moody/Tom Riggs

Roger Svetlecic/Russ Kincade

Jeff Gourley/Eric Grampp

Tim Haas/Stephen Hayward

Marty Hensley/partner

I'm pickin' up good vibrations

She's giving me the excitations (oom-bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrations (good vibrations, oom-bop-bop)
She's giving me the excitations (excitations, oom-bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrations (oom-bop-bop)
She's giving me the excitations (excitations, oom-bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrations (oom-bop-bop)
She's giving me the excitations (excitations)

Victor?  You in a relationship?  

YES, with life.

She's giving me the excitations (oom-bop-bop).......  SHE, is life.  Excitations is, happy. Smile.  Happy tears.  Observations of events, happenings, people mingling where delight seems to be a common theme.

(oom-bop-bop)

Side note:  This band....... three brothers, a cousin, and a buddy....... Wiki done tell me "Distinguished by their vocal harmonies, adolescent-oriented lyrics, and musical ingenuity, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era."  This delights me.  Good vibrations.

A garage band.  That could be me and you eh?  Don't be an idiot, I couldn't carry a tune..  I could maybe write adolescent-oriented lyrics... yeah, the end of this song is.........

Na-na-na, na-na, na-na-na
Na-na-na, na-na, na-na-na (bop, bop-bop-bop-bop, bop)
Do-do-do, do-do, do-do-do (bop, bop-bop-bop-bop, bop)
Do-do-do, do-do, do-do-do (bop, bop-bop-bop-bop, bop)

If life were a poker game, color me ALL IN on stupid lyrics....Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga... VICTOR, that's a different song.  Nope, can't do.

Watch, bite - me.  I AM NOT A GREAT FAN OF (TOO MANY) RULES.  I usedta know a place that was actually fun to work at, then, started 4-5 LONG texts to all employees a day, reminding "Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign."

I'm ME, I like LIGHT (not stressy). I guess you could say I'm different.  (Boy you can say that again Victor)

Ok.  I'm ME, I like LIGHT (not stressy). I guess you could say I'm different.  Thanks.

Ya mean like "Tutti frutti, oh rootie.. A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom."  Uh huh, that's some good vibrations there.

I know most prefer conformity.  Hup two three four, march together please. Speak only when spoken to. Raise your hand if you have to use the restroom.  Any Horshack outbursts "OOH! OOH! OOH! MR. KOTT'I'ER!" will have you taken to the office, put in time out (padded room) for a week, given (forced) Ritalin... Oh, and teachers are advised not to smile until Christmas.

Tutti frutti, patooey.

Fun, as in have a bit.  The Crystals had fun waaaaaaaaaaay back in 1961 when they sang "I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still, Da doo ron-ron-ron, Da doo ron-ron, Somebody told me that his name was Bill, Da doo ron-ron-ron, Da doo ron-ron"

YES, I know we need rules.  Fences, so to speak.  (Ever seen a little doggie go go go when someone left the gate open?)  VICTOR!  OK, sorry.  "C'mere buddy, we'll go to the dogpark later... you can run, sniff, jump, chase tenny balls, frisbees - to your heart's content." I'm pickin' up good vibrations.

I know, I know there are some, ok, maybe quite a few - that think people like me, over-the-top-hey-lets-have-fun, are...... disgusting.  Sorry. I am 72. I'm damn lucky to have hair on my head. I'm gonna let it down, as one day, it will be "To everything, urn, urn, urn" there is a season, "urn, urn, urn" (a damn long one too).

I'll go now.  Grandkids for an ice cream cone?  Doggie with his head out the winder' a goin' 45mph?  Wayside Waifs having a $25 pet adoption sale all weekend? Can't you just seem them tails!  I'm pickin' up good vibrations.

Victor?  A point?  A purpose?  Meaning to all this?

Ahm, there gotta be one, that the rule?  I think, vely true, all work (rules) and no play make Jack a very grumpy old fart.  And OK, OK, all fun, and no work (rules) might be a tad bit over the top. I'll calm down.

Some.

My lymph system don't circulate my lymph fluid.  THE HELL VICTOR?  TEA? PRICE? CHINA?  I dunno, did he ever settle on a tariff amount for them?

What I meant was........ I've got this NIFTY new machine..... Ya plug it in, stand on it, or, sit in chair, put your feet on it.  And, it vibrates like crazy.

I'm pickin' up good vibrations.

Hope you do too...........

Love, Victurd