Cypresswood

Sat 19th

The working week has been pretty busy. One of the objectives of this visit is to interact with a local software company that is being considered to take over the maintenance of TAD when I retire. While this is hopefully many years off, the clients are looking ahead just in case it is sooner. Their programmer, Mark, came to our office on Wed and on Friday I went to theirs. It was almost 90 minutes to drive there and the same back again, so it was a long day.

The other 3 days I was discussing and implementing upgrades to the program. Quite often I was in the office to 6 or later.

I was also invited to dinner with Tony and Lisa a couple of times. It was good to catch up and the food was fantastic.

Unfortunately my laptop has been playing up since Tuesday - locking up and occasionally just restarting. Very frustrating.

Today I played at Cypresswood. I played this 2 years ago and it is pretty good for a public course. They have a lot of PGA qualifiers there. I arrived about and hour before my tee time so I could go to the driving range which is at the main clubhouse and the Cypress course. I then made the 5 minute drive to the other clubhouse and the Tradition course.

I played with a pair, One guy was in software but from what he said it's almost as if he is running a private TV network. His friend was a supervisor in a transit company. Unfortunately the second guy had a shocker of day.

I played pretty well myself. I played the blue tees again and extrapolating the women's ratings on the red and white tees worked out that an 87 would be about my handicap. I started with a par, which means 6 games in a row that I have done that. I had one other Par on the front and a couple of double bogeys for a 45. One the back 9 I had 3 pars and a birdie for 41 so I just beat my target. The birdie was on a short par 4 (281yards) where I drove the green. One on hole, I sliced my second into a creek and although I didn't find my ball, I did pick up a dozen others while looking for it.

Unfortunately, my camera battery went flat after only a couple of shots so no photos today.

On the way back I stopped at a golf warehouse when I bought a pair of golf shoes for under $30 plus some gloves at $10 each.

Then I went to the  Woodlands Mall where, surprise, surprise, I spent some time in the Apple store. Mark is actually running Windows on a Mac and using that to run his copy of Delphi and compiling TAD on it. They have found that the hardware is very good, especially compared with Dells. They had 15 that had a lot of hardware problems.

I haven't made any decision yet but it could happen.

My rangefinder was supposed to arrive on Friday but didn't turn up, but hopefully it will be here well before next weekend. I have ordered a replacement camera, the latest Panasonic TZ model to replace the TZ3 that was ruined in the water. Still haven't worked out what to get for my replacement phone. I won't need it till I get back to Australia but will want it ASAP once I do.